Archaeology

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Baldrine Old road
The line of an old road at Baldrine.
Baldrine Stackyard
The site of a post-medieval farm or stack yard at Baldrine.
Baldromma Beg, Maughold Corn Mill
The site of a post-medieval windmill.
Baldromma Crop Mark
A crop mark of unknown significance seen on aerial photographs.
Baldromma Flint Scatter
The findspot of a large scatter of early prehistoric flints collected during 1914 in a field on Baldroma, and given into the possession of Canon Quine.
Baldromma Mooar Horsewalk
Modern horsewalk. The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map of 1868 shows a horsewalk at this location. The horsewalk was covered and the structure appears still to survive.
Baldwin Burial Mound
The site of a probable Bronze Age barrow, one of three ditchless grass covered bowl barrows on land falling to the west, with a stone cairn also within the group. This mound measures 9 metres in diameter and is 0.7 metres high. Five shieling mounds are indicated at this position on Gelling's distribution map, but more recent works suggests this to be a barrow group.
Baldwin Burial Mound
The site of a probable Bronze Age barrow, being a stone cairn associated with three ditchless grass covered bowl barrows on land falling to the west. This cairn measures 9 metres in diameter and is 0.7 metres high. Five shieling mounds are indicated at this position on Gelling's distribution map, but more recent works suggests this to be a barrow group.
Baldwin Burial Mound
The site of a probable Bronze Age barrow, one of three ditchless grass covered bowl barrows on land falling to the west, with a stone cairn also within the group. This mound is surmounted by an old hedge bank across its northern side, north of which it has been ploughed out. Its diameter is 11.0 metres and a minimum height 0.5 metres. Five shieling mounds are indicated at this position on Gelling's distribution map, but more recent works suggests this to be a barrow group.
Baldwin Burial Mound
The site of a probable Bronze Age barrow, one of three ditchless grass covered bowl barrows on land falling to the west, with a stone cairn also within the group. This mound is surmounted by an old hedge bank across its northern side, north of which it has been ploughed out. Its diameter is 13.0 metres and average height of 0.3 metres. Five shieling mounds are indicated at this position on Gelling's distribution map, but more recent works suggests this to be a barrow group.
Baldwin Corn Mill
The site of a post-medieval corn mill.
Baldwin Mine
The site of a lead mine has been recorded in this area and was operating  in 1850.
Baldwin Mine
The site of a small 19th century lead and zinc mine, which was in operation in the 1840s.
Baldwin Saw Mill
The site of a 19th century saw mill.
Baldwin Shieling Mound
Five shieling mounds are indicated at this position on Gelling's distribution map. When the place-name element 'eary' meaning shieling occurs in a farm-name it usually means there was a shieling in the vicinity, in this case Eary Ween is at SC 374836 and Adderry at SC 372827.   Four probable Bronze Age barrows are recorded in the area and if there is a fifth mound, it is unrecorded apart from Gelling's map, and no details are known.
Baldwin Shieling Mound
A group of four shieling mounds recorded on P.S. Gelling's distribution map of shielings dating to 1963.
Baldwin, Renscault Corn Mill
The site of a post-medieval corn mill.
Baljean Corn Mill
The site of a post-medieval corn mill.  The waterwheel of the mill powered threshing and grinding machinery, drawing water from leats supplying the Great Laxey mines. There was also a corn drying kiln with a ceramic floor housed within a barn.
Baljean House
A post-medieval house in Laxey.
Baljean House
A post-medieval farmhouse in Laxey.
Baljean House
A post-medieval house in Laxey.
Baljean Lime Kiln
The site of a large, 19th century lime kiln. It has long been out of use but still stands relatively intact.
Ballabane Horsewalk
The site of a post-medieval horse engine. The circular horsewalk is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, and can still be seen on modern aerial photographs.
Ballabeg
Neolithic worked flints. A scatter of worked Neolithic flints including a scraper and a retouched round-ended blade (41mm overall), found at Ballabeg, Marown, by W Cubbon (director of the Manx Museum 1932-40). The exact findspot is not known, and the grid reference is centred on the farmstead. The objects are in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1971-0071.
Ballabeg
The findspot of a large oval-shaped pebble showing abrasion at one extremity, and slightly weathered fracturing at the opposite end. It was found by "K.W" on 19th March, 1939 on the quarterland of Ballabeg (Spring Hill), Kirk Braddan, to the eastern edge of the field numbered as Plot 1574 on the 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1866.