Prof Howard M R Williams writes: Situated close to the very south of the Isle between Castletown to its east and Port St Mary and Port Erin to its west, this modest hill with views out to sea has produced many archaeological finds. It is the site of Bronze Age burials, an Iron Age hillfort reused as an early medieval burial ground and chapel site. The early Christian cist-graves date to before the ninth or tenth century (they were overlain and cut by the Viking boat-grave) and an early Christian keeill is dated to around the tenth or eleventh century. There is a small area for visitor parking and a short walk up to the hill to see the hillfort ramparts, Bronze Age cist and the keeill are displayed in traditional low-tech fashion with superb antiquated metal signs.
The most famous archaeological feature on the site is also visible for the modern visitor. Is is a late ninth/early tenth-century boat-grave excavated in 1945 by Gerhard Bersu and published in 1966 by Sir David Wilson. The clinker-built boat c. 11m long containing the burial of an adult male with grave-goods including a shield boss, horse bridle and stirrups, knives, strike-a-light and a whetstone. There was also evidence of animal sacrifice and the possibility has been raised that a female burial from the boat was a sacrifice too.
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https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/manx-vikings-1-balladoole/
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