The findspot of a bronze ornamented pin of late 9th-10th century AD date. The pin, 8.9 centimetres long surmounted by an ornamented disc, 0.95 centimetres diameter, was found by a Mr Martin circa 1927 'below the brooghs at Knoc y Doonee.'
The disc is ornamented on both faces by an outline cross, having diagonals between some of the limbs, and enclosed by a ring. The object might possibly have been a dress-pin associated with the nearby ship burial.
It was exhibited at the NHAS Meeting in Douglas, November 1930. Presumably the pin was returned to the finder as it is not figured in T. Fanning's article 'Hiberno-Norse pins from the Isle of Man' in 'Viking Age in the Isle of Man, 1983 (ed. C. Fell et. al.) pp.27-36, which examines pins preserved in the Manx Museum.
The findspot of a hoard of at least four polished-stone roughed-butt axeheads of Ronaldsway type. The axeheads were found lying together in the soil about 50 centimetres below the surface, when making a drain at the new coastguard buildings near Knockaloe in 1905. They were donated to Manx Museum by the Lords of the Admiralty in 1923 (Accession Nos. 1954-0603, 1954-0607, 1954-0608, 1954-0609).
An incised cross-slab, thought to date to the 8th century AD, was found lying above the broogh near St German's railway station, about 600 metres northwest of Knocksharry cemetery by Mr Clementson in 1920. It had lain not far from the site of an old keeill from which it had probably been taken. The slab measures 81 centimetres by 25 centimetres by 3.5 centimetres thick. There is a cast kept at the Manx Museum.
A worked piece of slate which has one edge cut straight and remains of multiple small perforations.
The precise findspot is not clear, and the grid reference provided is centred within the site of Lag ny Keeilley for indicative purposes only.
The findspot of a sandstone boulder into which a hollow has been worked, measuring 10 centimetes in diameter and 7.5 centimetres deep. A second hollowed stone was in possession of the farmer.
A perforated and shaped length of wood was retrieved at a depth of circa 30 cm when a new pond was excavated here by Manx conservation volunteers. It measured 30cm by 3cm by 5.5cm overall.
The findspot of an unspecified Neolithic artefact found in a location recorded by C.H. Cowley as "Deemster Moore's top curragh." It is held in the Cowley Collection at the Manx Musuem (No.27).
The findspot of the skeleton of an elk (Cervus giganteus). Elk became extinct on the Isle of Man by circa 7,000BC, at the end of the last Ice Age.
An almost complete elk skeleton was found in a marl pit in 1819 at Loughan Ruy, Ballaugh by a local blacksmith named Thomas Kewish and the tenant of the land, a brewer named James Taubman. The skeleton was claimed by the Duke of Atholl who eventually gave it to the Edinburgh History Museum.
There may have been an early settlement at Ballakaighen. A dug-out canoe was found here, along with piles and baulks of timber and a quantity of flint flakes, when draining a field south of the railway cutting at a point some 400 metres west of the house and 460 metres southwest of Glen Cam. The canoe was just over 4.25 metres long, and is probably of Bronze Age date. It was purchased by the Manx Museum. The canoe was found in association with two stone cists and 13 oak piles. To the north was a considerable area of burnt soil, stones and charcoal. Further inland, to the southwest, further traces of burning have been found with more oak piles, while throughout the field great numbers of flint flakes and cores have been picked up. A late Bronze Age looped-and-socketed axehead was found in 1884 at Ballakaighen. It is said to have been found with the dug-out canoe. Now in the Manx Museum, Accession No. 1954-0802.
A slab of Manx slate which was said to have originally been found on the beach at Port Mooar but was found in 1965 by Mr J. Faragher and Rev W.G.S. Duckworth on the removal of flagstones from the floor of the sexton's house in the village (in Plot 808 on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map).
The stone bears a horizontal runic inscription in two lines on one face which appears to say Kuansunr x mailb ( ) ak + kerpi + lik + tinniftir +:+ Kuinasina +. The original stone is kept at the Manx Museum and a cast is kept in Maughold Churchyard.
The findspot of some undated "glass beads" found in about 1860 when clearing away for rebuilding the walls of Maughold Parish Church, according to Oswald and reported in the Manx Sun.
A gold solidus of Louis the Pious (le Debonaire) was found in excavating in the churchyard at Maughold about 1884. It was about 60 centimetres below the surface and about 12 metres south of the east end of the parish church, lying on a heap of small quartz pebbles. A stone-lined early Christian grave was found about 60 centimetres distant from the coin, but at a lower level. The coin is kept at the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-1609).
The findspot of a late medieval gold coin, an Edward IV Angel minted after 1471, which was found in Maughold Churchyard in February 1908. It is now kept at the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-1611).
The findspot of a looped palstave axe of late Bronze Age date found at the foot of Orrysdale Brooghs about 1916. The axehead is made of leaded bronze and could have been manufactured locally. It is now kept at the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-0799).
The findspot of a grooved, yellow-glazed medieval pottery-pitcher handle. It was reported by W. Cubbon and may have been found 'north of nickie's orchard.'
Two distinct and very different Viking Age coin hoards were unearthed in successive years at Park Lewellyn and Ballaberna.
A large number of silver Anglo Saxon & Hiberno-Norse coins was found in 1835 in a ram's horn at Park Lewellyn - a common enclosure at the foot of North Barrule mountain (SC 439900). The coins were sent from the island to escape any claim upon them. They appear to have been in fine preservation and included one of Ethelred (979-1016) and one of Sihtric (921-926).
Train gives the date of the find as 1835 and states it was made by men employed by Mrs Looney when working a stone quarry near Ballaberna. Seven coins of the original hoard were seen in Manx Museum in 1974 and consisted of an a Ethelraed II penny of 'Long Cross' type and six Hiberno-Norse 'Long Cross' pence; two with Sihtric's name. The hoard appeared to have been concealed about AD1030.
