Ramsey Mooragh Settlement
The site of a Neolithic settlement based on archaeological finds discovered during building operations about 1884.
'On the brooghs overlooking Ramsey Mooragh, building operations about 1884 disclosed an area, at a depth of from four to six foot below the surface, which was strewn with flint cores from which implements had been made, chips struck off in the fabrication, flakes, knives, scrapers of at least three forms, drills or awls, arrowheads, and a few stone hammers, with great numbers of broken fragments. All the implements where small, for the most part very rudely formed, though some were rather more finely finished. A few are here reproduced from drawings by Mr H. Walkey of examples found by him at Ramsey. Three burial places were met with in this area, with fragments of decomposed bones in rude cists also broken pottery and ashes with traces of calcined and decomposed bone. Some of these remains may possibly have been of Bronze Age date, the platform having been apparently occupied for a lengthy period'.
A surface scatter of Mesolithic flints was also revealed by erosion of glacial deposits on the coastal cliffs North of Ramsey. These were mainly collected by P.M.C. Kermode and included cores, blades/flakes, scrapers, microliths and micro-burins, now kept in the Manx Museum.
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- Parish: Ramsey
- Sheading: Garff
- Grid Ref: SC4498095530
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record