A possible Viking burial mound recorded at Ballelby (SC 220786) Kirk Patrick. Oswald (a) notes that 'Mr Evan Gell, of Ballelby, Dalby, informs me that on digging into a mound of earth on his farm, about eight or ten years ago (i.e. about 1850), a complete human skeleton, with a halbert or battle-axe by its side, was found, and distinct traces of its haft visible, which he forbore to disturb.' The site is not known. The OS 25 inch sheet XII/1 marks a 'Tumulus' (remains of) in field 1950 which is on the adjoining property of Ballaquane, but only 150 yards from the boundary of Ballelby (SC 27 NW 4). Megaw added that a similar find from Borrane (SC 27 NW 26) may be related or identical with the Ballelby find, but due to the vagueness of the reports this could not be proved. Kermode (3) also related the Ballelby find with the tumulus (SC 27 NW 4) and also, possibly, the spear and two swords found at Glenrushen in 1810.