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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
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Book Chapters
- Parish: German
- Sheading: Glenfaba
- Grid Ref: SC2749085850
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record