Material Connections in Medieval Lordly Households. New Ceramic Evidence from South-Eastern Wales THIS PAPER DISCUSSES MATERIAL EVIDENCE for 13th-century lordly communities using four zoomorphic jugs depicting rams found from manor and castle sites in Glamorgan, South-East Wales. The paper also...

I've published something (finally)! It's been in my head for a long time. Relieved to have it out in the wild. On to the next thing. #medievalwales #pottery

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I accidentally stepped on our monster kitchen spider a couple of weeks ago. The experience still makes me shudder. I felt guilt, fear and squirmy all at the same time. It didn't survive.

After her appearance before the Transport Committee, I thought Heidi Alexander might be one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dire government... but nope

New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing

"The museum held an estimated 100,000 artefacts from thousands of years of the country’s history, including the Nubian kingdom, the Kushite empire and through to the Christian and Islamic eras." A desperate tragedy & shameful indictment

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

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