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The prehistoric evolution of the coastline of north-eastern Lincolnshire
The following post offers a brief look at the evolution of the coastline of north-eastern Lincolnshire and Spurn Head from the Mesolithic through until the start of the Roman era, a period that saw...
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Were there Huns in Anglo-Saxon England? Some thoughts on Bede, Priscus & Attila
The following post offers a little idle speculation to help pass the time on the question of whether there was any Hunnic influence on fifth-century Britain and whether the 'Anglo-Saxons' were, in...
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A Mediterranean anchor stock of the fifth to mid-second century BC found off...
The aim of the following post is to draw attention to a recently-recognised find of a fifth- to mid-second-century BC Mediterranean ship anchor from British coastal waters. Previous posts on this site...
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The Great Wash City & Woldsea: two failed schemes for building new cities on...
The following is just a very quick post offering some details and images of two ambitious twentieth-century plans to build cities on the Lincolnshire coastline that in the end came to nothing. There is...
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A great host of captives? A note on Vikings in Morocco and Africans in early...
The following short note is based on a narrative preserved in the eleventh-century Fragmentary Annals of Ireland that tells of a Viking raid on Morocco in the 860s. This raid is said to have led to the...
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Some oxygen isotope evidence for long-distance migration to Britain from...
The following post offers a brief discussion of some of the oxygen isotope evidence for long-distance contact and migration between Britain and other parts of the world in the early medieval period and...
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Some interesting early maps of Lincolnshire
This post is primarily intended to share images of some of the interesting early maps of Lincolnshire that still exist, dating from the medieval era through until the early seventeenth century. Details...
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The monstrous landscape of medieval Lincolnshire
The following brief post lists a number of field and other local minor names from Lindsey that make reference to folkloric and monstrous creatures inhabiting northern Lincolnshire, based on the...
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Out of the cold far north and east? Some oxygen isotope evidence for...
This post offers a brief discussion of some isotopic evidence for the presence in Britain of people from the cold far north and east of Europe between the Bronze Age and the Late Saxon/Viking eras,...
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A brief note on Britons and wealhstodas
The following is just a very quick post about the historically interesting Old English word wealhstod, 'translator' or 'interpreter' (plural wealhstodas), which is used of a variety of people including...
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Ravenserodd and other lost settlements of the East Yorkshire coast
The aim of the following post is primarily to share a map of the villages, towns and lands that have been lost to the sea along the east coast of Yorkshire since the Roman period, along with some...
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The Hwicce of Rutland? Some intriguing names from the East Midlands
The following post offers a little idle speculation on those names from the East Midlands that make reference to the Hwicce, an Anglo-Saxon people who are better known as the inhabitants of a...
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Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map and description of eastern England
The aim of this post is simply to share an interesting mid-twelfth-century map and description of eastern England compiled by the great Muslim scholar Muhammad al-Idrisi for his geographical...
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Islamic gold dinars in late eleventh- and twelfth-century England
The following post offers a map and brief discussion of the Islamic gold coins of the later eleventh and twelfth centuries that have been found in England and their context. Whilst clearly rare finds,...
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Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy':...
The aim of the following post is to offer a draft look at an interesting Arabic account of early medieval Britain that appears to have its origins in the late ninth century. Despite being rarely...
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A tenth-century Anglo-Saxon standing cross discovered at Louth, Lincolnshire
This aim of this post is simply to report the rather exciting discovery of two joining pieces from a Anglo-Saxon standing cross in the rectory garden at Louth, Lincolnshire, which David Stocker and...
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Some Romano-British objects found in Europe & North Africa
Previous posts on this site have discussed a variety of material found in Britain that is suggestive of long-distance trade and movement in the past. For this post and the next, however, I thought it...
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The Anglo-Saxons abroad? Some early Anglo-Saxon finds from France and East...
The following post picks up from the previous one and offers a brief look at Anglo-Saxon objects found outside of the British Isles, primarily in France and Africa. From France, there are now over 300...
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Sinister omens & idle traditions: a twelfth-century superstition that the...
The following note discusses a rather intriguing medieval superstition which states that the king of England must not enter the city of Lincoln for fear of calamity. Some of the key witnesses to this...
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A note on the evidence for African migrants in Britain from the Bronze Age to...
The degree to which pre-modern Britain included people of African origin within its population continues to be a topic of considerableinterest and some controversy. Previous posts on this site have...
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