The Great Heathen Army wintered at Repton — the Mercian royal mausoleum, where the kings of Mercia were buried. The symbolic choice was deliberate. King Burgred was expelled and fled to Rome, where he died. The Danes installed a client king. Archaeological excavation at Repton in the 1970s–80s found a mass burial of Viking warriors — over 260 individuals — and a charnel deposit interpreted as the Great Heathen Army's war-dead. One of the most important archaeological sites of early medieval England.
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