‘The coins are silver pennies, some very base, of Burgred, King of Mercia 852-874, and of his brothers-in-law the Kings of Wessex, Athelred I, 865/6-871, and Alfred the Great, 871-899. All are of the Lunette type (so named from the moon-shaped panels on the reverse) produced as a unified type for the Mercian and West Saxon Kingdoms, and dating from the period of the late 860s and earlier 870s. The coins are listed in the schedule. The latest coins were probably issued c. 874/5. The coins of the West Saxon Kings circulated freely in the territories of the Mercian King and vice-versa at this time, with hoards usually containing a mixture of their coins as here. The Vikings raided extensively over England in the early 870s and in 874 Burgred fled into exile, leaving the Vikings in control of the east Midlands and the eastern counties. It is to this critical period that the Duddington hoard, as of several others, belongs.’
Up until 874 CE, it seems that the Anglo-Saxon village of ‘Duddington’ was part of the Anglo-Saxon ‘country’ of East Mercia falling under the rule of King Burgred (852-888 CE). Duddington – the ‘clearing in the Forest Founded by Dudd’ - was founded at some point between the 6th and 9th centuries CE according to Anglo-Saxon archaeological finds discovered throughout the area. Further evidence suggests that with the Viking Great Army successfully entered the ‘Cambridge’ area during the Winter of 1874, causing the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of ‘Duddington’ to bury their wealth and flee the area! Obviously, their intention was to return to gather their wealth at a later date, but events turned-out otherwise (as the Vikings occupied the area for hundreds of years). Whilst the Vikings did not intensively settle the entirety of the large area of North and Eastern England they had conquered (known as ‘Danelaw’) – the Vikings did extensively settle the five towns of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford (with Duddington situated just 5 miles Soutwest of Stamford) - collectively known as the ‘Five Boroughs’. The ‘Danelaw’ existed in the North and Eastern England between 865-954 CE – and signifies that ‘Danish Law’ is applied to the local population through the Law Courts. As a legal system, it was separate and distinct from the ‘Christianised’ legal systems in use throughout the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic areas of Britain. I am of the opinion that the ‘Wyles’ surname entered the Duddington area with the conquering Viking Great Army during late 874 CE.
References:
https://wylesfamilyofduddington.weebly.com/duddington-hoard-1994.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Archibald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylloge_of_Coins_of_the_British_Isles
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Five-Boroughs-Of-Danelaw/
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England#/English_unification_.2810th_century.29
https://vikinghistorytales.blogspot.com/2013/11/874-great-danish-army-split-up.html