Viking burials found in England

Viking burials found in England

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Viking Age burials found in Britain

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

Berkshire Reading Cumberland Workington Cumbria Appleby-in-Westmoreland Derbyshire Ingleby Repton Hampshire West Ham

Hertfordshire Enfield Lancashire Rampside Norfolk Santon Downham Northumberland Bedlington Nottinghamshire Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire Magdalen Bridge Yorkshire Adwick-le-Street Bedale Northallerton

List by Find Date

Adwick-le-Street, South Yorkshire

Find date- Excavated in 2001

Bodies- Viking Woman.

Dated to- ?AD

Grave goods-

'

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)

Sword

Publications- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.12]

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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]

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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]

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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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