Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire, 1998-2000
Julian D Richards, 2004. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000188. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
The cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire is the only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in the British Isles. It comprises 59 barrows, of which about one-third have been excavated on previous occasions, although earlier excavators concluded that some were empty cenotaph mounds. From 1998-2000 three barrows were examined. These investigations suggested that each of the barrows contained a burial, although not all contained evidence of a pyre. A full report of the 1998-2000 excavations, alongside a summary of the earlier finds was published in the Antiquaries Journal 84 (2004). The physical archive has been deposited in Derby Museum. This digital archive preserves a small number of additional digital data sets, primarily specialist reports and databases.
