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Langness Point
Rushen, Isle of Man ยท Atlas IOM3342
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3342 (3342)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rushen
- Historic county
- Rushen
- Parish, community, or townland
- Malew
- National Grid reference
- SC278653
- Latitude
- 54.05488
- Longitude
- -4.63141
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 1064
- Wikidata
- Q31103152
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 78-9.
- 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.