Alleged earthwork.


An annotated set of 1:10560 Ordnance Survey maps curated by Manx National Heritage records antiquarian observations of archaeological and landscape features.


PMC Kermode (director of the Manx Museum 1922-32) noted 'Encampment wall' along the line of the boundary separating OS Field nos. 1119 and 1120, centred at the grid reference provided.


Kermode also refers elsewhere (Manx Antiquities, 1930) to Oswald's observation (Vestigia, 1860), of 'the indistinct remains of a circular encampment' not far from a burial mound on Ballachrink farm.


No artificial features could be identified by a Royal Commission field inspector in 1955, despite careful observation, although it was suggested that a geological origin could be responsible for the irregular ground surface.


It would appear from a study of the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping of 1867-8 that a field boundary formerly existed along the contour in this locality, dividing OS Field nos. 1116, 11191120 and 1122 into upper and lower parts, and that its removal left irregularities in the surviving boundaries running up and down the slope. It is possible that the ploughed-down remains of this boundary account for the 'glacis type banks' noted in 1955, and Oswald's original observation a century earlier.


No cropmarks are apparent on recent aerial photographs (2016), though it is noted that the land is under permanent pasture.