On this second entry into E. Anglia the Danes were brutal. The Danes stayed in London with a brief incursion into Northumbria. Thus most of this Danish movement went through the region between the Humber Marshes and what is now S.W. Yorkshire probably along the existing Roman road through Doncaster and Tadcaster to York. With the settlement of Northumbria by the Danes a confused time in the North developed. This second group attacked Alfred's Wessex a number of times unsuccessfully.
Burials There is little evidence for Danish burials.
Some are undoubtably beneath present day cemetaries. Danish males were often buried with their weapons such as spears. The Middleton Cross near Pickering, Yorkshire shows a pagan burial with a spear on a Christian Cross. By the 800's Wessex under Alfred was ascendant he later unified England in the 900's under one crown. In 878 all of England was overun by Vikings.