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period. A single one of them is clearly traceable in tbe 

 middle of tbe high road at Ballaquane, near Dalby. The 

 largest and most interesting collection of such remains is 

 that around the Meayll Hill, near Port Erin, where there 

 are three or four clusters all on a level round the hill with 

 the old village of Cregneash, which it is possible may 

 have been another kept in continuous existence ever since 

 Neolithic or Bronze times. These huts from their contents 

 are evidently in association with the Meayll burial place, 

 a curious circle of cists placed higher up on the same hill, 

 to be described further on. It must be noted, however, 

 that the huts were apparently occupied up to a much later 





Fig. 5. — Neolithic cists, Poit St. Mary. Sketch by F. Swinnerton. 



date than that of the stone circle, and, if Neolithic in 

 origin, must belong to the close of that period, which 

 doubtless persisted much later in the Isle of Man than in 

 Britain generally. 



Not far away, on the opposite mountain, at a hollow 

 (known as the Sloe) in the Oarnanes on the slope of 

 Cronk-ny-Irree-Laa, is another collection of hut-circles, 

 among which a few worked flints have been found. 



In one or two places, as at the foot of Snaefell and at 

 Ballakaighan, German, indications have been met with of 

 pile-structures, reminding one of Boyd Dawkins' descrip- 

 tion of a log house in Ireland, surrounded by a staked 



