The findspot of an early prehistoric flint scatter. It includes 4 Scrapers, 23 flakes, 9 chips and a quartz flake which were collected by G.W. Lamplugh in December 1894.
There may have been an early settlement at Ballakaighen. A dug-out canoe was found with piles and baulks of timber and a quantity of flint flakes, when draining a field south of the railway cutting at a point some 400 metres west of the house and 460 metres southwest of Glen Cam. The canoe was probably of Bronze Age date. It was found in association with two stone burial cists.
There may have been an early settlement at Ballakaighen. A dug-out canoe was found in association with two stone cists and 13 oak piles. To the north was a considerable area of burnt soil, stones and charcoal. Inland, to the south-west, further traces of burning have been found with more oak piles, while throughout the field great numbers of flint flakes and cores have been picked up.
