Table of Contents

Table of contents

1 Introduction; 2 Gotland: The silver island; 3 Pomerania: Slavs and war perpetual; 4 Svealand: A mainland kingdom; 5 Composition and patterns of hoard deposition from a chronological perspective; 6 Synthesis and conclusions; Appendix A: Scope, datasets and methodology ; Appendix B: Concise catalogue of silver hoards c. 800–1050; Glossary; References

About the Author

Jacek Gruszczyński was a Research Associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and works as an archaeology and heritage consultant. Gruszczyński obtained his MA in Archaeology from the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, and his doctorate from Oxford. His research interests focus on hoarding practices in the context of settlement, economy, and social and political structures in the Viking Age.