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Billown Keeill

Archaeology

A keeill-site listed by Kermode and marked as 'lintel-graves' on his 6 inch field map but these appear to derive solely from Oswald in 1860, who stated that on top of the hill near the stone circle 'there is an extensive cemetery of the dead arranged in stone graves.'  Bruce added that no keeill or burial-ground is marked on a 1793 estate-plan (in the Manx Museum Library) and the present owner and tenant-farmer could not recall the finding of graves or foundations during ploughing. Bruce concluded that while urn-burials, presumably Bronze Age, may have been found there was no real evidence for the site of a keeill and burial-ground. Haining in 1822 seems to have been the earliest authority regarding the 'extensive cemetery' but gives no more information than Oswald.

Billown, Ballasalla

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: Malew
  • Sheading: Rushen
  • Grid Ref: SC2600069600

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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