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The Mull Hill Circle, Isle of Man, and its Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

S. Piggott
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On Mull or Meayll Hill, a mile north-east of the Calf Sound, Isle of Man, is the remarkable megalithic monument known as the Mull Hill Circle. It is not a stone circle of normal type but consists of six T-shaped structures, each comprising two rectangular cists averaging 5 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 8 in., placed end to end with the inner end of each open and forming the head of the T, and approached by a short passage about 7 ft. long at right angles (the upright of the T). These pairs of cists are arranged in a circle some 50 ft. in diameter; each group distinct, with the cists placed tangentially and the passages leading radially outwards. They are so spaced as to leave a larger interval between the groups on the north and south to form two opposite ‘entrances ’. Apparently the entire circle of cists had originally been covered by a ring of stones and earth, the whole forming a ‘disc-barrow’, the bank of which contained chambers. There are vague indications of a central chamber or cist. The stone used in the construction of the monument was a local slate. No capstones remain to any cists or passages, but all appear to have been paved with flat slabs.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 1932 , pp. 146 - 157
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1932

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References

page 146 note 1 Liverpool University Press, 1904; second edition, 1914.

page 147 note 1 ‘The Neolithic Pottery of the British Isles’, Arch. Journ., lxxxviii. The Mull Hill pottery is here discussed in its relation to other finds.

page 149 note 1 Since the above was written some reconstructions have been made at the Manx Museum under Mr. Kermode's supervision and are shown in fig. 7.

page 154 note 1 For a full review of the type and illustrations of the Kilham and other bowls see the writer's paper referred to above.

page 154 note 2 Now in the British Museum. Greenwell mentions the fragments (British Barrows, no. ccxxxiv), but gives no drawing.

page 154 note 3 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., lxiii, 56–7.Google Scholar

page 154 note 4 Ibid., 81.

page 155 note 1 See Archaeologia Cambrensis, lxxxiv, pp. 170–4. Presidential Address by Mr. P. M. C. Kermode.

page 155 note 2 Antiq. Journ., vii, 462.

page 155 note 3 Prof. V. G. Childe has recently made a comprehensive study of the problem in ‘The Continental Affinities of British Neolithic Pottery’, Arch. Journ., lxxxviii.