Vikings in North West England
The Artifacts
S
ome 150 years ago, when it was first recognised that Norse colonists had made a very
considerable contribution to the history of North West England, the evidence advanced was almost exclusively
in the form of place-names and personal names. Such evidence is now a very specialised study;
but it can be reinforced by a consideration of archaeological material of widely different kinds.
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