Aldwark Viking Camp: Illustrated Artefact Catalogue, 2024

This archive presents the Aldwark finds catalogue, which includes finds from a site, initially known as Ainsbrook. A major Viking camp was identified by metal-detecting in North Yorkshire, and first reported in 2003. It may have been first occupied when the Viking Great Army was reportedly in York in 866-7 and 868-9, but the coinage demonstrates it was still in use in the later 870s. The site was initially known as Ainsbrook, a portmanteau of the surnames of the metal detectorists who discovered it, Mark Ainsley and Geoff Bambrook, and subsequently published as 'A Riverine site near York' (Hall and Williams 2020). It is located to the north of the village of Aldwark, c.20 km northwest of York, where the River Ouse becomes the Ure. The Viking assemblage at Aldwark can be compared with that from Torksey https://doi.org/10.5284/1115932 and together they provide an opportunity to study the activities of the Great Army. The results of the research have been published in Dawn M Hadley and Julian D Richards, with Dave Haldenby, Gareth Perry, and Mark Randerson (2024). The Viking Great Army: Tents to Towns. Oxford University Press. This catalogue and the equivalent catalogue for Torksey provides the underpinning data for that monograph but has it has also been released so that it can also be reused for further research projects on the material culture of the Viking Great Army.本档案收录奥尔德沃克（Aldwark）出土文物目录，该目录涵盖一处最初名为安斯布鲁克（Ainsbrook）的遗址的出土文物。该遗址位于北约克郡，经金属探测勘探确认是一处大型维京营地，并于2003年首次被报道。据记载，维京大军866-867年及868-869年驻扎约克期间，该营地可能即已被首次占据；而钱币遗存表明，其在870年代后期仍在使用。该遗址最初以安斯布鲁克命名，这是发现该遗址的两名金属探测爱好者马克·安斯利（Mark Ainsley）与杰夫·班布鲁克（Geoff Bambrook）姓氏的混成词；后续该遗址以《约克附近的河畔遗址》（*A Riverine site near York*，Hall与Williams，2020）为题发表。遗址坐落于奥尔德沃克村北侧，距离约克西北约20公里，此处为乌斯河（River Ouse）与乌尔河（Ure）汇流的河段。奥尔德沃克出土的维京时期遗存可与托克斯西（Torksey）的同类遗存（https://doi.org/10.5284/1115932）进行对比研究，二者共同为探索维京大军的活动提供了契机。本研究成果已由道恩·M·哈德利（Dawn M Hadley）、朱利安·D·理查兹（Julian D Richards）联合戴夫·霍尔登比（Dave Haldenby）、加雷斯·佩里（Gareth Perry）与马克·兰德森（Mark Randerson）于2024年出版：《维京大军：从营帐到城镇》（*The Viking Great Army: Tents to Towns*），牛津大学出版社（Oxford University Press）发行。本目录与托克斯西遗址的对应目录为该专著提供了核心支撑数据；同时本目录也已公开发布，可供学界用于维京大军物质文化相关的后续研究项目。