Prehistoric worked flint.


The name Cloughen corra ('odd stones') is recorded on an early 18th century deed. The name was applied to a group of stones whose number has gradually diminished to the single survivor standing today.


PMC Kermode (director of the Manx Museum 1922-32) recorded in 1930 that worked flints have been recovered: this would appear to relate to finds made by F Swinnerton. Additional flints have been found since. The grid reference relates to the centre of the field existing at the time when worked flint was first collected in the vicinity of the upstanding remains.


Modern reconfiguration of the surrounding field boundaries and a trackway has significantly changed the landscape context of this site from that in which most of the antiquarian observations were made, whilst also diminishing the extent to which the remains survive as upstanding features, which together makes their interpretation difficult. The arrangement of the standing stones has led to the suggestion that they represented the remains of the forecourt of a chambered Neolithic tomb, whilst other antiquarian observations are united in assuming that earthworks and the discovery of pottery imply the existence of - probably Bronze Age - burial activity.


The recovery of worked flints undoubtedly confirms prehistoric activity in the immediate area, perhaps from as early as the later Mesolithic.


Worked flints from the site are in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession nos. 1954-0504 and 1974-0056.