A Viking Age coinhoard was found in 1972, and additional material recovered in 1975.  A total of over 80 coins and several fragments of silver rings were eventually found, at the time making it the finest collection of Hiberno-Manx coins to have been recovered on the Isle of Man. 


The coins were found during the cutting of a grave in a previously undisturbed portion of the new graveyard.  The hoard was buried in a linen bag or cloth and consisted of at least eighty-one coins together with two complete and three fragmentary plain silver rings. 


The coins comprise twenty-two Anglo-Saxon, fourteen Normandy deniers and three fragments, twenty-one Hiberno-Norse and twenty-one Hiberno-Manx. The majority of the coins were struck between 1020 and 1050, leading to the conclusion that the hoard was deposited in the 1060s. 


The hoard now forms part of the national collections at the Manx Museum.