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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4625303, member: 110504"]Fantastic example. No, Freaking Brilliant, with the (Revisionism Alert) "tasteful" arrangement of Anglo-Scandinavian peck marks. Adding a whole other dimension of socio-cultural history to the piece, at minimal esthetic expense.</p><p>Regarding the medieval period, the academic tradition goes as follows.</p><p>C. 476-c.1000 is Dark Ages, c. 1000-c. 1300 is High Middle Ages (vs. the French equivalent, which refers to the Dark Ages), and the stuff from the 14th century on is the Late Middle Ages.</p><p>But ycon is dead on. Any dating method as simplistic as that will summarily rule out the entire dimension of, for one, geography, along with attendant cultural and other nuances from one region to another.</p><p>A case in point, with particular reference to the peck marks on your example, is the end of the Viking Age, commonly dated to the defeat of Harald Hardraada at Stamford Bridge in 1066.</p><p>...But even then, according to a couple of 13th-c. saga accounts, some of the army made it home! In a similar vein, in the Irish Sea, thanks to the Scandinavians based in Orkney and Dublin, quintessentially viking raids --Just Plunder, Thank You-- were still happening well into the 12th century.</p><p>But it only gets more interesting when you consider broader cultural and economic factors. The signature Scandinavian phenomenon of peck marks continues at least to the end of the 11th century, notably in German denars /pfennigs that circulated along the Baltic coast. In that collective instance, trade rather than plunder was the primary dynamic. But that had been an integral component of viking activity since at least the 10th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4625303, member: 110504"]Fantastic example. No, Freaking Brilliant, with the (Revisionism Alert) "tasteful" arrangement of Anglo-Scandinavian peck marks. Adding a whole other dimension of socio-cultural history to the piece, at minimal esthetic expense. Regarding the medieval period, the academic tradition goes as follows. C. 476-c.1000 is Dark Ages, c. 1000-c. 1300 is High Middle Ages (vs. the French equivalent, which refers to the Dark Ages), and the stuff from the 14th century on is the Late Middle Ages. But ycon is dead on. Any dating method as simplistic as that will summarily rule out the entire dimension of, for one, geography, along with attendant cultural and other nuances from one region to another. A case in point, with particular reference to the peck marks on your example, is the end of the Viking Age, commonly dated to the defeat of Harald Hardraada at Stamford Bridge in 1066. ...But even then, according to a couple of 13th-c. saga accounts, some of the army made it home! In a similar vein, in the Irish Sea, thanks to the Scandinavians based in Orkney and Dublin, quintessentially viking raids --Just Plunder, Thank You-- were still happening well into the 12th century. But it only gets more interesting when you consider broader cultural and economic factors. The signature Scandinavian phenomenon of peck marks continues at least to the end of the 11th century, notably in German denars /pfennigs that circulated along the Baltic coast. In that collective instance, trade rather than plunder was the primary dynamic. But that had been an integral component of viking activity since at least the 10th century.[/QUOTE]
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