MONUMENT NO. 608038

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Viking defended compound and probable slipway at Repton, constructed to over-Winter the Vikings during 873-4. The D-shaped enclosure was open on the North-West side where the River Trent formed the boundary. St Wystan's Church was incorporated in the South-East side, in effect providing a defended gateway to the enclosure. Five Viking inhumations lay to the North-West of the church, within the enclosure, and two lay South of the church on the line of the enclosure bank.

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SK 303272 A resistivity survey by A Aspinall in the War Memorial
Cloister located the east arm of the Viking defensive ditch as
predicted. (1)

The excavation in the headmaster's garden continued work on the
probable slipway. From the pottery in the infill it would appear to
be 12th cent, probably filled in by the Augustinian Canons when the
new priory was built. Further excavation will confirm whether or not
this was a slipway. (2)

Excavation report. (3)

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( 1) General reference

Medieval Archaeol 29 1985 168

( 2) General reference

CBA Churches Comm Bull 22 1985 3 (M Biddle)

( 3) General reference

Antiquity 66 1992 36-51 (M Biddle and B Kjolbye-Biddle)

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Early Medieval chapel, possibly of 7th century date, and Viking mass burial with associated cemetery. The Viking burial was below a mound, and later, ...

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