A Neglected Viking Burial with Beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, Discovered in 1847
C. Stephen Briggs|Margaret Guido|Aidan Walsh
THE DISCOVERY of a Viking-Age burial in the Kilmainham-Islandbridge cemetery, Dublin, comprising skeleton, spear, sword-fragments and beads, is described from antiquarian MSS sources. The surviving pieces are detailed deposit tentatively dated to late 9th or early 10th century. grave-goods indicate one, possibly two, burials, one female. A brief survey similar pagan burials British Isles close examination this would suggest mixed Irish-Scandinavian cultural milieu for it.
Medieval Archaeology