The Cronk
The conjectured site of a Neolithic Ronaldsway settlement. The area has produced finds of large numbers of flints, pottery, a cup-marked stone and a stone axehead from the vicinity of The Cronk, a mound to the north side of Lough Cranstal.
The flints consisted of cores and chips, scrapers and flakes, an intact stone axehead 7.5 centimetres long by 5 centimetres broad and about a dozen flints with small notches. Ronaldsway type pottery included one smooth, grey urn and one bright red, rough urn with possible herring bone markings. A small cup marked stone of grey slate (0399.10), measuring 10 centimetres by 7.5 centimetres was also found.
The Cronk is a large, rather shapeless, hillock which is apparently a natural sand mound of which there are several in the same field. It has been partially dug away and is now partly under grass and partly under the plough. There were no surface finds. Flint scrapers, including hump-backed scrapers were found in association with Ronaldsway pottery, but the material is unstratified.
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- Parish: Bride
- Sheading: Ayre
- Grid Ref: NX4512002660
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record