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VIKING GREAT ARMY: ARCHAEOLOGISTS START SEARCH FOR VIKING AGE CAMP

Livros Vikings

Oct 13, 2022
2 min

archeology

VIKING GREAT ARMY: ARCHAEOLOGISTS START SEARCH FOR VIKING AGE CAMP

A dig is taking place in Northumberland with hopes of finding a camp belonging to the Viking Great Army...

DONE! HEREFORDSHIRE VIKING HOARD TO 'COME HOME' AFTER FUNDRAISER

Livros Vikings

Aug 10, 2022
2 min

history and curiosities

DONE! HEREFORDSHIRE VIKING HOARD TO 'COME HOME' AFTER FUNDRAISER

A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...

A VIKING'S PENDANT IS FOUND NEAR KING'S LYNN, ENGLAND

Livros Vikings

Aug 8, 2022
2 min

archeology

A VIKING'S PENDANT IS FOUND NEAR KING'S LYNN, ENGLAND

A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to "advertise his Christianity" has been found by a metal detectorist...

£776,250 FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED TO BRING VIKING EARLY MEDIEVAL TREASURE BACK HOME

Livros Vikings

Mar 28, 2022
3 min

history and curiosities

£776,250 FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED TO BRING VIKING EARLY MEDIEVAL TREASURE BACK HOME

A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...

VIKING ARTEFACTS FOUND IN BEBINGTON COULD LEAD TO ANSWERS ABOUT HISTORIC EVENTS

Livros Vikings

Mar 15, 2022
2 min

archeology

VIKING ARTEFACTS FOUND IN BEBINGTON COULD LEAD TO ANSWERS ABOUT HISTORIC EVENTS

Viking artefacts were found in Bebington, Merseyside which will be examined to uncover new insights into where they came from...

THE HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND

Livros Vikings

Mar 11, 2022
5 min

archeology

THE HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND

An app developed by academics at the University of Liverpool aims to change that, and to reveal how important Lancashire and Lakeland were..

NEW STUDY SHOWS VIKING BATTLE TOOK PLACE IN BEBINGTON

Livros Vikings

Feb 24, 2022
2 min

archeology

NEW STUDY SHOWS VIKING BATTLE TOOK PLACE IN BEBINGTON

Scientists from the University of Nottingham are examining the chemical fingerprint of iron weapons from the Viking age which was used du...

SCIENTISTS ARE SEARCHING FOR A TOWN SWALLOWED UP BY THE SEA 600 YEARS AGO

Livros Vikings

Feb 18, 2022
2 min

archeology

SCIENTISTS ARE SEARCHING FOR A TOWN SWALLOWED UP BY THE SEA 600 YEARS AGO

Ravenser Odd, on the East Yorkshire coast, was one of many settlements lost to coastal erosion...

NORTHAMPTON DEBUT FOR VIKING EXHIBITION WITH REPLICA LONGBOAT

Livros Vikings

Feb 2, 2022
2 min

history and curiosities

NORTHAMPTON DEBUT FOR VIKING EXHIBITION WITH REPLICA LONGBOAT

Valhalla at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery will explore Viking attitudes to life and death through 1,000-year-old artefacts...

TWO MEN CHARGED OVER £1M VIKING COINS HOARD

Livros Vikings

Aug 19, 2021
1 min

history and curiosities

TWO MEN CHARGED OVER £1M VIKING COINS HOARD

Two men have been charged after a hoard of Viking coins worth nearly £1m was found by police...

ARCHEOLOGISTS ARE LOOKING FOR VIKING AND ROMAN OBJECTS IN SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND

Livros Vikings

Jul 23, 2021
3 min

archeology

ARCHEOLOGISTS ARE LOOKING FOR VIKING AND ROMAN OBJECTS IN SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND

A Time Team-style Big Dig is underway in Scarborough where dozens of trenches are being opened up in the Old Town to try and find out abo...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS IDENTIFY ANGLO-SAXON CAVE HOUSE NEAR THAN INTENSIVE VIKING ACTIVITY PLACE

Livros Vikings

Jul 16, 2021
3 min

archeology

ARCHAEOLOGISTS IDENTIFY ANGLO-SAXON CAVE HOUSE NEAR THAN INTENSIVE VIKING ACTIVITY PLACE

A near-complete Anglo-Saxon dwelling and oratory believed to date from the early ninth century has been discovered in Derbyshire...

VIKINGS WERE STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO THE MULTIRACIAL SOCIETIES OF CONTEMPORARY NORTHERN EUROPE

Livros Vikings

Jul 8, 2021
5 min

VIKINGS WERE STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO THE MULTIRACIAL SOCIETIES OF CONTEMPORARY NORTHERN EUROPE

A number of individuals who were buried as Vikings were found to be of local ancestry, which suggests that being a Viking...

VIKING CAMP TO EDUCATE ABOUT AN IMPORTANT PERIOD IN HISTORY

Livros Vikings

Jun 21, 2021
2 min

history and curiosities

VIKING CAMP TO EDUCATE ABOUT AN IMPORTANT PERIOD IN HISTORY

A Wyre Forest arboretum was transported back to the ninth century as the Vikings set up camp...

Livros Vikings

Jun 4, 2021
6 min

history and curiosities

5 KEY VIKING DISCOVERIES IN BRITAIN

There is so much more to understand about the Vikings than violence and pillaging – as these discoveries and research projects from aroun...

VIKING NAMES AND BUILDINGS THAT STILL REMAIN IN PICTURESQUE VILLAGE

Livros Vikings

May 25, 2021
2 min

history and curiosities

VIKING NAMES AND BUILDINGS THAT STILL REMAIN IN PICTURESQUE VILLAGE

Churchtown Village in Southport dates back to the Vikings, with names and buildings from this period that still exist today...

STOLEN VIKING TREASURE DISCOVERED BYMETAL DETECTORIST IN WORCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND

Livros Vikings

May 19, 2021
2 min

history and curiosities

STOLEN VIKING TREASURE DISCOVERED BYMETAL DETECTORIST IN WORCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND

Stolen treasure worth £5,000 and thought lost forever by their owner has been discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in a county fiel...

NEW BOOK DETAILS MICHAEL'S HISTORIC CROSSES

Livros Vikings

May 11, 2021
2 min

history and curiosities

NEW BOOK DETAILS MICHAEL'S HISTORIC CROSSES

The collection of Viking stone crosses, housed in Michael Parish Church, are the subject of a new guide book....

UNEARTHED REMAINS HINT AT VIKING VILLAGE

Livros Vikings

May 7, 2021
2 min

archeology

UNEARTHED REMAINS HINT AT VIKING VILLAGE

Archaeological remains that could shed more light on a Teesdale village’s origins as a Viking settlement have been unearthed at a buildin...

SITE WHERE ANGLO SAXON WARRIORS FACED THE VIKING-LED ALLIANCE WAS FOUND

Livros Vikings

May 3, 2021
2 min

archeology

SITE WHERE ANGLO SAXON WARRIORS FACED THE VIKING-LED ALLIANCE WAS FOUND

A bloody Anglo Saxon conflict believed to have taken place in Liverpool which forged modern England is seen by historians as one of the m...

THE STORY OF VIKING INVASION AND ANCIENT PENNIES FOUND NEAR ST NEOTS

Livros Vikings

Apr 28, 2021
2 min

THE STORY OF VIKING INVASION AND ANCIENT PENNIES FOUND NEAR ST NEOTS

In 2019, the St Neots Museum purchased two Anglo-Saxon silver pennies found at Southoe and dating from the reign of Ethelred the Unready ...

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