Jump to content

File:Entrance to Maen Castle - geograph.org.uk - 943043.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (480 × 640 pixels, file size: 113 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: Entrance to Maen Castle. Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort (or "cliff castle"), built before 300BC. The small rocky headland was defended by a stone wall, ditch and counterscarp bank. This photo shows the narrow gateway to the fort, looking back out towards the mainland - a small National Trust sign nearby points out the castle entrance for the unaware. The gateway is well-preserved and made of massive blocks of granite: an abundant local building material. On the far side of the entrance is one of the former gate jambs, lying partly in the gateway passage. There are remains of a contemporary field system on the slope overlooking the site.
Date
Source From geograph.org.uk
Author Jim Champion
Attribution
(required by the license)
InfoField
Jim Champion / Entrance to Maen Castle / 
Jim Champion / Entrance to Maen Castle
Camera location50° 04′ 21.8″ N, 5° 42′ 28″ W  Heading=135° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location50° 04′ 21.4″ N, 5° 42′ 28″ W  Heading=135° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Jim Champion
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

20 August 2008

50°4'21.76"N, 5°42'28.44"W

heading: 135 degree

50°4'21.43"N, 5°42'28.08"W

heading: 135 degree

0.004 second

6.3 millimetre

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current09:45, 22 February 2011Thumbnail for version as of 09:45, 22 February 2011480 × 640 (113 KB)GeographBot== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Entrance to Maen Castle Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort (or "cliff castle"), built before 300BC. The small rocky headland was defended by a stone wall, ditch and counterscarp bank. This p

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata