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Towlfoggy
Rushen, Isle of Man ยท Atlas IOM4222
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM4222 (4222)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rushen
- Historic county
- Rushen
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rushen
- National Grid reference
- SC20696704
- Latitude
- 54.06801
- Longitude
- -4.74175
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 96
- Wikidata
- Q31103247
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 77, 79.