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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Speke Keeill Ancient Burial SiteCountry: Channel Islands and Isle of Man
NOTE: This site is 2.283 km away from the location you searched for.
Island: Isle of Man Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Cooil, Isle of Man Nearest Village: Mount Murray Hotel
Map Ref: SC335746
Latitude: 54.140179N Longitude: 4.550317W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Videotext Communications Ltd to undertake a programme of archaeological recording and post-excavation analysis on an archaeological evaluation undertaken by Channel 4’s ‘Time Team’ at the site of Speke Keeill, Mount Murray Hotel, Isle of Man. The site lies partly on the golf course belonging to the Mount Murray Hotel and Country Club at Santon, at a height of approximately 156m above Ordnance Datum (aOD), and partly within pasture fields belonging to Speke Farm to the east of the golf course,at a height of approximately 159m OD. The two areas are divided by a trackway known as Speke Lane.
A keeill can be described as a single-cell, stone-built monastic structure, on an east-west axis, often surrounded by a boundary embankment. Many sites of this type have revealed evidence of an altar located at the east end of thestructure, and they vary in length between 3.05m internally to 8.55m
Keeills are usually associated with cemeteries, although they are not necessarily contemporaneous features - lintel graves may pre-date an associated keeill structure. In some cases burials are cut by the foundation of the keeill walls.
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