  We present a theoretical study of a spin-orbit coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein
condensate under the influence of sinusoidally varying magnetic fields. In the
ground state of the ferromagnetic spin-1 condensate, we investigate topological
excitations in the system arising due to the combined effect of Rashba
spin-orbit coupling and an in-plane sinusoidally varying magnetic field. In
this work, we offer a comparative study for various choices of magnetic fields
in the $x\rm{-}y$ plane. For a fixed field strength, the spin-orbit coupled
system sustains a rich variety of exotic vortex structures ranging from
vortex-antivortex lattices to vortex clusters as we increase the coupling
strength.
