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Knocksharry Burial Mound

Archaeology

A funerary monument which has been identified as a Neolithic 'Ronaldsway' type burial site, utilising a glacial mound.  It has also been described as a "round cairn of early Bronze Age type." It may be a late Neolithic chambered cairn.


The cairn measures 29.0 metres northeast to southwest by 23.0 metres northwest to southeast. Its height to the southeast is 1.9 metres. At the foot of the mound to the north is a block of quartz 1.4 m long. There is a narrow opening into a chamber formed of large blocks of white quartz is exposed on the North side


The cairn was a prominent feature in the field numbered 253 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.

Knocksharry, Tumulus Field

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: German
  • Sheading: Glenfaba
  • Grid Ref: SC2749085850

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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