The Torksey 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.

Acknowledgements

This database is the culmination of over a decade of work on the Viking Great Army, involving many colleagues, to whom we owe a great debt of gratitude. Mark Randerson undertook comparative analyses of the metal-detected finds from both Torksey and Aldwark, and enhanced the databases for both sites, during his MPhil research at the University of York. The strap-ends were studied by Dave Haldenby, who also helped refine some of the PAS identifications. We are grateful to Andrew Woods and Lucy Moore for updated identifications of the Torksey stycas. We would also like to thank the various metal detectorists and collectors who have shared information with us over many years. For Torksey they include Dave and Pete Stanley and Neil Parker. We are grateful to Michael Lewis at the British Museum for permission to use data from the PAS, as well as a number of current and former Finds Liaison Officers, notably Martin Foreman, Adam Daubney, Wendy Scott, Rebecca Griffiths, Amy Downes and Lisa Brundle.