A Viking silver coin hoard was found 'near Ballaugh'  in 1772 and appears to have comprised thirty-seven coins, which were probably buried in the 1060s. Two pennies of Edward the Confessor and two possible Hiberno-Norse coins donated to the Society of Antiquities in Scotland were considered by Dolley to have been derived from this hoard. The donor was 'Mrs Governor Wood', widow of John Wood, Governor of the Isle of Man (1761-1777).