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	'''Berkshire'''		'''Berkshire'''
	*[[#Reading, Berkshire|Reading]]		*[[#Reading, Berkshire|Reading]]
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	'''Cumberland'''		'''Cumberland'''
	*[[#Workington, Cumberland|Workington]]		*[[#Workington, Cumberland|Workington]]
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	'''Cumbria'''		'''Cumbria'''
		+	*[[#Aspatria, Cumbria|Aspatria]]
	*[[#Cumwhitton, Cumbria|Cumwhitton]]		*[[#Cumwhitton, Cumbria|Cumwhitton]]
		+	*[[#Carlisle Cathedral, Cumbria|Carlisle Cathedral]]
		+	*[[#Eaglesfield, Cumbria|Eaglesfield]]
	*[[#Hesket-in-Forest, Cumbria|Hesket-in-Forest]]		*[[#Hesket-in-Forest, Cumbria|Hesket-in-Forest]]
	*[[#Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland, Cumbria|Appleby-in-Westmoreland]]		*[[#Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland, Cumbria|Appleby-in-Westmoreland]]
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	*[[#Repton, Derbyshire|Repton]]		*[[#Repton, Derbyshire|Repton]]
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	'''Dorset'''		'''Dorset'''
	*[[#Weymouth, Dorset|Dorset]]		*[[#Weymouth, Dorset|Dorset]]
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	'''Hampshire'''		'''Hampshire'''
	*[[#West Ham, Hampshire|West Ham]]		*[[#West Ham, Hampshire|West Ham]]
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		+	'''Essex'''
		+	*[[#Saffron Walden, Essex|Saffron Walden]]
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	'''Hertfordshire'''		'''Hertfordshire'''
	*[[#Enfield, Hertfordshire|Enfield]]		*[[#Enfield, Hertfordshire|Enfield]]
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	'''Lancashire'''		'''Lancashire'''
	*[[#Claughton Hall, Lancashire|Claughton Hall]]		*[[#Claughton Hall, Lancashire|Claughton Hall]]
		+	*[[#Heysham, Lancashire|Heysham]]
	*[[#Rampside, Lancashire|Rampside]]		*[[#Rampside, Lancashire|Rampside]]
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	'''Norfolk'''		'''Norfolk'''
		+	*[[#Middle Harling, Norfolk|Middle Harling]]
	*[[#Santon Downham, Norfolk|Santon Downham]]		*[[#Santon Downham, Norfolk|Santon Downham]]
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	'''Northumberland'''		'''Northumberland'''
	*[[#Bedlington, Northumberland|Bedlington]]		*[[#Bedlington, Northumberland|Bedlington]]
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	*[[#Nottingham, Nottinghamshire|Nottingham]]		*[[#Nottingham, Nottinghamshire|Nottingham]]
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	'''Oxfordshire'''		'''Oxfordshire'''
		+	*[[#Hook Norton, Oxfordshire|Hook Norton]]
	*[[#Magdalen Bridge, Oxfordshire|Magdalen Bridge]]		*[[#Magdalen Bridge, Oxfordshire|Magdalen Bridge]]
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	'''Yorkshire'''		'''Yorkshire'''
	*[[#Adwick-le-Street, Yorkshire|Adwick-le-Street]]		*[[#Adwick-le-Street, Yorkshire|Adwick-le-Street]]

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Revision as of 20:02, 27 March 2013

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. Any list of Viking burials is going to be open to discussion. Many of these burials were discovered in the 19th century, long before modern archaeological practices came into 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.

Viking burials found in Scotland
Viking burials found in the Isle of Man

Index by County

Berkshire Reading Cumberland Workington Cumbria Aspatria Cumwhitton Carlisle Cathedral Eaglesfield Hesket-in-Forest Appleby-in-Westmoreland

Derbyshire Ingleby Repton Dorset Dorset Hampshire West Ham Essex Saffron Walden Hertfordshire Enfield

Lancashire Claughton Hall Heysham Rampside Norfolk Middle Harling Santon Downham Northumberland Bedlington

Nottinghamshire Nottingham Oxfordshire Hook Norton Magdalen Bridge Yorkshire Adwick-le-Street Bedale Northallerton

List by Find Date

Weymouth, Dorset

Find date- Mass burial. Excavated in 2009

Bodies- up to 54 decapitated males

Dated to- 970-1025AD

Grave goods- None

Publications-

• [Oxford Archaeology]

Cumwhitton, Cumbria

Find date- Excavated in 2004

Bodies- 6 men and women

Dated to- ?AD

Grave goods-

• swords
• spears
• jewellery
• firemaking materials
• riding equipment

Publications-

• [Portable Antiquities Scheme]

Adwick-le-Street, South Yorkshire

Find date- Excavated in 2001

Bodies- Viking Woman.

Dated to- C9th

Grave goods-

• Copper-alloy Bowl
• Pair of non-identical oval brooches. Both Petersen type P37.
• Hangerock. Textile remains preserved on the rears of the oval brooches and on the knife have been identified as z-spun tabby weave made from plant fibre (linen). In addition a number of thin linen strips (4mm wide) were found around the pins of the brooches. It appears that there was a pair of loops at the base of the brooch and a single loop at the top.
• Iron key; iron knife

Publications-

• Speed, Greg and Penelope Walton Rogers (2004) 'A Burial of a Viking Woman at Adwick-le-Street, South Yorkshire'. Medieval Archaeology.

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]

Carlisle Cathedral, Cumbria

Find date- 1988

Bodies-

Dated to-

Grave goods-

• Buckles
• Strap ends
• small whetstone

Publications- [RICHARDS 2004:p.202]

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]

Middle Harling, Norfolk

Find date- 1986

Bodies- Man

Dated to- late 9th / early 10th

Grave goods-

• 4 knives. One with a pivoting blade.
• Whetstone
• Spur
• Ear scoop. copper alloy
• Brass buckle with iron plate, rectangular
• Iron buckle, D shaped

Publications- [MARGESEN 1997:p.16-17]

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] [RICHARDS 2004:p.202]

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)

Sword

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, 1973?

Bodies- a skeleton

Dated to- ?

Grave goods 1898 - (Tullie House Museum)

• Sword Petersen type M
• Shield Boss
• Frag. iron rod
• small iron knife (now lost)

Grave goods 1973? -

• Silver bowl from a possible 2nd grave [RICHARDS 2004:p.202]

Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.18] [RICHARDS 2004:p.202]

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]

Hesket-in-Forest, Cumbria

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)

Discussion- The weapons were deliberately damaged.

Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.19] [RICHARDS 2004: P.192]

• 

Saffron Walden, Essex

Find date- 1876AD

Bodies- Female

Dated to- ?

Grave goods-

Necklace of 2 silver pendants, 2 carnelian, 2 glass and 2 crystal beads.

Publications- [MARGESEN 1997:p.16]

Camphill, 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] [RICHARDS 2004:P.194]

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] [MARGESEN 1997:p.16] British Museum

Cambois, Bedlington, Northumberland

Find date- 1859

Bodies- 1 woman (45 to 60) and 2 men (one in his 20s and the other 40s)

Dated to-

Grave goods-

enameled disc brooch

bone comb

Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.22] [RICHARDS 2004: p.194]

Hook Norton, Oxfordshire

Find date- 1848

Bodies- skeletons

Dated to- C9th

Grave goods-

coin hoard

Publications- [RICHARDS 2004:p.194]

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]

• 

Claughton Hall, Lancashire

Find date- 1822

Bodies- Male skeleton

Dated to- ?

Grave goods- (Claughton Hall)

Pair of gilt copper-alloy Oval Brooches (R. 652). These were found wrapped back to back and encased the 2 beads and a molar tooth.

Silver nielloed brooch (originally a Carolingian mount)

2 Glass beads

Grave goods- (Lost)

Sword Petersen type X

Axe, spear, hammer

Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.18] [RICHARDS 2004:p.193]

Comments- The items were said to have been found in a wooden chest

Eaglesfield, Cumbria

Find date- 1814

Bodies- Male skeleton

Dated to- ?

Grave goods-

Sword

Axe (originally described as a halbard)

possible ring headed pin

Publications- [RICHARDS 2004:p.194]

Heysham, Lancashire

Find date- 1800

Bodies- Male warrior burial? 1800; Female burial?

Dated to- ?

Grave goods St. Peter's 1800 -

• Spearhead
• hogback stone

Grave goods St Patrick -

• bone comb

Discussion

May be part of a number of graves

Publications- [RICHARDS 2004:p.202]

• Potter, T.W. and R.D. Andrews (1994) 'Excavation and Survey at St Patrick's Chapel and St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, 1977-8'. The Antiquaries Journal Volume 74 pp.55-134 (Available Online)

Aspatria, Cumbria

Find date- 1792

Bodies- Male warrior burial

Dated to- ?

Grave goods-

sword with a silver encrusted hilt

spearhead with a decorated silver socket

axe

pieces of a shield

gold buckle and carolingian strap end

iron horse bit and spur

Publications- [RICHARDS 2004: p.192]

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]

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]

References

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