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Ballacreggan, Ballakilley, Clay Head Burial Mound
Archaeology
The site of a probable Bronze Age barrow which was opened in 1878, when cremation urns holding ashes were found. It survives as a grass covered ditchless bowl barrow, measuring 22.0 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high. It is on the edge of a natural glacis type slope. Neolithic Ronaldsway type pottery was found when the barrow was excavated. As far as is known Ronaldsway culture is not associated with a barrow building tradition and it is possible that a Bronze Age barrow was later erected on the site of Ronaldsway activity.
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- Parish: Lonan
- Sheading: Garff
- Grid Ref: SC4330079780
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record