Sceatta

Small silver coin minted when the Anglo-Saxons reintroduced currency into England in the 7th century. The earliest identifiable ones are of Eorpwald of East Anglia (625-627) and Penda of Mercia (625-654). Our penny may owe its name to the latter. With this change of name it remained the standard coin from the reforms of Offa of Mercia (757-796) until the 12th century. Sceattas are distinctive because they were made from pellets which were hammered between two dies, not minted from a flattened piece of metal (as after c 790 in England). The kings of Kent imitated these sliver coins in about 690, and issued them with a variety of designs which are collectively known as the primary series of sceattas. The primary series is virtually confined to Kent and ended about 720. The secondary series include a wider variety of designs which occur over a larger area.

[sceat]. Small silver coins minted from about 690 until about 790 in the southern English and Frisian kingdoms. Sceattas are distinctive because they were made from pellets which were hammered between two dies, not minted from a flattened piece of metal (as after c790 in England). The earliest sceattas are probably those of the Frisian kingdom, and date to the last decades of the 7th century and the first half of the 8th century before the Merovingian kings came to dominate this area. The kings of Kent almost certainly imitated these silver coins in about 690, and issued them with a variety of designs which are collectively known as the primary series of sceattas. The primary series is virtually confined to Kent and ended about 720. The secondary series include a wider variety of designs which occur over a larger area, south of a line between the rivers Humber and Exe. Secondary sceattas were minted in a number of Middle Saxon kingdoms, probably by bishops as well as kings. Schela. The eponymous site for the Late Mesolithic group of sites on the Rumanian bank of the Iron Gates gorge of the river Danube, itself located downstream of Kazane Mare on the eastern edge of the gorge. With radiocarbon dates of6800-5600 be, the Schela group is directly contemporary with the more elaborate Yugoslav sites of Vlasac, Lepenski Vir and Padina. The Schela group includes cave as well as open sites and, for the first time on the left bank, burials are found, located round a hearth. Intensive plantgathering and loose herding brought the Schela population to the verge of domestication, although fishing and hunting were equally economic mainstays.