The reported site of a Bronze Age standing stone. A stone is shown in the field numbered as Plot 258 on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. This may have been a post-medieval rubbing stone. No stone seen at this location on modern aerial photographs.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballalough (Marown) by CH Cowley, from West Baldwin.
No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery were recorded and 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 Ballalough, West Baldwin, by CH Cowley, who described the findspot as 'the field opposite the lane to the house'. It is possible that this relates to OS Field 323, centred at SC34578103.
However, as the identification is not certain, and there are no further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery, the site grid reference relates to the farmstead for indicative purposes.
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.
The site of a probable Viking burial mound. It survives as grass and gorse covered mound with a diameter of 15.0 metres and a height on its eastern side of 2.0 metres. It is situated on the crest of a hill and a short distance from the sea.
By its size and topographical position it is comparable to the Viking Burial Mound at Cronk y Dooney. Two other mounds were reportedly seen in this area but no trace was found of any other mounds in the vicinity during field survey.
Site of water mill and associated water management.
The current mill building is still standing, though roofless, and is recorded but not described on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of 1868.
The millpond was located just to the north. It appears to have been filled in, although the leat is still visible.
Site of water mill.
The current mill building is still standing, though roofless, and is recorded but not described on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of 1868.
Site of water mill and associated water management.
The millpond was located just to the north of the mill and is recorded on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of 1868.
It appears to have been filled in, although the leat is still visible.
The site of a ill-defined, elongated mound 13.0 metres east to west by 17.0 metres north to south. It is grass covered and ditchless. It may be a barrow but could be another type of structure. Approaching from the west and curving into the mound is a probable track with height the same as the mound.
The site of an erect stone which measures 1.25 metres high by 0.54 metres wide and 0.23 metres thick. It is set in a ploughed field with no trace of a mound around it. There are rock outcrops in the vicinity.
A Bronze Age stone cist containing a beaker of Clarke's group N3 (Corpus No 374) was found in 1919 by Mr J.F. Cowley of Baroose during the ploughing of a field behind Baroose Cottages, about 75 metres to the left of the highroad from Douglas to Laxey, on the south end of a ridge, about 110 metres above sea level. The upper edges of the cist were about 23 centimetres below the surface, the lid slab having been removed. All the slabs of the cist were removed, after measurement, to the adjoining field fence. The beaker was found in fragments but was carefully 'reconstructed' by Canon Quine and later by Mr A. Knox. Quantities of charcoal, implying cremation were also found in the cist and two flints, one a small rude scraper and the other a slightly-chipped nodule.
A reported keeill site at Ballameanagh near Foxdale, which would have been in use in the period AD500 to AD1000. It is thought that the remains of the keeill were removed during the early 1860s. It was located in the field numbered 2995 on the 1869 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map.
An intact skeleton was apparently found in a stone coffin in the burial ground adjoining the keeill, but no trace of a chapel or burial ground now survives. The field is was known as 'Chapel Field' and a Mrs Lace and others remembered the walls standing and several headstones of graves around. The stones are said to have been used for buildings on nearby Kionslieu farm.
A reported keeill site at Ballameanagh near Foxdale, which would have been in use in the period AD500 to AD1000. It is thought that the remains of the keeill were removed during the early 1860s. It was located in the field numbered 2995 on the 1869 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map.
An intact skeleton was apparently found in a stone coffin in the burial ground adjoining the keeill, but no trace of a chapel or burial ground now survives. The field is was known as 'Chapel Field' and a Mrs Lace and others remembered the walls standing and several headstones of graves around. The stones are said to have been used for buildings on nearby Kionslieu farm.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 large-scale mapping published in 1870 bears the annotation 'Limekiln', but without indicating the location of the structure. The 1:10560 mapping published in the same year does, however, mark the building, which was at the grid reference provided.
There are no surface remains today, but the kiln would appear to have been built into the hillside at a break in the slope. The site is now traversed by the footpath which provides public access to the hillfort of Cronk Sumark.
