Research project Rural coin use. A case-sudy based on metal detector finds from Western Zealand
The project investigates rural coin use in the Middle Ages.
Denmark has had 40 years of close collaboration between archaeologists and metal detectorists. The result is thousands of well-documented finds. In this way, finds of coins in rural contexts have come to light in such numbers, that by now, one must conclude that peasants used coins currently from the 13th century on.
Project members
Members
Jens Christian Moesgaard
Professor
Hugo Hvid Sörensen
Kirsten Christensen
Trine Borake
Publications
Metaldetektorens vidnesbyrd. Brugte bønder mønter i middelalderen?
Fund & Fortid. Arkæologi for alle, 2020, no 1, p. 22-27.
Small hoard of silver English and German pennies from the late tenth century
(with Peter Ilisch) ”Small hoard of silver English and German pennies from the late tenth century” (Coin hoards 1), Numismatic Chronicle 179, 2019, p. 381-386, pl. 49 (peer-reviewed).