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Created perhaps 5,000 years ago, Cup Marks are one of archaeology's great unexplained phenomenon, and there are Manx examples of this somewhere where almost all Manx people will have visited...
Cup Marks are a mysterious form of prehistoric art. Dating back perhaps 5,000 years or more, into the Neolithic period, these human-made cup-shaped marks in rocks are in places all over the Isle of Man. Although a number of theories have been suggested, archaeologists and historians do not ultimately know why these sorts of marks were made or who it was that went to such effort to create them.
Some of the most impressive, most easily accessible and most-seen Cup Marks in all of the Isle of Man are ones most people will never have noticed before, around the outside of Tynwald Hill itself.
David Fisher here shows where they are and explains something of where they perhaps came from...
A Manx language version of this film is available here:
