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The Parade
Rushen, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM3221
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3221 (3221)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rushen
- Historic county
- Rushen
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rushen
- National Grid reference
- SC173667
- Latitude
- 54.06377
- Longitude
- -4.79329
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 175
- Wikidata
- Q31103023
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 62-79.