There are two known Iron Age sites-a promontory fort at Landberg and the foundations of a house underlying an early Christian settlement at Kirkigeo.

In 1932, Childe, collaborating with anthropologist C. Daryll Forde, excavated two Iron Age hillforts at Earn's Hugh on the Berwickshire coast, whilst in June 1935 he excavated a promontory fort at Larriban near to Knocksoghey in Northern Ireland.

** Photo of the Iron Age promontory fort at the top of Caherconree Mountain.

Frodsham Hill is the location of an Iron Age promontory fort, the outline of which can still be seen.

To the north of the present High Street an area of open ground called Castle Park preserves almost exactly the hidden perimeter of an iron age promontory fort.

The earliest feature was a large ditch which may have formed part of the defences around a promontory fort previously identified during earlier excavations near the coast at Castle Park.

A small block of rig on is clearly visible on Isle Head, lying between the path leading to the promontory and the ramparts and ditch of the Iron Age fort.

The Burghead Well, which lies within the perimeter of the promontory fort, was discovered in 1809.

Dunbeg Fort, a promontory fort below Mount Eagle, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland

A promontory fort is a defensive structure located above a steep cliff, often only connected to the mainland by a small neck of land, thus utilizing the topography to reduce the ramparts needed.

Augustin Robespierre and Antoine Christophe Saliceti, two of the most powerful men in the Directory, responded favourably to Napoleons request ( bypassing his commander, Jean François Carteaux ) to seize the peninsula fort from the British and install artillery on a promontory overlooking the bay in order to fire on the British fleet at anchor.

The south-western promontory of Dun Mingulay features the remains of an Iron Age fort and there is a pre-historic site at Crois an t-Suidheachain near the western landing place at Aneir at the southern end of Mingulay Bay, which may have been a stone circle.

The second area of international activity was based around the promontory fort of Drumanagh south of present day Loughshinny, which was probably a trading post but may have been used as a potential bridgehead by Agricola.

The fort is situated on a promontory to the north of and overlooking the River Otter valley at approx 178 metres above sea level.

Fortifications also seem to have been prominent including an Iron Age enclosure near Manorbier station and the site of a multivallate, meaning multiple ditches, promontory fort at Old Castle Head where there are remains of hut platforms within the ditches.

Evidence for this can be found at nearby West Keal, where an Iron Age hill fort and defensive terraced earthworks were built at the tip of the Wolds promontory, overlooking the present village.

There is evidence that the island was frequently visited by both Romans and Vikings and there is archeological evidence for remains of a Saxon multivallate promontory fort occupying the eastern end of the Island, on the summit of which is a Bronze Age barrow.

Teuntie and Jonas Bronck ’ s house was built by a promontory at the juncture of the Harlem River and the Bronx Kill across from Randalls Island and was constructed like " a miniature fort with stone walls and a tile roof ".

Iron Age people established a promontory fort overlooking the sea at Shanoon ( referred to in 1832 as meaning the ' Old Camp ' but more likely Canon Power's Sean Uaimh, ' Old Cave ') at a point known for centuries as Black Nobb, where the old pilot station now stands, and underneath which a cave runs.

The island has been settled since ' pre-Celtic times ', and the few remaining signs of early settlement include a promontory fort to the south of the island and shell middens dotted along the beaches.

The fort is located on a rocky promontory accessed over a natural fissure.

A giant promontory fort is located on the headland of Drumanagh, north of Rush.

The ramparts of the fort cross the promontory between the rivers Altmühl and Danube.

A small promontory fort on the other bank of the Danube has a series of short linear ramparts protecting a settlement in the bend of a meander.

The coastal plain of the southern Levant, broad in the south and narrowing to the north, is backed in its southernmost portion by a zone of foothills, the Shephelah ; like the plain this narrows as it goes northwards, ending in the promontory of Mount Carmel.

On the south and north sides of the promontory, there are comparatively few buildings, while, at the west end there is a sheer precipice to the sea.

Towards the valley of the Vorderrhein a high promontory stretches nearly due south from the central peaks of the Tödi, and is crowned by the summit of the Piz Posta Biala.

The town proper occupies an elevated promontory, washed on the north by the Charente River and on the south and west by the Anguienne, a small tributary.

About 50 km south lies the promontory of Santa Maria di Leuca ( so called since ancient times from its white cliffs, leukos being Greek for white ), the southeastern extremity of Italy, the ancient Promontorium lapygium or Sallentinum.

It is located in a commanding position on a natural promontory known as "' Castle Rock '", with cliffs high to the south and west.

The name Pointe-à-Pitre, literally the " headland of Pitre ", is often said to derive from a Dutch or Jewish sailor / fisherman named Peter who settled in the 17th century on a promontory facing the Îlet à Cochon (" Hogs Islet "), just to the south of today's downtown Pointe-à-Pitre.

Officially, " Point Peron " is the designation of a minor promontory on the south side of the cape's extremity.

Other significant settlements are Kaingaroa on the northeast promontory, and Owenga on the south side of Hanson Bay.

Heading towards Bakersfield, Vásquez and his gang rode south to the rock promontory near Inyokern now known as Robbers Roost after him.

On the Isle of Man promontory forts are found particularly on the rocky slate headlands of the south.

The park is a promontory, located where the East Bay shoreline turns from running south towards Berkeley and Oakland to running eastwards, inland.

Sonoma Coast State Beach comprises beaches and dunes along the south side of the promontory.

The rocky promontory of Minna Bluff is often regarded as the southernmost point of Victoria Land, and separates the Scott Coast to the north from the Hillary Coast of the Ross Dependency to the south.

The small peninsula, or promontory, Dyrhólaey ( 120m ) ( formerly known as Cape Portland by English seamen ) is located on the south coast of Iceland, not far from the village Vík.

Histonium was one of the chief towns of the Frentani, situated on the coast of the Adriatic, about 9 km south of the promontory called Punta della Penna.

The promontory is named after the Tillamook, a Salishan-speaking tribe of Native Americans that inhabited the coast south of the promontory in the 19th century.

In 1806, Captain William Clark and 12 members of the Corps of Discovery journeyed south from Fort Clatsop, hiking over the promontory where they encountered a beached whale.

This promontory of " high " beaches is the extreme western immersion of the ancient eruptive Sintra massif, as evident from the rose-coloured granite in the north and syenite of the Ribeira do Louriçal in the south.

Famously picturesque Dunottar Castle sits on a rugged promontory of conglomerate jutting into the North Sea just south of the town of Stonehaven.

The surviving stones are sited on a promontory at the south bank of the stream that joins the southern ends of the sea loch Loch of Stenness and the freshwater Loch of Harray.

Although the promontory was originally completely enclosed by a curtain wall and towers, the north and east walls fell into the sea and most of the south wall was demolished.