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  2. Heath Wood barrow cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Heath Wood contains a series of 59 barrows which is a Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire. The barrows are unusual because they are the only known Scandinavian cremation site in the British Isles. [1] It is believed to be a war cemetery of the Viking Great Army which arrived in the area in 873 A.D.

  3. Sutton Hoo helmet - Wikipedia

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    The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.It was buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.

  4. Vendel Period - Wikipedia

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    In Swedish prehistory, the Vendel Period (Swedish: Vendeltiden; c. 540–790 AD) appears between the Migration Period and the Viking Age. The name is taken from the rich boat inhumation cemetery at Vendel parish church, Uppland. Unlike the preceding and succeeding eras, the Vendel Period left very few precious metal artifacts or runic inscriptions

  5. Svinfylking - Wikipedia

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    Sketch of the Svinfylking. The Svinfylking, Old Norse for "swine array" or "boar snout", [1] was a formation used in battle. Related to the wedge formation, it was used in Iron Age Scandinavia and later by the Vikings. [2]

  6. Battle of Svolder - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Svolder (Svold or Swold) [1] was a large naval battle during the Viking age, fought in September 1000 in the western Baltic Sea between King Olaf of Norway and an alliance of the Kings of Denmark and Sweden and Olaf's enemies in Norway.

  7. Beardmore Relics - Wikipedia

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    The Beardmore Relics are a cache of Viking Age artifacts, said to have been unearthed near Beardmore, Ontario, Canada in the 1930s. The cache consists of a Viking Age sword, an axe head, and a bar of undetermined use (possibly a part of a shield). It has been claimed that the relics are proof of early Norse occupation of northern Ontario.

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  9. Coppergate Helmet - Wikipedia

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    The construction of the helmet is complex. [2] Apart from the neck guard the basic form is shared by the contemporaneous Pioneer Helmet, a sparsely decorated fighting piece, [3] [4] and consists of four parts: an iron skull cap with brass edging and decorations, two iron cheek guards with brass edging, and camail protecting the neck.