Neolithic pottery.


Two large late Neolithic jars were found in 1944 during construction work at Ronaldsway aerodrome. The pots were found close together by construction staff employed levelling ground to the north of the site of the millpond which once supplied the farm mill at Ronaldsway, and slightly to the south of the (then) northern taxiway, close to one of the wartime hangar sites.


The findspot was a little over 300m west of the site of the Neolithic house discovered in 1943.


It has generally been assumed that the pots represented burials, but more recent discoveries of similar, earth-fast pots buried upright at Billown suggest that they may equally well have been buried for other purposes.