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The Damhus Hoard: New Insights Into Some of the Earliest Viking Silver Coinage

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By Thomas Birch, Rasmus Andreasen, Helle Horsnæs
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Background The discovery of the Damhus hoard brought to light 266 silver coins belonging to a coinage named by Malmer as ‘Kombinationsgruppe 4’ (or KG 4) (Malmer 1966; Merkel 2016); 262 of them show a face on one side and an animal on the other (KG 4:1 Face/Forward Looking Deer, see Feveile 2025), and they are thought to date to c. 820/830–850 ce (the remaining four are half pennies showing a ship and a forward looking deer, KG 4:2, see Feveile 2026).
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The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe

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By Izzy Wisher, Thomas Birch, Rasmus Andreasen, Elyse Canosa
| Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe Autores: Izzy Wisher, Thomas Birch, Rasmus Andreasen, Elyse Canosa, Sara Norrehed, Solenn Reguer, Quentin Lemasson, Ester Oras, Kristiina Johanson, Tim Kinnaird, Thomas Birndorfer, Jesper Borre Pedersen, James Scott, Christof Pearce, Felix Riede Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 99, Nº 408, 2025, págs.
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The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe

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By Izzy Wisher, Thomas Birch, Rasmus Andreasen
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Introduction Blue pigments are conspicuously absent from the Palaeolithic record. Mineral and organic colourings were exploited by both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens but have appeared limited to the use of only black and red-yellow hued pigments deriving from charcoal, manganese dioxides and a variety of ochres (iron oxides). These are well-documented across different continents for a plethora of activities. In the European Middle Palaeolithic (c.
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