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.