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Hango Broogh
Rushen, Isle of Man ยท Atlas IOM3340
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3340 (3340)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rushen
- Historic county
- Rushen
- Parish, community, or townland
- Malew
- National Grid reference
- SC29446710
- Latitude
- 54.07152
- Longitude
- -4.60822
- Altitude
- 10 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 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- lithics and environmental material
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 77
- Wikidata
- Q31103110
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 77-8.
- Doonan, R.C.P. et al 2001. Investigations at Langness: the 2000 field-season, In ed. T. Darvill, Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man 6th Report, 40-47.