Viking burials found in England
From The Viking Age Compendium
This list of burials is currently a work in progress. More information will be added over time but it is hoped that even the meager information supplied here will be of some use.
The map is derived from Richards [RICHARDS 2004:p.191] Graham-Campbell [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1994:p.134, 153] and from a map displayed from a Jorvik exhibition in York 2012.
Index by County
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List by Find Date
Adwick-le-Street, South Yorkshire
- Find date- Excavated in 2001
- Bodies- Viking Woman.
- Dated to- ?AD
- Grave goods-
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- Publications- [SPEED & WALTON ROGERS 2004]
Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire
- Find date- Excavated 3 times, 1855; 1941-1949; 1998-2000AD
- Bodies- Male warrior cremation burials; other cremation burials and mounds.
- Dated to- 873-878AD
- Grave goods-
- Swords, buckles
- Publications- [RICHARDS 2004: pp. 23-116]
Repton, Derbyshire
- Find date- Excavated between 1974-1988AD
- Bodies- Male warrior burial; Female burial; another single male burial and 2 double burials.
- Dated to- 873-874AD
- Grave goods-
- Thors hammer, sword and scabbard, buckles, iron knives (one a folding knife
- Publications- [BIDDLE and KJBLBYE-BIDDLE 1992]
Rampside, Lancashire
- Find date- 1909?
- Bodies- None, found in a churchyard
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (Municipal Museum, Barrow-in-Furness)
- Sword Petersen type M
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.18]
Enfield, Hertfordshire
- Find date- 1900AD - possible Viking ship
- Bodies- a skeleton was said to have been found under a 40' overturned ship
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (British Museum)
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.12]
West Ham nr. Basingstoke, Hampshire
- Find date- 1899AD
- Bodies- a skeleton was found under the possible ship
- Dated to- Dated to Viking Age (C9th ?) by Bjorn and Shetelig but previously dated to the Anglo-Saxon period.
- Grave goods-
- Knife, Spear, lance heads
- bronze bowl, iron bowl with handle
- draughtsmen (stained green by contact with bronze)
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.11]
Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland, Cumbria
- Find date- 1898
- Bodies- a skeleton
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (Tullie House Museum)
- Sword Petersen type M, Shield Boss
- Frag. iron rod. small iron knife (now lost)
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.18]
River Cherwell at Magdalen Bridge, Oxfordshire
- Find date- 1884AD
- Bodies- Men and horse skeletons
- Dated to- C9th by Stirrup style
- Grave goods- (Ashmolean Museum 1886, 443-47)
- Spearhead, shield boss
- Shears
- Horseshoe, spur
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.15]
Bedale, Yorkshire
- Find date- 1875AD
- Bodies- Male Warrior
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (British Museum)
- Sword of Petersen type L
- Spearhead
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.15]
- Sword bedale.JPG
Santon Downham, Norfolk
- Find date- 1867
- Bodies- based on the grave goods this might be a double interment, male and female.
- Dated to- C10th
- Grave goods- (British Museum)
- Sword
- Pair of tortoise brooches of type Rygh 652-654.
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.12] British Museum
- Sword santon.jpg
Reading, Berkshire
- Find date- June 1831.
- Bodies- Male warrior burial with a horse skeleton
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods-
- Sword with ivory hilt.
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.11] [EAST 1986]
Lancs, Claughton Hall
- Find date- 1822
- Bodies- skeleton
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (Claughton Hall)
- Pair of Oval Brooches (R. 652)
- Silver nielloed brooch (possibly Carolingian)
- 2 Glass beads
- Grave goods- (Lost)
- Sword Petersen type X
- Axe, spear, hammer
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.18]
- Comments- The items were said to have been found in a wooden chest
Cumbria, Hesket-in-Forest
- Find date- 1882
- Bodies- Cremation covered in a cairn
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (Tullie House Museum)
- Sword Petersen type O, Spear Head Petersen type I, Spear Head Petersen type F, Shield Boss (broken in two), Axe Head Petersen type E,
- Iron Bit plated in bronze, Two Buckles (one with a buckle plate), Sickle, Wet stone, Bone Comb and Bone Case, Pair of Spurs (now lost)
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.19]
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Find date- ?
- Bodies- Male warrior burial
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (British Museum Tr. 158)
- Sword of Petersen type X
- Sword pommel
- Spearhead of Petersen type C - D
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.15]
- Sword nottingham.jpg
Northallerton, Yorkshire
- Find date- ?
- Bodies- Female skeleton?
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods- (National Museum of Scotland)
- Single oval brooch R.652
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.15]
Workington, Cumberland
- Find date- Possibly from a burial?
- Bodies- None
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods-
- Sword Petersen type W or X
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.21]
Bedlington, Cambois, Northumberland
- Find date-
- Bodies- None - found together in a barrow?
- Dated to- ?
- Grave goods-
- Bronze Disk Brooch with enamel inlay, Bone comb.
- Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.22]
References
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