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Balnahowe Settlement

Archaeology

A group of hut circles have been recorded in the area below the stone circle on Mull Hill. These hut foundations include two denuded hut circles which have not been built up. Hut circle is located at SC 19226774. This hut circle has been restored and there is clear evidence of the rearrangment of some of its erect stones, the largest of which is 0.8 metres high. It has a diameter of 3.5 metres, but no definable entrance. Thickness of the hut wall is 1.3 metres. 


Lower down the hill and still further east are about six more hut foundations. Their outside diameters were 3.5 to 4.5 metres, and the stones forming them (about twelve to each circle) measured about 1.4 to 0.6 metres (4 foot by 2 foot) and projected up to 0.6 metres  above the surface. They are unhewn blocks of Manx slate. Like the other huts these were also on the line of one of the 'ancient fences' and occupy a sheltered situation looking north.  The site had a further advantage of being just above the spring known as 'Chibbyrt-ny-Garval', or Horse-well. 


Indications of other hut foundations around the hill were seen but some were completely overgrown and lost. The remains are considered to belong to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age period with continuity into the Iron Age.

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: Rushen
  • Sheading: Rushen
  • Grid Ref: SC1922067740

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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