In 1883 W. Kermode visited the site of a tumulus which was being robbed to build a stone wall. It was on the southwest side of Snaefell about 180 metres below the mountain road, on the edge of a steep bank of a small gully running into the Lhergy-Rhenny stream between Snaefell and Pen-y-Pott, about 300 metres above sea level. The site was 'More hemmed in than usual.' 


The tumulus was found to be rounded, with no depression in the top, about 1.25 metres high, with a diameter of nearly 6 metres. One cist had been destroyed on the northwest side. The stone which had been at the bottom had a distinct cross mark on it. Crude pottery fragments were found. A hollow baked clay cylindrical tube about 5cm long with one end curved at right angles looked like a vase handle. Further excavations revealed a layer of ashes 'apparently gorse, etc'. In the centre of the mound was a walled chamber 1.5 metres by 75cm by 75cm in depth, orientated approximately east-west and empty. There was no stone cover and it did not rest on the original soil level. Other apparent portions of wall were met with below the level of this chamber and at different angles 'they were all carefully built of large flat stones, laid not on edge, and sods between. It in some respects resembled the description of a tumulus in Switzerland'.  


At the original ground level there was a 2.5cm thick layer of ashes of wood, gorse and heath, and below it were flat stones resting on the natural soil. Very small fragments of red clay as if an urn were found. The area indicated is the only one between Snaefell and Beinn y Phott which has had stone walls erected since 1869. There are many gullies running down to the main stream and no trace of antiquity has since been found. Later owners knew nothing about the barrow.