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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Dec 2014

      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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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Dec 2014

      Map of mints of Islamic coins updated w/ PAS data+indication of trade route, added to post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/12/distribution-of-islamic-dirhams-in-england.html …pic.twitter.com/SPEFFKqmVH

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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Dec 2014
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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/ …

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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Dec 2014
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Interesting to note western route appears dominant in 9thC, but eastern route in 10thC, w/ 80% 10thC dirhams in NEurope from Samanid emirate

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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 …

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        3. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen and these dirhams they were used as currency or simple gold or bronze as they look like bronze??

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 used as part of Viking billion economy, mainly silver but tarnished etc :)

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        5. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen so it was kind of a loose currency system which was accepted everywhere in all trade routes

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        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @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 >

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        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @Umarkarim89 > pieces, which indicats valued as a weight of silver, not proper currency

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        8. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen It was quite understandable dont know why it took me so long to understand that :D

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        9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 lol, it's cool :)

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 8
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          An early 10th-century dirham found near Horncastle, Lincolnshire; probably minted at Balkh, Afghanistan, and subsequently gilded & used as jewellery.pic.twitter.com/B7WWyYOt2z

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        4. Kate Stewart‏ @KateStewart22 Jul 10
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 11
          Replying to @KateStewart22 @Haytham_MG @with_dun

          Indeed! I'm glad you enjoyed :)

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        6. Kate Stewart‏ @KateStewart22 Jul 11
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Haytham_MG @with_dun

          Thanks for all of wonderful work, Caitlin.

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Oct 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          '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

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Nov 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Dec 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 2
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Dec 2014
          Replying to @datamodel

          @datamodel @majuzub Oh, lots of dirham hoards there (c.350), but apparently none with Indian coins, if that's what you're asking?

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Dec 2014
          Replying to @datamodel

          @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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