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Viking Age Compendium articles on Selected Sites
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England
Wakefield
Wakefield, Yorkshire Current Location:
Find Type: Hoard; Find Date: Found in 2008
Period: 900's
Summary:
Publications:
Hoard Contents:
6 Gold items
Vale of York
Vale of York, Yorkshire Current Location:
Find Type: Duel Hoard. Coin and bullion.; Find Date: Found in 2007
Period: c.920
Summary:
Publications:
Hoard Contents:
Frankish silver cup (mid C9th)
1 gold arm rings
5 silver arm rings
Ainsbrook
Ainsbrook, Yorkshire Current Location:
Find Type: Duel Hoard. Coin and bullion; Find Date: Found in 2007
Period: late 800's
Summary:
Publications:
Beeston Tor
Beeston Tor Cave, Staffordshire Current Location:
Find Type: Mixed Hoard.; Find Date: Found in ?
Period: c.871-874
Summary:
Publications:
Hoard Contents:
2 silver brooches,
a few pieces of gold
50 silver coins
Shotton Hall, Durham Found: 1881
?
Date: c.?
Summary:
?
Publications:
Lark Hill, Worcs Found: Excavated 1854
?
Date: c.1175
Summary:
Silver figure ring
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Goldsborough, North Yorks Found: 1858
Mixed Silver Hoard
Date: c.925
Summary:
Mixed Silver Hoard
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Halton, Lancs Found: 1851
Mixed silver and gold hoard
Date: c.1025
Summary:
Silver-gilt cup, 6 pendants of stamped gold, a silver torc, 860 silver coins
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Soberton, Hants Found: 1850
Date: c.1068
Summary:
2 gold finger rings
Publications:
The Cuerdale Hoard, Lancashire Found: 1840
Duel Hoard. Coin and bullion
Date: c.898
Summary:
over 8,600 items
Publications:
Flusco Pike (no.1), Cumbria Found: 1785, 1830 & 1989
Coinless hoard of penannular brooches
Date: ?
Summary:
coinless hoard of penannular brooches
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Trewhiddle Hoard, Cornwall Found: 1774
Duel Hoard. Coin and bullion
Date: c.870
Summary:
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Wales Other hoards: Mullaghbogen; Co. Kildare; Minchin Hole on the Gower (REDKNAP 2000 p.62)
Bangor1
High Street, Bangor Current Location:
Find Type: Hoard; Find Date: Found in ?
Period: c.925
Summary:
Publications:
Hoard Contents:
13 coins(Arabic, Anglo-Saxon and Viking)
2 pieces of hack silver
St. Deiniol Monastery, Bangor Found: ?
Coins
Date: c.970
Summary:
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Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey Found: ?
Bullion
Date: c.970
Summary:
silver ingots and arm ring fragments
Publications:
Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey Found: ?
Penannular silver arm rings
Date: c.900
Summary:
5 Penannular silver arm rings
Publications:
Isle of Man 26 hoards have been found on the Isle of Man [WILSON 2008:p.105]
Glenfaba
Found ?
Mixed silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
464 coins (326 from Dublin, 79 from England, 58 from the Irish Sea region and 1 Danish imitation of an English coin); 25 silver ingots and 1 broken silver plaited arm band.
Publications:
Manx Museum Exhibit, visited in 2013.
Ballaquayle, Onchan
Found 1894
Mixed gold and silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
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Publications:
Ballacamaish, Kirk Andreas
Found 1868
Coinless silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
Parts of 4 neck rings and an arm ring
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Scotland There are over 30 known hoards from Scotland [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL & BATEY 1998:p.228].
Unprovenanced
Found before 1851
Coinless silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
-
Publications:
Inch Kenneth, Argyll
Found c.1830
Mixed hoard
c.?
Summary:
-
Publications:
Tiree, Argyll
Found c.1780
Mixed hoard
c.970
Summary:
-
Publications:
Ireland
Unprovenanced
Found in or before 1859
Coinless gold and silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
2 arm rings
Publications:
Athlone, Co. Westmeath
Found in or before 1851
Coinless silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
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Publications:
Co. Cork
Found in or before 1850
Coinless silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
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Publications:
Scattery Island, Co. Clare
Found in or before 1836
Coinless silver hoard
c.?
Summary:
2 pseudo-penannular brooches
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Denmark
Terslev Terslev, Zealand
Found ?
Duel Hoard. Coin and bullion.
after 944AD
Summary:
Neck and arm rings, Chains, Nordic cups, Persian bowl, 1751 coins (1708 are Arabic)
Publications:
Historisk Viden, Denmark. Website (Link)
Duesminde Duesminde, Zealand
Found 2002
Duel Hoard. Coin and bullion.
after 950AD
Summary:
Mainly Carolingian (820-870AD) Strap ends, buckles, strap plates
Publications:
Historisk Viden, Denmark. Website (Link)
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