Recorded discovery · Early Bronze Age, approximately 4,000 years old

Staarvey Farm Bronze Age Burial Reanalysis

Reanalysis of a 1947 cist burial identified four cremated individuals and the Island’s first known bone knife-dagger pommel.

Also recorded as: Staarvey bone knife-dagger pommel; Staarvey 1947 burial reanalysis

What the evidence supports

Modern scientific work revisited material from the 1947 excavation and recognised worked-bone objects whose significance had been overlooked. Because the named farm is a private burial context, the record explains the result without publishing any map geometry.

Location and precision

Location withheld. No public geometry: named private farm and burial context.

Why no public geometry is published: The source location is withheld from the deployable dataset.

No coordinates published
No public geometry: named private farm and burial context.

Access is not implied

Private burial and research context; consult MNH publications and collections rather than the land.

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.

Read the primary-source legal guide.

Sensitivity note

Location withheld; Burial site; Private land; Research site

Sources