Hoarding Vikings

This book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking age hoards of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a unique find group in both quantity and quality.

List of contents

1. Bornholm - A Treasure Island; 2. The Multi-causal Hoards; 3. Identifying Bornholm's Hoards: Content, Character, and Chronology; 4. Classification of Production, Circulation, and Distribution Data; 5. Silver Flows - Analysis of Production Data; 6. Stab, Bend, and Cut - Analysis of Circulation Data; 7. Containers, Structures, and Sites - Analysis of Deposition Data; 8. The Hoards in Local and Regional Contexts; 9. The Hoarding Vikings;

About the author

Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson is Curator of the Coin Cabinet at the Historical Museum, Lund University. As an interdisciplinary numismatist, her research and published works combine numismatics and archaeology, linguistics, museum history, urban history, marine archaeology, and natural sciences. This book is based on her doctoral thesis on the archaeological contexts of Viking-Age hoards.

Summary

This book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking age hoards of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a unique find group in both quantity and quality.

Product details

• Authors: Gitte T. Ingvardson, Gitte (Historiska Museet T. Ingvardson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032647623
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3264762-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, European history: the Vikings