Gob y Vollee or Giant's Grave is a linear feature which measures 50 metres in length by 18 metres wide and is up to 0.7 metres high, which is thought to be a natural rock outcrop, although it was suggested to be a prehistoric long barrow in the past.
Prehistoric worked flint scatter.
Worked flints of Mesolithic type have been recovered from the field in which the Giant's Quoiting Stone stands. The various finds are unlocalised (grid reference applies to the centre of the field).
The remains of a possible stone circle. The site has been interpreted as consisting of an original ring of large white quartz boulders, open to the northwest for a space of 2.1 metres and covering an area of about 9 metres by 10.5 metres. Within the ring a horseshoe-shaped chamber is represented by three leaning stones which appear to have formed its north side. Workmen repairing fences were reported to have 'found at the foot of some of the boulders a number of crocks containing ashes.' (report in IOMNHAS excursion).
The site has also been interpreted as consisting of erratic quartz blocks. Four blocks now remain, the largest of which is 2.6 m long, 0.5 m thick and 1.3m high and the smallest is 1.3 m long, 0.9 m wide and 0.4 m high. They form a vague north to south arc which is 14.0 m long along its inner curve. The 'circle' is set upon a steep slope and is a doubtful antiquity by virtue of its appearance and its topographical situation.
Prehistoric standing stone.
The monolith comprises a rather pointed stone, 2.5m high, 1.1m wide and 0.5m thick. The stone was incorporated into a garden when surrounding houses were built in 1894. There is no trace of other features nearby, although there are several outcrops of rock immediately to the south. In its modern setting the stone is not particularly visible, but even prior to this its position part way up an east-facing slope would have mitigated against its prominence as a landmark.
Prehistoric standing stone.
A large slab of local grey stone standing 3.2m high, with sides of 1.2m and 0.4m. It is used by cattle as a rubbing post.
The stone shares the same name as another lying some 350m to the SSW. Kermode's List of Antiquities (1930) attaches the name to both sites, although the name appears today to have been forgotten locally in respect of this site, in favour of the Big Stone Field.
Worked flints have been recovered from the surrounding field.
Prehistoric standing stone.
A large slab of local grey stone standing 3.2m high, with sides of 1.2m and 0.4m. It is used by cattle as a rubbing post.
The stone shares the same name as another lying some 350m to the SSW. Kermode's List of Antiquities (1930) attaches the name to both sites, although the name appears today to have been forgotten locally in respect of this site, in favour of the Big Stone Field.
British Mediterranean fortress which appears alongside the Isle of Man in eighteenth-century military expenditure.
After Revestment, troops stationed on Mann formed part of the wider British military establishment. Parliamentary supply accounts repeatedly grouped soldiers serving on the Island with forces stationed at Gibraltar, Minorca and other overseas garrisons.
For 1766 Parliament provided money for the difference in pay between the British and Irish establishments of two corps of light dragoons and six regiments of foot serving in the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Minorca and the newly ceded islands.
The same pattern continued. The supply accounts for 1767 again list six regiments of foot serving in Mann, Gibraltar, Minorca and the ceded islands; similar provision appears for 1768. For 1769 the vote covered five regiments and four companies of foot in the same group of stations.
These entries do not indicate that individual regiments necessarily moved directly between Gibraltar and Mann. They show instead that the Manx garrison, after the Crown acquired the Island, was being accounted for within the same imperial military system as Britain's Mediterranean and overseas fortresses.
Royal letters of presentation from Edward I gifting ecclesiastical benefices in the Isle of Man to Alan of Wygeton (church of St. Carber) and Odo the clerk (church of St. Santan) in 1291, asserting the King's authority over vacant churches by reason of the land being in royal hands. Demonstrates early English Crown sovereignty claims over Manx ecclesiastical appointments.
Two letters patent issued by Edward I granting presentations to vacant churches in the Isle of Man (St. Carber and St. Santan), exercised on the basis of royal custody of the island. These documents establish the Crown's medieval ecclesiastical patronage rights over Manx benefices and are part of the Monumenta de Insula Manniae collection, a key primary source series for Manx history.
A royal writ from King John directing payment of thirty marks from the English treasury to the King of Mann as a gift. This early 13th-century document demonstrates the feudal relationship between the English Crown and Mann, and provides context for understanding the island's constitutional status prior to the later Atholl period and 1765 Revestment.
Ginger Hall, at about 20.3 miles, is a climbing left-hander named for the Ginger Hall Hotel that stands beside it - itself named after the ginger beer once brewed and served there. It remains a popular spectator vantage point with parking and refreshments on the road towards Kerrowmoar, and the road here was among those widened ahead of the 1954 TT.
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter found during building work in the field behind Ginger Hall, Sulby. The flints included 3 cores, 3 gravers, blades, flakes, scrapers and microliths, which are now kept in the Manx Museum.
An extensive cropmark complex near Dog Mills was discovered by air photography taken in 1982-83 by Prof. B. Jones and N. Higham. At Kionlough (SC 453985) between the modern road and the sea are two complicated site nuclei with associated field systems, suggesting two periods of superimposed landscape. Elements of both landscapes can be seen to the south as buried ditch lines. 550 metres to the southwest, and to the north of Nassan (SC 447981), an elliptical multivallate site appears to be the principal feature, although another, sub-rectangular enclosure is visible, 300 metres to the northeast.
An extensive cropmark complex near Dog Mills was discovered by air photography taken in 1982-83 by Prof. B. Jones and N. Higham. At Kionlough (SC 453985) between the modern road and the sea are two complicated site nuclei with associated field systems, suggesting two periods of superimposed landscape. Elements of both landscapes can be seen to the south as buried ditch lines. 550 metres to the southwest, and to the north of Nassan (SC 447981), an elliptical multivallate site appears to be the principal feature, although another, sub-rectangular enclosure is visible, 300 metres to the northeast.
An extensive cropmark complex near Dog Mills was discovered by air photography taken in 1982-83 by Prof. B. Jones and N. Higham. At Kionlough (SC 453985) between the modern road and the sea are two complicated site nuclei with associated field systems, suggesting two periods of superimposed landscape. Elements of both landscapes can be seen to the south as buried ditch lines. 550 metres to the southwest, and to the north of Nassan (SC 447981), an elliptical multivallate site appears to be the principal feature, although another, sub-rectangular enclosure is visible, 300 metres to the northeast.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, situated on the River Clyde. It had trading connections with the Isle of Man, particularly in the tobacco trade that shifted from Whitehaven to Glasgow during the eighteenth century, and was part of the wider network of Irish Sea ports with which the Island maintained commercial links.
One Manx family came from Glasgow into the Island's history. Richard Betham, appointed Collector of Customs at Douglas on the Revestment and the first English customs officer to take charge of the Manx customs, had his children baptised there before he came over: the parish record of his second daughter Elizabeth is entered at Glasgow under 7 March 1754. That daughter married Captain William Bligh at Kirk Onchan on 4 February 1781.
The stone cist within barrow PRN 0535.00 at Glen Auldyn, which would have contained a cremation burial. The cist is in the northwest quadrant of the barrow and is orientated northwest to southeast. Two stone slabs measuring 1.0 metre long by 0.2 metre thick and 0.5 metres deep form the sides of the cist. The end slabs are missing and one small stone slab alone remains of the floor.
The remains of a barrow, which measures 12 metres in diameter and is 60 centimetres high. The barrow mound has been robbed of much of its stone, probably taken when the nearby road was built. It now survives as a ring or kerb consisting of white quartz boulders, slate slabs, rubble and soil. Many of the stones have a distinct outward lean. Other large stone slabs are exposed in the interior. In the northwest of the remaining mound is the stone cist, which is orientated northwest to southeast and its sides are formed by two stone slabs 1.0 metre by 0.2 metres by 0.5 metres deep. The end slabs are missing and one small stone slab alone remains of the floor.
