The conjectured site of a Neolithic or Bronze Age settlement. Neolithic flint scrapers have been found here (now kept in the Manx Museum) as well as a Neolithic or Bronze Age flint pounder or hammer trimmed roughly to a sphere (Manx Museum Accession No. 1954-0627). They were donated by Mr W. Faragher.
This may be the site of a long lost keeill or early medieval chapel, dating to the period AD500 to AD1000. A piece of "tooled sandstone" was found here by Mr Quillan circa 1920.
This may be the site of a circle of large white quartz boulders reported by Miss A.M. Crellin in 1888, where worked flints were found on the surface. The flints are kept at the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1985-0296). The white stones are said to have been been rolled down to the hedge. No trace of a circle or of any quartz boulders is now found in the area and the name Cronk y Clagh Vane is not known locally.
A polished flint adze was found by Mrs Betty Quayle and Dr W.R. Walsh nearby (at SC 329936; Accession No. 1986-0029).
Iron Age settlement.
Set on low lying land, this circular earthwork consists of a raised central mound surrounded by a concentric ditch.
The site has been subject to ploughing, but in the past the mound has been recorded as 38m in diameter, with a flat top of 22m diameter. It is raised an average of 0.8m above the surrounding ground. The ditch is on average 8m wide in the N and NW, and 0.3m deep.
In the SE the mound is mutilated by a SW-NW stream on the other side of which no surface trace of the ditch survives in the adjoining field.
There is no visible trace of an entrance or of stonework.
The site is similar to those excavated by Bersu (PRNs 0007, 0008).
The old parish churchyard, Cronk y Keeillee, at Kirk Michael village is the site of an early keeill, but no trace remains. A number of cross-slabs have been found here, demonstrating its use as a burial place from at least the 11th century onwards.
The old parish churchyard, Cronk y Keeillee, at Kirk Michael village is the site of an early keeill, but no trace remains. A number of cross-slabs have been found here, demonstrating its use as a burial place from at least the 11th century onwards.
The site of an early medieval chapel or keeill, thought to have been in use between AD 500-1000. The chapel is orientated northeast to southwest and is built upon a small hillock. The grass-covered walls include some stones and have been preserved within a pasture field by the farmer. It is shown on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
No surface trace remains of the cemetery enclosure but it is thought to have extended eastward; a human skull was apparently found when the foundations of the present house were dug. Lintel graves have also been noted in the past.
There is a record of a monument known as Giant's Grave or Cronk y Toshee in the field numbered 452 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. The information is marked on an annotation on a 1:10560 scale Ordnance map. Notes made by the Rev. E.B. Savage state that there was a burial cist here which contained black soil and charcoal.
Medieval burial mound. The well-defined conical shape of this mound, coupled with its prominent topographical location, is believed to imply a medieval rather than prehistoric origin. It has a maximum diameter of 12m, but is truncated on its south- and north-west sides by agricultural activity. A field boundary offers protection to the south-east. The mound survives to a height of 2m.
This Bronze Age barrow was opened in 1866, and ploughed and robbed out between 1870 and 1875. A cist, urn and flints were found, as well as a bronze axehead, now in the Manx Museum, Accession No. 1954-0805 (possibly an error). Granite boulders taken from the site were broken and built into the tower of the parish church.
It survives as a ditchless, grass-covered, much spread bowl barrow with an approximate diameter of 20.0 metres and average height of 0.2 metres. It is thought to be the tumulus referred to by Feltham in 1798 as 'a high mound, surrounded by stones'
Confusion exists concerning the exact findspots of 3 axeheads claimed for this site and for PRN 0375.00. An Early Bronze Age flat axehead was found at Cronk y Vowlan in 1870-5, only the blade portion survives (Manx Museum Accession No. 1954-0795).
A small-scale emergency excavation by Garrad in 1984-85 revealed Neolithic/Bronze Age burials.
The site of a Bronze Age barrow which was levelled in 1866. At that time the burial cist was opened and a bronze axehead was found. It appears that this is a bronze looped and socketed axehead with three vertical ribs on each face said to have been found at Cronk y Vowlan, East Kimmeragh before 1890 (Manx Museum Accession No. 1954-0803)
In 1983 flint arrowheads and blades were collected in same area. In 1984 the cist was excavated by Dr L.S. Garrad.