That is probably a good approach eventhough it has been established, for instance through empirical studies of Gotlandic hoards, that most coins didn't circulate for more than ~10 years.
A fairly good summary on Dirhams is to be found HERE
/N B
Search
Search found 509 matches
- Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:42 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Most Common Viking-Era Coinage
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1124
- Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:54 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Most Common Viking-Era Coinage
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1124
Thes are from a grave at Birka, any idea about the origin? Picture 1: coin pendant made from a Roman denarius struck for Empress Faustina Minor (AD 161 - 175) Picture 2: Left - Dirham struck in 297 or 299 (AD 909/910 or 911/912) in al-Schasch for Ahmad ibn Isma'il. Middle - Dirham struck in 290 (AD...
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:26 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: New paper on the Skamby boat grave (Sweden)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 427
New paper on the Skamby boat grave (Sweden)
Martin Rundkvist and Howard Williams have published a paper in Medieval Archaeology 52 on the boat grave they excavated 2005 in Skamby (prov. of Östergötland, Sweden). You find the paper - "A Viking Boat Grave with Amber Gaming Pieces Excavated at Skamby, Östergötland, Sweden" (34 pages as PDF) ...
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:45 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Thrall collars
- Replies: 7
- Views: 815
Well - for fetters/manacles of the type found in Birka there are two ways - since non of the pieces are complete one can't tell which was used (see pic). However, as you can see in the pic, both systems used padlocks. The neck irons could simply have been attached to any length of rope or chain pull...
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:45 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Thrall collars
- Replies: 7
- Views: 815
Iron shackles are still around but rope isn't... I worked with and surveyed a lot of shackles this spring when I wrote an article for Fornvännen on archaeological evidence for captivity and possible slave trade. The article isn't scheduled to be printed for another 6 moths or so, but some of its fo...
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:06 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Getting info from a museum
- Replies: 14
- Views: 903
A late input here: The coins from the Hjortsberga hoard are kept by one of the NMA:s sub-divisions The Royal Coin Cabinet . Since the mid 70's they are a more or less autonomic part of the organization. The NMA will just pass you on to them (when I worked there the NMA hadn't got one single numismat...
- Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:17 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Birka money bag
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1908
- Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:08 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Birka money bag
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1908
- Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:05 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Birka money bag
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1908
Hi all Here's a VERY late input - I seldom frequent the AA nowadays - but since I was the archaeologist in charge of the re-examination of, among others, Grave Bj 949 I'll try to straight some things out: 1) there is indeed a plan over the grave; why my former colleagues haven't webbed it yet is bey...
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:02 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: kungsara bench
- Replies: 2
- Views: 335
Look here: http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=114268
and here: http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=114269
/N B
and here: http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=114269
/N B
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:36 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Re-examining Modern Viking Reenactor Beliefs
- Replies: 326
- Views: 18595
...and this is why I all but stopped going to public LH-events.
A good and recommended read is my colleague Fredrik Svanberg's doctoral thesis "Decolonizing the Viking age".
/N B
A good and recommended read is my colleague Fredrik Svanberg's doctoral thesis "Decolonizing the Viking age".
/N B
- Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:43 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Photos of a "new" Gotlandic lyre bridge.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
Hi there. Sorry for answering late - I've been working out on Gotland for a week. There is indeed at least one lyre bridge with more than 6 string notches - the antler bridge from the Black earth of Björkö (drawing HERE - click the pic to enlarge it) has 7 notches (i.e. from a 7 or 5 stringed inst...
- Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:51 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Photos of a "new" Gotlandic lyre bridge.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
The term "copper alloy" is a scientific way to state that we have no idea of the alloy's composition - besides copper. The antiquated term "bronze" is still frequently used by many archaeologists, but it is only one of many copper alloys. When we get the time and funds to sample VA "bronze" objects ...
- Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Photos of a "new" Gotlandic lyre bridge.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
The current interpretation, sans experimental tests (-please, go a head...) is that it's intended for 8 strings - and no, I don't think they needed 2 extra holes to make the others since it was almost certainly cast in cire perdue. It's a bit sad that it was found by means of a metal detector in a (...
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:07 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Photos of a "new" Gotlandic lyre bridge.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 857
Photos of a "new" Gotlandic lyre bridge.
Hi all In 1990 archaeologists from the Historical museum of Gotland surveyed a field where a silver hoard was found in the 19th century. They found plenty of other metal objects - among them a lyre bridge cast from copper alloy. For various reasons the find was never properly published and eventuall...
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:03 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Vendel Age leather helms
- Replies: 3
- Views: 302
- Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:35 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Pictures of medieval distilling
- Replies: 5
- Views: 597
I've sadly forgotten to report back on this issue - sorry about that! After a good deal of glueing and re-fitting the shards and pipes turned out to be... ...- Parts of a ceramic bugle and not even close to anything spirit(-ual). Ceramic bugles have been found in Scandinavian medieval deposits befor...
- Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:00 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Breaking news on the town plan of Birka
- Replies: 7
- Views: 697
Follow this LINK for a clip from a Swedish newspaper.
It shows simplified drawings of the town plan both pre- and post- the large GPR-map I linked to earlier.
- And yes, it's all in Swedish but you ought to be able to make out the graphics anyway.
/N B
It shows simplified drawings of the town plan both pre- and post- the large GPR-map I linked to earlier.
- And yes, it's all in Swedish but you ought to be able to make out the graphics anyway.
/N B
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:09 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Breaking news on the town plan of Birka
- Replies: 7
- Views: 697
Breaking news on the town plan of Birka
Today the National Heritage Board finally let go of the info Swedish Viking specialists have been waiting for since last summer: Their geophycists have been able to map a portion of Birka's town plan by means of Ground Penetrating Radar. Plots, houses, alleys - they're all there! In doing this they ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:51 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Buttons for Kaftan 1050-1150 help wanted
- Replies: 4
- Views: 397
You ought to try the search utility at Historiska Världar - use the keyword "Kaftan" in the "Kläder och textila hantverk" subforum and you'll get 2 pages of threads to read. A fair share of them are on male caftans.
/N B
/N B
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:58 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Buttons for Kaftan 1050-1150 help wanted
- Replies: 4
- Views: 397
You will have a hard time finding post-10th C caftan/svita buttons in a Norse context though. There might be some in Russian/Ukaranian publications but as far as I can recall their finds are predominately 10th C as well. If you don't read Russian I'd say you're stuck with the Björkö-finds, like th...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:19 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Norse crosses?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 799
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:59 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Norse crosses?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 799
- Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:14 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Location question
- Replies: 25
- Views: 704
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:58 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Location question
- Replies: 25
- Views: 704
-As usual Wikipedia is a usefull tool if one does not for some reason like to use Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedeby
Haithabu is indeed the modern German name - but it is also found on rune stones - of cource with the letter þorn instead of "th" - i.e. haiþabu.
/N B
Haithabu is indeed the modern German name - but it is also found on rune stones - of cource with the letter þorn instead of "th" - i.e. haiþabu.
/N B
- Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:05 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Location question
- Replies: 25
- Views: 704
In the first part of the 11th C Sigtuna was still pretty much a Royal enclave centred on itself. It seems like it didn't change into a centre of trade and manufacture until during the latter half of the century. And its eastern connections were pretty strong - the king's (Olof Eriksson Skötkonung's...
- Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:27 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Blog entry on casting and animal style
- Replies: 2
- Views: 293
Blog entry on casting and animal style
Those interested in (Scandinavian) animal styles and metal technology will probably find this blog entry worth reading - it's on a newly published British model of a sword pommel dated to approx. AD 500 and made from lead.
You find the blog HERE
/N B
You find the blog HERE
/N B
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:32 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Oseberg, Gokstad, and Tune ships being moved?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 908
Ny, Anders, any of you guys in the loop know anything about this? Anders, Vegard and the other Norwegians will know more since they're in the middle of this controversy - all I can say is that it is a sad, sad decision. Vikingskipshuset (the ship's current location) at Bygdøy is one of the most ex...
- Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:02 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking hoods and liripipes
- Replies: 20
- Views: 842
You'll find a photo and a couple of drawings of the S3-fragment in chapter 3.6 in Inga Hägg's " Die Textilfunde aus der Siedlung und aus den Gräbern von Haithabu. Beschreibung und Gliederung ". It is part 29 of the series " Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu " and was published in 1991. I...
- Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:41 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking hoods and liripipes
- Replies: 20
- Views: 842
- Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:42 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking hoods and liripipes
- Replies: 20
- Views: 842
Ny, perhaps you can help shed some light here. Well - let's see I've looked at the 'Hedeby hood pattern' on the Vikes site about 10,000 times, and for the life of me I can't make figure 21a look like figure 21b. I can see how 21b is basically an oversized 3 part coif they're calling a hood, but tho...
- Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:20 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking hoods and liripipes
- Replies: 20
- Views: 842
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:30 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking Age zoomorphic strap-end
- Replies: 15
- Views: 746
Wyrm: the other inventories from Grave 1 at Brucebo were 1 fragmentary shield boss (i.e. a part of the flange), 1 bronze ring (d:1"), 3 fragments of tinned bronze (sans any closer resemblance to just anything), ~10 gaming pieces of antler, 3 pieces of a burnt comb (2 with circle-and-dot ornamentatio...
- Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:32 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking Age zoomorphic strap-end
- Replies: 15
- Views: 746
Unfortunatelly for you Wyrm there is no additional info on the Brucebo strap-end. - It was found in the first of two Iron-age graves which were demolished when the summer house of William Blair Bruce (Canadian artist) - Villa Brucebo was built in the early 1900's. Since it and other surviving artefa...
- Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:38 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Stupid question involving vikings...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1729
Mainly for Endre since it's solely written in one of the world's culturally superior languages :wink: : I think there's a little something on the Trondheim-shield in " Kaupangen ved Nidelva : 1000 års byhistorie belyst gjennom de arkeologiske undersøkelsene på Folkebibliotekstomten i Trondheim 19...