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Port y Candas
Glenfaba, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM3218
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3218 (3218)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Glenfaba
- Historic county
- Glenfaba
- Parish, community, or townland
- German
- National Grid reference
- SC28608180
- Latitude
- 54.20349
- Longitude
- -4.62902
- Altitude
- 49 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and environmental material
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man
- Wikidata
- Q31118307
Sources
References
- Herbert, L. 2012. Port y Candas. A Manx site with similarities to Irish ringforts. Manitoba Archaeology, 30, 1-8.
- Mytum, H. 2014. Excavations at the Iron Age and Early Medieval Settlement of Port y Candas, German, Proc Isle of Man Nat Antiq Soc, 12.4, 650-665.