Current Activities
ERC Starting Grant (2019 – ongoing) Silver and the Origins of the Viking Age. This 5-year project will address one of the enduring questions of medieval studies - the origins of the Viking Age (c. 750-1050 AD) - through an interdisciplinary (archaeological, archaeometric and numismatic) study of silver from early Viking-Age Scandinavia. It aims to provide the first large-scale, systematic and empirically-based answers to the outstanding questions of where, when and why the Viking Age began.
I keep an active research blog here
Research Awards
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (Britain’s Viking Silver Hoards) 2017 – 2019
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (The Bullion Economy of Viking England) 2012-2017
Junior Research Fellowship, Balliol College, Oxford 2012-14
Randall MacIver Studentship in Archaeology, Queen’s College, Oxford 2010-11
Podcasts
In our Time (BBC Radio 4) with Melvyn Bragg discussing the Danish impact on 9th and 10th century England.
