What is Promontory fort?
[[File:Dunbeg-Promontory-Fort-2012.JPG|thumb|right|[[Dunbeg Fort]], a promontory fort below Mount Eagle, [[Dingle Peninsula]], [[County Kerry]], Ireland]] A '''promontory fort''' is a [[fortification|defensive structure]] located above a steep cliff. One is usually located above a steep cliff, often only connected to the mainland by a small neck of land. Most seem to date to the [[Iron Age]]. They are mainly found in [[Brittany]], [[Ireland]], the [[Orkney Islands]], the [[Isle of Man]], [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/iron_age/cc_menu.htm|title=Access to Monuments|author=|date=11 December 2020|website=www.historic-cornwall.org.uk}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==Ireland== [[File:DunbegDingleDet.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance to Dunbeg Fort]] Only a few Irish promontory forts have been [[excavations|excavated]] and most date to the [[Iron Age]], though some, like Dunbeg ([[County Kerry]]) might have originated in the [[Bronze Age]]. Others, like [[Dalkey Island]] ([[County Dublin]]) contain imported Eastern Mediterranean [[pottery]] and have been reoccupied and changed in the early [[medieval]] period. ==Isle of Man== On the Isle of Man promontory forts are found particularly on the rocky slate [[headlands]] of the south. Four out of more than 20 have been excavated and several, especially in [[Santon (parish)|Santon]], can be visited using the [[Raad ny Foillan]] coastal footpath. All have a [[Rampart (fortification)|rampart]] on their vulnerable landward side, and excavations at [[Cronk ny Merriu]] have shown that access to the fort was via a strongly built gate. The [[Norsemen|Scandinavians]] who arrived in the Isle of Man in the eighth and ninth centuries [[AD]] sometimes re-used these Iron Age promontory forts. ==Devon & Cornwall== [[File:The Rumps - geograph.org.uk - 1520908.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Rumps]] in North Cornwall]] [[Promontory Forts of Cornwall|Promontory forts]] can be found all along the