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possible, and what is perhaps of nearly equal importance 

 we have lost no time in placing the results on record for 

 future reference. We trust the proprietor may now be 

 induced to make over the guardianship of this unique 

 relic to the Trustees of the Manks Museum, in order that it 

 may be thus preserved as a National Monument of interest 

 not only to Manksmen but also to Archaeologists in 

 general. This was written in 1893, but no steps have yet 

 been taken to protect the Meayll antiquities. 



Returning now to other parts of the Island, we 

 may mention here, as of still undetermined age : (1) A 

 large circle of small and comparatively inconspicuous 

 stones high up on the lonely shoulder of Bradda Mountain 

 which overlooks Fleshwiek, and (2) a very neat little 

 circle, known as Cronk-Carran, formed of regular, for 

 the most part, upright stones, and only a few yards in 

 diameter, which is placed on a grassy patch part way down 

 the cliff near the Chasms at Spanish Head. These .have 

 not been excavated, but will probably prove to be of late 

 Neolithic or early Bronze Age. 



The group of monuments commonly known as " King 

 Orry's Grave" (fig. 14), in Laxey, appears to have 

 consisted of a large cairn of stones, 30 feet irj diameter, 

 out of which arises a tall thin conical slab about 10 feet 

 high (figs. 14 and 15) ; from this extends eastward a line 

 of cists, formed of two rows of flat boulders, set edgeways, 

 four feet apart. About 40 yards eastward across the 

 high road are the remains of another large tumulus 

 (fig. 16). Mr. Barnwell, Secretary to the Cambrian Archaeo- 

 logical Association, which visited the Island in 1865, savs 

 human bones, the skeleton of a horse, an iron sword and 

 horseshoe were found in opening this cairn, 30 years pre- 

 viously, but Dr. Oswald, a local antiquary who was in a position 

 to know, mentions only a V tooth and remains of a horse." 



