A small-scale emergency excavation of a flat-bottomed ditch at Ballavair by Garrad in 1984-85 revealed evidence of Iron Age habitation. Fieldwalking produced stone pounders and flints from the vicinity, but these were thought to be of early prehistoric date (PRN 0376.10).
A flint scatter consisting of 26 flints, which include cores, waste flakes and unworked nodules. They were collected by a donor from Ballavaish Beg, German. They were found in the field numbered 1275 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, from an area to the east of the centre of the field.
The location of a prehistoric funerary site, where a funerary urn was found. It was located in the field numbered 1412 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map by William Cubbon.
The site of the burial ground of an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. Its location is marked on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, on the lawned area to the north of the mansion of Ballavale.
It is thought that the 1870 Ordnance Survey map may be incorrect, as it is said that the keeill and burial ground may lie closer to, or beneath, Ballavale House, because lintel graves of early medieval type were found when the foundations of the present house were excavated.
The name of the keeill is lost, and there is no further memory of it.
The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use between circa AD500 and circa AD1000. Its location is marked on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, on the lawned area to the north of the mansion of Ballavale.
It is thought that the 1870 Ordnance Survey map may be incorrect, as it is said that the keeill and burial ground may lie closer to, or beneath, Ballavale House, because lintel graves of early medieval type were found when the foundations of the present house were excavated.
The name of the keeill is lost, and there is no further memory of it. A stone basin from the keeill, thought to have been a font, but more likely a knocking-stone for bruising barley, was presented by Mr Martin to the Manx Museum.
A possible cup-marked boulder built into a wall opposite the Wesleyan Chapel on the old Castletown road. It was noted and sketched by P.M.C. Kermode in the early 20th century.
There is a report of possible lintel-graves being discovered at Ballavarrane. A note on Kermode's working copy of the 6 inch Ordnance Survey map says 'Lintel Graves at Ballavarvane Ho:, Speedie'. Nothing further is known of this discovery; the nearest known keeill site is Cronk Rhennie.
Bronze Age burial mound. This substantial burial mound still survives to a height of 3m. It stands by the roadside, in the angle formed with the private lane to Ballavarry farm, on a low hill which is prominent from all directions. The mound has a diameter of 15m, and is almost certainly truncated by the proximity of the roads and by agriculture, but is safeguarded by a modern revetment of drystone walling.
An antiquarian investigation in the late 19th century recovered a burial urn, which is now lost.
