Huxley Hoard
53°08′49″N 2°43′59″W / 53.147°N 2.733°W
| Huxley Hoard | |
|---|---|
 The Huxley Hoard at the Museum of Liverpool | |
| Material | Silver |
| Period/culture | Viking |
| Discovered | Huxley, Cheshire, 2004 |
| Present location | Museum of Liverpool |
The Huxley Hoard is a hoard of Viking jewellery from around 900-910. It consists of 21 silver bracelets and one ingot, as well as 39 fragments of lead. The hoard weighs around 1.5kg. The bracelets might have been produced by Norse settlers in Dublin, and could have been buried for safekeeping by Viking refugees settling in Cheshire and the Wirral in the early 900's. The hoard was discovered by Steve Reynoldson near Huxley, Cheshire in November 2004.[1]
The 21 bracelets were folded flat. Sixteen of them are decorated by punched patterns. Six have stamped crosses in their centre; another six have both a cross in the centre and one at each end. Two have lattice patterns, one has an hourglass stamp around the edge, one has chevrons as well as central and end crosses, and one (which is now a twisted bar) has a zig-zag pattern. The remaining four are plain. The lead fragments imply that the hoard was either buried in a sheet of lead, or in a lead-lined wooden box.[1]
The hoard is jointly owned by Chester Grosvenor Museum, Cheshire Museums Service and National Museums Liverpool, and was aquired by the Heritage Lottery Fund. As of 2014 it is on display in the Museum of Liverpool.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "The Huxley Hoard". Museum of Liverpool. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
See also
Further reading
- The Huxley Viking Hoard: Scandinavian Settlement in the North West. National Museums Liverpool. 2010. ISBN 978-1902700403.