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Niarbyl
Glenfaba, Isle of Man ยท Atlas IOM4224
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM4224 (4224)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Glenfaba
- Historic county
- Glenfaba
- Parish, community, or townland
- Patrick
- National Grid reference
- SC 21237752
- Latitude
- 54.16232
- Longitude
- -4.73971
- 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868); Earthwork Survey (1941); Other (1955); Other (1999); Other (2010); 1st Identified Written Reference (1719); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Excavation (1946); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 1000
- Wikidata
- Q31118330
Sources
References
- Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 77.