A chill in the air and some blushing crabapples are telling me autumn has surely arrived now. Have a great week everyone.

The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.

This 5th-century quoit brooch from Rennes was a new one for me. A fascinating object with its best parallels in southern Britain: journals.openedition.org/archeopages/...

An early Anglo-Saxon sword bead is on my desk today, and a beautiful one at that.

An early Anglo-Saxon sword bead is on my desk today, and a beautiful one at that.

Interesting thoughts here on the status of Lifelong Learning in the UK: www.neilmosley.com/blog/are-uk-...

Conference Call! Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record of the County. Join @sussexpast.bsky.social for this important new conference on post-Roman Sussex this November 🏺 sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...

The Gefrin Trust is now on Bluesky! Follow along as we head back to the field this September, uncovering new finds and charting old trowel-marked features at #Yeavering. #GefrinTrust #Northumberland #DurhamArchaeology

Very exciting opportunity to work with me! Full time permanent post in art of the Global South, specialising in either early modern or modern art and material culture. Please share! #arthistory www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...

John Blair's long-awaited book on vampires has a cover! Due in November from @princetonupress.bsky.social. 'A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the living.' press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Nice new PAS find. A glass bead, probably earlier than the fancy 7th-century gold pendant into which it has been set, usually reserved for much more expensive stuff like garnet, but both likely to be women's possessions. A memento from friend or family? A keepsake from childhood?

Our article on 5th- to 7th-century Anglo-Saxon silver alloys is published in @archaeometry.bsky.social. Based on the first substantial dataset of non-surface samples for the period, we argue for the direct involvement of jewellery in a bullion economy in 6th-century Kent: doi.org/10.1111/arcm...

Early medieval archaeologist here, working mostly in lifelong education. I expect I shall be mostly posting about early medieval artefacts, with a smattering of my second enthusiasm in digital education.