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Cross Vein Mine, Arresey Flint Site

Archaeology

The findspot of an important flint scatter of Mesolithic or Neolithic date. Cowley collected more than 50 scrapers, circa 40 knife blades, 16 arrowheads and an axehead and thought these represented a settlement site.  A Group VI axehead and a group of worked flints, including a barbed-and-tanged arrowhead, cores, blades, flakes, scrapers, microliths and micro-burins, found by Cowley in the 1920s-40s are now in the Manx Museum Cowley Collection.


Mr & Mrs Megaw subsequently found another arrowhead and plano-convex knives, which suggest the site is Neolithic. LS Garrad also collected material.  The site is now sealed under road.

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: Patrick
  • Sheading: Glenfaba
  • Grid Ref: SC2620078100

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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