Another fascinating find from Viking age Norfolk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thrilled to get these proofs to check and see a project begun in 2022 nearing completion!

Stolen golden helmet recovered, suspects have struck a deal www.dutchnews.nl?p=265980

Struggling with this book title - according to my definition, there were no Cistercians in the early middle ages!

For #FindsFriday - are these the earliest Danish coins? My research over recent months has focused on these imitations of Charlemagne's Dorestad coinage, with find distribution pointing to production in Hedeby, between 800 and 810. This is a single find from Cologne: Thomas Höltken, RGM, Köln

2/2 or for a few bob more, you can buy your own 13th century abbey! A perfect retirement project for a vicar with interest in medieval history... www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/r...

One of the wonderful and crazy things about life in England - you can buy an old Archbishop's Palace and live in it if you fancy (and have the money of course - that's the drawback!) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1... 1/2

A rare gold foil figure (gullgubbe) from the Iron Age recently found in Rogaland, Norway www.vg.no/nyheter/i/oE...

For #medievalsky today a gorgeous Carolingian comb, ivory, dated c. 870, believed to have been made in Metz, now in Cologne. www.museum-schnuetgen.de/sammlung-dig...

Excavation in Wijk bij Duurstede, site of the great Carolingian port of Dorestad, have unearthed a large medieval ship's timber. The headline says 'Viking ship' but that's clickbait - the article notes it might be Carolingian or even a medieval kogge. Still, exciting! www.nu.nl/wetenschap/6...

If you can manage to read Danish, here are some fabulous articles free to download about key aspects of the #Viking age. 🇩🇰 #medievalsky www.arkaeologi-daa.dk/fund-fortid/...

More on the Wandlebury dig from Cambridge University www.cam.ac.uk/stories/wand...

This sounds fascinating - only sorry I've got a meeting I have to attend!

#FindsFriday - the astonishing gold spur found with two other gold objects in 1887 at Rød farm in Rygge, Norway. In Borre style, it's dated to the later 10th century. When I first read about it in Norwegian I couldn't believe that it was a SPUR in GOLD! Not very practical but ultimate bling.

Absolutely thrilled to get photographs of 26 of Charlemagne's pre-reform Dorestad deniers from the National Numismatic Collection in Amsterdam. Now to compare their dies with the other 150! 🤩

À Condé-sur-l’Escaut (Nord), les archéologues mettent au jour d’importants vestiges datant du Moyen Âge jusqu’à l’Époque moderne. Vidéo complète👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0aT...

Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the period! Highly recommended.

As a fellow historian I'm grateful to Martyn Whitlock for expressing this so well (and 'Yes' is the answer, btw) www.psephizo.com/life-ministr...

This was a fun conversation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To bring some sunshine to your timeline, an imitation gold solidus minted in Frisia in the 860s/870s, probably by Scandinavians, and ending up in Bickmarsh (Worcs.) in a hoard with coins of Burgred of Mercia. 📷 Treasure Hunting magazine

We've been looking at iron for the last few weeks, so I thought we'd go to the other end of the spectrum for today's Viking camps #FindsFriday: away from rusted tools and weaponry and into the realm of shiny jewellery! Well, it is nearly Valentine's Day... This is gold cross DB1713 from Aldwark. 1/

A month ago I posted a map of single finds of Carolingian coins from Denmark, 2016-2025. Here's Norway (for the same book). Unsurprisingly, finds cluster in Østfold and Vestfold – the regions most closely linked with the Danes and the raids on the Continent. White: 1 coin, yellow: 2-4.

What a fabulous object added to the collection of the Musée de Cluny! I used to live just down the road, but unfortunately now too far away to attend the lecture... www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr...

What a fabulous object added to the collection of the Musée de Cluny! I used to live just down the road, but unfortunately now too far away to attend the lecture... www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr...

This afternoon! Nelleke speaks about #Frisia, #Vikings, North Sea connections and much more. In Dutch 🇳🇱 but with an English translation available. www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

"The skeleton of a young 6ft 5in-tall (1.9m) Viking-era man who had undergone trepanation has been found in a mass grave in Cambridgeshire." It's too early to say whether he was Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian. #vikings #medievalsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For #FindsFriday the Tønsberg hoard from Vestfold (Norway). a-e: Louis the Pious, Christiana religio; a: Dax; b: Melle; c Sens; d: Paris; e: uncertain mint; f: Æthelstan. There is also a small fragment of a second coin of Melle. Photos: Kim Arneson Svingen and Tore Sørensen.

Anyone out there want to tell the good people of Cardiff about #vikings? royalhistsoc.org/calendar/nor...

The Skumsnes hoard from Vestland in Norway: eight Christiana religio deniers and one Ecgberht of Wessex (802-839), Rochester mint, from a woman's grave. Also present: two early Danish pennies (KG 3:5 and 4:2). a: Dax; b-e: Melle; f-g Paris; h: Reims; i: Ecgberht. Photos: Søren Diinhoff. #medievalsky

For #FindsFriday Scandinavian imitations of Frankish deniers, found at Castricum in Noord-Holland, for a chapter in a book ed. by @ccooijmans.bsky.social. One copies a coin of Louis the Pious, one Lothar I: we know #vikings were settled in this area. Find report at www.academia.edu/43960277/2020

Interesting line-up of numismatic events for this year including talks from @lucymoore.bsky.social and @scoupland.bsky.social among others…

Do you want to read about recent #viking period textile finds from Denmark, Estonia and Norway? (and earlier and later things too, including Roman scale armour). You'll find them all here, in Archaeological Textiles Review 67: atnfriends.com/wp-content/u...

For #FindsFriday two very small gold bars from the #viking age found in Denmark (🇩🇰 East Jutland) last month www.tv2ostjylland.dk/randers/muse...

An amazing 5th C bronze cauldron now going on display after 10 years of restoration and research france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/au...

Tomorrow - livestream of a #Viking evening at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, with talks in Dutch but then at 20:00 UK time in English! rijksmuseum-van-oudheden.webinargeek.com/vikingverhal...

Who'd like to see a #viking sword from the Netherlands? I mean, who wouldn't?! www.gld.nl/amp/nieuws/8...

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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For #FindsFriday a fabulous set of Carolingian sword belt mounts found near Deventer in 2022. Long ago while writing my PhD I drew how they were worn. portable-antiquities.nl/pan/#/ensemb...

New book just out by Thomas Cirotteau, Lucie Malbos & Éric Pincas - Vikings : enquête sur les femmes des terres gelées cescm.hypotheses.org/35266

For #FindsFriday a map of Danish single finds of Carolingian coins from 2016 to 2025, most unpublished. This is for a chapter in a book being edited by @ccooijmans.bsky.social. It shows that Frankish coins were reaching all parts of Denmark, not just trading centres or royal estates.

For #FindsFriday the Hiddensee hoard, found in the 1870s in Neuendorf, Lkr. Vorpommern-Rügen. Scandinavian style and Christian crosses suggest a late 10th C date. The neckring is 13.5 cm, the brooch 8 cm, the cross pendants 5.1–6.9 cm. Total weight: 595.5 g pure gold. Now in Stralsund Museum.

The largest medieval kogge merchant ship yet discovered, found in the Øresund off Copenhagen and professionally excavated - dating from c 1410 and built in the Netherlands. www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...

For St John the Evangelist's day a beautiful little (34 mm) 9th-C Anglo-Saxon gold plaque bearing his symbol, an eagle, found in Brandon (Sufolk) and now in the BM. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

As we approach Christmas here's another ivory depiction of the nativity - this time in whalebone, on the early 8th C Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket. MAGI is written in runes above - the bird leading them is seen as the Holy Spirit (dove or duck? 😂) 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...

For #MosaicMonday a gorgeous colourful mosaic of garlands and birds in the Vatican collection. 📷 my own.

As tomorrow I am leading our carol service, here's a gorgeous Carolingian ivory of the nativity in the Vatican (Vat 64477). 📷 my own.