Category:England, Oxfordshire: Oxford

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See also Viking burials found in England
Also known as Magdalen Bridge

Status-  Discredited  ^{[Graham-Campbell 2001]} Disputed ^{[Blair & Crawford 1997]}

Find Type- River Find (River Cherwell, Oxford)

Find date- AD 1884

Bodies- Men and horse skeletons found by dredging?

Dated to- C9th by Stirrup style

Museum- Ashmolean Museum [1886, 443-47]

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 ^{[Seaby 1950] ^ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7}
• Blair, John & Crawford, Barbara E. (1997) 'A Late-Viking Burial at Magdalen Bridge, Oxford?' pp.135-143. (Available Online) Oxoniensia: Vol.62 ^{[Blair & Crawford 1997] ^ 1 2 3 4 5}
• 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 ^{[Graham-Campbell 2001] ^}
• Richards, Julian D. (2004) Vikings in England. p.195

Grave goods 1884 - dredging in the river under Magdalen Bridge

• Spearhead - [1884.514] dated AD 850-900 by Jan Petersen ^{[Seaby 1950]:p.38}
• Shield boss - [1884.513] like the pagan Anglo-Saxon bosses dated to C5th-7th ^{[Seaby 1950]:p.37}

Grave goods 1886 - cutting back the island below Magdalen Bridge

• Stirrups (Pair) - [1886.443, 444] - Wheeler Class C / Rygh 590. Not actually a pair, different in decoration and size.^{[Seaby 1950]:p.38} Dated by Jan Petersen to AD 950-1000 ^{[Seaby 1950]:p.39}
• Stirrup - [1886.445] dated to AD 1000-1125. ^{[Seaby 1950]:p.39} C11th-12th ^{[Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.138}
• Horseshoe - [1886.446] dated to late medieval ^{[Seaby 1950]:p.40-41 [Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.138}
• Shears - [1886.447] dated to C11th ^{[Seaby 1950]:p.39}, C10th-11th ^{[Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.137}
• Spur - [1886.1232] dated to c.1000 ^{[Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.137}