Image of Beinn-y-Phott (Round Cairn) by thelonious

08/09/2010 – Cairn on Beinn-y-Phott

thelonious Dec 30, 2019

thesweetcheat Dec 30, 2019 18:01

Ah, great stuff thank you. These Manx hill cairns aren't easy on date are they, lacking the obvious footprint of many Welsh ones. But I've now seen at least three that look like they have a planned construction with kerbs, and shape-wise they do look like this one. I see Eds have added the disputed tag, which is fair enough in the absence of proper evidence.

thelonious Dec 30, 2019 18:32

Cairn on Bradda hill, north of Port Erin, looks similar.

hillsummits.org.uk/htm_summit/1949.htm

Anything on the 1:25000 listed there do you know?

Like you say, it's tricky.

thesweetcheat Dec 30, 2019 19:04

Yep, went to Bradda Hill and Bradda Mooar cairns, some kerbs in evidence. The SMR lists hardly any of these but the OS 1:25000 shows them as antiquities. No idea what criteria they used for that assessment though.