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The Vikings in Buckinghamshire

The Vikings in Buckinghamshire. The Romans. Akeman Street Fleet Marston settlement Weedon Hill. Early Saxons. Walton. Early Vikings. In 1885 a Viking spearhead was found in the River Thame with Saxon weapons near Stone Bridge on the Bicester Road.

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The Vikings in Buckinghamshire

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  1. The Vikings in Buckinghamshire

  2. The Romans • Akeman Street • Fleet Marston settlement • Weedon Hill

  3. Early Saxons Walton

  4. Early Vikings • In 1885 a Viking spearhead was found in the River Thame with Saxon weapons near Stone Bridge on the Bicester Road. • In 1896 a Viking spearhead was found at the foot of Castle Hill in Buckingham. • In 1926 two Saxon or Viking spearheads were found in Lavender’s Pit, Iver. • A Viking spearhead was found in the River Thames near Marlow. • In 1856, 1860 and 1958, Viking weapons were found around Sashes Island in the River Thames. • Viking battleaxe found at Bolter’s Lock, Taplow.

  5. Late Saxons • Sashes Island in the River Thames was probably made into a burh in the 10th century. • Aylesbury was made into a burh; the ditch was possibly found at Bourbon Street. • There were two burhs at Buckingham, built by Edward the Elder in AD 914.

  6. Buckingham burhs

  7. Late Vikings • A Viking or Saxon pin was found at Poynetts in the 1930s. • A Viking ring was found in the ground of Weston Turville manor house in 1922. • A Viking stirrup mount was found in Fingest. • A Viking armlet was found at Wendover.

  8. Danelaw

  9. The 11th century AD • Cnut: 1016-35 • Harold I: 1035-1040 • Harthacnut: 1040-1042 • Edward the Confessor: 1042-1066 • Harold II: 1066 • William: 1066-1087

  10. Place names Saxon • Bourne: Stream • Burn: Stream • Burg: Fortified settlement • Croft: Small enclosure • Cot: Small hut • Delph: Ditch, dyke or stream • Den(n): Pig pasture • Don: Hill • Eg; Ey; Ea; Eig: Island • Fall: Area cleared of trees • Fen: Fen • Field: Field • Ham: Village • Hurst: Clearing • Ing: People • Lake: Lake • Ley; Lea: Clearing • Low: Burial mound • Mere: Pool • Moor: Moor • Moss: Swamp • Riding; Rod: Cleared land • Stead: place • Stoc: Summer pasture • Stoke: 'Daughter' settlement • Stow: Holy Place • Ton; Tun: House; Farm • Weald; Wold; High Woodland • Wic; Wike: Farm; Group of huts • Wood: Wood • Worth: Fenced land • Worthy: Enclosed land Viking • Akr: Acre • Beck: Stream • Booth: Summer pasture • By: Farm; Village • Ey: Island • Falh: Fallow • Fell; How: Hill or mound • Fiord: Fiord • Fiskr: Fish • Gardr: Yard; landing place • Garth: Enclosure • Gate: Road • Geit: Goat • Gill: Ravine or valley • Halh: Hall • Ho: Hill/spur • Holm(r): Island • Hus: House • Ings: Marsh; meadow • Kald: Cold • Kelda: Spring, stream • Kirk: Church • Laithe: Barn • Lin: Flax • Lund: Grove • Melr: Sandbank • Orme: Serpent • Pollr: Pool • Skar: Cleft • Sker: Rock • Slack: Stream in a valley • Stakkr: Rock in the sea • Stan: Stone • Stokkr: Sound • Tarn: Lake • Thing: Meeting place • Thorp: Daughter settlement • Thwaite: Forest clearing; meadow • Toft: Homestead • Wath: Ford • Wray: Remote place

  11. Quarrendon

  12. Wing

  13. Stowe

  14. Taplow

  15. Fingest

  16. Skirmett

  17. Dorney

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