The cumulative recovery over several decades of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts, including a dozen stone axes, from Ballnahowe farm (PRN 0042, farmstead at SC19056845) and the Howe (PRN 0048, placename centred on Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map at SC19186810), would tend to suggest the presence of Neolithic settlement somewhere in the locality.