Ballafayle Cairn
The Ballafayle Cairn , (also called Ballagory Horned Cairn) near Ramsey , in the north of the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, is a Neolithic cairn that was built as a flat (about 0.5 m high) roughly triangular cairn between 2000 and 1500 BC And was excavated in 1928.
The hill, bounded on one side by dry stone masonry , contains many burned stones. Numerous cremated burials were found in the interior of the hill. A concave wall on the edge of the hill, which is significantly higher than the stone mound (which is also described as a slightly rising platform) borders a paved forecourt on which two menhirs stand. This type of monument is otherwise unknown.
literature
- Stephen Burrow: The Neolithic Culture of the Isle of Man: A Study of the Sites and Pottery (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) British) Archeeopress 1998 ISBN 0860548724
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Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 4 ° 20 ′ 24.6 ″ W.