I trust you sent Chris the appropriate reproduction fees? 😉
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.
*Whittock! Autocorrect can be a pain 😳
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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?
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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
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...
