Meayll Hill (
Manx: ''Cronk Meayll''; also called The Mull) is a small hill in the exclave of
Rushen parish at the southern end of the
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern ...
, just outside the village of
Cregneash. It is the site of a
chambered cairn
A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are fo ...
called Meayll Circle or Mull Circle. Near the summit of the hill also lie the remains of a World War II
Chain Home Low RDF station.
Meayll Hill Stone Circle is a unique archaeological monument. It consists of twelve burial chambers placed in a ring, with six entrance passages each leading into a pair of chambers. Sherds of ornate pottery, charred bones, flint tools and white quartz pebbles have been found in the burial chambers. It was built around 3500 BC; it is a site of legends, with diverse stories about haunting.
The word ''Meayll'' means "bald" in
Manx Gaelic
Manx ( or , or ), also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Goidelic language, Gaelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family. Manx is the heritage language of the Manx ...
.
Meayll Circle
Image:Adze.Isle.of.Man.jpg, Three views of an adze, from Meayll Hill
Image:Meayll.Hill.worked.flints.png, Worked flints found on Meayll Hill
Image:Plan.of.Meayll.Hill.stone.circle.png, Plan of the Meayll Stone Circle
Image:Meayll.stone.circle.from.the.east.png, Meayll Stone Circle from the east
Image:Meayll.stone.circle.excavated.cist.png, Meayll Stone Circle, excavated cist
Image:Meayll.stone.circle.excavated.cist.2.png, Meayll Stone Circle, excavated cist (another view)
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360 Panoramas of Meayll Circle
Marilyns of the Isle of Man
Mountains and hills of the Isle of Man
Tourist attractions in the Isle of Man
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