ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



figured in Martin's History of Thetford^ and some from the Norwich mint 

 are given in Mason's History of Norfolk ; while the whole question of the 

 East Anglian coinage has been discussed by Daniel Haigh in the Numis- 

 matic Chronicle} From the ethnological point of view the coinage yields 

 some interesting evidence for the parts of England subject to the Vikings. 

 The names of the moneyers show that there must have been following 

 their banners a very mixed nationality, by no means of pure Scandinavian 

 blood. In the lists are two varieties of un-English names, some which 

 appear to be Prankish and others which are certainly Scandinavian. 

 Under Eadwig the Prankish names grow fewer, and almost disappear by 

 the time of yEthelred II., while the Scandinavian naturally continue in 

 large numbers. Three alternative explanations are suggested : perhaps 

 ' there were a great many Prankish soldiers in that portion of the great 

 army which, under Guthrum, settled in East Anglia and Mercia ; or the 

 army brought over a certain number of Prankish thralls who, having 

 some skill in metal work, were employed to engrave dies and were 

 authorized to place their names upon them ; or finally, the coins were 

 issued by traders, and the majority of these in East Anglia at this time 

 were men of Prankish descent.' * 



Concerning the date of the many remarkable earthworks attributed 

 to Anglians or Danes in this county it is difficult to say anything that 

 may not presently be upset by historical research or excavation. The 

 view put forward by the late Mr. Geo. T. Clark has recently met with 

 unfavourable criticism in more than one quarter ; * and many of the 

 mounds and base-courts generally known as Anglo-Saxon burhs may 

 presently turn out to be Norman motes. All that can be given here is a 

 reference to plans and descriptions of the principal Norfolk earthworks, 

 which are at Castle Acre,^ Thetford, Mileham,^ Denton,' Buckenham,^ 

 Castle Rising ® and Norwich.^" 



1 p. 32, supplemented in 'Norfolk Archaology, vol. iii. p. 30. ^ Vol. iv. (1841), pp. 34, 195. 



3 Grueber and Keary, Catalogue of English Coins (British Museum), vol. ii. p. xliv. ; see also pp. 

 xxix., ciii., cxii., cxiii. for particulars of Norfolk coins. 



* Quarterly Review, July, 1894, p. 43 ; Scottish Review, October, 1898, p. 209 ; Society of Anti- 

 quaries of Scotland, Proceedings, 1899-1900, p. 260. 



6 Journal of Archaolo^cal Institute, vol. xlvi. p. 282. 



6 Norfolk Archaology, vol. viii. p. 10 (plan). ' Op. cit. vol. ix. p. 335 (plan). 



8 Op. cit. vol. xi. p. 137. ^ Op. cit. vol. iv. p. 59 (plan). 



10 Journal of British Anhaological Association, 1858, pp. 9-13 (plans). 



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