South Barrule Hill Fort
- Item sets
- Archaeology
- Name
- South Barrule Hill Fort
- Description
- Iron Age hill fort on the summit of South Barrule, Manannan's seat. The place where rushes were carried at midsummer to pay rent to the old god. The archaeological remains of the fort are overlaid with centuries of ritual significance. The hill connects the pre-Christian, the Norse, and the constitutional traditions of the Island in a single landscape feature.
- Date
- Iron Age onwards
- Place
- South Barrule
- Period
- Celtic and Pre-Norse Period
- Type
- Hill Fort
- Sacred Site