It is recorded that Mr Frank Matthews of Glen Moar opened a cist grave on the Peel side of the megalithic tomb known as King Orry's Grave (PRN 0934.00). This grave was said to be 'much smaller in size' than the megalithic tomb, but was found to contain a 'battle-axe, a stirrup and a handful of beads of various colours, shapes and sizes'.  The beads and ornaments were preserved in the Jermyn Street Geological Museum, London for some time during the mid-19th century, but now appear to be lost.  The 'battle-axe and stirrup' could not be traced even as early as 1868. The finds have been interpreted as representing a Viking burial, possibly of the 9th century.


A burial ground apparently stood 'on the Western edge of the natural plateau on which stands Tynwald Hill, about 193 yards West-South-West of the mound... Here, at a height above sea-level of about 145 foot, lintel graves have been found in ploughing, and from the description given of them by Mr Matthews, and the stones found in them, now lying in the hedge, they appear to have been Christian' but no keeill was found in association with them...'.


A sword fragment from the same vicinity was presented to the Manx Museum in 1937 by Mr T.C. Moore who stated that it was found some years previously by workmen employed in digging gravel.