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International trade in outland resources: the mining and export of lead in early medieval England in light of new isotope data from York
- Abstract:
- THE PROCUREMENT AND TRADE OF VALUABLE ‘outland’ resources was fundamental to the early medieval economy, linking upland, forested and coastal regions with emerging urban markets. Recent research has detailed the increased exploitation and production of raw materials, including tar, soapstone, iron and antler, in the centuries prior to and during the Viking Age, primarily within Scandinavia. Here, it is argued from new isotope data relating to lead from 9th- to 11th-century York that there was an additional, international trade in a valuable but non-precious outland resource. Lead mined from the North Pennines was exported across the North Sea on a significant scale, connecting the remote uplands of northern England with urban nodes including York, Kaupang (Norway) and Hedeby (Germany; historically Denmark). We argue that North Pennines lead was part of a wider early medieval English lead export industry that operated from at least the mid-8th century ad.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/00766097.2023.2262880
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- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Medieval Archaeology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 67
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 249-282
- Publication date:
- 2023-12-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-05-24
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1745-817X
- ISSN:
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0076-6097
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1392174
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pubs:1392174
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2023-06-12
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- Kershaw and Merkel
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- ©2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article hasbeen published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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