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. The named farm is a burial context and the cited article does not establish public access, so the record explains the result without publishing map geometry.

Location and precision

Location withheld. No public geometry: named farm burial context; no public access is evidenced.

Geometry provenance: Location withheld. No public geometry is published because the location is sensitive.

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

No coordinates published
No public geometry: named farm burial context; no public access is evidenced.

Access is not implied

Named farm burial context; no public access is evidenced. Consult MNH publications and collections rather than attempting a site visit.

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; Research site

Sources