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Borrane Ballelby
Glenfaba, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM4202
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM4202 (4202)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Glenfaba
- Historic county
- Glenfaba
- Parish, community, or townland
- Patrick
- National Grid reference
- SC21537892
- Latitude
- 54.17495
- Longitude
- -4.73595
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 992
- National record
- record SC27NW 2; monument 30145
- Wikidata
- Q31118318
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 77.