“Although admittedly, the Vikings did it on a grander scale.” Martin Carver, an emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of York, characterizes the antagonism between the Anglo ...

The Vikings, says archaeologist Steve Ashby with the University of York, had a taste for finer things from foreign cultures, and some elites took pleasure in owning and using these status symbols.

the Viking afterlife. Nearby, in Ingleby, further evidence for the Great Army's presence has been found by archaeologist Julian Richards, of York University. A cluster of burial mounds was ...