The best thing about having an artefact in your hands is being able to turn it around & look at it from all angles.
This view of the base of the Cricklade pommel cap allows us to see that the gold filigree decoration was applied to a thin gold outer sheath that covered the copper alloy cap beneath.
Gig night last night at the Jam Jar in Bristol with the mighty @joquailcello.bsky.social
As beautiful and powerful in this tiny space as she is in huge concert halls.
Support from local act "Dead Space Chamber Music".
Weirder things etc... 😉
New find? Anything by way of hilt or scabbard fittings?
A beautiful example, Toby. Definitely not a spindle whorl this time?
😉
There's been a lot of coverage of the Bromeswell bucket over the last couple of days but this is THE best headline by a country mile (from The Sun.. obviously)
"Infamous ‘Bucket of Death’ artefact was stuffed with remains of ‘dead VIP’ in bombshell Anglo Saxon Sutton Hoo discovery"!
😂
Realised that there isn't a "send image" function in messaging. Let me know if you need any more.
22.03.2025 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@jaztherunologist.bsky.social
22.03.2025 16:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
No no no...not your fault at all and you're always very generous when I order directly.
I do really want to see your project bought up fruition somehow though.
Not your fault at all Mat...but I made my pledges (on multiple projects)back in July via PayPal. As it's more than 180 days ago they're not interested.
19.03.2025 13:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ignore my emails btw...
13.02.2025 18:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'd certainly be interested.
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Rats...just got the email from Unbound. Gutted for you (and for me, but mostly for you).
Is that it then?
No chance of a small print run at all?
Wait, what?
What did I miss?
Not a purse mount, the two copper alloy mounts were fitted to a leather case which contained a set of scales and weights.
Photo shows the find in situ and the link takes you to some images of a reconstruction that I own.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1BNC...
An open access paper on the "Scremby Chalice", an intact Roman enameled copper alloy cup dating to the 3rd century found in a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon grave at Scremby, Lincolnshire.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The patterns formed by the niello can also be seen in the cell work of gold & garnet cloisonné of the period & the niello work is sometimes described as being an imitation of cell cloisonné.
It's fairer to say that it's the pattern that was really important/fashionable, regardless of the medium.
Lovely buckle from Grave 115, Gieising, Southern Munich. Iron buckle with silver inlay and a silver buckle plate with niello inlay. 7th century.
02.12.2024 17:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seems appropriate.
Congratulations to Cory Doctorow...who will never sign up for Bluesky because he fears (quite rightly) the potential for enshittification that is inherent in all Social Media platforms.
www.thesenior.com.au/story/883076...
People are just bloody awful.
Ghastly, miserable, entitled meat-sacks.
world.time.com/2013/10/02/t...
"Basement dwelling neckbeard incels find new thing to screech about" shocker...
fandomwire.com/here-comes-t...
And what a grey and grizzly one it is too young Fletch.
18.11.2024 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Garter strap ends, silver, from a female tomb (#49) at the Basilica of St Denis. Late 6th century (one is genuine, the other a repro). They seemingly depict Heiðrún, the goat that eats the foliage of the tree Lædaðr & produces mead for the einherjar & Veðrfölnir the hawk that sits in the tree.
18.11.2024 13:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A late 6th century buckle of silver with a runic inscription, found in a male weapon burial at Pforzen, Bavaria.
Simmons translates the inscription as "Aigil and Alrun fought the entire war-band" which reflects the scene on the Franks casket in which we see Ægil and his wife under siege.
