The findspot of the skeleton of an elk (Cervus giganteus). Elk became extinct on the Isle of Man by circa 7,000BC, at the end of the last Ice Age.


An almost complete elk skeleton was found in a marl pit in 1819 at Loughan Ruy, Ballaugh by a local blacksmith named Thomas Kewish and the tenant of the land, a brewer named James Taubman. The skeleton was claimed by the Duke of Atholl who eventually gave it to the Edinburgh History Museum.