An undoubted Christian lintel grave was found by members of the Manx Archaeological Survey Committee 'at the North-East end of the enclosure'  (which is the field numbered 2706 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map).  In the field numbered 2679 on the 1869 map, immediately to the north of field 2706, 'many graves have been found at the same level (about 150 foot above the sea), and from the description given by those who saw them, as well as from some of the stones with which they were formed, now lying on the hedge, it is evident that they were of the same type. Mr Lowney, who is about 75 years old, told us that he remembered seeing many graves of similar character within the Tynwald enclosure' (field number 2702 on the 1869 map) 'all along the line of the Northern Bank to the pathway from the Church to the Mount, but none were to be seen South of that'. The enclosure around St John's appears to have been used for burials up to the early 19th century, but is now disused.