Means of exchange: dealing with silver in the Viking Age
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| adam_text | Dagfinn
Skrę
Introduction
9
ід
Rethinking the
substantivist
approach
9
1.2
The present volume
10
1.3
Future volumes
11
Lars
Pih,
Dagfinn Skre
Introduction to the Site
13
2.1
Exploring Kaupang and Skiringssal
1771-1999 13
2.2.1
The cemeteries
14
2.1.2
The settlement
15
2.2
Fieldwork in the Kaupang settlement
1998-2003 17
2.2.1
Research questions
17
2.2.2
Overview
17
Surveys
17
Excavations
18
Method of excavation
18
2.2.3
Contexts
20
2.3
Investigations in Skiringssal
1999-2001 23
2.3.1
Fieldwork at Huseby
1999-2001 24
2.4
Main results
1998-2003 24
Part I: The Kaupang Finds
27
3
Mark Blackburn
The Coin-finds
29
3.1
The coin-finds: discovery and context
30
3.1.1
The earlier finds,
1950—1974 30
3.1.2
The new finds,
1998-2003 30
3.2
The interpretation of site finds
34
3.2.1
The need to determine typical patterns of loss 3s
3.2.2
A sample of single finds from Southern Scandinavia
36
3.2.3
Date of production versus date of loss
38
3.2.4
Changes in the currency in the early 10th century
39
3.2.5
Considering changes in the size of the coin-stock and the wastage rate
41
3.2.6
Are the hoards representative of the local currency?
43
3.2.7
Is the archaeological evidence from
Birka
inconsistent with the hoard evidence? 4s
3.3
The Kaupang finds: their significance for the chronology of the site
47
I.3.1 The Islamic
dirhams
47
(.
O N V F N T S
3-3.2
The pth-century Western coins
5б
3.3.3
The Roman, Merovingian and Byzantine coins
58
3.4
The spatial distribution within the site
62
3.5
Fragmentation, graffiti and other secondary treatment of the coins
63
3.5.1
Fragmentation
64
3.5.2
Whole coins and pendants
66
3.5.3
Bending and nicking
66
3.5.4
Graffiti 67
3.6
The coins found at Huseby 68
3.7
Summary and conclusions 69
Appendices: Data on which find histograms are based
72
Gert Rispling,
Mark Blackburn and Kenneth
Jonsson
Catalogue of the Coins
75
Birgitta Hårdh
Hacksilver and Ingots
95
5.1
Introduction
95
5.2
The Kaupang silver finds of
1998-2002 96
5.3
Silver finds from Charlotte Blindheim s excavations
1950-1974 97
5.4
Silver as currency
97
5.5
The hacksilver
99
5.5.1
Analysis of the hacksilver by weight
100
5.6
Ingots
103
5.6.1
The large Kaupang ingot
106
5.6.2
The small Kaupang ingots
107
5.6.3
A local production
ofingots?
108
5.7
Spiral-striated rods
108
5.8
Fragmented jewellery
ИЗ
5.9
Hacksilver from well-dated contexts U4
5.10
Discussion
115
5.11
Summary
118
Unn Pedersen
Weights and Balances
119
6.1
Graves and settlement
-
two different worlds?
120
6.1.1
Types of weight at Kaupang
121
6.1.2
Types of balance at Kaupang
126
6.1.3
Representativity
127
6.2
A radical change from the 9th to the 10th century?
130
6.2.1
The chronological distribution of weights in the settlement
130
6.2.2
Dating of the weight-types
131
6.2.3
A chronological change?
132
6.2.4
Two different groups of weights?
136
6.3
Weight-standard
138
6.3.1
Accuracy
138
6.3.2
Standards
140
6.3.3
The weight of well-preserved weights from the settlement
144
6.3.4
Punched-dot decoration on the weights from the settlement
148
6.4
The weights-function and meaning
155
6.4.1
The spatial distribution of weights in the settlement
155
6.4.2
Tools of trade
159
6.4.3
Weights and metalcasting
166
6.4.4
Weights and symbolic meaning
168
6.5
Summary
177
Appendices
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MEANS OF EXCHANGE
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Silver, Trade and Towns
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Christoph Kilger
Kaupang from Afar: Aspects of the Interpretation of
Dirham
Finds
in Northern and Eastern Europe between the Late 8th and Early 10th Centuries
199
7.1
Introduction
200
Dirham
finds from Kaupang
201
The early Viking-period trading sites as
dirham
zones
205
The dominant 10th century
207
The questions
208
7.2
Phasing
208
A general summary of the finds
209
Geographical terminology
209
Methodological principles
210
7.3
The Caucasian link (Phase I, t.p.q.
770-790) 211
An inverted view of transit trade
211
Conclusions
214
7.4
The establishment of the
dirham
network in Eastern Europe (Phase II, t.p.q.
790-825) 214
The North African signature
215
The West Slav and Prussian
dirham
paradox
218
The early Gotlandic find-group
220
Conclusions
221
7.5
The establishment of the
dirham
network in the Baltic area (Phase III, t.p.q.
825-860) 221
The reduction of minting in the Caliphate
222
The Khazar imitations
224
Structural changes in the
dirham
hoards
225
The re-use of
dirham
silver
226
Conclusions
227
7.6
The Abbasid find-horizon after AD
860
(Phase
IVa,
t.p.q.
860-890) 228
The concept of a great silver crisis
230
Silver crisis or silver glut?
232
Dirham
finds from the North-West of Europe
233
Conclusions
234
7.7
The Samanid find-period after AD
890
(Phase IVb, t.p.q.
890-920) 235
The Samanid transitional phase according to hoard-finds
235
The Samanid find-period in archaeological contexts
238
The
dirham
network in the Samanid silver period
239
Conclusions
240
7.8
The quantitative jump after
с
860 240
7.9
Final conclusions
242
The
dirham
finds from Kaupang revisited
243
Kaupang as a site for the handling and melting down of silver
245
7.10
Check list of
dirham
hoards found in Europe and the Caucasus region (t.p.q.
771-892) 247
Christoph
Kilger
Wholeness and Holiness: Counting, Weighing and Valuing Silver
in the Early Viking Period
253
8.1
Introduction
254
The northern route, and three different concepts of silver as currency
254
Bridging disciplinary clefts
255
8.2
Exchange, money, and value
256
A singular world of chieftains and gifts
257
Means of exchange in non-monetized contexts
258
The exchange of values
259
Material and non-material aspects of monetary value
261
8.3
Coins and coinage around the North Sea
263
Counting seeds and coins
-
an Antique and medieval way of reckoning
264
CONTENTS
The use of silver coins in the Frankish realm
267
The Frankish commodity-money economy
270
Dorestad-ahubfor coin silver in the North Sea region
271
Give us this day our daily bread.
.. 272
The snake, the long-haired man, and the monster:
the use of coin outside the Romano-Christian orbit
275
Conclusions
278
8.4
Traces of the eyrir-standard at Kaupang
279
Gold coins and the concept of
aurar
280
Reckoning
aurar
according to the Early Scandinavian law-codes
282
Evidence of weighing practices in the Norwegian Merovingian Period
283
Weights with mounts and
armrings
with a cross
285
Looking for
aurar
in ring hoards
286
Dirhams as
weights, and grivnas
288
Odin s inalienable property: the stable and eternal gold ring
292
Aurar-sz tes in Southern Scandinavia
293
Verõaurar
and
vaõmál
-
Commodity-money in Late Iron-age Scandinavia
296
Conclusions
297
8.5
Ertogs,
Uveiti
and fragments
298
Two models of Early-medieval silver economy
299
Commerce and fragmentation in the Caliphate
301
Reflexes of the Islamic weight-system in Northern Europe
304
Weights with a copper-alloy shell and pseudo-Arabic characters
307
A new time of threat: the fragmentation of silver objects
309
One set and two systems of weigh ts
312
Wholeness, holiness and dissolution
315
The early use ofhacksilver around the North Sea and at Kaupang
318
Conclusions
320
8.6
Summary
321
9
Dagfinn Skre
Post-substantivist Towns and Trade AD
600-1000 327
9.1 Substantivist emporia 329
9.2 Substantivist
economics
-
some flaws
330
9.2.1
The economy of Norway
с
1000-1500
ЗЗО
9.3
Post-substantivist economics
333
9.4
Typologizing sites of trade and craft
335
9.4.1
Hodges s concept emporium
335
9.4.2
An alternative typology of sites
337
9.5
Kings and trade
338
9.6
The significance of long-distance trade
340
10
Dagfinn Skre
Dealing with Silver:
Economic Agency in South-Western Scandinavia AD
600-1000 343
10.1
Silver and sites AD
600-1000 344
10.1.1
Central-place markets before AD
700 344
10.1.2
Local and nodal markets in the 8th century
346
10.1.3
Towns in the 9th and 10th centuries
347
Western coins
с
800-840 347
Danish coins and fragmented silver
с
825-860 348
Islamic silver
с
860-890 351
Economic agency and commodity-money in towns
352
10.2
Production and long-distance trade AD
700-1000 352
Abbreviations ,gg
References ,57
List of Authors 73
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