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Skyhill Burial Mound

Archaeology

The site of a Bronze Age barrow, which survives as a ditchless, gorse and fern covered bowl barrow with diameter of 12.0 metres and height of 1.4 metres.  It has been partly dug away in the northwest and is crossed by a modern field bank in the south.  A cordoned urn, exposed by sheep rubbing against the mound, was removed by P.M.C. Kermode and the Rev. W. Morris in 1898. The urn is now kept in the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-0572).  A second barrow lies 50 metres to the southwest, PRN 0532.20. The barrow is shown as a Tumulus on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.

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  • Parish: Lezayre
  • Sheading: Ayre
  • Grid Ref: SC4234093310

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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