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Gob ny Garvain, Ballafayle
Garff, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM3337
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3337 (3337)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Garff
- Historic county
- Garff
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maughold
- National Grid reference
- SC48858985
- Latitude
- 54.28188
- Longitude
- -4.32329
- Altitude
- 18 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1957); Other (1999); Other (2010); Other (2015); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Other (1955)
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 559
- Wikidata
- Q31118076
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 79.