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Borrane Creglea
Glenfaba, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM4201
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM4201 (4201)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Glenfaba
- Historic county
- Glenfaba
- Parish, community, or townland
- Patrick
- National Grid reference
- SC 2116 7802
- Latitude
- 54.16692
- Longitude
- -4.74101
- Altitude
- 15 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 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 999
- Wikidata
- Q31118315
Sources
References
- Archaeological Commission 1876 MSS.
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 77-8.