Have just discovered that Norwegian 🇳🇴 is an anagram of in gear now. 🤔 Who knew? 🇳🇴

For #FindsFriday a richly decorated elk antler, interpreted as a shield, dated to the late 10th/ early 11th C. Supposedly from Louis the Pious's memorial chapel in Metz, but dating from long after his death in 840. Picture mine, from Het jaar 1000 (Leiden) now in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Newly found stone with runes from a medieval chapel at Sondum in the Faroes (hence I hesitate to refer to it as a rune stone - a grave context appears more likely at present…) 🥳🏺 www.tjodsavnid.fo/greinir/runa...

Rúnarsteinur funnin í útgrevstri á Sondum á Sandi — Tjóðsavnið

Í fornfrøðiliga útgrevstrinum á Sondum á Sandi komu fólk frá Tjóðsavninum í vikuni fram á ein rúnarstein. Rúnarsteinurin lá í gólvinum í einum bygningi, sum er givin fram í fornfrøðiliga útgrevstrinum...

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For #FindsFriday a map showing just how many dirham finds are now known from the Netherlands - imported from Scandinavia in the second half of the 9th century. The former island of Wieringen in Noord-Holland which was part of a Scandinavian benefice at this time is particularly rich in finds.

Hey #medievalsky, 40+ years ago in Cambridge University Library I stumbled across medieval engravings showing a (marital?) ordeal involving someone in a barrel and someone with a club which has haunted my memory ever since. Anyone know it?

Researchers from EARTH Integrated Archaeology have said that wood found in Wijk bij Duurstede (the site of the important Carolingian port of Dorestad) came from a ship, from an oak felled in winter 759–760. Parallels are known from N. Germany and Denmark. www.omroepzout.nl/gevonden-stu...

Gevonden stuk hout blijkt van schip uit 760

Omroep Zout | Een stuk hout dat bij graafwerkzaamheden in Wijk bij Duurstede is gevonden blijkt onderdeel van het geraamte van een schip. Het onderzoek wijst

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New from Jane Kershaw so definitely worth reading! @jk-viking.bsky.social

School of Archaeology@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨Dr Jane Kreshaw @jk-viking.bsky.social has edited a new special issue of our #Archaeometry Journal titled: "The movement and circulation of silver in early medieval north‐west Europe". Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754...

Recently bought this Krimi on holiday in Germany. A killer is leaving victims around the North Sea coast with cryptic references to Radbod and Frisian liberation. Half way through and suspecting @karanthir.bsky.social @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social or even @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social ... 🤔

I'm not at IMC Leeds this year, but I do hope someone managed to answer the question once and for all: WAS Charles the Bald really bald??

I've just signed up for a symposium in Cambridge on early medieval coinage, so Eventbrite thinks I will naturally want to attend a Football Family Fun Day in Croydon... 😂

Have just finished this book and LOVED it. Not just the discussion of the latest finds from Pompeii but also the reflections on the role of archaeology, museums and our relationship with the past in general. Also engagingly written and an enjoyable read - highly recommended

Next up, a research seminar at Groningen Uni on Tuesday entitled "Using coin finds to write the history of Frisia". I'll build on the ideas set out in various papers to show how recent finds complement historical and archaeological sources, giving insights which those disciplines alone could not.

It was great to speak in Leiden on Friday about how the huge rise in Continental coin finds sheds new light on Scandinavian activity, with evidence not only of raids, but also settlement in Normandy and Frisia, and – something rarely mentioned in texts – trade between Franks, Frisians and Danes.

For #FindsFriday a small Anglo-Saxon whalebone plaque from Larling (Norfolk) now in Norwich Castle museum, depicting Romulus and Remus (and some gorgeous animal interlace). 📸 my own.

#OTD in 843 a Scandinavian warband infamously attacked Nantes, killing the bishop and many others, and taking many captives for ransom or slavery. It was described by a local contemporary not long afterwards. I'll be talking about it in the RMO in Leiden on Friday evening.

In the Movement for Good Community Special Draw, 20 charities will each receive £5,000. Over the next 14 days, would you please nominate St Richard's Church, Ham (where I'm vicar) using this link? movementforgood.com/draws/specia... Fixing the roof is costing us nearly £4m, but every little helps!

For #FindsFriday a rare coin in the joint names of Arnulf and Berengar I dating from 894-6 (32.9mm). From the Zuidlaren hoard (Drenthe); there are also single finds from the Confessio Petri (Vatican City) & Turin. See Numismatic Chronicle 2023. Photo: NNC 1936-883, DNB Amsterdam. #medievalsky

For #AdoorableThursday Schnoor, Bremen today

A few of the fabulous objects from the Immenbeck grave field now in Buxtehude museum. 5th/6th C. 📷 my own.

Rosamond McKitterick supervised my PhD and Jinty Nelson examined it, so both had a hugely positive influence on my becoming a historian. They both also became friends, and it is very sad to hear that Rosamond, too, has now died. Giants of Carolingian history, who'll be greatly missed.

For #FindsFriday late 9C Italian deniers found in three recent English hoards: a-b Watlington; c Herefordshire; d Bickmarsh. All must have been brought here through #Frisia, most likely by Scandinavians in the #Viking great army. Photos © Ashmolean Museum, PAS, Treasure Hunting, August 2024

Dokkum museum today, worth a visit for the locally found early medieval objects on display - an incised snake on bone, a mount with devouring beasts, and a ring decorated with a human between birds - maybe Odin? #medievalsky

In a new exhibition in the Nationalmuseet in Copenhagen, "Vølvens Varsel", this silver mount is believed to depict Loki wrapped in his son's intestines. Peter Pentz believes it's a rare early depiction of the god. It's c. 2.5cm, and was found near Skanderborg 4 years ago. www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

For #medievalsky - I'm preparing a talk for Groningen University on 30 June and have plotted the finds of coins of Lothar I/II & Louis the German to demonstrate how unlikely it is that the latter ruled Frisia in the 840s. For a fuller discussion see my article: works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...

Join us next Wednesday, 10 June, for a lecture in cooperation with the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar (@earliermiddleages.bsky.social), Institute of Historical Research, given by Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin ) on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'! 1/5

The Fries Museum in Leeuwarden is about to hold a major exhibition on Redbad (or Radbod!) from 5 September, including this 9/10 century ring found in 1997 in Sumar (Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland). #medievalsky

This remarkable gold & silver hoard, found in 1929 in Laksefjord in Finnmark, has now come home to North-Norway. While it may have been buried in the #viking period, some objects are reckoned much older, with the unusual gold pendant being especially difficult to date. uit.no/nyheter/arti...

Nord-Norges største arkeologiske skattefunn tilbake etter nesten 100 år | UiT

Den såkalte Laksefjordskatten, Nord-Norges største arkeologiske skattefunn, er nå tilbakeført til Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum, nesten hundre år etter at den ble funnet i Laksefjorden i Finnmark...

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For #FindsFriday one of 258 early Danish pennies of the face/deer type found at Damhus in 2018. The hoard showed there was a controlled economy in nearby Ribe in the 820s and a mint striking probably hundreds of 000s of coins. Four halfpennies (ship/deer) were also present. 📷 Sydvestjyske Museer

For #FindsFriday evidence of #viking brutality - a 35-year-old woman from Zutphen (NL) with sword cuts to her knee and a York copper penny by her side. Written sources report an attack on the town in 882. Neither she nor the child with her was buried. #medievalsky museazutphen.nl/stedelijk-mu...

At the YNS tomorrow evening, we welcome the captivating Simon Coupland as he dives into the numismatic evidence for the Vikings on the Continent - for joining instructions, please see tinyurl.com/ynsprogram or leave a reply below.

Simon Coupland@scoupland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking forward to giving this online talk to the @yorkshirenumsoc.bsky.social on Monday the 18th. And even though it's about Continental evidence I've managed to sneak in a couple of Yorkshire finds as well 😉