A crop mark of unknown signficance seen on aerial photographs.
The site is also the findspot of a prehistoric flint scatter which included worked flints, scrapers and flakes.
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter. It included worked flints of probable Heavy-blade or Bann type, 11 blades, flakes, an assymetrical 'missile head' and 2 worked slates.
Prehistoric burial cist.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867-8 records this site, together with the annotation, 'Stone Cist found hereabouts'.
Kermode (1930) records its discovery prior to 1867 without further comment.
No further finds are recorded.
The site of a post-medieval horse engine. The circular horsewalk is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, located to the northern side of a farm outbuilding to the northwest side of the farmyard.
The findspot of a scatter of worked flints of early prehistoric date, including four scrapers and a piece of utilised slate which had one face smoothed by wear.
The site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow. It survives as a ditchless mound, with no visible stones on the surface. It has a diameter of 11.0 metres and is up to 1.6 metres high. Historic ploughing appears to have eroded the base of the mound around its circumference.
The findspot of a Mesolithic Heavy-blade or Bann type flint scatter which included a flint flake, a serrated blade and two further flakes from same field as coin hoard PRN 0707.00.
The site of a possible shieling mound. However, a quarry magazine and trackway lie close by and the feature may have been created by quarrying activity further to the east. The mound is shown on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
Modern horsewalk.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a horsewalk at this location. The horsewalk, together with the barn to which it is attached, still survive.
A corn mill of late medieval and post medieval date is recorded in this area. The 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map shows mill ponds and leats feeding a probable mill at Ballastrang Farm.
An elongated mound marked on the 1868 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, but not shown on later maps. It is still visible. The occupier has stated that their grandmother prevented her son digging it because of tradition that it was a burial place.
The site of a Viking burial mound totally excavated by Bersu in 1946. A coffin burial of the late 9th century was found, with grave goods comprising a knife, broken sword, one spear inside the coffin, two on top, and a shield laid to the side of the coffin. A mound was built over the burial pit and the body of a sacrificed woman placed on the top, and the whole covered with earth.
The Viking burial partly overlaid a cremation cemetery of the Neolithic Ronaldsway culture. At least ten deposits of densely compacted bones were uncovered, and probably many more had been destroyed by farming in the surrounding area. One cremation was in the broken remains of an urn of Ronaldsway type, and remains of a large round-based Ronaldsway-type urn were also found. A number of shallow circular or oval hollows were found, containing charcoal, soot and ashes with fragments of cremated bones. They were regarded as 'ustrinae', holes beneath funeral pyres from which cremated bones were recovered.
A number of post-holes and a foundation-trench of uncertain, pre-Viking date were also found. They may have been associated with the cemetery. No trace remains of the mound and the site is grass covered and has been latterly used as a general refuse dumping ground.
The site of a Viking burial mound totally excavated by Bersu in 1946. A coffin burial of the late 9th century was found, with grave goods comprising a knife, broken sword, one spear inside the coffin, two on top, and a shield laid to the side of the coffin. A mound was built over the burial pit and the body of a sacrificed woman placed on the top, and the whole covered with earth.
