Book cover for Treasures of the Vikings on Waterstones
Book cover for Treasures of the Vikings on Barnes & Noble
Book cover for Treasures of the Vikings for Foyles
Amber Books book cover for Treasures of the Vikings by Tom Horne
Map nearly done, so we're proof reading this chap tomorrow! 📚 Read: "Please scan your inboxes for panicked questions!".
26.11.2025 20:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tatinger ware jug
Tatinger ware jug from Birka grave Bj 854.
Tatinger vessels were decorated with tin foil geometric patterns. Imported into Viking-Age Scandinavia from the Carolingian world, they would have been signifiers of high status in contexts such as feasting and burial.
My 📷 Ref. Historiska museet
25.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 40 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Tatinger ware jug
Tatinger ware jug from Birka grave Bj 854.
Tatinger vessels were decorated with tin foil geometric patterns. Imported into Viking-Age Scandinavia from the Carolingian world, they would have been signifiers of high status in contexts such as feasting and burial.
My 📷 Ref. Historiska museet
25.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 40 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
#medievalsky
24.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Green glass beaker
Glass 'funnel beaker' from #Viking-Age Birka grave Bj 854.
From the Carolingian region, such pieces were high-status signifiers due to the costs of importing delicate artefacts long distances, and their likely prominent role in elite feasting contexts.
My 📷 Ref. Historiska museet
23.11.2025 11:40 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Indeed!
23.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Green glass beaker
Glass 'funnel beaker' from #Viking-Age Birka grave Bj 854.
From the Carolingian region, such pieces were high-status signifiers due to the costs of importing delicate artefacts long distances, and their likely prominent role in elite feasting contexts.
My 📷 Ref. Historiska museet
23.11.2025 11:40 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Foyles webpage for Treasures of the Vikings.
📚 Foyles, THE actual Foyles, will be selling my Amber Books Treasures of the #Vikings!
The Charing Cross Foyles is one of my favourite spaces in the world, and I recommend losing oneself there for a day at least once.
22.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Foyles webpage for Treasures of the Vikings.
📚 Foyles, THE actual Foyles, will be selling my Amber Books Treasures of the #Vikings!
The Charing Cross Foyles is one of my favourite spaces in the world, and I recommend losing oneself there for a day at least once.
22.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Gotlandic Picture Stone with runic inscription and figural scenes
A Viking-Age funerary Picture Stone from Stånga, Gotland.
: roþuisl : aug : farborn : auk : kunborn :
Rodvisl and Farbjörn and Gunnbjörn
The scene is difficult to interpret! Can you spot the triquetra / 'valknut'?
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet 108188_HST
21.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Govan Sarcophagus
Prof. Steve spoke about our 'unique' Sarcophagus in his Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture last night.
Steve is delivering his second lecture tonight at 18:30, which you can see for free in person and online: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
21.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Details of the talks
THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
19.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
Govan and Glasgow
The core of the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons, thanks to Keara Ellen Photography!
www.instagram.com/kearaellen
19.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Govan Old's churchyard.
1,500 years old and not looking too bad at all.
12.11.2025 10:36 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Gotlandic Picture Stone with runic inscription and figural scenes
A Viking-Age funerary Picture Stone from Stånga, Gotland.
: roþuisl : aug : farborn : auk : kunborn :
Rodvisl and Farbjörn and Gunnbjörn
The scene is difficult to interpret! Can you spot the triquetra / 'valknut'?
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet 108188_HST
21.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
That's very kind of you, thanks!
18.11.2025 06:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you!
16.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Xmas presents sorted! #medievalsky
16.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Barnes and Noble website showing the book, Treasures of the Vikings
It's very cool to see Barnes and Noble listing my upcoming book, Treasures of the Vikings, on the US book market! 🇺🇲 📚
15.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 50 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
It seems the profits and logistical needs of slaving drove Viking economies, possibly providing much of the foundational logic behind the creation and expansion of vast long-distance trade networks.
📷 clockwise:
Shackles from Birka & Skedala
Neck shackle, Birka
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet
15.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It seems the profits and logistical needs of slaving drove Viking economies, possibly providing much of the foundational logic behind the creation and expansion of vast long-distance trade networks.
📷 clockwise:
Shackles from Birka & Skedala
Neck shackle, Birka
My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet
15.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My hope is that this book both attracts and encourages new students of the Viking-Age Scandinavian world at the same time it introduces these nascent Vikingists to the latest theories on the Viking phenomenon, written in a manner and structure that is inclusive to all.
15.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Aimed at a wide readership, I have attempted to make this illustrated book present the latest thinking on the Viking Age in an accessible way, while including as many (rather beautiful) images of recent major finds as possible.
15.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you so much!
15.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Barnes and Noble website showing the book, Treasures of the Vikings
It's very cool to see Barnes and Noble listing my upcoming book, Treasures of the Vikings, on the US book market! 🇺🇲 📚
15.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 50 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
A great find! I was looking at our archive photos of that dig just today in Govan Old!
14.11.2025 02:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bought in the Oxfam shop today. Ring any bells @hornesupremacy.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social
13.11.2025 21:17 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
It's always a pleasure and privilege to chat early medieval with you, buddy!
14.11.2025 02:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A year; well that has flown by! #vikings
13.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Blueaxe Reproductions
The Power of Silver in the Viking Age with Dr Tom Horne
One year on from my epic chat about all things Viking-Age silver and #Viking money with the legend that is Adam Parsons!
(Dirhams were mentioned)
🎙 @eblueaxe.bsky.social
youtu.be/D-ISsg-DBmE?...
12.11.2025 22:40 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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