...[T]his fine book belongs firmly on the precious metals shelf.
Jane Kershaw is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. She was formerly a British Academy post-doctoral research fellow at UCL. Her research focuses on Viking-Age material culture from Britain and Scandinavia. Her first book, Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England was published by OUP in 2013.
Gareth Williams has been a curator at the British Museum since 1996, with responsibility for British and European coinage, about AD 500 to about 1180. Within this area he specialises in Anglo-Saxon and Viking coinage. Much of his work focuses on the use of coinage as evidence within broader historical and archaeological studies.