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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cronk Guckley mounds
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man Island: Isle of Man Type: Round Barrow(s)
 Nearest Village: Kirk Michael
Map Ref: SC31238945
Latitude: 54.272764N  Longitude: 4.593371W
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
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
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4 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
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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
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Cronk Guckley mounds
Cronk Guckley mounds submitted by dodomad : Local volunteers as well as students from Newcastle and Leicester de-turfing the first trench. Photo credit: Rachel Crelllin (Vote or comment on this photo)
Three round mounds at Cronk Guckley, Isle of Man, being investigated as part of the Round Mounds project

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Note: Round Mounds project dig confirms Cist Burial with Collared Urn, details in our comments
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Cronk Guckley mounds submitted by dodomad : The prehistoric burial mound at Cronk Guckley, just outside Kirk Michael. Photo Credit: Rachel Crellin (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cronk Guckley mounds
Cronk Guckley mounds submitted by dodomad : Round Mounds Project write: The vessel we have appears to be a Collared Urn that has been turned upside down and placed within the cist. The base of the urn has also been damaged (probably by the plough). Photo Credit: Rachel Crellin (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bronze Age collared urn opened to reveal infant bones and herringbone designs by Andy B on Wednesday, 10 January 2018
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31st October 2017: ...inserted into the rubbly cairn around the edge of the mound the team discovered an Early Bronze Age burial cist. A cist is a kind of stone grave that was usually built to receive a burial.

Dr Rachel Crellin, the project co-director said:’It was really exciting to find the cist this summer on the site and confirm that what we were digging was indeed a prehistoric burial site.

’We carefully excavated the cist to reveal a Collared urn within. Collared urns are a kind of Early Bronze Age pottery vessel. Like most other examples the urn was turned upside down so that its rim was placed on the floor of the cist.

’We lifted the vessel and the soil that surrounded it as a single block, wrapping it in bandages and plastic to hold it together, and took it to the museum to await excavation in controlled conditions by an expert.’

Last week, Rachel, along with project osteologist Michelle Gamble and Rachel carried out the excavation.

The careful process revealed that the vessel had collapsed inwards on itself over time but protected within the base of the urn were numerous small fragments of cremated bone.

Most of the base of the vessel has been preserved and the rim is decorated with triangles and herringbone designs.

Michelle’s analysis confirms the bones belong to an infant who was under 18 months old when they died.

Some of the cranial fragments showed signs of significant porosity which suggests the individual may have suffered from a disease such as anaemia or another nutritional deficiency.

More here, with photos:
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=36675
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Re: Round Mounds Project Excavations at Cronk Guckley by Andy B on Wednesday, 10 January 2018
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Lots more updates on the post excavation work, and how to 'do archaeology generally on the Round Mounds of the Isle of Man blog:

Recording the excavation: photographs

Recording the excavation: drawings

Recording the excavation: samples

Recording the site: finds

Recording the site: contexts

Interpreting the site: the structure of the mound

Interpreting the site: the basics, the mound

Very briefly - the Cronk Guckley mound they excavated is man made and they feel confident the rubbly material around the mound is evidence of a ring cairn, and the larger blocks of rock within this seem to be a form of kerbing. There look to be large blocks of bedrock from elsewhere that have been quarried and deliberately placed around the edge of the mound.

Loads more here
https://roundmounds.wordpress.com/category/2017-dig/

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Re: Round Mounds Project Excavations at Cronk Guckley by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 July 2017
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Some video of our cist! Rachel Crellin (@archaeojapery)

https://twitter.com/archaeojapery/status/884448577774399488
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Cist Burial and Collared Urn pottery excavated at Cronk Guckley by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 July 2017
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Rachel Crellin writes: We’ve been keeping a bit of a secret since day two of the dig! Whilst we were still deturfing we came across some upright slates which we were pretty confident were part of a Bronze Age burial cist! Today (July 9th) we excavated the cist. It is very close to the surface and has been damaged by ploughing. The capstone was missing and rocks from the mound have fallen into the cist.

We half sectioned the cist – meaning we took out half of the contents first so we could see the layers within it. During the half section it became clear that we had prehistoric pottery within our cist

The vessel we have appears to be a Collared Urn that has been turned upside down and placed within the cist. The base of the urn has also been damaged (probably by the plough).

More details, with photos at
https://roundmounds.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/cist-burial/
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Round Mounds Project Excavations at Cronk Guckley by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 July 2017
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The Round Mounds Project are be putting trowels to soil, starting July 2nd to start their excavation of what they hope to be a prehistoric burial mound at Cronk Guckley, just outside Kirk Michael.

Rachel and Chris write: What do we know about Cronk Guckley – two of the three mounds at Cronk Guckley are shown on the 1860s map of the Isle of Man. P.M.C. Kermode noted in his 1930s catalogue of Manx sites that there were once three mounds on the hill but one of them had disappeared. There are some reports that urns might have been excavated from the site but these are later refuted in the records at the Manx Museum as being falsely associated with the site when really they came from somewhere else nearby.

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https://roundmounds.wordpress.com/blog/
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