English: (Part of a) Hoard of 186 silver coins (most of Alfred and Ceolwulf II), 7 items of jewellery (all but one of silver, the other gold) and 15 silver ingots. The Hoard was probably deposited in the late 870s by a Viking for safe-keeping, at the time Wessex and Mercia were fighting for survival against a 'Great Heathen Army'. Parts are now in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and on display, see e.g. [1]
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date
5 November 2015, 17:50:11
Accession number
FindID: 751244 Old ref: SUR-4A4231 Filename: 8WatlingtonHoard.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
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