Satellite Imagery
Satellite Imagery
HER: Isle of Man 1064 (None)
NMR: None (None)
SM: None
NGR: SC278653
X: 227854 Y: 465305 (OSGB36)
Coastal promontory fort located on rugged SW-facing Langness Point at SW tip of Langness peninsula on SE of island. Dreswick Point to E and Casteltown Bay to W. Low rocky cliffs to N, S and W, flattish landward to E to join main peninsula. Natural crevices in rock divide site into self-contained areas, with three banks cutting off areas of the site into defined parts, two at least may be early. The bank cutting off site at landward E may be the latest of the three, but this is unproven. To the W, a middle bank is of turf with much stone exposed and external height of 1.3m and 1m width. The third stony bank, further to W, is weaker to 0.5m high but to 3.5m wide. This bank has a stone-faced entrance just S of its middle point, at 2.5m wide and out-turned for 3.5m. No traces of habitation in interior and no excavation. Rough coastal grassland and scrub and bare rock and banks remain. On 1st Ed. OS map (1868). Undated.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -515567 Y: 7180556 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -4.631414227877103 Latitude: 54.05487644906044 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Isle of Man
Current County or Unitary Authority: Rushen
Historic County: Rushen
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Malew
Low banks visible with self-contained areas.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✗ |
Rough coastal grassland and scrub and much bare rock.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
Coastal promontory fort located on rugged SW-facing Langness Point at SW tip of Langness peninsula on SE of island. Dreswick Point to E and Casteltown Bay to W. Low rocky cliffs to N, S and W, flattish landward to E to join main peninsula.
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✓ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✗ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✓ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Coastal promontory
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✓ |
Altitude: 10.0m
N/A
None.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
On 1st Ed. OS map (1868). Ordnance Survy investigation 1955. RCHME site visit 1984. University of Liverpool field visit 2010.
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868): | OS map. |
| Other (1955): | OS investigation. |
| Other (1984): | RCHME site visit. |
| Other (1995): | Visited by Hillfort Study Group |
| Other (2010): | University of Liverpool field visit. |
| Other (2015): | Visited by Hillfort Study Group |
None.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Most W bank has a stone-faced entrance just S of its middle point, at 2.5m wide and out-turned for 3.5m.
| 1: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. Out-turned (West): | Stone-faced. |
Natural crevices in rock divide site into self-contained areas, with three banks cutting off areas of the site into defended parts, two at least may be early. The bank cutting off site at landward E may be the latest of the three, but this is unproven. To the W, a middle bank is of turf with much stone exposed and external height of 1.3m and 1m width. The third stony bank, further to W, is weaker to 0.5m high but to 3.5m wide. This
| Area 1: | Noneha. |
| Total: | Noneha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | Area not defined. |
| ✗ | Banks run NNW-SSE. |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 0 |
| SW Quadrant: | 2 |
| NW Quadrant: | 2 |
| Total: | 2 |
| Partial Univallate | ✓ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✓ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
Stony banks.
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✓ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | No ditch viisble. |
Number of Ditches: 0
| ✗ | None |
Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 78-9.
Doonan, R.C.P. et al 2001. Investigations at Langness: the 2000 field-season, In ed. T. Darvill, Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man 6th Report, 40-47.
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