Two Viking-type swords were found in the course of grave-digging in the churchyard during the 19th century.  No further detail is known about the circumstances of their discovery, location, nor of their fate, though one or more burials may be implied. 


A number of parish churchyards on the Isle of Man have produced Viking weapons, implying that ‘pagan’ burials (usually characterised as graves accompanied by grave-goods) have taken place in Christian contexts.  The discovery of several similar graves, during the archaeological excavation of the otherwise Christian cemetery in Peel Castle / St Patrick’s Isle in the 1980s, shows that this interpretation of the earlier isolated finds is valid.