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CDA researching hoards and hoarding in partnership with the British Museum.
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Posts by Dr Wendy Scott
Cnut and wife Emma presenting a gold cross to the New Minster, Winchester, as depicted in the frontispiece of the New Minster Liber Vitae, ‘Book of Life’, 1031.
Knútr (Cnut), king of the English, was at Emperor Conrad II’s coronation in Rome #OTD in 1027. Shortly after, he wrote to Æthelnoth of Canterbury and Ælfric of York to say he had acted on the excessive sums asked of his archbishops when they visited Rome to receive their pallia. #medievalsky
Careers guide 2026 | Overcoming your career challenges 🏋️♀️
Caroline Butterwick on how to have career confidence at every stage of your working life.
👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT)
"This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..."
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For anyone who's interested @waterstones.bsky.social is running a special pre-order offer (no pun intended) on my new book about King Offa of Mercia, valid from Friday 20 Feb. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Sadly its all over Cumbrian press and he's giving lectures everywhere.
Yesterday, finally saw large mural of Dorestad Brooch (c.800 AD, in @rmoudheden.bsky.social Leiden) in Wijk bij Duurstede at exact spot where it was excavated in 1969, painted in 2024 🤩 #dorestad #fibuladiva
For anyone interested in vikings: a symposium on the impact of the viking Great Army, to be held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 24 April 2026.
Lovely to see Treasure: History Unearthed celebrated as winner of the @socmusarch.bsky.social annual award for excellence in the exhibition project category. It has great to work with a fantastic team & special objects!
Book your tickets here👇
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Very well deserved!
Fire! 400,000 years ago, not just used but made, the first compelling evidence for such control this old: heated sediments, burnt handaxes, iron pyrite fragments. Excavated with care at Barnham, Suffolk by a brilliant team mostly from London (BM, NHM, QMUL) 1/3
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For anyone interested in a 6 month post as an assistant with the Durham and Newcastle Finds Liaison Officers for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, please see www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Finds_Li...
Exciting book launch event!!
Dr Victoria Whitworth: The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma is finally out, and you can celebrate it (and snag a copy) at the Tarbat Discovery Centre on 11 October.
Tickets at www.tickettailor.com/events/tarba...
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I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.
🚨 BREAKING - 55 Arrests confirmed in London for holding signs to oppose genocide and the ban on Palestine Action
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The UK Government is complicit in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. They are attempting to silence those who expose this complicity.
Please visit the amazing exhibition currently on at the British Museum if you can, a must for fans of Japanese art and birds!
we need a groan button!
A photograph of a buckle plate, find DB925 from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. The tongue and loop of the buckle are missing, but deeply-incised designs of interlaced knotwork and ropework roundels can be clearly seen.
Sadly I don't have any more beautiful Insular harness fittings to offer for this week's Viking camps #FindsFriday - last week was a one-off! However, I thought we'd stay in the west and look at another find from Aldwark. This buckle-plate is ADB925, decorated with knotwork and roundel designs. /1
Want to try your hand at traditional crafts and learn from the experts?
Join us Sunday 20th July, 10am - 4:30pm at the Historic Environment Division’s Conservation Works Depot in Belfast for a FREE day of hands-on workshops! 👉
From my forthcoming translation of the Saga of the Earls of Orkney ch. 100 birlinn.co.uk/product/the-... 2/2
Congratulations to my BM colleague Tunde!
Many congratulations to all winners! Not least 3 archaeologists who each receive $300,000: Tunde Babalola, whose work in Benin City I have reported on; Bar Kribus, researching Ethiopian Jews; and Caroline Sturdy Colls, whose work at Treblinka I was pleased to show in British Archaeology
Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England!
#medievalsky
At Greenlane Archaeology Ltd we also have a bookshop- mainly archaeology and history but also lots of local volumes, nature, gardens etc. Have a look at the catalogue on the website: www.greenlanearchaeology.co.uk/bookshop/
Get in touch if you find anything of interest!
"Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK"
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
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Glad to hear, but people may think you are referring to us!
Hi James,
Your image is my arch. Society. Is this post about us?