Undated mound.
The mound is not recorded on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868. It appears on a small-scale plan drawn by William Cubbon (director of the Manx Museum 1932-40) and published in 1943. The grid reference provided here has been corrected using aerial photography.
The site was briefly investigated by Cubbon and Mr J Kennaugh, the farm tenant in May 1932. Several turves were removed, revealing a layer of broken and burnt stones; the use of an auger suggested that the whole of the mound was similarly capped with stones.
The mound has a maximum diameter of around 20m, and stands 1m high on a slope facing south. It consequently now has an oval outline. Geophysical survey undertaken by Bournemouth University in 2002 however suggests that there are remains of a buried circular quarry ditch.
The top of the mound now displays a shallow hollow, the age and origins of which are not clear.
Neolithic pottery.
A round-based later Neolithic cinerary urn of Ronaldsway type was found in a disused limestone quarry at Ballahott by Mr J. Kewley in 1906.
The precise findspot is not recorded, but the Ballahott quarry was centred at the grid reference provided.
The artefact is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1954-0565.
The site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow described as having a cist. It is a fern-covered, ditchless bowl barrow much mutilated on the top. Its diameter is 14.0 metres and the maximum height is 0.6 metres. On the north side is a cist, orientated northwest to southeast, lined on all sides but the south with stone slabs. The cist measures 1.0 metre by 0.6 metres and is largely filled in, its depth now being 0.2 metres. It was formerly supposed to be the site of a keeill, but has been reinterpreted as a Bronze Age funerary site.
Iron Age settlement.
This group of raised platform earthworks was investigated by Dr Gerhard Bersu in 1941-42 and again in 1943-44. The two larger sites have a rath-like appearance, but investigation suggested to the excavator that the two larger earthworks represented massive timber-built roundhouses with turf-covered roofs supported on roughly concentric rings of posts and walls formed from thick earthen banks.
The two smaller earthworks were only subject to smaller-scale testing. One produced worked flint of later Mesolithic date.
Two samples from the few timbers that were retained provided uncalibrated radiocarbon dates falling in the 3rd century BC.
Subsequent discoveries of dwellings of a similar period in the British Isles have not replicated Bersu's interpretation, and it would instead appear that the concentric rings of posts supported a platform (bounded by the massive earthen bank) on which were constructed a succession of smaller timber roundhouses.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint and a coarse stone axehead were recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from the 'Big Stone Field'.
The stone referred to would appear to be that located in OS Field no. 0303, which is centred at the grid reference provided.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from the 'Brow'.
It is difficult to reconcile Cowley's descriptions with individual fields within this fragmented quarterland, and in the absence of further evidence it is not possible to identify this site. The grid reference relates to the extant farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric stone axehead.
A prehistoric stone axehead was recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from 'Cain's Field'.
It is difficult to reconcile Cowley's descriptions with individual fields within this fragmented quarterland, and in the absence of further evidence it is not possible to identify this site. The grid reference relates to the extant farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from 'Cain's Field by Outhouses'.
It is difficult to reconcile Cowley's descriptions with individual fields within this fragmented quarterland, and in the absence of further evidence it is not possible to identify this site. The grid reference relates to the extant farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from the 'Field Below J Hogg's Big Stones'.
The site appears to be in the vicinity of the stone located at SC2885587195 in the corner of OS Field no. 0303, but in the absence of a positive identification, the grid reference relates to the farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from the 'Field East of Ballabooie Dhorra'.
It is difficult to reconcile Cowley's descriptions with individual fields within this fragmented quarterland, and in the absence of further evidence it is not possible to identify this site. The grid reference relates to the extant farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from the 'Field next to Ballabooie Step Field'.
It is difficult to reconcile Cowley's descriptions with individual fields within this fragmented quarterland, and in the absence of further evidence it is not possible to identify this site. The grid reference relates to the extant farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballakaighen by CH Cowley, from 'J. Hogg's Big Stones'.
The stone referred to would appear to be that located in OS Field no. 0303, which is centred at the grid reference provided.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
