The Urbanization of Viking Age Lincoln: A Numismatic Perspective
Letty ten Harkel
This paper investigates the development of Lincoln during later ninth and tenth centuries ad, from a largely deserted former Roman settlement with limited ecclesiastical presence into one England’s most important eleventh-century towns. Focusing on coinage that was produced used in this period, it questions assumption fell under jurisdiction Viking rulers York earlier century. Instead, argues occupied precarious position between two competing political powers Wessex, retaining regional identity even after unification mid-tenth
The Mediaeval Journal