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<< Text Pages >> Speke Keeill Ancient Burial Site - Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Channel Islands and Isle of Man in Isle of Man

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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Speke Keeill Ancient Burial Site
Country: 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:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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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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Re: Speke Keeill Ancient Burial Site by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 January 2021
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The 'Time Team' programme on YouTube about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3UQEDQ0zQ

Online copy of the Site Report:
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/speke-keeill-mount-murray-hotel-isle-man
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