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What actually fell in 476?
I wrote the following many moons ago, but was reminded of it whilst reading a recent blog-post on the significance of AD 476. I'm posting it now just for the sake of interest—needless to say, this...
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Villas and ranches on the late Roman Lincolnshire Wolds: the Welton le Wold...
The following brief post is concerned with the significant Roman villa that was located at Welton le Wold, Lincolnshire, on a spot with good views out over Louth to the Lincolnshire Marshes and coast...
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The Anglo-Saxon wīc at Garwick: a brief update
The pre-Viking, fen-edge trading site or wīc at Garwick in southern Lincolnshire—'the wīc (trading site) on a triangular piece of land' or 'belonging to *Gæra'—was discussed at length in Britons and...
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Pagan pendants, sceptres, lead tablets & runic inscriptions: some interesting...
The following post is intended to highlight some of the more interesting Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Viking artefacts that have been found in Lincolnshire in recent years.Two pagan Viking pendants from...
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The distribution of Islamic dirhams in Anglo-Saxon England
The aim of the following post is simply to share a map that I produced recently whilst looking at some of the Viking-era finds from Torksey in Lincolnshire. The map in question depicts the distribution...
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Indian silver coins in Viking-age northern Europe & Britain
The following brief note is concerned with the small number of early medieval silver coins from India that have been found in northern Europe and Britain. Although the numbers of these items are small,...
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Anglo-Saxon or sub-Roman: what should we call Lincolnshire in the fifth and...
The fifth and sixth centuries in Britain are difficult in many ways, not least the great variety of names which are applied to this period by academic historians. For some these centuries continue to...
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Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian & other early Indian coins found in Britain
The following post is a very brief piece, intended simply to share a distribution map and details of some intriguing Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and other early Indian coins that are recorded on the PAS...
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St Nicholas or 'Boy Bishop' tokens in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century East...
The following post offers a very brief discussion of the distribution and significance of the late medieval to early post-medieval St Nicholas or 'Boy Bishop' lead tokens, including a distribution map...
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Ketsby DMV: a Roman–Early Modern settlement & pilgrimage site on the...
Aside from cropmarks, very little now remains of Ketsby, a Deserted Medieval Village (or, more correctly, a Shrunken Medieval Village) that is located in a valley between two ancient trackways in the...
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Ptolemaic coins recorded from Britain by the Portable Antiquities Scheme
The primary aim of the following post is to very quickly share a distribution map of Ptolemaic coins that have been recorded from Britain on the PAS. The coins mapped and briefly discussed below date...
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Roman mosaics from the Greetwell villa-palace and other sites in Lincolnshire
The following post collects together a number of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century illustrations of Roman mosaics found in Lincolnshire, starting with the mosaics found at a major complex...
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Some Roman slave shackles and figurines recorded from Britain by the PAS
The following post shares a handful of interesting recent finds relating to slavery in Roman Britain that have been recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, along with two updated distribution maps...
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Some imitation Islamic coins minted in early medieval Europe
This is another very quick post, with the aim of drawing together some of the imitation Islamic coins that were minted by medieval European rulers. The first coin is perhaps the most famous of these...
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An early Anglo-Saxon pot from the Greetwell villa-palace
A previous entry on this blog included a discussion of the villa-palace at Greetwell Fields, located just to the east of Lincoln, thought to have potentially been the residence of the Late Roman...
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Of Sacred Springs, Commerce and Crime: Aswell Hole, the Gatherums, and the...
When people write about Louth and it's history, they often focus on the most immediately obvious aspects of the town, including the church, the grammar school, the market, the canal and Riverhead, and...
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Thanet, Tanit and the Phoenicians: Place-Names, Archaeology and Pre-Roman...
Recent work suggests that the name of the easternmost part of Kent, the Isle of Thanet, is one that is of considerable potential interest, being indicative of a major pre-Roman trading settlement...
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The drowned villages and eroding coastline of Lincolnshire, c. 1250–1600
Previous posts on this site have looked at the coastline of Lincolnshire in the palaeolithic and early medieval eras. The following post continues this theme by examining the changing coastline of...
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The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the...
Although the name 'New England' is now firmly associated with the east coast of America, this is not the first place to be called that. In the medieval period there was another Nova Anglia, 'New...
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The distribution of Numidian coins recorded from Britain since the nineteenth...
The aim of the following post is simply to share a distribution map of Numidian coins that have been found in Britain since the nineteenth century. These coins were minted in the ancient North African...
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