The Danish army made their winter camp at Repton, the royal mausoleum of the Mercian kings, in a deliberate act of desecration and psychological warfare. Archaeological excavation in the 1970s and 1980s found a mass grave of warriors and the disruption of the Mercian royal burials. It remains the best-documented Viking army winter camp in England.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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