Dr Jane Kershaw

Research Interests

The archaeology of northwest Europe 400-1000; ornamental metalwork and contemporary art styles; the archaeology of trade and exchange; metal-detecting and archaeology.

Please contact me for my CV

British Academy Project: The Bullion Economy of Viking England

This 3-year project is an archaeological study of the gold and silver that Vikings used as a means of exchange, rather than coin. While previous work on Viking bullion has been dominated by evidence from hoards, this project uses new archaeological data from settlement and single finds to provide a different perspective on the nature and scale of the bullion economy in England. I hope that the results will further understanding of Viking economic practice and yield new insights into the activities and impact of the Vikings in England.

Select Publications

• ‘A Viking-Age trefoil mount from Wymondham, Norfolk’ Norfolk Archaeology (forthcoming)
• ‘Vikingernes bosættelse i England’, Skalk, June (2011) 18-26
• Viking-Age Scandinavian art styles and their appearance in the British Isles. Part 2: Late Viking-Age art styles. Finds Research Group Datasheet (2011) 
• Viking-Age Scandinavian art styles and their appearance in the British Isles. Part 1: Early Viking-Age art styles. Finds Research Group Datasheet (2010)
• ‘On the trail of Viking women’, British Archaeology, Nov/Dec (2010) 18-23
• ‘Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches’, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5 (2009), 295-325
• ‘The distribution of the ‘Winchester’ style in Late Saxon England: metalwork finds from the Danelaw’, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 15 (2008) 254-69 

Past affiliations

Randall MacIver Studentship in Archaeology (2008-11)

Kennedy Scholarship (2004-5)