Promontory fort
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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 using the topography to reduce the ramparts needed.
Dunbeg Fort, a promontory fort below Mount Eagle, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Entrance to Dunbeg Fort
The Rumps in North Cornwall
Promontory
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A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water. Most promontories either are formed from a hard ridge of rock that has resisted the erosive forces that have remo
Promontory fort
…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 using the topography to…
East side of the Freshwater Steps promontory, at the western end of Egmont Bight, Dorset, U.K.
A promontory, on Lake Baikal, Russia
The Citadel of Namur, with the Meuse and the Parliament of Wallonia in the foreground