"Cloven Stones" - Packhorse Lane (Lower) - Baldrine, Isle of Man - Megalithic Monuments on Waymarking.com

The “Cloven Stones” are believed to be a late example of a is type of megalithic barrow chambered tomb which today stands in the front garden of a family bungalow in the small village of Baldrine.

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The Coven Stones is a group of larege stones which once formed a chambered-tomb or burial cists which dates from the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.

The tall eastern stone is spilt down the middle, and it is this stone which give the site its name.

North-north-east of the chamber which probably had one or two compartments are two portal stones.

Although the site can only be viewed form the road the rectangular arrangement of the slabs forming the tomb which approximately 2m square

Originally the tomb would have been covered with a cairn stone.

Source: "The Old Stones' edited by Andy Burnham (ISBN:978-178678-154-3)

Source: "A guide to the Archaeological Sites of the Isle of Man up to AD 1500" by Andrew Johnson and Allison Fox (ISBN:978-09554043-5-1)

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Type: Dolmen Number: 6.00 Parking: Not Listed Size: Not listed Source: Not listed Purpose: Not listed

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