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Find from Ballagawne
The findspot of a bronze sword which formed part of a hoard of five Late Bronze Age objects found in 1940 in harrowing a field sloping down to the North bank of the Glen Gawne stream.
Find from Ballagawne
The findspot of a bronze ring which formed part of a hoard of five Late Bronze Age objects found in 1940 in harrowing a field sloping down to the north bank of the Glen Gawne stream.
Find from Ballagawne
The findspot of a bronze sickle which formed part of a hoard of five Late Bronze Age objects found in 1940 in harrowing a field sloping down to the north bank of the Glen Gawne stream.
Find from Ballageeil, Cronk y Voddy
The findspot of a Neolithic artefact found by W. Cannon, Premister and given to C.H. Cowley on 24 December 1934. The findspot was recorded as being at Ballawilliegell (Bwoaillieegell).
Find from Ballagilley
The findspot of two Neolithic or Bronze Age pounders or hammers from Ballagilley, which were donated to the Manx Museum by the Rev. S.N. Harrison. One is a reddish quartzite stone, flat with rounded sides and a depression on each face (Accession No. 1954-0619). The second is an oval pebble of grey granite, with flattened faces, each with a circular hollow, thought to be an anvil stone  (Accession No. 1954-0624).
Find from Ballaglass, Ballachrink
The findspot of a narrow, thin-butted flat axehead of Early Bronze Age date found 'at Ballachrink' before 1903. It is now kept in the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-0793).
Find from Ballaglonney, log boat
A "log boat" of reportedly Early Medieval date has been found in the Ballaglonney area.
Find from Ballagyr
The findspot of a stone axehead, recorded by C.H. Cowley.
Find from Ballagyr
The findspot of a stone axehead of Neolithic or Bronze Age date.
Find from Ballagyr
The findspot of a "roughened-butt stone axehead" which measures 295 mm long. It was recorded by Cowley as being found at 'Ballagyr, Christian's, field below haggart' on 13th April, 1939. The artefact is kept in the Cowley Collection in the Manx Museum (Number 70).
Find from Ballagyr, axehead, polished
A Neolithic roughened-butt axehead of Ronaldsway type was found in 'Thistle Field' at Ballgyr in 1913, a major Ronaldsway site, but its precise location is now unknown. It may lie under the new factories in northeastern Peel. Scattered microlithic material has been found in the coastal fields at Ballagyr, and there is a concentration of Ronaldsway material from the unlocated 'Thistle Field', with further Ronaldsway finds from Lucas' fields, described as 'opposite the house and above the lime-kiln', presumably therefore plot 988 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. Corlett's 1970s find of Ronaldsway sherds from the new factory development would suggest that there was a major Neolithic occupation in this area.
Find from Ballaharra
A small piece of bronze of unknown date was found at the Ballaharra sand quarry.
Find from Ballahasney
The findspot of a Bronze Age artefact found in the turf of the bank of the Lhen Trench.
Find from Ballahasney
A Neolithic axehead of Ronaldsway type Neolithic roughened-butt type was found in 1920 in this area but the precise findspot is not known. It is kept at the Manx Museum, (Accession No. 1954-0585).
Find from Ballajora
The findspot of a now lost, decayed fragment of a bog-oak canoe, found in 1881. It measured 2.5 metres by 0.60 metres by 0.25 metres.
Find from Ballakaighen, Big Stone Field
A fragment of a Neolithic Group VI stone axehead of Langdale stone was found on the surface of Big Stone Field in 1918. It is now kept in the Manx Museum, Accession No. 1971-0210/30.
Find from Ballakilley
Perforated stone axe-hammer of Neolithic date, which was found in use as a weight on a tethering rope in a farm byre.
Find from Ballakinnag
The findspot of a Bronze Age "hone stone", found during garden digging at Ballakinnag.
Find from Ballakoig
The findspot of a small Bronze Age food vessel or cinerary urn, found on the brooghs some 100 metres south of a similar findspot at Ballakoig.
Find from Ballalheaney
The findspot of an elk antler found circa 1880.
Find from Ballameanagh
The findspot of a Neolithic stone axehead.
Find from Ballamona
The findspot of a hoard of medieval silver coins. About a troy pound weight of silver pennies, nearly all of Edward I (1272-1307) were found in an earthen jar on the estate of Mr Paul Leece, Ballamona. The jar was destroyed and most of the coins were secured by Mr Wallace of Distington, then in Douglas. Crellin identified rubbings as Edward I (mints, York, Canterbury, Bury St Edmunds, Bristol, Newcastle Durham, and an Irish mint) and Alexander III (1249-85) and Robert I (1306-26) of Scotland. Crellin observed 'Some facts connected with this find appear to be mixed up with the one at Ballaslig.'  The coincidence of two considerable hoards of Edwardian coins being found within a mile of each other and at about the same time (neither find is accurately dated) is remarkable. The Ballamona hoard seems better substantiated than the Ballaslig one, and possibly some of the coins from the former, becoming separated from the rest after discovery, were then supposed to have come from the 'Silver Field' which had already a reputation in the neighbourhood for such things. The suggestion that the Ballaslig find was also found in an urn (doubted by Crellin) supports the idea that they were the same find.
Find from Ballamooar Curragh
The findspot of a Neolithic stone axehead of fine-grained (possibly igneous) rock. It is of a pointed butt type, with the butt reddened by fire. Traces of its ground surface have survived weathering.
Find from Ballanayre
A Neolithic axehead was found in the "outer field" at Ballanayre by B. Cowell and given to C.H. Cowley on 26 May 1918.
Find from Ballaquayle, Ballamooar
The findspot of an early cross-slab found in 1913 at Ballamooar, Kirk Patrick, by Mr F.S. Graves, who presented it to the Manx Museum.  It was found near a wall about a quarter of a mile from the site of a keeill at the head of Ballaquayle Glen, from which it may have originated. The stone is broken and badly weathered and bears an incised eight-rayed figure within an outer ring, probably representing a form of Chi-Rho monogram.