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Giant's Grave Burial Cairn, Renshent

Archaeology

This site has been described as the remains of a cairn with two quartz blocks 7.4 m apart in line, northwest to southeast.  The northwestern stone was 0.5 m high with sides of 0.6 by 0.4 m. The southeast stone was irregular in shape, 0.6 m high with sides of 0.5 by 0.6 by 0.8 m. There was no trace of a mound or cist. 


 Mr Shimmin, the occupier, said his brother dug possibly in the hollow near the northeast stone and 'found an axe and an old gun. There's lots in it'. There is a feeling that the area between the stones was a burial ground and had not been ploughed. 


Megaw was not impressed either with the stone or the site in general. The impression was obtained that the stones did not form part of an antiquity.

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: Malew
  • Sheading: Rushen
  • Grid Ref: SC2963077070

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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