SOUTH BARRULE HILL FORT
South Barrule from the Round Table
Parish: Malew
Nearest Town/Village: Foxdale, Glen Maye & Colby are all 4 miles away by road.
Ordinance Survey Landranger Grid Ref.: SC 258759
O.S. description: fort
1,585 feet (483m) above sea level (the highest point in the south of the Island).

There are 2 circular ramparts, containing the remains of a large number of circular hut dwellings.


Part of the outer rampart.

Site of Gellings excavation through the outer rampart.

Date(s): 52 BC (radiocarbon date from the later of two hearths)

How to get there:  Walk from the "Round Table" where the A27 and the A36 intersect.

Derivation of Name: Vardar-fjall (Old Norse for "Watch Fell")

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photographs: (c) David J Radcliffe
page last updated: March 25, 1999