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Heath Wood barrow cemetery

Viking cremation cemetery, 9th century

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Heath Wood barrow cemetery is a Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire.

Paleolithic
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Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Viking arrival

873 A.D.

St Saviour's church built

1662

Heath Wood landscape change

18th century

Early excavation by Thomas Bateman

May 1855

Modern excavations

1998–2000

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Artificial Mounds
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United Kingdom

Coordinates

52.83° N, -1.49° E