The Watlington Hoard: Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, Ad875-880

by John Naylor and Eleanor Standley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789698294
• ISBN13: 9781789698299
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"