Alleged earthwork.
An annotated set of 1:10560 Ordnance Survey maps curated by Manx National Heritage records antiquarian observations of archaeological and landscape features.
PMC Kermode (director of the Manx Museum 1922-32) noted 'Encampment wall' along the line of the boundary separating OS Field nos. 1119 and 1120, centred at the grid reference provided.
Kermode also refers elsewhere (Manx Antiquities, 1930) to Oswald's observation (Vestigia, 1860), of 'the indistinct remains of a circular encampment' not far from a burial mound on Ballachrink farm.
No artificial features could be identified by a Royal Commission field inspector in 1955, despite careful observation, although it was suggested that a geological origin could be responsible for the irregular ground surface.
It would appear from a study of the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping of 1867-8 that a field boundary formerly existed along the contour in this locality, dividing OS Field nos. 1116, 11191120 and 1122 into upper and lower parts, and that its removal left irregularities in the surviving boundaries running up and down the slope. It is possible that the ploughed-down remains of this boundary account for the 'glacis type banks' noted in 1955, and Oswald's original observation a century earlier.
No cropmarks are apparent on recent aerial photographs (2016), though it is noted that the land is under permanent pasture.
The findspot of a scatter of Mesolithic 'Bann' type flints from Bell's and adjoining fields, probably the field numbered 2209 and 2210 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
The findspot of a Neolithic flint scatter which included worked flints and flakes. A Ronaldsway type Neolithic axehead and a hammerstone measuring 7.5 cm were also found.
The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel which would have been in use during the period circa AD500 to AD1000. It is located in a small field known as the 'Chapel Field' to the south of Ballachrink, between the estates of Ballanicholas and Ballacallin. It should not be confused with another keeill site at Ballachrink (PRN 0314.00).
P.M.C. Kermode was refused permission to excavate the site when he visited circa 1909, but he noted that the outline of a rectangular building, measuring approximately 3 metres by 1.8 metres was visible, with the doorway seemingly at the west end. The site was concealed beneath undergrowth but the surrounding enclosure had been ploughed over by that time.
The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel which would have been in use during the period circa AD500 to AD1000.
The site was marked by an uncultivated plot with some stones and a slight mound visible when visited and excavated by P.M.C. Kermode, circa 1909. Almost all the stones of the walls had been removed, but their surrounding banks still partly survived and it was possible to ascertain the approximate external dimensions of 6.4 metres by 4 metres and not more than 4.6 metres by 2.1 metres internally. Against the east bank was a large, perforated slab of clay-slate, 1.2 metres by 0.9 metres, overlying a 'recess' containing some very fine soil with ashes and apparent traces of burial. Adjoining it on the south were six small paving stones which were considered to have formed, with the slab, the base of an altar. At the northwest end of the slab were small stones set on edge.
On the south side of the excavations was a small, well-formed cist (PRN 0314.30) and in the northwest and northeast areas were further cists with ashes and clay, apparently crushed and dissolved pottery. It appeared certain that the keeill had been erected on the site of a Bronze Age burial place as at Ballingan.
The broken top of a socket stone was found near the west end of the excavation.
