Toby Martin

Many congratulations, very exciting indeed!

It's a really interesting idea. With apologies for the blatant horn toot (though I feel it is appropriate in this particular context), see mine and @hillfortian.bsky.social 's 2020 volume Barbaric Splendour www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

A wintry coastal view

Frost thrown up by the sea lying in folds over dried seaweed

Frost intermingled with seaweed and pebbles on the shoreline

A very happy new year wherever you are, from wherever I am

Medieval Chivalry Chivalry was more than medieval knights in shining armour jousting for the love of fair ladies. This course explores how chivalric values profoundly shaped political, literary and artistic cultures fr...

I'd also like to remind people that for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social I am teaching a new LIVE course from April on medieval chivalry! You get a live hour of teaching with me per week but also tons of online contact and resources. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi...

I re-read this book recently and had a similar experience. It was not the book I had remembered at all. In fact, rereading the first three books in the sequence I realised just how strange (and great!) they are, which is not what I had appreciated as a teen.

That's a great one!

Loin cloths? 😐

Is there any object that has changed less in the last 4000 years than a gaming die? There's an astonishingly human and above all social story around that profound survival.

Research Assistant in Global Renaissance Studies

Come work with me! Research Assistant opportunity - Global Renaissance

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Tonight on #Hiddenwonders we visit the @uniofreading.bsky.social excavation at the site of Cookham Abbey.

More stories of powerful women, early Christianity and a place of healing for the sick. Oh and a lot of bone combs 🪮 9pm tonight More4 #Archaeology 🏺#newshow #cookham

Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300 Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv

New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300

Congratulations to the FeedSax team!

You can get it in print from Nov 21st.

@archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

I should also say, it really has been the best job I've ever had 😀

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My old job as Director of Oxford's largest portfolio of online courses with @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is being advertised. If you enjoy academic management and digital education as well as teaching and research, this could be the job for you!

F/t and permanent

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Director of the Short Online Course Programme at University of Oxford Browse professional service jobs like Director of the Short Online Course Programme at jobs.ac.uk. Apply and access additional details about the job today.

My old job as Director of Oxford's largest portfolio of online courses with @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is being advertised. If you enjoy academic management and digital education as well as teaching and research, this could be the job for you!

F/t and permanent

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE029/d...

One of my favourites is John Moreland's 'Archaeology and Text'. So very concise and readable for students with a majority archaeology or history background

Book cover showing the book title "The web of war: warfare, weapon graves and technology transfer in Northern and Central Europe 200 BCE - 400 CE"

Exciting new publication on warfare and weapon burial in Europe from the Iron Age through to the Roman period by Rasmus Birch Iversen. Not got hold of it yet, but it looks like it will be a really valuable and much-needed synthesis:

unipress.dk/udgivelser/w...

2D render of a 3D laser-scanned early medieval brooch

Isn't this great? A laser-scanned corpus of early medieval brooches from the Arctic Museum of Norway.

And, the renders also kind of look like ghost brooches, which is seasonally appropriate 👻

dataverse.azure.uit.no/dataset.xhtm...

#digitalcollections #opendata #archaeology

This looks good. Due out in December.
'It also provides the first full catalogues of a number of important but poorly understood hacksilver hoards from the UK: Norrie’s Law (Fife), Gaulcross (Aberdeenshire), Tummel Bridge (Perthshire) and Patching (Sussex).' www.scriptbooks.co.uk/archaeology/...

Here's an opportunity to come and work for us at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social as a tutor in archaeology on a part-time (0.6FTE) and permanent basis. We're looking for anyone with a background from late Prehistory to the medieval period. Deadline: 10 November 2025

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I think he is - very calmly if ineffectively - putting out the fire that has broken out in the village well.

Congrats on the article, great stuff!

The link, as I saw it then, was not about cultural continuity, but to do with a similarly creative reaction to figural, imperial imagery in a comparable socio-political context.

Book cover with the title 'Barbaric splendour: the use of image before and after Rome'

Any opportunity to hawk the open-access publication that came out of it 😉: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

We're delighted to be joined by fantastic colleagues, Jade Whitlam and @helengittos.bsky.social, for our upcoming lecture series for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Don't miss this chance to explore this fascinating region & period!

🔗 bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures

#skystorians #medievalsky #history

Explore some of the themes and speakers featuring in our six-week hybrid lecture series 'Silk Roads: Empire and Everyday Voices in the Medieval Islamicate East'...

Starts Monday 13 October. For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures

#skystorian #silkroads #studyatoxford

Densely packed crabapples on a branch

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.

With more detail on context here: landarc.fr/uploads/cahi...

A silver quoit brooch decorated with punched and incised geometric and humanoid motifs

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/...

It is indeed a new find - but no other fittings sadly

An Anglo-Saxon sword bead made of glass with black and white ornamentation.

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

Not unless it was a spindle whorl tied to a sword scabbard 😛