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Tudor Times is the place to go for all things Tudor and Stewart (1485-1625) www.tudortimes.co.uk

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Jon Hawke@archaeohawke.bsky.social · 6d ago

#FindsFriday This beautiful, jewelled disc brooch dates from the Anglo-Saxon period and was found in Kent. It is made from gilded silver, and features seven cut garnets. Disc-style brooches set with garnets, such as this one, were popular during the early Anglo #Saxon period, 6th century.

Jewelled disc brooch, 6th century. Silver, gold, garnet, and shell, 4.5 cm diameter. AN1836.p129.213.a Ashmolean Museum Collection Garnets were imported into Anglo-Saxon England from sources in India, Sri Lanka and Czechia.
Dr Tess Machling@tessmachling.bsky.social · 5d ago

Saturday brain wandering! Early med foil dies. Could they have been given to the 'client', so there couldn't be a copy of that exact helmet made? or perhaps so it could be repaired in future? Doesn't seem that finds of dies necessarily = makers in locale, as so often is written... #Archaeology 🏺

A CuA foil die from Kent with a dancing man with swords and a torc on his head... well it's not really a torc, I think it's supposed to be snakes kissing, but it looks like a torc. Anyway, I'm not an early medievalist so what would i know, eh??
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 6d ago

Please enjoy this medieval mosaic of two roosters capturing a fox from the twelfth-century floor of the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano, as taken by Iowa medievalist Shane Bobrycki. 🐓🦊🐓 Now this is some gallus humor.

edieval mosaic of two roosters capturing a fox from the twelfth-century floor of the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 6d ago

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hood-shaped silk cap from Viking Age York displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark display case background at the Yorkshire Museum. It is made from a rectangle of hand-spun, undyed silk, and shaped at the back by a centre seam. The pale silk is yellowy-gold in colour with a shiny lustre. The edges have been neatened with fine hems. According to the museum, it was probably worn with ties to fasten it to the head, as it includes the remains of two groups of stitches with which to attach ties. The museum says that the silk cap was likely worn by a female Anglo-Scandinavian resident of York. Also that “Silk was incredibly rare in the Viking North because it was not made locally. Silk-weaving is a Chinese technology, but by the 10th-century, the practice had reached the Arabian Peninsula, the Byzantine Empire, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Silk used to make the cap was imported from one of these places. The fine, pale-toned material would have been recognised in the town as a highly expensive and exotic fashion item”.
Sharon Bennett Connolly@thehistorybits.bsky.social · 5d ago

On this day in History: 1202 Arthur of Brittany, was captured after besieged his grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, at Mirebeau, and given into the hands of his (wicked) uncle, King John. #medievalsky historytheinterestingbits.com/2015/01/20/a...

Arthur: England’s Lost Prince

Arthur of Brittany A Plantagenet prince, Arthur of Brittany’s story is one of the most tragic of the Medieval period. The posthumous son of Geoffrey, 4th son of Henry II of England and Eleano…

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Rightardia@rightardia.bsky.social · 5d ago

One of the Sumerian texts indicates Adam and Eve lived in a walled garden with other beings. One was something that lived in the trees, and another was a female gatekeeper. When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, the gatekeeper opened the gate and said: "Now you know."

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Tudor Times@thetudortimes.bsky.social · 5d ago

#OTD 1571, the siege of Famagusta, Cyprus, ended when the city fell to the Ottoman Empire. Cyprus was one of the territories controlled by the Venetian Republic, and was an important part of their trading empire, but, surrounded as it was by Turkish lands, it was hard to protect.

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Dr Toby Driver@drtobydriver.bsky.social · 7d ago

Always impressive 🤩.. Some of the most stunning limestone cliff scenery in southern Britain. Elegug Stacks or Stack Rocks off the Castlemartin Training Area in southern Pembrokeshire, picked out by white bird guano 📷 My own, last Sunday

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Jon Hawke@archaeohawke.bsky.social · last wk.

In ancient Greece, a wealthy and fashionable woman’s #jewellery box may have contained a diadem, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings.✨ These #gold earrings, just 2cm long, are decorated with tiny, ornate rosettes. They are more than 2000 years old, dating to around 400–200 BCE. ✨

Greek craftspeople perfected gold-working, gem engraving and the use of moulds to make glass inlays and vessels. See them on display in Gallery 16, Level G. Ashmolean Museum Collection . ✨ Gold earrings with rosettes, 400–200 BCE, ANOldfield.10
Carausius@carausius286.bsky.social · 7d ago

This detail of an Athenian vase shows a war chariot advancing with infantry carrying huge figure-of-8 shields. By this time, both of these military technologies were long obsolete making me wonder whether this is a depiction of a Homeric (or other epic) battle scene 🕰️c730BC 🏛️BM 📷mine

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John Vigar FSA@johnevigar.bsky.social · 7d ago

Robert Hacomblen was Provost of King’s College Cambridge between 1509 and 1528 and is buried in the Chapel. This lectern was a personal gift from him and bears his name on the two book rests. It is one of three lecterns made in the same mould. The others are at Eton and Merton College, Oxford

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Duncan Mackay@theduncanmackay.bsky.social · last wk.

Might have had a sneaky preview of this, and it is absolutely brilliant, such a fresh and exciting take on a character long overdue a modern reassessment, by someone who knows this subject rather well… Available to preorder now!

Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Want a book about the end of the southern British Iron Age, the Roman invasion and the greatest king of this island has ever had? If only such a thing existed...🤔 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/caratacus... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social January 2027 #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Book cover with an Iron Age coin depicting a naked spear and shield wielding male warrior on a horse with the title *Caratacus - Great King of Britain* below