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The Watlington Hoard - Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880 (Paperback)
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The Watlington Hoard - Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880 (Paperback)
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The Watlington Hoard was discovered in southern Oxfordshire in 2015
by a metal-detectorist, and acquired by the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford in 2017. A nationally-important find of coinage and
metalwork, and the first major Viking-Age hoard from the county, it
dates from the late 870s, a fundamental and tumultuous period in
Britain's history. The contents of the hoard include a highly
significant collection of over 200 silver pennies, mostly of Alfred
the Great, king of Wessex, and Ceolwulf II, king of Mercia,
transforming our understanding of the coinage in this period, and
23 silver and gold pieces of contemporary metalwork much of which
was derived from Scandinavia. Presenting the complete publication
of the objects and coins in the Watlington Hoard - including an
important re-assessment of the coinage of the late 870s - the
authors discuss its wider implications for our understanding of
hoarding in late 9th-century southern Britain, interactions between
the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, and the movements of the Viking
Great Army after the Battle of Edington in 878. The book also
relates another side to the hoard's story, beginning with its
discovery and excavation, charting its path through the
conservation work and acquisition by the Ashmolean Museum to the
public outreach projects which ran alongside the scholarly research
into the hoard.
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