Satellite Imagery
Satellite Imagery
HER: Isle of Man 96 (None)
NMR: None (None)
SM: None
NGR: SC20696704
X: 220690 Y: 467040 (OSGB36)
Small, virtually destroyed, coastal promontory fort, formerly located on rocky SW-facing headland, 457m W of Kallow Point, between Port St Mary Bay on NE and Perwick Bay to SW, on SW extremity of island. Sea cliffs/gullies on all but NE side, where formerly ditch, in part rock-cut, c. 67m long, 9m wide and c. 3m deep recorded. Assumed bank on seaward side, but no details. Site enclosed, levelled and house built 1896. Now virtually destroyed, but small traces possibly remain. Access possibly via narrow track along cliff edge on NW side, inturned with guard chamber, but no details. Site now in disrepair, with disused building, rubble, litter and overgrown state (2010). Minimal investigations, undated. On 1st Ed. OS map (1868).
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -527849 Y: 7183047 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -4.741751436684571 Latitude: 54.06800949200733 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Isle of Man
Current County or Unitary Authority: Rushen
Historic County: Rushen
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Rushen
Traces possibly remain only. Site now in disrepair, with disused building, rubble, litter and overgrown state (2010).
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
Disused house site.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✓ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Small, virtually destroyed, coastal promontory fort, formerly located on rocky SW-facing headland, 457m W of Kallow Point, between Port St Mary Bay on NE and Perwick Bay to SW, on SW extremity of island. Sea cliffs/gullies on all but NE side.
| 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: Promontory
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✓ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 15.0m
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). Plan by Bruce et al 1941. Ordnance Survey investigation 1955, 1957. Field survey J. Woodcock 1999. Field visit University of Liverpool 2010.
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868): | OS map. |
| Earthwork Survey (1941): | Plan by J.R. Bruce, J. Duffield and P. Caia. |
| Other (1955): | OS investigation. |
| Other (1999): | Field survey J. Woodcock. |
| Other (2010): | Field visit University of Liverpool. |
Interior destroyed. Formerly structures? - no details.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Former structures? - no details.
| 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 | ✗ |
Access possibly via narrow track along cliff edge on NW side; possibly inturned with guard chamber, but no details.
| None: | Destroyed - no details. |
| 2: | Destroyed - only possibility. |
Guard Chambers: ✓
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. In-turned (North west): | None |
| 1. Recesses/Guard Chambers (North west): | Possible guard chamber - no details. |
Sea cliffs/gullies on all but NE side, where ditch, in part rock-cut, c. 67m long, 9m wide and c. 3m deep recorded. Assumed bank on seaward side, but no details.
| Area 1: | Noneha. |
| Total: | Noneha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | Area not defined. |
| ✗ | None |
| NE Quadrant: | None |
| SE Quadrant: | None |
| SW Quadrant: | None |
| NW Quadrant: | None |
| Total: | None |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
Virtually destroyed.
| 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 |
| ✓ | None |
Number of Ditches: 1
| ✗ | None |
Bersu, G. 1949. A promontory fort on the shore of Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man, Antiq J, XXIX, 77, 79.
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