Bonus Field - Day 3 - Moved onto a VIKING PENNY...

[CRUSADER]

After gridding for sometime in the bonus field we decided to move on as it had little more to offer.
We didn't need to drive far to spot that a large section of the field we call 'The Hill' had been re-drilled with spring beans. This is the first time we have seen them plough in a large area of failing oil-seed rape & replace it with beans. But it gave us the perfect opportunity. Today was a screaming hot day so we didn't spend long on this field - 30 minutes, but it was enough time for me to fluke out a VIKING Penny.

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895-915AD Viking Penny (from East Anglia)- St Edmund Memorial Type;
Even though the Vikings killed the Saxon King (Edmund) through torture, he became a Christian Martyr, & the Vikings who were beginning to convert decided to venerate him on this coin!
They named a City after where he was buried - 'Bury St Edmunds'
Read More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_the_Martyr

 

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[hogge]

Never knew the vikings had their own coinage.

 

[Jeff H]

Very cool Cru. It never takes you long to come up with an unusual and or interesting find. Thanks to covid 19, I am binge watching the Last Kingdom on netflix, so I know exactly where East Anglia is and what the Vikings were doing in Britain.

 

[Red-Coat]

Sweet find!

Just to clarify, the "Bury" part of "Bury St Edmunds" has its linguistic origins from proto-Germanic "burgs" (referring to fortresses or walled cities), not because he was buried there.

 

[Westfront]

Sweet find!

Just to clarify, the "Bury" part of "Bury St Edmunds" has its linguistic origins from proto-Germanic "burgs" (referring to fortresses or walled cities), not because he was buried there.

You're mixing things there.
The german word "Burg", refering to fortresses and castles has it's linguistig origins in the roman word "Burgus" meaning a walled tower. A "Burg" is a lived in fortified tower.
"Burg" can also have linguistic origins found in germanic languages, such as Saxon, meaning (fortified)town/city. That way the word comes from "Berg" meaning (fortified) hill.
The term "Bury (-borough, -burgh)" in combination with a town name came not earlier to England than the Norman conquest. Before it was the anglo saxon term "Burh".
So it all came down on the date when the name of Bury St Edmunds was used. That's your history i'm not a specialist in.

 

[Westfront]

Great find in hot weather Cru! How many do you get a year? Not many as i remember....

 

[A2coins]

Viking penny thats freakin cool amazing finds

 

[CRUSADER]

Sweet find!

Just to clarify, the "Bury" part of "Bury St Edmunds" has its linguistic origins from proto-Germanic "burgs" (referring to fortresses or walled cities), not because he was buried there.

A History of Bury St Edmunds
Above has a different angle.
No idea really, just something that stuck in my head from somewhere, either a book or tv.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great find in hot weather Cru! How many do you get a year? Not many as i remember....

If I get 1 Viking Penny a year, thats about as good as I can hope for.

 

[CRUSADER]

Never knew the vikings had their own coinage.

It would be more precise to called them Anglo-Scandinavian, as they were 'settled vikings' but you get the idea.

 

[Hvactech19]

Wow ��

 

[Red-Coat]

You're mixing things there.
The german word "Burg", refering to fortresses and castles has it's linguistig origins in the roman word "Burgus" meaning a walled tower. A "Burg" is a lived in fortified tower.
"Burg" can also have linguistic origins found in germanic languages, such as Saxon, meaning (fortified)town/city. That way the word comes from "Berg" meaning (fortified) hill.
The term "Bury (-borough, -burgh)" in combination with a town name came not earlier to England than the Norman conquest. Before it was the anglo saxon term "Burh".
So it all came down on the date when the name of Bury St Edmunds was used. That's your history i'm not a specialist in.

Wiki doesn't always get it right of course, but they have this to say about the etymology of Bury St Edmunds:

The name Bury is etymologically connected with borough, which has cognates in other Germanic languages such as the German burg meaning "fortress, castle"; Old Norse borg meaning "wall, castle"; and Gothic baurgs meaning "city". They all derive from Proto-Germanic *burgs meaning "fortress". This in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhrgh meaning "fortified elevation", with cognates including Welsh bera ("stack") and Sanskrit bhrant- ("high, elevated building").

Whatever the origin (of the Bury part of the name), it isn't derived from the burial.

 

[CRUSADER]

Wiki doesn't always get it right of course, but they have this to say about the etymology of Bury St Edmunds:

The name Bury is etymologically connected with borough, which has cognates in other Germanic languages such as the German burg meaning "fortress, castle"; Old Norse borg meaning "wall, castle"; and Gothic baurgs meaning "city". They all derive from Proto-Germanic *burgs meaning "fortress". This in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhrgh meaning "fortified elevation", with cognates including Welsh bera ("stack") and Sanskrit bhrant- ("high, elevated building").

Whatever the origin (of the Bury part of the name), it isn't derived from the burial.

But I'm pretty sure I know where the St Edmund bit came from....lol
(I got an F in French & only just got my English, languages are not my strong point. Mild dyslexia doesn't help much either)

 

[Aureus]

That's a great coin! Congratulations!

 

[Argentium]

Nice find ! that's one way to make a day I reckon !

 

[jewelerguy]

awesome!

 

[Coinstar magnet]

Cru',
How exciting to find a viking coin...and in 30 minutes! I enjoy the linguistic commentary as well. I imagine it must have been a scorcher out there with no shade...
I'm sure I would have melted. Great recovery!

 

[Gridwalker306]

That's a seriously good find, congrats Cru!

 

[EccentricInTexas]

Awesome Finds!!!

 

[Locke]

Great silver!