Medieval chapel, burial ground and lintel grave.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867 shows the location of a chapel and burial ground at this location on Skinscoe farm, together with the annotation, 'Site of Chapel & Burial Ground'. The OS shows the enclosure as an earthwork feature, within which the site of the chapel itself is marked.


The Manx Archaeological Survey (1915) states that the site has long been ploughed over, but records the former presence of part of the enclosure bank to the north and west, which may once have been about 40m in diameter. By 1976 a Royal Commission field inspector described the enclosure bank as unsurveyable.


Ploughing activity in 1936 uncovered a single lintel grave at the site, containing a well-preserved adult skeleton. The precise location of the grave was not recorded in detail, so it is not known if it lay within or outside of the line of the enclosure previously delineated.


It is possible that the field boundaries to the south and east may still preserve evidence of the enclosure on that side of the site.