Category:England, Derbyshire: Repton

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See also Viking burials found in England

Part of a group of winter camp sites of the Great Heathen Army:

Torksey 872-873AD

Repton and Heath Wood, Ingleby 873-874AD

Status-  Accepted  

Type-

Find date- Excavated between 1974-1988AD

Bodies- Male warrior burial; Female burial; another single male burial and 2 double burials.

Dated to- 873-874AD

Publications-

• Biddle, Martin, and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle (1992) 'Repton and the Vikings'. pp.38-51. Antiquity: Vol.66
• Biddle, Martin and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle (2001) Repton and the great heathen army, 873-4. In 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 pp.55-92
• Owen, Olwyn, and Dalland, Magnar (1999) SCAR, A Viking Boat Burial on Sanday, Orkney. Tuckwell Press. p.167

Warrior Grave

• Thors hammer
• sword and scabbard
• buckles
• iron knives (one a folding knife)