55°00′29″N 5°09′38″W / 55.008149°N 5.160497°W / 55.008149; -5.160497

Ancient Fort at Corsewall Point

Corsewall Point, or Corsill Point, is a headland at the northern end of the Rhins of Galloway in Scotland. A lighthouse, Corsewall Lighthouse, was placed here in 1816, for the directing of vessels from the Scottish side into the Irish Channel.[1] William Smith, a 19th-century British Classicist identifies the point with the Novantarum Promontorium (Ancient Greek: Νοουαντῶν ἄκρον) mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geography[2] as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Chambers, Robert (1836). The Gazetteer of Scotland. p. 158.
  2. ↑ Ptol., Geog. 2.3.1
  3. ↑ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Novantarum Promontorium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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