Known as ‘the Hump’, this tumulus was recorded in 1930 as being 15 yards in diameter (13.7m) and 8 feet high (2.4m). It sits in a beautiful setting at Ballaleece…
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FREE DOWNLOADS from the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, University of Nottingham: â–ºViking Myths & Rituals on the Isle of Man (2014) (Vol I) http://bit.ly/2MacYYt â–ºThe Vikings…
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In 1927 PMC Kermode examined a tumulus on Smeale farm on the Isle of Man, which revealed the interesting fact that there had been a ship burial there, the…
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Signed from the road, St Patrick’s Chair stands in a field called Magher y Chiarn (field of the Lord) and is a collection of stones with some set vertically, two…
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King Orry’s Grave is in two parts, one behind a house and the other across the road and up the hill. Both are the remains of Neolithic tombs about 5,000…
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Close to Orrisdale, this monument is a Bronze Age burial mound and easy to access via a public footpath though it is on a working farm with livestock. Having crossed…
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It was lovely at Niarbyl this weekend where we went to look at the seawall boulder with cup-marks. There are reported to be 22 cup-marks in three rows and the…
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Though only part of the mound remains, it is probably a Bronze Age burial site which was reused for Christian or pagan inhumations in the medieval period; its name though…