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Camels in early medieval western Europe: beasts of burden & tools of ritual...
The aim of the following post is simply to collect together some of the references to camels in early medieval Europe, where they seem to have been used as both beasts of burden and a means of...
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Romano-British pottery in the fifth- to sixth-century Lincoln region
The question of whether Romano-British pottery continued to be produced into the fifth century AD continues to be a topic of some considerable interest, as most recently demonstrated by the fact that...
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A note on some probable Scandinavian burials in the 'Late Saxon' cemetery at...
The following brief note is aimed at drawing further attention to an intriguing Late Saxon cemetery at Ketton, Rutland, mentioned briefly in a previous post. Although the cemetery is in many ways...
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Some evidence for people of 'East Asian' ancestry living in Roman London
The following brief note discusses a number of individuals buried in Roman London who have results indicative of an 'East Asian' ancestry. These people seem to have formed part of a diverse community...
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Ludford, Tealby and the Taifali: a major Late Iron Age to early post-Roman...
The following post is intended to offer a brief introduction to the archaeology and early history of Ludford, Lincolnshire, along with some thoughts on its Late Roman and post-Roman significance....
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Some possible Phoenician/Punic names in Britain and Ireland
The current post follows on from a previous discussion of the potential Phoenician/Punic roots of the island-name Thanet and the linguistic, historical and archaeological context and support for such a...
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Global Britain? A brief chronology of an awareness of Britain's existence
The following quick post is really just a bit of fun, designed to look briefly at the potential evidence for a spreading awareness of Britain's existence outside of Northwestern/Atlantic Europe in the...
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A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world
The following brief post is once again offered largely for the sake of interest, being concerned with the furthest limits of the distribution of early Byzantine material in Eurasia and Africa. What...
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Two long-distance migrants in the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis...
The current brief post is primarily concerned with two women buried in the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste, Spain, both of whom appear to be long-distance migrants from a...
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Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain and beyond: another global...
A previous post mapped and discussed the spread of early Byzantine finds across both Eurasia and Africa, ranging from Britain to Japan and Sweden to Tanzania. The following one expands upon this by...
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Missing Lincs? Some lost islands along the Lincolnshire coast
The following post offers a quick survey of some of the lost islands off the medieval and earlier Lincolnshire coast. As has been discussed in a number of previous posts, the coastline of Lincolnshire...
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Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts and trade in the Roman era
The following post offers a brief discussion of Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts in the Roman era along with a distribution map of Roman finds made beyond the southern boundary of the empire....
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Were there camels in Roman Britain? A brief note on the nature and context of...
The following note looks briefly at the question of camels in Roman Britain. Recent work has demonstrated that both dromedaries (or Arabian camels) and Bactrian camels were indeed in use across much of...
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The fifth-to sixth-century British church in the forum at Lincoln: a brief...
The aim of the following brief note is simply to bring wider attention to the post-Roman British apsidal church in the centre of the Roman forum of the former Late Roman provincial capital of Lincoln....
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A Christmas visitor: the Byzantine emperor's trip to London in the winter of...
The aim of following post is to share an interesting fifteenth-century image of the meeting between King Henry IV and the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos in 1400 at London. The emperor was...
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St Ia of St Ives: a Byzantine saint in early medieval Cornwall?
The origins and identity of St Ia, the patron saint of St Ives, Cornwall (Porthye/Sancta Ya in 1284, Porthia in 1291), has rarely been seriously investigated, beyond noting the existence of late...
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A North African Barbary ape in fifth- to sixth-century Britain? A short note...
The focus of the current post is an unusual find of Barbary ape remains from a fifth- or sixth-century AD context at Wroxeter (Shropshire), once the fourth largest city in Roman Britain. The Barbary...
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What lies beneath? A buried medieval chapel under Porthminster Beach, St...
The long, sandy beach of Porthminster, with its calm, blue waters, is located just below the railway station at St Ives, Cornwall, and has found favour since the late nineteenth century as a resort,...
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Wulfric of Lincoln and the English Varangians: the first documented Byzantine...
The following brief post is concerned with an early twelfth-century Byzantine ambassador to England who had the intriguing name of Wlfricus—or Wulfric—of Lincoln. Needless to say, this is a most...
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An eleventh-century Chinese coin in Britain and the evidence for East Asian...
This post is concerned with a rather curious and unique find of an eleventh-century Northern Song dynasty coin from China in Cheshire, looking first at its archaeological context before going on to...
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