Archallagan Burial Mound
The site of a Bronze Age barrow within a group of about 18 alleged cairns located in a field to the southwest of Eairy Kelly was visited by an NHAS excursion in September 1912.
The leader of the party, the Reverend A.E. Clarke said that the owner had opened a number of these in 1872 and found inverted urns, up to 46 centimetres high, and some bones. None of the urns were preserved but P.M.C. Kermode had a sketch of one of these cairns which he referred to as typical of the rest. He showed on the OS 6 inch map the position of seven of these cairns which he had been able to identify a 'good many years ago', probably in 1899. They were all ploughed over and indistinguishable, except for a rather long mound which had formed the southwest end of the group.
Across the road, in the Archallagan plantation, Kermode had made out eleven more, evidently a continuation of the same group. This area was thickly planted with trees in 1912.
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- Parish: Marown
- Sheading: Middle
- Grid Ref: SC3040078100
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record