Scandinavian-style jewellery in England: approaches and sources

Kershaw, Jane

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“…The lack of bullion from this area represents a real, and puzzling, absence. A similar paucity has been observed for finds of Scandinavian female jewellery (Kershaw 2013: 196–99). Coins are also rare here, despite the fact that they were minted locally (Figure 7; Blackburn 2001a).…”

Section: Bullion and Coin: Co-use Across Spacesupporting

confidence: 69%

“…This will, to an extent, reflect locations of metal detecting and finds reporting, incorporating diverse factors such as modern land-use, the presence of soil types favourable to metal preservation and the distance of land from motorways and other access routes. Such biases are well known and are discussed at length elsewhere (Chester-Kadwell 2009; Bevan 2012; Kershaw 2013: 13–17, 187–206). It is important to stress that while apparent absences in material must be investigated and interpreted with care, the presence of finds offers a clear positive indicator of bullion use.…”

Section: New Evidence For Bullion Exchange In the Danelawmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Coins are also rare here, despite the fact that they were minted locally (Figure 7; Blackburn 2001a). It is possible that the early introduction of stable nucleated settlements in the region (by c. AD 850) means that Viking Age sites are concealed by modern urban development (Kershaw 2013: 198–99).…”

Section: Bullion and Coin: Co-use Across Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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An early medieval dual-currency economy: bullion and coin in the Danelaw

Kershaw

2017

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2017

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“… 38 Metal-detected evidence has transformed our understanding of Viking Age England (Richards et al 2009), but has hitherto been largely discussed without reference to context (eg Kershaw 2013) or on a smaller scale (eg Richards et al 1999). …”

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THE WINTER CAMP OF THE VIKING GREAT ARMY, ad 872–3, TORKSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Richards

2016

Antiq. J.

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This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary project that has revealed the location, extent and character of the winter camp of the Viking Great Army at Torksey, Lincolnshire, of AD 872-3. The camp lay within a naturally defended area of higher ground, partially surrounded by marshes and bordered by the River Trent on its western side. It is considerably larger than the Viking camp of 873-4 previously excavated at Repton, Derbyshire, and lacks the earthwork defences identified there. Several thousand individuals overwintered in the camp, including warriors, craftworkers and merchants. An exceptionally large and rich metalwork assemblage was deposited during the Great Army's overwintering, and metal processing and trading was undertaken. There is no evidence for a pre-existing Anglo-Saxon trading site here; the site appears to have been chosen for its strategic location and its access to resources. In the wake of the overwintering, Torksey developed as an important Anglo-Saxon borough with a major wheel-thrown pottery industry and multiple churches and cemeteries. The Torksey evidence allows for a radical reappraisal of the character of Viking winter camps, and the legacy of the Viking Great Army for Anglo-Saxon England.

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“…The diagnostically Scandinavian metalwork comprises three main artefact groups: non-elite male and, in particular, female dress fittings (Leahy & Paterson 2001; Kershaw 2009, 2013); silver and weights associated with bullion exchange (Kershaw forthcoming); and amulets with iconography drawn from pagan Scandinavian mythology (Pestell 2013). The striking feature of the metalwork is its ‘Scandinavian-ness’.…”

Section: Danish Viking Settlement In England: Linguistic and Archaeolmentioning

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The ‘People of the British Isles’ project and Viking settlement in England

Kershaw¹,

Røyrvik

2016

Antiquity

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The recently concluded ‘People of the British Isles’ project (hereafter PoBI) combined large-scale, local DNA sampling with innovative data analysis to generate a survey of the genetic structure of Britain in unprecedented detail; the results were presented by Leslie and colleagues in 2015. Comparing clusters of genetic variation within Britain with DNA samples from Continental Europe, the study elucidated past immigration events via the identification and dating of historic admixture episodes (the interbreeding of two or more different population groups). Among its results, the study found “no clear genetic evidence of the Danish Viking occupation and control of a large part of England, either in separate UK clusters in that region, or in estimated ancestry profiles”, therefore positing “a relatively limited input of DNA from the Danish Vikings”, with ‘Danish Vikings’ defined in the study, and thus in this article, as peoples migrating from Denmark to eastern England in the late ninth and early tenth centuries (Leslieet al.2015: 313). Here, we consider the details of certain assumptions that were made in the study, and offer an alternative interpretation to the above conclusion. We also comment on the substantial archaeological and linguistic evidence for a large-scale Danish Viking presence in England.

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Scandinavian-style jewellery in England: approaches and sources

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An early medieval dual-currency economy: bullion and coin in the Danelaw

An early medieval dual-currency economy: bullion and coin in the Danelaw

THE WINTER CAMP OF THE VIKING GREAT ARMY, ad 872–3, TORKSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

The ‘People of the British Isles’ project and Viking settlement in England

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