This stone was found during excavation at Cronk yn How (IOMHER 0468.00) in 1928. The face and any carving appears to have flaked off. It was identified as a grave marker on the strength of its deliberately rounded head.
Dr G. Bersu was convinced that the Cronk yn Howe keeill was built upon a Viking burial mound and that it cut through the ship, evidence of which is provided by the presence of Viking ship clinch nails. Evidence for a Viking boat-burial at Cronk yn How is so fragmentary, however, that Bersu's conjecture has been disregarded by later archaeologists.
The site of the burial ground associated with an early medieval keeill or chapel which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. Cronk yn How was excavated by J.R. Bruce and W. Cubbon in 1928.
The area bears evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period onwards, but the mound was built in the 7th-8th century for a keeill. Subsequently a stone building, measuring 6 metres by 2.4 metres, was built. It appears to have been an oratory chapel with associated burials of Irish type, tentatively assigned to the 12th century.
The position of the keeill was shown by the occurrence of lintel graves and cross-slabs. Ten cross-slabs were found dating to the 7-8th centuries. Many were associated with burials, and three others were incorporated in the later building.
Not all the burials in the keeill graveyard were of the lintel type. One belonging to the end of the keeill period had an iron knife and 'button' associated with it. Another, possibly a pagan Scandanavian burial with covering slabs, passed beneath the stone building foundations. There was a horse burial on the west side of the mound, represented by the fragmentary remains, but no dating evidence. Iron nails and rivets apparently associated with the burials were of typical 'Viking' date, as were a green glass bead and fragment of a rune-inscribed standing cross also found at this site.
The site of the mound raised before the construction of an early medieval keeill or chapel which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. Cronk yn How was excavated by J.R. Bruce and W. Cubbon in 1928.
The area bears evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period onwards, but the mound was built in the 7th-8th century for a keeill. Subsequently a stone building, measuring 6 metres by 2.4 metres, was built. It appears to have been an oratory chapel with associate burials of Irish type, tentatively assigned to the 12th century.
It is possible that the mound under the keeill was originally a prehistoric barrow.
A fragment of a cross-incised stone was found here in 1928. It measures 26.7 centimetres x 33 centimetres x 3.2 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A fragment of a cross-slab with a hexafoil cross incised on one side and a plain cross on the other side, found here in 1928. It measures 56 centimetres x 30.5 centimetres x 2.5 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A fragment of a Runic inscribed cross-slab, found here in 1928. It measures 23 centimetres x 5.7 centimetres x 3.8 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A fragment of a cross-incised stone was found here in 1928. It measures 39.4 centimetres x 20.3 centimetres x 3.2 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A slate slab with a rounded head, the face of which had flaked off, found here in 1928. It measured 73.7 centimetres x 33 centimetres x 5 centimetres. It is now lost.
A cross-incised stone was found here in 1928. It measures 40.5 centimetres x 22 centimetres x 2 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A cross-incised stone was found here in 1928. It measures 51 centimetres x 19.5 centimetres x 3.2 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A cross-incised stone was found here in 1928. It measures 61 centimetres x 14.5 centimetres x 5 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A cross-incised stone was found here in 1928. It measures 75 centimetres x 17.8 centimetres x 5.7 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
A fragment of a cross-slab was found here in 1928. It measures 63 centimetres x 28 centimetres x 1.3 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000, Cronk yn How was excavated by J.R. Bruce and W. Cubbon in 1928.
The position of the keeill was shown by the occurrence of lintel graves and cross-slabs. Ten cross-slabs were found (7-8th century). Many were associated with burials, 3 others being incorporated in the later building.
The mound was built in the 7th-8th century for a keeill. Subsequently a stone building, measuring 6 metres by 2.4 metres, was built. It appears to have been an oratory chapel with associated burials of Irish type, tentatively assigned to the 12th century.
Not all the burials in the keeill graveyard were of the lintel type. One belonging to the end of the keeill period had an iron knife and 'button' associated with it. Another, possibly a pagan Scandanavian burial with covering slabs, passed beneath the stone building foundations. There was a horse burial on the west side of the mound, represented by the fragmentary remains, but no dating evidence. Iron nails and rivets apparently associated with the burials were of typical 'Viking' date, as were a green glass bead and fragment of a rune-inscribed standing cross also found at this site. The cross-fragment was found loose in the southeast angle of the building. The remains of the stone building stood centrally on the site, a plain spindle whorl and broken upper stone of a rotary quern were also found.
A large stone, with incised figures of animals, was found in the foundations of the building. P.M.C. Kermode and L'Abbe Breuil compared this with certain Scandanavian rock-engravings. The monument is unique in Britain. The stone was of secondary occurrence but its original site must have been near by.
The area also bears evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period onwards, but the earliest definite occupation level was tentatively dated to just before to the first Christian church, and contained at least three hearths and an extensive area of scattered charcoal but produced no datable objects.
The conjectured site of a Neolithic settlement. Finds of Neolithic to Bronze Age artefacts including Neolithic flint flakes, cores, scrapers, knives, and a Middle Bronze Age bronze sickle, were found at some time prior to 1805 in the area surrounding Cronk yn Howe and are thought to indicate the presence of a settlement or occupation in the vicinity.
A ditchless heather covered bowl barrow with gently sloping sides. Its diameter is 16.0 metres and its height 1.9 metres. There is an irregular excavation hollow in the top of the mound which has an approximate diameter of 3.0 metres and a depth of 0.8 metres.
A flint scraper has been found in the vicinity of mound, and a cup-marked stone and piece of calcinated bone have been recorded from the mound itself.
The monument is thought to probably be the landmark known as 'Cronk yn Yeul' mentioned by the Vicar John Bridson in Marown Parish Register of 1780.
Cronk-ny-Fannag is a round cairn now mutilated and grass covered but with stone evident in places on its flat top. Kerbing is visible intermittently around the circumference and the whole is fairly prominent and in reasonable condition. The cairn stands on the highest point of a field that slopes gently to the east. It is approximately 13.0 metres diameter and on the downhill side has a maximum height of 1.0 metre.
The site of a Bronze Age barrow which is now barely discernible and its dimensions cannot accurately be determined. It appears now as an indeterminate swelling, the contour of which merges with the undulations of the pasture field in which it is situated.
A barrow is thought to have existed here, based on the discovery of a funerary urn in the past. There is nothing to be seen at the site now and it is thought that the construction of the road at this point may have caused the discovery of the urn, the exact location of which has not been recorded.
