Category:England, Oxfordshire: Oxford

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See also Viking burials found in England

Status- Disputed / Discredited

Find Type- River Find (River Cherwell, Oxford)

Find date- AD 1884AD

Bodies- Men and horse skeletons found by dredging?

Dated to- C9th by Stirrup style

Museum- Ashmolean Museum 1886, 443-47

Grave goods-

• Spearhead - [1884.514]
• Shield boss - [1884.513]
• Stirrups (Pair) - [1886.443, 444]
• Stirrup - [1886.445]
• Spur - [1886.1232]
• Horseshoe - [886.446] Dated to late medieval [Seaby 1950:p.32]
• Shears - [1886.447]

Publications-

• Archaeologia Vol. 71 (1920-21) p.253 (not available)
• Bjorn, Anathon, and Shetelig, Haakon (1940) Viking Antiquities in England. Edited by Haakon Shetelig. (Available Online) Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland: Part 4 p.12
• Seaby W.A. (1950) 'Late Dark Age Finds from the Cherwell and Ray, 1876-86' pp.29-43. (Available Online) Oxoniensia: Vol.15 x
• Blair, John & Crawford, Barbara E. (1997) 'A Late-Viking Burial at Magdalen Bridge, Oxford?' pp.135-143. (Available Online) Oxoniensia: Vol.62
• Graham-Campbell, James; Hall, Richard; Jesch, Judith and Parsons, David N. (eds.) (2001) Vikings and the Danelaw. Select Papers from the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Viking Congress. Viking Congress: 13 p.116
• Richards, Julian D. (2004) Vikings in England. p.195