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The Manx Museum is bursting with artefacts and treasures unique to the Isle of Man and is the best place to discover Manx history and culture, and begin your journey around the island.

Galleries depict natural history, archaeology and social development of the Island. The Prehistoric Archaeology Gallery won the 'Museum of the Year' award as the best new Archaeology Gallery in the British Isles.
More at their Official web site

Address: Kingswood Grove, Douglas, IM1 3LY, Isle of Man
Telephone: 01624 ​648000

Note: News of the Isle of Man Round Mounds project which is currently investigating some of the 160 round mounds and cairns on the island. Follow the links on our page to some of the sites and an interview with Drs Rachel Crellin and Chris Fowler the project directors
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Manx Museum submitted by dodomad : Rachel Crellin examines a Bronze Age Axe as part of the Isle of Man Round Mounds project Photo Credit: Chris Fowler (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Round Mounds project update, Jan 2017 (Audio) by Andy B on Wednesday, 01 February 2017
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The first comprehensive modern study of neolithic and bronze age burial mounds on the Isle of Man is underway. The project aims to investigate sites known as “round mounds” on the Isle of Man (and their associated burials, people and artefacts) and what they can tell us about life on the Island and interaction with other communities across Britain and Ireland (and potentially beyond) in the Neolithic (c.3500 BC) and Bronze Age.

Funded by both Culture Vannin and Manx National Heritage, the project is being led by Drs Chris Fowler at Newcastle University and Rachel Crellin at Leicester University.

Chris and Rachel were in the Culture Vannin offices and so we used the opportunity to ask them more about round mounds, their significance, the project's aims, and some of the finds which they can already boast about.

The interview is available at Culture Vannin
http://www.culturevannin.im/audio_collection_463641.html
or via SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/culture-vannin/round-mounds-in-the-isle-of-man-rachel-crellin-and-chris-fowler
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Bronze Age burial reveals its long held secret by Andy B on Wednesday, 01 February 2017
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Archaeologists studying Neolithic and Early Bronze Age human remains in the Manx Museum collection for the ‘Round Mounds of the Isle of Man’ project have made an exciting discovery.

Contained within a box of cremated bones excavated in 1947, osteologist Dr Michelle Gamble, discovered a collection of small bone objects that had not been noticed by the excavators. The bones had been buried almost 4000 years ago at Staarvey Farm in what is now German parish, Isle of Man.

The site was excavated by Basil Megaw (1913-2002) who was director of the Manx Museum (1945-1957). Mr Megaw had been contacted by the farmer who had hit a large stone during ploughing. Excavations revealed a stone-built cist (a box made out of stone slabs) containing fragments of burnt bone, two flint tools, and two Collared Urns (Bronze Age pots) buried upside-down. But it is only now that the bones have been studied in detail.

Dr Gamble said: “there was a large quantity of cremated bone from this site. The first step of the osteological analysis is to clean and sort the bones, so that we can determine the number of individuals present and any age or sex information. Within this burial, we have four skeletons, very fragmented and mixed together – 2 adults, one of which is a male, an adolescent, and an infant. The bone objects were burned as well and mixed in with the cremated human remains.”

Dr Chris Fowler, co-director of the Round Mounds of the Isle of Man project, said:

“I opened my email to find a photograph of an extremely rare Bronze Age object – a bone pommel from a bronze knife. This would have been fitted to the very end of the hilt. There are only about 40 surviving knife and dagger pommels of this period from the British Isles, and none have been found on the Isle of Man before – so I was very excited!

The size and shape suggest it was once attached to a small knife which archaeologists call a ‘knife-dagger’. Knife-daggers have been found buried with both males and females. Several other bone objects were found amongst the cremated bone. One is a burnt bone point or pin. A recent study of such objects found that few showed evidence of wear on the tip, suggesting that these were not tools, so it will be interesting to examine the end point of this example closely to see if there is evidence of use wear. It is perforated at the other end so may have been attached to clothing or a head covering. Some of the other objects may be burnt bone beads, and there are four enigmatic worked bone strips which we are still working to understand.

The objects may have been worn by one or more of the dead as they were placed on the funeral pyre, or may have been placed by the dead on the pyre by mourners. It is possible that there were multiple episodes of burial in the cist, but we do not know how many of the individuals were buried at the same time and with which objects or how many cremation events took place.

The burial itself is fairly unusual among contemporary burials we know of from across Britain and Ireland. It is rare to find cremated remains buried in both a Collared Urn and cist – it was typically one or the other. There are records of about 50 similar burials of cremated remains discovered in a cist and containing a Collared Urn across Ireland, Scotland, northern England, and particularly Wales, and we are comparing the Staarvey burial with these at the moment.”

Allison Fox, Curator: Archaeology, Manx National Heritage, said:

“The reassessment of finds from earlier excavations is always worthwhile. The finds can be the only parts of the original monuments that survive and although not every artefact was looked at in great detail at the time, they were catalogued and preserved. Modern scientific techniques can now give a lot more information about these finds, but so can the low-tech approach of a skilled pair of eyes examining the finds in detail.”

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Round Mounds of the Isle of Man Project by Andy B on Wednesday, 01 February 2017
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Project Leaders: Dr Rachel Crellin (Leicester University) and Dr Chris Fowler (Newcastle University)

The Isle of Man is home to over 160 round mounds but very few have been excavated using techniques that have left a detailed and reliable record. Recent research has highlighted regional diversity in different pulses of round mound construction and use during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (c. 4000-1500 BC) across Britain, Ireland and the near continent, and there has been growing interest in tracing changing connections over time between regions. However, it is currently unclear when many of the round mounds of the Isle of Man were built and what kinds of burial and other practices they were associated with.

This project aims to investigate what the round mounds of the Isle of Man, and associated burials, people and artefacts, can tell us about life on the island and interaction with other communities across Britain and Ireland (and potentially beyond) in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. The 2016-17 research will include osteological analyses of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age human remains from historic excavations in the Manx Museum collections, radiocarbon dating, isotopic analyses and a DNA analyses of a sample of these, a new assessment of Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary evidence from the island, new geophysical surveys of Manx round mounds, and landscape analyses using LiDAR imagery and other map data.

The 2016-17 season is funded by Manx National Heritage and Culture Vannin. As well as Dr Rachel Crellin and Dr Chris Fowler, contributors include Dr Francesco Carrer (LiDAR analysis: McCord Centre for Landscape), Kate Chapman (geophysics: Northern Archaeological Associates), Dr Michelle Gamble (osteology), Prof. David Reich (aDNA: Harvard Medical School), and Alex Turner (ground penetrating radar: McCord Centre for Landscape).

Follow the team's blog at
https://roundmounds.wordpress.com/blog/
see also
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/projects/roundmoundsoftheisleofman.html
http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2016-archive/october/research-to-investigate-round-mounds-of-the-isle-of-man
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Violent death of Bronze Age man examined by Manx Museum by bat400 on Saturday, 30 October 2010
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Investigations into the mysterious death of a Bronze Age man are helping to paint a picture of life on the Isle of Man over 3,000 years ago.

Submitted by coldrum -- During excavations at Ronaldsway in 2008, three burial sites and the remains of a village were unearthed. Archaeologists found that one skeleton bore the marks of a violent death.

Allison Fox from Manx National Heritage said: "We found cut marks to his fingers, ribs and knees, as if he'd been defending himself."

"He sums up what was happening at the end of the Bronze Age.

He's probably not the only one who met a rather violent end around this period

Allison Fox: "Society was changing, climate change was occurring and there was more competition."

The human remains were first uncovered during the extension of a runway in 2008. Field Archaeologist Andrew Johnson said: "To find bodies in such good condition is very rare.

"The area is well drained and the underlying bedrock is limestone, which means the soil is less acidic and helps with the preservation of human bone."

The site was originally excavated in the 1930s and experts say the latest finds will help to re-interpret earlier digs and gain a greater understanding of the pre-historic landscape. Flint tools, pottery and funeral pyres were also found at the site.

The exhibition opens on Saturday 18th September 2010.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/isleofman/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9002000/9002556.stm
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Bronze - Alchemy in Mann explores Isle of Man's Bronze Age heritage at Manx Museum by Andy B on Friday, 15 October 2010
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The Manx Museum is exploring the Bronze Age heritage of the Isle of Man with an exhibition which reveals one of the richest archaeological seams in the Island's history.

The Bronze Age on the Isle ran from around 2000 to 600 BC, and houses, burial sites and artefact find spots from the era occur all over the Island.

One of the most dramatic discoveries was the recent unearthing of a skeleton at the island's Ronaldsway Airport in 2008.

Bearing the marks of a violent death, archaeologists established that it was a man who died nearly 3,000 years ago, during the Bronze Age, and the exhibition looks in detail at evidence uncovered right across the Island to paint a picture of his time.

Allison Fox, Curator of Archaeology for Manx National Heritage, said it offered the chance to "talk in more detail about one of the most interesting periods in Manx history".

"This is part of prehistory – the Vikings were 2,000 years into the future – but the wealth of information we have about Manx society in around 1000 BC is fantastic," she added.

Visitors can explore previously unseen archaeological artefacts, as well as replicas showing some of the bronze artefacts in their original glory. The only possession found with the skeleton - an armband unearthed at Ronaldsway - will also be on display for the first time.

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http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/archaeology/megaliths+and+prehistoric+archaeology/ART309901
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