Viking Trade in the Red Sea: Cowrie Shells

Learn about Viking Age trade routes in the Red Sea and the cowrie shells that made their way to Coppergate in York!
Visit JORVIK Viking Centre to see these artefacts in person!

[@MrEnaric]

I have seen several (fragments and - ) complete Kauri/Cowry shells from found in the soul of Frisian terp mounds. A rim fragment if a particular large shell was worn smooth and notched at the end as if to be worn by a a string. Westergo always had strong ties with Denmark and AngliSaxon England from the fifth century AD on and ever before the Romans came. The shells from Friesland, Netherlands, point to the early middle ages, maybe the Viking age.