Modern chapel.
The present Wesleyan chapel at Ballafesson opened in 1953. It originally served as the Sunday school, before redevelopment of the site resulted in the earlier chapel of 1846 being converted for use as a hall.
The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. It is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, by when the site is likely to have already been largely ploughed down.
The Manx Archaeological Survey (1918) only briefly refers to the site, stating that it was “still remembered”. The brevity of the note is such that it is not clear whether it was the building and cemetery, or their location, that was still recalled in the early decades of the 20th century. The Ordnance Survey does however record that “numbers of stone-lined graves containing human bones have been turned up by the plough”, quoting the authority of four named individuals.
The field in which the site lay is now under agricultural use.
The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. It is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, by when the site is likely to have already been largely ploughed down.
The Manx Archaeological Survey (1918) only briefly refers to the site, stating that it was “still remembered”. The brevity of the note is such that it is not clear whether it was the building and cemetery, or their location, that was still recalled in the early decades of the 20th century. The Ordnance Survey does however record that “numbers of stone-lined graves containing human bones have been turned up by the plough”, quoting the authority of four named individuals.
The field in which the site lay is now in agricultural use.
The site of an Early or Middle Bronze Age burial cist containing a cremation burial. The cist was excavated by Basil Megaw in the mid-20th century. Indeterminate flint flakes from the same field suggests some scanty Neolithic activity in the area.
The findspot of a flint scatter of Mesolithic date including over 22 Heavy-blade or Bann type pieces, consisting of missile heads, arrowheads and a leaf-shaped arrowhead.
Also found here was a Criffel granite block measuring 25 inches by 15 inches by 5.5 inches with a basin, 4 cup hollows and beginnings of 4 others on one face.
The findspot of an early prehistoric flint scatter. It included flakes, blades and waste, as well as a pressure-flaked knife and a stone axehead fragment of apparently Lake District stone.
Neolithic urn.
A complete late Neolithic urn was recovered in 1936 from OS Field 1441. The pot was found upright, covered by slate slab, and wedged upright by a white quartz stone.
