Cuerdale deposit found
The Cuerdale Hoard ( English Cuerdale Hoard ) is apart from the hoarding Spillings the largest outside Russia made Silberfund from the Viking era . It is larger than any hoard found in other Viking settlements in the British Isles . The Ribble Valley was the connecting line between the Viking settlements in Yorkshire and the Irish Sea . The find was made in Cuerdale near Preston in Lancashire in 1840 near levees on the River Ribble and is said to have been dumped during the 10th century.
About 8600 objects made of silver and gold weighing around 40 kg, including mostly silver coins, were found. The hoard was partly buried in boxes, fragments of which remained. Small bone needles suggest that some coins were deposited in pouches that were closed with needles. The coins of Nordic and Irish origin show that the hoard must have been deposited between 905 and 910 AD, shortly after the Vikings were temporarily expelled from Dublin in 902. Knut and Siegfried are known as the Viking Kings of York only through the coins of Cuerdale.
literature
- James Graham-Campbell: Viking Treasure from the North West: Cuerdale Hoard in Its Context. selected papers from the Vikings of the Irish Sea conference, Liverpool, 18-20 May 1990
Web links
- BBC History: The Cuerdale Hoard . [1] Retrieved January 22, 2009
- British Museum, London [2]. Retrieved January 22, 2009
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 35 " N , 2 ° 38 ′ 53" W.