Also recorded as: Round Mounds Berk Farm survey
What the evidence supports
The project report says the geophysical results identified a stone ring that informed the 2017 excavation interpretation. This is evidence of archaeological GPR on the island, but the area is a research and burial landscape rather than a public search location.
Location and precision
Location withheld. No public geometry: the survey and the related Berk Farm burial assemblage describe the same private research landscape.
Geometry provenance: Location withheld. No public geometry is published because the location is sensitive.
Why no public geometry is published: The named survey context overlaps a private burial and research landscape. Withholding the survey geometry prevents a second record from narrowing the related burial location.
No coordinates published
No public geometry: the survey and the related Berk Farm burial assemblage describe the same private research landscape.
Access is not implied
Survey-location context only; no access, repeat-survey or ground-disturbance permission is implied.
Legal note
On the Isle of Man, metal-detector use in a protected area requires written Manx National Heritage consent, and digging or excavation on any land to search for archaeological objects requires an MNH licence. Landowner permission alone is not enough.
Sensitivity note
Survey area; Burial archaeology; Research site; Private land; Location withheld
Sources
- Round Mounds: Interpreting our sitePrimary project account linking the GPR interpretation to the excavated stone ring.
- Round Mounds: What do we know about the dig site?Primary project account confirming that GPR was carried out at Cronk Guckley in September 2016.
- Round Mounds: Meet the Team Part 3Primary project account explicitly identifying the Berk Farm / Cronk Guckley site.
- IOMHER: Cronk Guckley context recordOfficial historic-environment context for the research landscape.