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Buggane Mooar
Glenfaba, Isle of Man · Atlas IOM4203
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM4203 (4203)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Glenfaba
- Historic county
- Glenfaba
- Parish, community, or townland
- German
- National Grid reference
- SC27518660
- Latitude
- 54.24595
- Longitude
- -4.64885
- 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (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 901
- National record
- record SC28NE 8; monument 30357
- Wikidata
- Q31118319
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 79.