Simon Coupland

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.

*Whittock! Autocorrect can be a pain 😳

Is ‘Christian nationalism’ a contradiction in terms? | Psephizo Martyn Whittock writes: Where should we stand on the subject of ‘Christian nationalism’? As a Christian historian (with a very eclectic set of interests, and having written about early-medieval nation...

As a fellow historian I'm grateful to Martyn Whitlock for expressing this so well (and 'Yes' is the answer, btw)
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Rare Roman lead ingots found by metal detectorists in Ceredigion The objects, which were used to produce tools and weapons, were found on grazing land in west Wales.

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Viking soldier's gold coin pendant found in Norfolk field The pierced coin was probably lost by a member of the Viking Great Army, says a coin expert.

This was a fun conversation:
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Someone needs to wake up the guy in blue and tell him the sermon is over! Churchgoing hasn't changed much 😉

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

A fascinating thread, well worth reading in full

A finds photograph of a small gold cross DB 1713 from the Viking Great Army site at Aldwark, North Yorkshire. The cross tales the form of a flat disc, with four small semi-circular cutouts shaping the 'arms'.

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.

I know from past conversations that Frans Theuws has a very different take on Radbod from the Frisian historians - he does like to stir the pot! Unfortunately I cannot remember what he said (I know, it's like telling you a joke without the punchline 😉)

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...
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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...

Done! ✔️😊

And here are box pews in action - St Peter's Petersham, where short people and children get up to - well, who knows what?!

I recall a Danish grave from many years ago which was also said at the time of excavation to be ridiculously tall, but on closer examination in the lab turned out to be less extreme. We'll have to see what they decide about this one on closer inspection

Inaugural lecture Prof N. (Nelleke) IJssennagger-van der Pluijm FSA: Randzaken verbinden More informationInaugural lecture Prof N. (Nelleke) IJssennagger-van der Pluijm FSATitle: Randzaken verbindenChair: Cultural history of the southern North...

This afternoon! Nelleke speaks about #Frisia, #Vikings, North Sea connections and much more. In Dutch 🇳🇱 but with an English translation available.
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Wandlebury's Viking-era mass grave finds include trepanned skull The skull belonged to a young man whose remains were flung into the burial pit, say archaeologists.

"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
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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.

Norwegian and Scandinavian History and Heritage in the British Isles - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS Norwegian and Scandinavian History and Heritage in the British Isles, 6–7 October at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay.  Call for Papers deadline - 15 May. Since December 2023, the team at...

Anyone out there want to tell the good people of Cardiff about #vikings?
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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
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An amazing 5th C bronze cauldron now going on display after 10 years of restoration and research
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22 januari: Vikingverhalen Tijdens de eerste editie van Vikingverhalen nemen vier internationaal gerenommeerde wetenschappers ons mee in boeiende verhalen over oud en nieuw onderzoek naar de Vikingtijd. Het gaat deze avond over...

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?!
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed

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