A chambered tomb and cremation cemetery were discovered in 1971 at Ballaharra in a sand quarry. The chambered tomb was situated on undulating pasture, rising to a gentle hillock westwards. The tomb was placed at the foot of the slope - not above ground in the usual fashion, but sunk into a capacious grave-pit that contained the chamber and its adjuncts. Above this rested a metre of earth, with no tell-tale signs above the ground today. The chamber comprised at least four megaliths which originated from the coast near Peel, the roofing slab having been since displaced. The chamber was covered with a cairn of cobbles and boulders extending as far as a kerb a few metres to the east. In the chamber there was an early inhumation, followed by deposits of burnt material, including cremated bone and sheep and cattle teeth along with pots and other grave goods of late Neolithic type. The chamber was used for later burials, one perhaps with a beaker, another with a food vessel. It is likely that the chambered tomb predates the 2275-2283 BC of the cremation deposits, but probably not by a very long time. The site has now been completely quarried away.