Distribution of Islamic dirhams in Anglo-Saxon England--brief post by me incl. revised map :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/12/distribution-of-islamic-dirhams-in-england.html …pic.twitter.com/S3KPyqQTV9
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Also added extra links incl @HorneSupremacy's poster http://issuu.com/lovearchaeologymagazine/docs/t.horne … (well worth a look) & Dirhams for Slaves http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/dirhamsforslaves/index.php/en/ …
Interesting to note western route appears dominant in 9thC, but eastern route in 10thC, w/ 80% 10thC dirhams in NEurope from Samanid emirate
Last link on this--Ibn Faḍlān in 10thC followed route+mentions dirhams traded for slaves etc http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ibn_fdln.shtml + http://www.uib.no/jais/v003ht/03-001-025Montgom1.htm …
@caitlinrgreen and these dirhams they were used as currency or simple gold or bronze as they look like bronze??
@Umarkarim89 used as part of Viking billion economy, mainly silver but tarnished etc :)
@caitlinrgreen so it was kind of a loose currency system which was accepted everywhere in all trade routes
@Umarkarim89 To a degree: it's a bullion economy, so based on weight of silver & dirhams primary source of this... E.g dirhams cut into >
@Umarkarim89 > pieces, which indicats valued as a weight of silver, not proper currency
@caitlinrgreen It was quite understandable dont know why it took me so long to understand that :D
@Umarkarim89 lol, it's cool :)
A Samanid dirham of al-Shash, Uzbekistan, dated AD 903–904, found at Holbrook, Suffolk: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/738355 …pic.twitter.com/hTIgkKU9it
An early 10th-century dirham found near Horncastle, Lincolnshire; probably minted at Balkh, Afghanistan, and subsequently gilded & used as jewellery.pic.twitter.com/B7WWyYOt2z
This is such a fascinating find, Caitlin! Pretty amazing to imagine how it might have journeyed from Afghanistan to Lincoln. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
@Haytham_MG @with_dun
Indeed! I'm glad you enjoyed :)
Thanks for all of wonderful work, Caitlin.
'Slaves for Dirhams'—v interesting paper from 2012 on dirham hoards & the slave trade in Europe by Marek Jankowiak: https://www.academia.edu/1764468/Dirhams_for_slaves._Investigating_the_Slavic_slave_trade_in_the_tenth_century …pic.twitter.com/cLFDe34lRO
An Abbasid dirham of AD 866-7, found during the excavation of St Peter's Church, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, via http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/emc/ pic.twitter.com/crX4ntRPIE
A fascinating late 9th-century Arabic dirham with a Latin Christian text inscribed on it in runes; found Bornholm, Denmark: http://runer.ku.dk/VisGenstand.aspx?Titel=Bornholm-amulet … & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornholm_amulet …pic.twitter.com/gfM0YiaODc
A 9th-/10th-century dirham, probably minted in Central Asia and found in Cumbria: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/850680 …pic.twitter.com/vxS2dKqbNw
@datamodel @majuzub Oh, lots of dirham hoards there (c.350), but apparently none with Indian coins, if that's what you're asking?
@datamodel @majuzub Ah, I see---and no problem. The second map shows the mints of the Islamic coins, not the find-spots :)
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