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Cass ny Hawin
Middle, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM3343
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3343 (3343)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Middle
- Historic county
- Middle
- Parish, community, or townland
- Malew
- National Grid reference
- SC29776925
- Latitude
- 54.09093
- Longitude
- -4.60439
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Geophysical Survey (2000); Excavation (2000); Other (2015); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868); Other (1955); Other (1984); Other (1995); Other (2010); Excavation (1957); Other (1999); 1st
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 74
- National record
- record SC26NE 3; monument 29926
- Wikidata
- Q31119712
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 62-79.
- Gelling, P.S. 1959. Excavation of a promontory fort at Cas ny Hawin, Malew, Isle of Man, Proc Isle of Man Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 6.1, 28-38.