Burials found within the Neolithic to Bronze Age funerary site at Killeaba.


The site produced two vessels of Ronaldsway type. A large urn was inserted at the highest point of the mound, North of the burning pit, its mouth apparently in part covered by a slab of stone pierced by a circular hole. The insertion of this urn post-dates the initial construction of the burning pit, which, however, may have been re-used subsequently. The smaller urn was positioned above a timber-lined pit, possibly at the time this pit was filled in. To the South a further pit of comparable size contained a roughly rectangular setting of stone similar to stone settings in some of the timber-lined pits. The stratigraphy indicates that this pit was constructed after the filling in of the first one. An enigmatic oval platform of rough stones was found on the North slope of the mound, but it could not be dated and might relate to either period, or indeed some other time. Cremated bone not associated with structures may also date from this period.