The catalogue focuses on the entire non-numismatic contents of the
Cuerdale hoard (discovered in 1840), together with all the other hoards
and single-finds of gold and silver artefacts (ornaments and ingots) of
Viking character in the British Museum, found in Britain and Ireland, up
to the end of the year 2000, with each piece individually catalogued and
illustrated. There is also a full chapter discussing the coins from
Cuerdale, together with summary descriptions. Written by the leading
authority on the subject, James Graham-Campbell is Emeritus Professor of
Medieval Archaeology, University College London and a Fellow of the
British Academy. This catalogue complements both that by D. M. Wilson on
the Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork, 700-1100, in the British Museum
(London, 1964) and that by James Graham-Campbell on The Viking-Age Gold
and Silver of Scotland (AD 850-1100) (Edinburgh, 1995).