Bronze Age burial mound.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867-8 shows an earthwork mound just north of the road from Hillberry to Little Mill, marked as a 'Tumulus'.


The mound may be one of those referred to by Oswald ('Vestigia', 1860) as 'near to the mountain gate of the Cronk-na-Mona Road, a group of barrows'.


The mound was described by T Kneen, leading an excursion of the IoM Natural History & Antiquarian Society in 1892, as 'levelled'. A Royal Commission field inspector in 1955 however records it as a 'rather spread ditchless grass covered bowl barrow with diameter of 20m and minimum height of 0.9m', with some stone content, nevertheless classifying it as a mound rather than a cairn. By 1969 it is described as 'ploughed out'; despite this, the site is apparent as a faint cropmark (2016).