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#Viking Archaeology
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Trade & Travel · Viking settlements
Viking Coins and Silver: Dirhams, Hacksilver and Hoards
Did the Vikings have coins? How weighed silver, Arab dirhams and hacksilver served as money, the great hoards from Cuerdale to Spillings, and Danegeld.
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Peoples & Migrations · Rus'
Gnezdovo: Viking Graves on the Dnieper
Gnezdovo near Smolensk was the largest Viking-Age site in Rus'. Its thousands of burial mounds, chamber graves, swords, hoards and oldest Rus' inscription.
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Peoples & Migrations · Abbasid Caliphate
Holmgard: Novgorod and Rurik's Hillfort in the Viking Age
Holmgard (Holmgarðr) was the Norse name for Novgorod, and first for the island hillfort beside it. What the excavations, runestones and sagas reveal.
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Peoples & Migrations · Viking settlements
Staraya Ladoga: The First Viking Town in the East
Staraya Ladoga, the Norse Aldeigjuborg: its smithy of 753, eleven building levels, runes, boat graves, sagas and the "first capital of Russia" claim.