The Watlington Hoard : coinage, kings and the Viking great army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880 / John Naylor and Eleanor Standley ; with contributions by Ryan Lavelle [and 8 others].
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...
| Uniform Title: | Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,
[2022]
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| Series: | Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 240 pages ; 28 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Foreword
- Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 The Watlington Hoard uncovered: from discovery to acquisition and beyond ; Chapter 3 The archaeology and landscape of the Upper Thames Valley in the 9th century
- John Naylor ; Chapter 4 Oxfordshire, Wessex, and Mercia in the Age of Alfred the Great
- Ryan Lavelle ; Chapter 5 The coinage of Wessex and Mercia, c.875-79: a re-assessment of the Two Emperors and Cross-and-Lozenge types
- John Naylor ; Chapter 6 The coins of the Watlington Hoard
- John Naylor with a contribution by Simon Coupland ; Chapter 7 The non-numismatic objects of the Watlington hoard
- Jane Kershaw ; Chapter 8 Money in southern England in the 870s in the light of the Watlington hoard
- Julian Baker ; Chapter 9 The Watlington Hoard in Context
- John Naylor ; Catalogue 1 The non-numismatic objects
- Compiled and edited by Eleanor Standley ; Catalogue 2 The coins
- John Naylor ; Appendix 1 A revised checklist of finds of Two Emperors and Cross-and-Lozenge type coins
- Compiled by John Naylor ; Appendix 2 A visual summary guide to the classification of the Two Emperors and Cross-and-Lozenge type pennies
- John Naylor ; Appendix 3 The moneyers of the Two Emperors and Cross-and-Lozenge type pennies ; Appendix 4 Concordance table showing the spellings of moneyer's names ; Bibliography.