Mull Hill

The unique system of six ( preserved ) in an annular -scale chamber tombs lies on the not very high Mull Hill ( gäl. Meayll Hill ) in the extreme south of the Isle of Man, at Port Erin, near the village of Cregneash.

The place is often known as " The Graveyard of Broken Slates ". He is also referred to as "the Meayll ", or " Meayll Circle". The term Meayll Circle meant that laymen view the place as a stone circle. But it is a roughly 20 meters wide array of megaliths, (see web link) have their center striking the chambers access to the outside. The individual chambers are adapted to the curved circular shape of the total monument.

In a way similar to, but not so great and precisely built like Mull Hill are the welsh system Cerrig y Gof at Newport Pembrokeshire and Cairn Derry, a chamber grave of Bargrennan type in the county of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.

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