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Bishops Demesne Burial
Archaeology
The site of a Bronze Age burial discovered in 1888. It was excavated by Miss A.M. Crellin and reported in 1894. The site was re-excavated by Dr Larch S. Garrad in 1986. A skeleton was found within a stone cist.
An Ordnance Survey recorded noted in 1955 that on the top of a large, apparently natural mound, was a prostrate stone slab orientated east-west which may be a burial cist. The stone measures 1.0 metre by 0.6 metres by 0.1 metres with minor depressions around the sides perhaps indicating subsidence. It is partly grass covered. It is not clear which cist of two cists (0408.20 and 0408.30) this refers to.
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- Parish: Ballaugh
- Sheading: Michael
- Grid Ref: SC3340093190
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record