English: A total of 12 coins, consisting of Viking, Saxon, and Arabic issues, found between 1992 and 2000. Only 3 were found together and considered Treasure, the others were single finds. When viewed together the coins obviously constituted an important mixed coin hoard, the most southerly yet found, deposited around 923-925.

"Their presence shows that a bullion economy still operated in some sections of society in the Danelaw as late as the 920's. What is still more significant is that this hoard should have been deposited so close to Leicester, five or more years after control of the town had, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (s.a. 918), passed to the Mercians under Aethelflaed. This hoard prompts us to question how effective the conquest of the Danelaw was, and to what extent Anglo-Scandinavian culture and practices remained?"

Dr Mark Blackburn (ref below).

3 silver pennies of the Vikings, processed as Treasure:

Sihtric Caoch (921-7)

3, 4. (2) sword/cross type with blundered legends, cf. North 535, 2 (3=1.06g, chipped and 4= 0.89g)

Vikings of Northumbria

6. Sword St Peter coinage (921-7), sword/cross type (North 555), 1 (1.03g, chipped)

Coins found individually.

Sihtric Caoch (921-7)

Nos 1, 2, 5, (3) sword/cross type with blundered legends, cf. North 535, (1=1.15g bent, 2=0.20g fragment, 5=0.51g, fragment)

Vikings of Northumbria

7. Sword St Peter coinage (921-7), sword/cross type (North 555), 1 (1.03g, chipped)

Edward the Elder (899-924),

8. Horizontal type (HC 1E), moneyer Beornwold, Wallingford mint (?), 1 (1.35g, chipped);

9. Horizontal type, moneyer Gareard, London mint (?), 1 (1.35g, chipped);

10. Horizontal type (HT 1?), moneyer Osbearn, Late I (S), West Mercian style, 1 (0.86g, fragment)

Samanids

11. fragment of silver dirhem, Ahmed Ibn Ishmail (907-14) or Nasr ibn Ahmad (914-32), with the name of Caliph al-Muqtadir (908-32), Samarqand mint, date off flan but about 913-915 (0.84g fragment).

12. fragment of a silver dirhem, Nasr ibn Ahmad (914-32), with the name of Caliph al-Muqtadir (908-32), Samarqand mint, about 915/16, 1 (0.51g, fragment).

Dr Mark Blackburn, 'A Viking coin hoard from Thurcaston, Leics. Preliminary report', 349-352, plate 54. in 'Coin hoards 2001' in The Numismatic Chronicle, 161, 2001.