Includes the papers delivered at a seminar held in the Manx Museum, 1998. Contents: Introduction (P J Davey); The Manx Early Mesolithic: a story in stone (S B McCartan); Billown Neolithic Landscape Project 1995-1997 (T Darvill); Neither east nor west: a social history of the Manx Neolithic (S Burrow); Bronze Age metallurgy on the Isle of Man: a symposium (P J Davey, P Northover, B O'Connor & J J Woodcock); Quartz mounds: a preliminary assessment (M B Pitts); Field walker’s records on burnt mounds on the Isle of Man (L S Garrad); Trial excavations in the Central Valley of the Isle of Man, December 1991 (D A Higgins); A report on the excavation carried out by B R S Megaw at Staarvey Farm, Kirk German (J J Woodcock); The Bronze Age Burials from Cottier’s Field, Bishopscourt Farm, Ballaugh (J J Woodcock); The excavation of a Bronze Age pit and the examination of a pit-like feature in the Crawyn Brooghs, Ballaugh, Isle of Man (J J Woodcock & P J Davey); The Ronaldsway Village Pottery (J J Woodcock); Survey and trial excavations at the ‘Ronaldsway Village’ site, Ronaldsway Airport, ISle of Man (D A Higgins); Sculby (A Johnson); The Origins of the Manx land system debate (R Moore); Messages on a monument: recently recovered iconography on a Late Manx fragment from Bishopscourt (R Trench-Jellico); Myth or Mint? The evidence for a Viking-age coinage in the Isle of Man (K A Bornholdt); Manx granite-tempered ware (R Barton); Medieval and post-medieval continental imports on the Isle of Man (P J Davey); The original site of Rushen Abbey and its significance (B R S Megaw); Notes on a collection of post-medieval pottery and glass from 9 Malew Street, Castletown (P J Davey); Three quarterland farms in the parish of Santon: change and continuity in field boundaries (N C Johnson); A nineteenth-century export ceramic assemblage from Poyll Vaaish (P J Davey); A mid-nineteenth-century clay tobacco pipe works in Drumgold Street, Douglas, ISle of Man (D A Higgins); Aerial photography of the Isle of Man (R Brewley); Radiocarbon dates for the Isle of Man (R C Chiverrell, P J Davey, J A J Gowlett & J J Woodcock); Recent archaeological accessions into the Manx Museum