Info Of Bones Clue To 'Lost' Viking Earth Forces Which Made England

The majority grave was starting fourth dimension excavated inward the 1970s as well as 80s

Martin Biddle

A lost Viking regular army which was a "key part" of the creation of England may accept been identified past times archaeologists.

More than 250 skeletons constitute at St Wystan's church, Repton, Derbyshire, accept been dated to the ninth Century.

Chronicles state a "large infidel army" began to hack its means across England inward 866AD, toppling Anglo-Saxon kings until beingness halted past times Alfred the Great.

Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol said: "This regular army had left most no trace, exactly perhaps hither it is."

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