A princely belt from early C7th Kent — thanks to member Phil Ratcliffe. Replica of the Faversham buckle (found in c19th & displayed in the British Museum @britishmuseum.bsky.social) by Danegeld Historic Jewellery. Belt by member @aedthompson.bsky.social woven from plant dyed wools, on leather.

The Early Anglo-Saxon Dead at Northampton Museum howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/t...

Dr Sue Brunning; curator of the European Early Medieval Collections in the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory at The British Museum will be visiting Lichfield Cathedral on Wed 29th Jan to present 'Silk Roads'. To book please visit www.lichfield-cathedral.org/what-s-on/wh...

Way ahead of you (ft. @thegns.bsky.social )

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee

Love these fakery coin moulds- but would really like to see how an experienced metalworker went about recreating how these kind of moulds worked - I'm not convinced by the method in the prog. It plainly didn't work - bring in the specialist craftspeople folks... Please...? #DiggingForBritain

The most westerly discovery of a Pictish carving with an inscription in Ogham - quite the discovery for #diggingforbritain - but a nightmare to draw quickly!! Pictish beast below Christian cross #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

Dirham from Clatterbridge, #Wirral: LVPL-0CF3F0 finds.org.uk/database/art....

Q. What's the difference between a coin hoard recovered by archaeologists rather than metal detecting? A. Context How many organic containers (like this paper filled parcel) are lost to blind digging rather than systematic recovery?

And now that astonishing sword from Kent with the sword ring on #diggingforbritain - very envious though I was lucky enough to see it #drawingdiggingforbritain

🏺 Scabbard lined with beaver fur! Also, no skeleton mentioned, burial contains sword with unusual ring on pommel, & a female-associated pendant; gender interp as male with heirloom from girl or woman www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Friendly reminder, Fuck the Tories for partying during the 2020 lockdown: #DrWho #DoctorWho

This was fucking FANTASTIC. #DoctorWho

More photos from Lichfield Cathedral's Light Show showing the West Front. Photos by me this time.

Just minding my own business, preparing for a midwinter get-together, negotiating identity at a liminal place in a putative hinterland during an initial phase of the long 22nd century, but everyone keeps calling my festive plans ‘ritual’.

Bit of a longshot, but anyone know of UK *seax* graves or hoards with radiocarbon data? / Access to any? #archaeology I’ve got Buttermarket, Butlers Field Lechlade, Mill Hill, Ford, Castledyke & St Peter’s Tip Broadstairs, but I need more…

Proud to see work of Thegns of Meecia colleagues, from a paper I contributed to, has featured in the excellent “Silk Roads” exhibition at the British Museum. byrga.co.uk/another-outi... This research concerns how early Anglo-Saxon treasures provide a window onto the wider early medieval world…

Genetic and archaeological evidence shows West African and Scandinavian immigrants culturally merged in to early Anglo-Saxon Britain. theconversation.com/updown-girl-...

Very pleased to see this now out in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours - and open access for all to download! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Bit of a longshot, but anyone know of UK *seax* graves or hoards with radiocarbon data? / Access to any? #archaeology I’ve got Buttermarket, Butlers Field Lechlade, Mill Hill, Ford, Castledyke & St Peter’s Tip Broadstairs, but I need more…

I feel like we’re overdue an Adam Curtis documentary to unpack what’s gone down this year. With trippy found footage, he’d explain how it actually all stems back to some people, somewhere in 1959. Who thought they’d developed the perfect system. But then, something happened they didn’t expect…

Polite notice. Putting “1:2” on a drawing which could, in the future, be distributed digitally or printed at any size, does not constitute a scale.

IMO there’s no place for plagiarism, exploitation & academic misconduct in our top institutions. Anyone else out there been plagiarised / had IP stolen by a top UK #heritage / #archaeology institution? Wonder how many others have similar stories. (Seriously. DM me.) 🥊

Sometimes when I’m not making shiny things with metal, I make shiny things with data. It’s less sparkly but I’m hugely proud of having managed to write the R-code to do these bubble-maps this week… #R #archaeology #data

Is this England's best doorway? Leading into the tower of the Holy Trinity in Colchester, it was built in the 11th century but is constructed from Roman bricks plundered from the ruins of the ancient city of Camulodunum #AdoorableThursday

#MosaicMonday 4th century Orpheus mosaic at Littlecote Roman Villa in Hungerford, England. The Roman villa was initially built in about 60AD near the site of a #Roman guard post covering a crossing of the River Kennet. #Archaeology #Art #History 🏺AncientBlueSky

Some shiny things I made last year. #archaeology #livinghistory #handmade #craft #jewellery #medievalart

🧵 I found this carnelian bead - originating between the Caspian Sea and India - at a #Viking site on Papa Stour, Shetland, while working for the BBC. Altho' rare, this type has also been found at Repton and at the markets at Kaupang and Heimdalsjordet, demonstrating vast Scandinavian networks.

#Vikings once stood here. Crypt underneath St Wystan's, Repton ⛪️ Started in the C8th as a possible baptistry that became a royal shrine for a Mercian king-saint, #Viking Great Army leaders would have been in this very space in 873-4 as they overwintered at Repton!

#SundayStonework Lichfield Angel from Lichfield Cathedral. The angel is Anglo Saxon and found when the nave was excavated in 2003. It was a very important find and may have marked the original place of St Chad's burial place and shrine. It is possible it may have been part of his stone tomb.

I'm very excited with these professional photographs for the report on the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Scremby, which I excavated shortly before the pandemic. The clarity of the mineralised fabric surviving on the back of this cruciform brooch (c.AD 475-550) is astounding! #FindsFriday #FabricFriday

Or the C10th Anglo- Saxon tower of St. Peter, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. This tower was key in Thomas Rickman's discovery and identification of the style in 1819.

My 📷 of the Govan Warrior, a name I coined, found in the early medieval churchyard surrounding the @govanstones.bsky.social museum in Govan Old. Note the shallow carving, making it more like Pictish carvings than the heavier relief produced in the Brittonic Viking-Age Kingdom of Strathclyde.

So thrilling to see a visual evocation of Sutton Hoo & Syria: the Prittlewell flagon, Taplow clasps, Sutton Hoo 1's mailshirt, shoulder clasps, swordbelt buckle & scabbard button... Thank you Sue Brunning!

Some of the amazing early medieval gold thread recovered by our Durham University/ DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne (Holy Island)