Archallagan Burial Mound
A ditchless, tree and moss covered, bowl barrow with a few stones exposed. It has a diameter of 8.0 metres and a height of 0.6 metres. It forms part of the Archallagan cairn field, a group of Bronze Age burial mounds of disputed number: the 1860s Ordnance Survey recorded 14 cairns in the plantation area, P.M.C. Kermode counted eleven within the plantation and seven beyond the road in 1899, and 1957 Ordnance Survey mappers identified at least eight within the plantation. In 1872 the landowner opened some of the cairns and found inverted urns associated with bones; Rev. A.E. Clarke documented further openings around 1912, publishing illustrations and accounts in the Proceedings of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Mounds within the plantation are nominally protected from ploughing but remain vulnerable to damage from tree roots and stump-clearing during replanting.
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- Parish: German
- Sheading: Glenfaba
- Grid Ref: SC3023079360
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record