Bronze Age burial mound.


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


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 'on a slight slope,...now almost levelled by cultivation; its outline, however, could be traced, showing a diameter of about 16 yards.' In 1955 it was reportedly 17m in diameter and stood 0.4m high, with a boulder on top which appeared to have been recently disturbed and placed there.


During the 1990s, topsoil was spread in the field, but the mound was avoided and left undisturbed.


Although the Ordnance Survey records the discovery of pottery at the site, no corresponding object, or sherds thereof, have been identified in the Manx National Heritage collections.