A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the ‘Watercress Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, which included an axehead, scraper, hammerstone and a flint knife. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the 'Dub Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the 'Field Below Long Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, which was described as an arrowhead. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the 'Field Abaft Long Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, including a scraper. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Bellellis by C.H. Cowley. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from ‘Aeroplane Field’ at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from ‘Field Aft Abaft Long Field Further Out’at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from 'Field Across Lane from Long Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, as well as a hammerstone. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the 'Field Outside Long Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, which included a scraper. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A very large quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the ‘Long Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, which included arrowheads, knives, scrapers an axehead, a hammerstone and a pounder. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of coarse stone artefacts was recovered from the 'Long Field 'The Speaker' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, which included a hammerstone and a polishing stone. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A single prehistoric flint arrowhead was recovered from the ‘Round Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from ‘Field Aft Abaft Long Field’at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from 'Aeroplane Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, separate from those covered by PRN 3215. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the 'Field After/behind Long Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, which included an arrowhead and a scraper. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from the 'Thistle Field' at Bellellis by C.H. Cowley, which included an arrowhead and flint knife. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery are known. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from land at Bellellis, near Peel by CH Cowley, described by him as the 'Third Field after Long Field'.
The exact findspot is not certain and the grid reference relates to the farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
The findspot of a major concentration of Neolithic Ronaldsway type flints and stone artefacts, though to potentially represent an habitation site. These were found at a site recorded as 'Long Field', Bellellis, by Cowley, but the site has been lost and not been relocated. Amongst the artefacts found were a Ronaldsway roughened-butt axehead given the the Manx Museum by Cowley in 1946 (Accession No. 1971-0183/19). A second axehead, probably from this site, is still in private possession. Also found here was a Neolithic/Bronze Age pounder or hammer consisting of a smoothly rounded sandstone boulder with one end abraded, also donated to the museum by Cowley (Accession No. 1954-1629).
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Bellevue by CH Cowley, from the 'Field next to Quarry'.
No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery were recorded and the grid reference relates to Bellevue House for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
The site of a keeill which has long been demolished and ploughed over, situated 100 metres east of Ginger Hall. Lintel graves within its burial ground have reportedly been found on both sides of the road here.
The site of a keeill which has long been demolished and ploughed over, situated 100 metres east of Ginger Hall. Lintel graves have reportedly been found on both sides of the road here. 50 metres east-southeast of the keeill is a well-known as Chibbyr y Slaint (Well of Healing).
Bemahague is an estate in the parish of Onchan on the Isle of Man, historically associated with the Christian family. It served as a seat of one branch of the Christians, one of the Island's most important families, whose members included William Christian (Illiam Dhone) and numerous holders of public office.
Medieval Franciscan friary. The single-storey building at the centre of the farmyard with its gable facing the road was the church of the Franciscan friary of Bemaken, founded in the 1300s following permission granted by the Pope in 1367. The grant provided for "a church or oratory, together with a bell-tower, bell, cemetery, houses and other necessary offices" to accommodate a community of twelve friars.
The most obvious feature of the church is the now-blocked east window, only part of which survives above a later doorway. The dressed stonework defines a Gothic window. The original roof profile can just be seen in the stonework below the gable verges. Inside, the creation of the doorway in the east gable has removed any evidence for an altar, though a recess where the south wall meets the gable almost certainly marks the position of a piscina. Door and window openings in the north and south walls have the shouldered lintel known as a 'Caenarvon arch', other examples of which may also be seen at Castle Rushen and the Monks' Bridge.
The west end of the building has been rebuilt, so the dressed stone surrounding a door and window in the west gable may not be original. The entire structure is now about 19 by 7m, but due to the reconstruction of the west end it is not known whether this reflects the proportions of the original building.
It has been suggested that elements of other medieval buildings may be preserved within the masonry of the farmhouse, though this has yet to be proved. Other structures may have been lost when the farmyard was improved during the early 1900s. A number of lintel graves were discovered around the same time in the area to the west of the church though whether these were contemporary with the friary or are evidence of an earlier burial ground is not clear.
Two stones bearing ogham inscriptions were found on the farm during the 1800s.
