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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cashtal-yn-Ard - Chambered Tomb in Channel Islands and Isle of Man in Isle of Man

Submitted by Thorgrim on Saturday, 04 October 2003  Page Views: 16014

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cashtal-yn-Ard Alternative Name: Castle of the Heights
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man Island: Isle of Man Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Ramsey  Nearest Village: Glen Mona
Map Ref: SC46228923
Map Number: 95
Latitude: 54.275519N  Longitude: 4.363278W
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
 4 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.
 3 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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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by TimPrevett : A low shot atCashtal yn Ard tomb, 31st July 2014, taking in the flowers and the mountains. Magnificent place. We were here over an hour and had it to ourselves. A very exposed location in hard rain and very lovely in warm sunshine, both of which we had in the time here. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Tomb in Isle of Man. Cashtal-yn-Ard (The Castle of the Heights) is one of three Manx Neolithic tombs dating from around 2000 BC. It very well preserved and one of the largest of its kind in the British Isles.

It was originally a megalithic chambered cairn holding five chambers and extending for over 130 feet. It was excavated in the 1930's and later in 1999.

Situated on the east coast of the Isle of Man near, Cornaa. There is a footpath to it from Glen Mona.

The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for Cashtal-yn-Ard, Near Glen Mona, Isle Of Man, which includes a photograph, directions for finding this site, a description, background information and a list of reference sources for more information.

Also see The Antiquities Journal, Isle of Man, Manx Notebook for a visitor's impression from 1932, including some interesting photographs of the site from this date.
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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by howe : The monument is a horned chambered cairn 30m long. A deep forecourt of six stones leads to two large portal stones beyond which is a chamber 12m long, divided into five compartments by transverse slabs. Beyond the chamber in the heart of the cairn lay a mound of burnt material, later incorporated in the cairn. The cairn had a kerb of upright slabs describing a trapezoidal shape. Further stones out... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by howe : View of chamber from the rear (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by howe : The forecourt viewed from the side showing the horned appearance (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by TimPrevett : Cashtal yn Ard tomb, 31st July 2014. Magnificent place. We were here over an hour and had it to ourselves. A very exposed location in hard rain and very lovely in warm sunshine, both of which we had in the time here. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Bladup : Cashtal yn Ard chambered cairn with it's amazing forecourt. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by celticisland : I was brought up on the Isle of Man. I found myself back on the Island in the late 1990s. Feeling I really didn't understand (or like) the modern world, I found myself taking photographs of Celtic Crosses, Angels at Churches, ruins, and ancient sites. That's twice I've typed 'found myself'.. maybe that's what these ancient sites do, help us find ourselves? This photograph received a general art tr... (3 comments)

Cashtal-yn-Ard
Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Thorgrim : Cashtal-yn-Ard is a Manx Neolithic tomb dating from around 2000 BC. It was originally a megalithic chambered cairn holding five chambers and extending for over 130 feet. It was excavated in the 1930's and later in 1999. Situated on the east coast of the Isle of Man near, Cornaa. There is a footpath to it from Glen Mona.

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by TimPrevett : From some angles many stone sites can resemble a jumble of stones, which is what I was trying to do here. Cashtal yn Ard tomb, 31st July 2014. Magnificent place. We were here over an hour and had it to ourselves. A very exposed location in hard rain and very lovely in warm sunshine, both of which we had in the time here.

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by ShamrockStone : Cashtal-yn-Ard

Cashtal-yn-Ard Watercolour, Harold Cresswell
Cashtal-yn-Ard Watercolour, Harold Cresswell submitted by cabrio4 : Recently listed on Ebay, re-posted with permission. A fine watercolour of Cashtal yn Ard, the standing stones and burial ground on the Isle of Man. Named and dated by the artist. Harold Cresswell. He is not at all well known, but certainly deserves to be, as his work has a freshness and immediacy which is very appealing. In the 1960s he worked in London and his views of the capital are tremendous... (3 comments)

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Thorgrim : Cashtal-yn-Ard (The Castle of the Heights) is one of three Manx Neolithic tombs dating from around 2000 BC. (1 comment)

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by TimPrevett : Some of the late summer wild flowers at Cashtal yn Ard tomb, 31st July 2014. Magnificent place. We were here over an hour and had it to ourselves. A very exposed location in hard rain and very lovely in warm sunshine, both of which we had in the time here.

Cashtal-yn-Ard
Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by TimPrevett : Cashtal yn Ard tomb, 31st July 2014. Magnificent place. We were here over an hour and had it to ourselves. A very exposed location in hard rain and very lovely in warm sunshine, both of which we had in the time here.

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by ShamrockStone : Cashtal-yn-Ard

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Bladup : Cashtal-yn-Ard.

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Bladup

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Bladup

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Bladup

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Aerial-Cam : Although the correct evening sunlight conditions are required to see traces of these 5 cup marks, they can be found on the inside of the smaller, left hand stone that forms part of the entrance to the chambers from the fore-court, of Cashtal Yn Ard. There appear to be 4 in an arc with another in the centre of this group roughly forming the point of the arcs radius. Photographed during an Archaeolo...

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by SumDoood : In the modern wall near to the SE corner of the plot. It's a substantial and broad stone the width of which I could not easily assess due to ferocious brambles on the S side of the wall.

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Bladup : Cashtal-yn-Ard.

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Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by Bladup : The forecourt at Cashtal-yn-Ard.

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Re: Cashtal-yn-Ard by ShamrockStone on Monday, 30 March 2015
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Coordinates are: 54.275480N, 4.363300W (taken by GPS) [Updated]
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Re: Cashtal-yn-Ard by glen on Monday, 02 July 2007
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There is a natural agglomeration of white quartz at the top of the larger entrance-stone on the right, - you'd pass right under it to squeeze through into the first chamber. There's something similar at the entrance to King Orrey's Grave too, and white quartz pebbles are still used to decorate parts of the much later keills on Man.
Cashtal-yn-Ard is aligned to a valley-notch to the west horizon.
Over the field wall a few yards to the south is a copse of trees visible from Cornaa beach, which seems to obliterate a circle of slabs - perhaps a scattered cyst? or round barrow with fallen stones? seems to be no legal access....
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