Category: Research
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The Cheapside Hoard
University researchers discover “lost” Elizabethan craftsmanship to match 21st century technology Elizabethan craftsmen developed advanced manufacturing technology that could match that of the 21st century, claim researchers from Birmingham City University who are analysing a 400-year-old hoard of jewellery [pics with link]. The team from Birmingham City University have analysed the craftwork behind the famous …
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A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Volume III: North Wales
The third volume of A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales has recently been published. This final volume focuses on the inscribed stones and stone sculpture of north Wales c. AD400-1150. The first two volumes were published in 2007 by University of Wales Press. Volume I by Mark Redknap and…
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Pharmacopoeia
A new exhibition which includes some of the earliest recorded interpretations of the natural sciences has opened as part of the British Science Festival. Pharmacopoeia, meaning ‘preparation of drugs’, is an exhibition featuring rare and beautiful printed and manuscript material, which explores the study of the medicinal qualities of plants in the treatment of disease.…
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WW2 coastal defense research – website
Under the threat of German invasion in the summer of 1940, the creation of a defensive ‘coastal crust’ represented one of the largest construction projects in British history. Hundreds of miles of beaches were closed off to the public and fortifiied with barbed wire, minefields and gun emplacements. The traces of this defence landscape are now…
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Hadrian
Giant statue of Hadrian unearthed Parts of a huge, exquisitely carved statue of the Roman Emperor Hadrian have been found at an archaeological site in south-central Turkey. The original statue would have stood 4m-5m in height, experts estimate.His achievements include the massive wall built across the width of northern Britain which bears his name. Ruling…
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Online Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Originally compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great, approximately A.D. 890, and subsequently maintained and added to by generations of anonymous scribes until the middle of the 12th Century. The original language is Anglo-Saxon (Old English), but later entries are essentially Middle English in tone.
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Sutton Hoo links
As I’ve seen some of the items on display at the British Museum and was there, at the site, quite recently, and will be again in a few weeks’ time……. The Place National Trust website Current Archaeology The Helmet Interview with The British Museum’s Sonja Marzinzik. I don’t agree with Sonja that it was a…
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London
Yesterday, I took a trip into London for an appointment at the British Museum. Taking a taxi from the station, I looked out for glimpses of London’s past, St Botolph’s church, Aldgate; St Paul’s Cathedral ; The Temple Bar in its new setting of Paternoster Square and The Museum of London, housed in the Barbican complex, with its remains of The London Wall. Later, I…
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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Buckets
Online Corpus of Anglo-Saxon buckets ‘Buckets’ are an enigmatic and relatively rare type of object found in 5th to 7th-century Anglo-Saxon graves. The term ‘bucket’ suggests a utilitarian vessel holding c. 10 litres of liquid, and therefore is misleading in more than one respect. The Anglo-Saxon vessels are constructed of wooden staves and copper-alloy or…
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The Dark Sub-Roman Ages
I am fascinated by the enigmatic, transitional period between the end of the Roman occupation of Britain and the ascendancy of the Anglo-Saxons in the late sixth century. This period, sometimes called the Dark Ages, sometimes the Sub-Roman, extends approximately from AD 400 to 600.The term Sub-Roman arose from archaeologists’ classification for pottery from sites…
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