Torksey Viking Camp: Illustrated Artefact Catalogue, 2024

This archive comprises a database of artefacts from the Torksey Viking winter camp site. The database was originally based on the finds catalogued and, in many cases, acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum, initially artefacts reported to Rachel Atherton at Derby Museum. In addition, there was a hoard of ironwork recovered by metal-detecting, which was given to the then City and County Museum in Lincoln (now Lincoln Museum) in 2002. This catalogue has been substantially expanded by archaeological fieldwork, including excavation and fieldwalking, and particularly by further metal-detector surveys, undertaken under archaeological supervision and using hand-held GPS to plot finds. We have also amalgamated them with detector finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), as well as some finds made before recording began which were sold at auction. Therefore, some items are known to us only from brief descriptions, including some without images. Artefacts recorded by Kevin Leahy at North Lincolnshire Museum have also been added to the Torksey archive; but only when it can be credibly established that the finds are from the winter camp, as many were reported before the site was identified. Thus, this study includes finds unavailable to all previous publications. An earlier version of the database was released in 2016 (https://doi.org/10.5284/1018222) but this new archive provides a searchable interface and an extensively cleaned, updated and expanded catalogue. Where possible we have included photographs of all artefacts, supplementing those taken for the Fitzwilliam Museum and the PAS with our own photographs.

External deposit with Archaeology Data Service.