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Find from Lag ny Keeilley
A worked piece of slate which has one edge cut straight and remains of multiple small perforations. The precise findspot is not clear, and the grid reference provided is centred within the site of Lag ny Keeilley for indicative purposes only.
Find from Lambhill
The findspot of a sandstone boulder into which a hollow has been worked, measuring 10 centimetes in diameter and 7.5 centimetres deep. A second hollowed stone was in possession of the farmer.
Find from Lhergycholvine
A perforated and shaped length of wood was retrieved at a depth of circa 30 cm when a new pond was excavated here by Manx conservation volunteers. It measured 30cm by 3cm by 5.5cm overall.
Find from Lhergydhoo
The findspot of an unspecified Neolithic artefact found in a location recorded by C.H. Cowley as "Deemster Moore's top curragh." It is held in the Cowley Collection at the Manx Musuem (No.27).
Find from Loghan ny Guiy
The findspot of a Mesolithic artefact.
Find from Lough Cranstal
The findspot of an unspecified artefact.
Find from Lough Vooar
The findspot of an unspecified Neolithic artefact.
Find from Loughan Ruy
The findspot of the skeleton of an elk (Cervus giganteus). Elk became extinct on the Isle of Man by circa 7,000BC, at the end of the last Ice Age. An almost complete elk skeleton was found in a marl pit in 1819 at Loughan Ruy, Ballaugh by a local blacksmith named Thomas Kewish and the tenant of the land, a brewer named James Taubman. The skeleton was claimed by the Duke of Atholl who eventually gave it to the Edinburgh History Museum.
Find from Lower Ballakaighen
There may have been an early settlement at Ballakaighen. A dug-out canoe was found here, along with piles and baulks of timber and a quantity of flint flakes, when draining a field south of the railway cutting at a point some 400 metres west of the house and 460 metres southwest of Glen Cam. The canoe was just over 4.25 metres long, and is probably of Bronze Age date. It was purchased by the Manx Museum. The canoe was found in association with two stone cists and 13 oak piles. To the north was a considerable area of burnt soil, stones and charcoal. Further inland, to the southwest, further traces of burning have been found with more oak piles, while throughout the field great numbers of flint flakes and cores have been picked up. A late Bronze Age looped-and-socketed axehead was found in 1884 at Ballakaighen. It is said to have been found with the dug-out canoe. Now in the Manx Museum, Accession No. 1954-0802.
Find from Maughold
A slab of Manx slate which was said to have originally been found on the beach at Port Mooar but was found in 1965 by Mr J. Faragher and Rev W.G.S. Duckworth on the removal of flagstones from the floor of the sexton's house in the village (in Plot 808 on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map).   The stone bears a horizontal runic inscription in two lines on one face which appears to say Kuansunr x mailb ( ) ak + kerpi + lik + tinniftir +:+ Kuinasina +.  The original stone is kept at the Manx Museum and a cast is kept in Maughold Churchyard.
Find from Maughold Church
The findspot of some undated "glass beads" found in about 1860 when clearing away for rebuilding the walls of Maughold Parish Church, according to Oswald and reported in the Manx Sun.
Find from Maughold Churchyard
A gold solidus of Louis the Pious (le Debonaire) was found in excavating in the churchyard at Maughold about 1884.  It was about 60 centimetres below the surface and about 12 metres south of the east end of the parish church, lying on a heap of small quartz pebbles.  A stone-lined early Christian grave was found about 60 centimetres distant from the coin, but at a lower level. The coin is kept at the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-1609).
Find from Maughold Churchyard
The findspot of a late medieval gold coin, an Edward IV Angel minted after 1471, which was found in Maughold Churchyard in February 1908. It is now kept at the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-1611).
Find from Oakhill
The findspot of a stone polisher of Neolithic date found by G. Clementson.
Find from Onchan Village, St Catherines Garden
The findspot of the St Catherine's Garden Cross Slab (Manx Cross 92).
Find from Orrisdale Brooghs
The findspot of a looped palstave axe of late Bronze Age date found at the foot of Orrysdale Brooghs about 1916.  The axehead is made of leaded bronze and could have been manufactured locally.  It is now kept at the Manx Museum (Accession No. 1954-0799).
Find from Orrisdale, Nickey's Orchard
The findspot of a grooved, yellow-glazed medieval pottery-pitcher handle. It was reported by W. Cubbon and may have been found 'north of nickie's orchard.'
Find from Park Llewellyn, North Barrule
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.
Find from Peel Castle
A Viking hoard of forty-one silver coins of Sittric Silkbeard, minted in Dublin in the 1030s was found in this area in 1982.
Find from Peel Hill
The findspot of a melon-shaped blue faience bead, found on the east side of Peel Hill by Miss K. Jerry.
Find from Phurt
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter (PRN 1205.00) and later pottery sherds from an area to north of the slipway sited 235 metres north of the end of the road. It included sherds of Neolithic Ronaldsway type and Bronze Age pottery (PRN 1205.20), along with a hearth sample which included a micaceous sherd.
Find from Phurt
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter (PRN 1205.00) and later pottery sherds from an area to north of the slipway sited 235 metres north of the end of the road. It included sherds of Neolithic Ronaldsway type (PRN 1205.10) and Bronze Age pottery, along with a hearth sample which included a micaceous sherd.
Find from Phurt
The findspot of pottery sherds of Neolithic Ronaldsway and 'megalithic' type, a rubbing stone and Mesolithic Heavy-blade type flints (PRN 1203.00).  These were collected from an area of eroding occupation levels sectioned by Roger Dackombe, 130-140 metres north of the end of the road.
Find from Phurt
The findspot of a Mesolithic Heavy-blade 'missile head' collected from the shoreline in an area of coastal erosion.
Find from Point of Ayre
The findspot of a barbed and tanged arrowhead, which was an isolated find collected from 'west of Point of Ayre light(house) road.'