Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3219 (3219)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rushen
- Historic county
- Rushen
- Parish, community, or townland
- Malew
- National Grid reference
- SC258759
- Latitude
- 54.14931
- Longitude
- -4.66886
- Altitude
- 586 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 11.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (2010); Other (2015); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1973-1981); Other (1995); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867-1868); Excavation (1960-1968); LiDAR Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 116
- National record
- record SC27NE 10; monument 30124
- Wikidata
- Q31103018
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Gelling, P.S. 1963. Excavations at the hill-fort on South Barrule, Isle of Man , Proc Isle of Man Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 6.3, 313-23.
- Gelling, P.S. 1970, The South Barrule hill-fort reconsidered, J Manx Museum, 145,47.