An approximate circular, but rather irregularly shaped, mound. It is apparently artificial and is possibly a bowl barrow. Its average diameter is 12.0 metres and minimum height is 0.3 metres.
A possible Bronze Age barrow, although the mound is situated on the edge of a natural fault and may be natural since its slopes flow fairly gently into the surrounding ground, though by virtue of its proximity to the barrow PRN 0212.00, it is possibly a bowl barrow. It has a diameter of 10.0 metres and a maximum height of 0.4 metres.
The reported site of a number of bowl barrows and a supposed hut circle, which has not been located. In the area generally are many vague, large, elliptical hollows but none resemble a hut circle. Other sites previously investigated which had been described as hut circles were obviously natural.
Modern horsewalk.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a horsewalk at this location. The barn to which it was attached, located to the immediate north, still survives, but the circular platform itself appears to have been removed.
Manx garrison family who served across four generations in the Lord of Mann's military establishment. Their service ended abruptly at Revestment when the Board of Ordnance replaced the Manx garrison with British troops.
In his 'Isle of Man' published in 1848, J.G. Cumming recounts that in 1827, "after a violent storm...the sands opposite Mount Gawne were swept away and discovered a vast number of trunks of trees, some standing upright, others laid prostrate towards the north, as if overthrown by some violent incursion of the sea...it has been further stated to me...that the foundations of a primitive hut were laid bare, and that therein were some antique uncouth-looking instruments, once the property...of the primitive woodcutters."
Cummings' account is later distilled by local antiquary F. Swinnerton in 1902 to 'the foundations of a primitive hut' containing 'rude wood-cutting tools...among the remains of trees on the sea-shore below Mount Gawne, in Bay-ny-Carrickey'. Swinnerton also makes reference to axe-marked wood found in the same locality.
The accounts would appear to describe an area of prehistoric woodland inundated by marine incursion or sea-level rise. Similar remains have been recorded on several occasions at Cranstal / Phurt in Bride.
Brian Stowell (1936-2019) was a Manx language activist, author and broadcaster who played a central role in the revival of the Manx language during the late twentieth century. He was a fluent Manx speaker who produced a substantial body of work in the language, including novels, short stories and regular newspaper columns, and served as Manx Language Officer for Culture Vannin.
This small Primitive Methodist chapel is located at the roadside at the northern edge of Bride Village as is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. It remained intact and in use in 2021.
The site of a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Bride village. A chapel is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. A larger chapel now stands on the site, to the southeast of the parish church.
This fragment of a cross once stood at the roadside opposite the old entrance into the churchyard, but its earlier history is unknown. Only the shaft of the cross now survives, but an old photograph shows that the slab was once cruciform in outline, and that a circle was carved in each limb. Each circle was joined to the next by a line so that the core of the cross was kite-shaped.
3 names listed alphabetically; First World War. Celtic cross with a granite base. The memorial was unveiled on Wednesday 23 August 1922 by the Lieutenant Governor. The memorial was dedicated by the Lord Bishop.
