Silver and the Origins of the Viking Age

Project Information

SILVER

Grant agreement ID: 802349

DOI 10.3030/802349

Project closed

EC signature date 30 August 2018

Start date 1 March 2019

End date 31 August 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 830,00

EU contribution € 1 499 830,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

1. Deposit research data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications, including associated metadata, in the repository as soon as possible. Also other data (for instance data not directly attributable to a publication, or raw data), including associated metadata, should be deposited. 2. Take measures to enable any third party to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate (free of charge for any user) this research data, for instance by attaching a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) to the data deposited, or by waiving all interests associated to copyright and database protection using the CC0 tool. 3. Provide information via the chosen repository about the tools available in order for the beneficiaries to validate the results, e.g. specialised software or software code, algorithms and analysis protocols. Where possible, these tools or instruments should be provided.

Publications

Book chapters (1)

Sources of Silver in the late Ninth-Century Bullion Hoard from Saint-Pierre-des-Fleurs, Normandy: Results of Lead Isotope and Trace Element Analysis

Author(s): Jane Kershaw, Stephen Merkel, Guillaume Sarah, Jani Oravisjarvi
Published in: Frühmittelalterliches Hacksilber im nördlichen westslawischen Raum. Archäologie und Archäometallurgie. Beiträge der internationalen Konferenz im Kulturhistorischen Museum Görlitz, 18. - 19. Oktober 2019. Ergebnisse des Projektes Hacksilberschätze im Oder-Neiße-Raum 1., 2023, Page(s) 295-312
Publisher: Dr. Rudolf Habelt

Monographic books (1)

Dirhemin synty

Author(s): Jani Oravisjarvi
Published in: Issue 2021, 2021
Publisher: Coins & History Foundation

Peer reviewed articles (11)

"""Non-invasive” portable laser ablation sampling for lead isotope analysis of archaeological silver: a comparison with bulk and in situ laser ablation techniques"

Author(s): Stephen Merkel, Jane Kershaw, Paolo D'Imporzano, K. van Zuilan, Gareth Davies
Published in: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 2022, ISSN 1364-5544
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1ja00342a

Local supply and long-distance imports: new evidence for the origin of brass, copper and lead at Helgö

Author(s): Jane Kershaw, Stephen Merkel
Published in: Fornvännen, 2024, ISSN 0015-7813
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Letters

The scale of dirham imports to the Baltic in the ninth century New evidence from archaeometric analyses of early Viking-Age silver

Author(s): Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Jani Oravisjärvi, Ellen Kooijman, Melanie Kielman-Schmitt
Published in: Fornvännen, 2021, ISSN 0015-7813
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Letters

Simultaneous lead isotope ratio and gold-lead-bismuth concentration analysis of silver by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS

Author(s): Christopher D. Standish, Stephen W. Merkel, Yu-Te Hsieh, Jane Kershaw
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 125, 2021, Page(s) 105299, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105299

Silver recycling in the Viking Age: Theoretical and analytical approaches

Author(s): Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel
Published in: Archaeometry, 2021, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0003-813X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12709

Evidence for the widespread use of dry silver ore in the Early Islamic period and its implications for the history of silver metallurgy

Author(s): Stephen W. Merkel
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 135, 2021, Page(s) 105478, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105478

A contribution to the technology and sources of lead in Byzantium: lead isotope analysis of ten Byzantine seals

Author(s): Olga Karagiorgou, Stephen Merkel, Marcin Wołoszyn
Published in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Issue vol. 114, no. 3, 2021, Page(s) 1161-1203., ISSN 0007-7704
Publisher: B.G. Teubner
DOI: 10.1515/bz-2021-0058

Sources of early Islamic silver: lead isotope analysis of dirhams

Author(s): Stephen W. Merkel, Jani Oravisjärvi, Jane Kershaw
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 97, 2024, Page(s) 1564-1580, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.165

Lead Isotopic Characteristics and Metal Sources for the Jewelry in the Medieval Rural Settlements from the Suzdal Region (Kievan Rus’)

Author(s): Andrey V. Chugaev, Stephen W. Merkel, Irina E. Zaytseva
Published in: METALLA, Issue 25, 2022, Page(s) 101-125, ISSN 2749-6430
Publisher: Ruhr University Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/metalla.v25.2019.i2.101-125

International Trade in Outland Resources: the Mining and Export of Lead in Early Medieval England in Light of New Isotope Data From York

Author(s): Jane Kershaw, Stephen Merkel
Published in: Medieval Archaeology, Issue 67, 2024, Page(s) 249-282, ISSN 0076-6097
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2023.2262880

Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (<i>c</i>. 660–820)

Author(s): Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D'Imporzano, Rory Naismith
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 98, 2024, Page(s) 502-517, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.33