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Cronk ny Merriu
Middle, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM3224
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3224 (3224)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Middle
- Historic county
- Middle
- Parish, community, or townland
- Santon
- National Grid reference
- SC31727048
- Latitude
- 54.10262
- Longitude
- -4.57529
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Other (1954); Other (1995); Other (2015); LiDAR Survey (2013); Excavation (2002); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867-1869); Other (1918); Excavation (1945); 1st I
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 1068
- National record
- record SC37SW 29; monument 30784
- Wikidata
- Q31119702
Sources
References
- Gelling, P.S. 1952. Excavation of a Promontory Fort at Port Grenaugh, Santon, Proc Isle of Man Nat Antiq Soc, 5.3, 307-315.