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Bellellis Flint Scatter

Archaeology

The findspot of a major concentration of Neolithic Ronaldsway type flints and stone artefacts, though to potentially represent an habitation site.  These were found at a site recorded as 'Long Field', Bellellis, by Cowley, but the site has been lost and not been relocated.  Amongst the artefacts found were a Ronaldsway roughened-butt axehead given the the Manx Museum by Cowley in 1946 (Accession No. 1971-0183/19). A second axehead, probably from this site, is still in private possession. Also found here was a Neolithic/Bronze Age pounder or hammer consisting of a smoothly rounded sandstone boulder with one end abraded, also donated to the museum by Cowley (Accession No. 1954-1629).

Bellellis, Long Field

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: German
  • Sheading: Glenfaba
  • Grid Ref: SC2530084000

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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