Undated mound.


The mound is not recorded on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868. It appears on a small-scale plan drawn by William Cubbon (director of the Manx Museum 1932-40) and published in 1943. The grid reference provided here has been corrected using aerial photography.


The site was briefly investigated by Cubbon and Mr J Kennaugh, the farm tenant in May 1932. Several turves were removed, revealing a layer of broken and burnt stones; the use of an auger suggested that the whole of the mound was similarly capped with stones.


The mound has a maximum diameter of around 20m, and stands 1m high on a slope facing south. It consequently now has an oval outline. Geophysical survey undertaken by Bournemouth University in 2002 however suggests that there are remains of a buried circular quarry ditch.


The top of the mound now displays a shallow hollow, the age and origins of which are not clear.