The Cuerdale Hoard and Related Viking-Age Silver and Gold from Brtiain and Ireland in the British Museum

With contributions from colleagues, Graham-Campbell (Emeritus Professor, Medieval Archaeology, University College London) provides the first full study of the largest known Viking silver hoard from western Europe, discovered in Lancashire by workers in 1840. He also presents the first complete catalogue of all the Viking age gold and silver, now at the British Museum. Among the topics are the discovery and dispersal of the Cuerdale hoard, together with all the other hoards and single-finds of gold and silver artifacts of Viking character in the British Museum, found in Britain and Ireland up to the year 2000. There is also a chapter on the coins from Cuerdale with accompanying summary descriptions. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Written by the leading authority on the subject, James Graham-Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. This catalogue complements both that by D.M. Wilson on the Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork, 700-1100, in the British Museum (London, 1964) and that by James Graham-Campbell on The Viking-Age Gold and Silver of Scotland (AD 850-1100) (Edinburgh, 1995).