Early Medievalist
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Tim Clarkson. PhD, FRHistS. Historian and author.
Early medieval history and archaeology.
See my books at http://senchus.wordpress.com/my-books/
Early medieval history and archaeology.
See my books at http://senchus.wordpress.com/my-books/
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#SaxonSunday
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
December 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#SaxonSunday
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
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The remains of a bronze shield boss which dates to the 6th century. Originally from Warwickshire, the boss is now part of the collections at the Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum at Wooler in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin #Northumberland
December 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The remains of a bronze shield boss which dates to the 6th century. Originally from Warwickshire, the boss is now part of the collections at the Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum at Wooler in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin #Northumberland
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Northumbrian thegn Gospatric was slain at the Christmas court of Edward the Confessor #OTD in 1064. His murder was reportedly the result of Queen Edith’s intervention in a dispute between Gospatric and her brother Tostig, earl of Northumbria. #medievalsky
December 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Northumbrian thegn Gospatric was slain at the Christmas court of Edward the Confessor #OTD in 1064. His murder was reportedly the result of Queen Edith’s intervention in a dispute between Gospatric and her brother Tostig, earl of Northumbria. #medievalsky
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Particularly happy with that book haul.
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Particularly happy with that book haul.
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
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This one took a long road. After an initial peer-review, it morphed into something different from my 2024 paper in Leeds' IMC.
It combines some of my doctoral research with my own later review of it and ideas from notes I've been taking over the years.
It combines some of my doctoral research with my own later review of it and ideas from notes I've been taking over the years.
December 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This one took a long road. After an initial peer-review, it morphed into something different from my 2024 paper in Leeds' IMC.
It combines some of my doctoral research with my own later review of it and ideas from notes I've been taking over the years.
It combines some of my doctoral research with my own later review of it and ideas from notes I've been taking over the years.
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This a good listen! And a great intro before delving into the new translation!
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This a good listen! And a great intro before delving into the new translation!
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Didn't mean to ramble as much but here's a wee bit of fun art about place names as a way to ground historical context and the thought of a Norwegian invasion fleet enjoying a day out at Millport
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Didn't mean to ramble as much but here's a wee bit of fun art about place names as a way to ground historical context and the thought of a Norwegian invasion fleet enjoying a day out at Millport
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Two finely crafted bone combs from the early 6th c. AD, found in a grave at Dittigheim. To protect their delicate tines, they were carefully kept in a custom-made case. In the Early Middle Ages, long, well-groomed hair was more than a fashion choice, it was a symbol of status and identity. 1/2
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December 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Two finely crafted bone combs from the early 6th c. AD, found in a grave at Dittigheim. To protect their delicate tines, they were carefully kept in a custom-made case. In the Early Middle Ages, long, well-groomed hair was more than a fashion choice, it was a symbol of status and identity. 1/2
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Today's vikingism: this colourful sculpture of an especially jolly cartoon viking, outside a bar in Santiago's Bellavista neighbourhood, Chile.
December 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Today's vikingism: this colourful sculpture of an especially jolly cartoon viking, outside a bar in Santiago's Bellavista neighbourhood, Chile.
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Soon to appear, Eric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos (eds.), Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, see www.brepols.net/products/IS-... and www.academia.edu/145456266/Wo... (incl. my paper on "Secular Women in the Lombard Kingdom“).
December 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Soon to appear, Eric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos (eds.), Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, see www.brepols.net/products/IS-... and www.academia.edu/145456266/Wo... (incl. my paper on "Secular Women in the Lombard Kingdom“).
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📨 I'd be honoured if you signed up to A Whole Lot of History!
Enjoy the impressive rock-cut entranceway to Dunadd, political and cultural centre of the early medieval Dàl Riatan Scots, while I tell you of the benefits of signing up to my twice-weekly history-archaeology newsletter!
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Enjoy the impressive rock-cut entranceway to Dunadd, political and cultural centre of the early medieval Dàl Riatan Scots, while I tell you of the benefits of signing up to my twice-weekly history-archaeology newsletter!
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December 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📨 I'd be honoured if you signed up to A Whole Lot of History!
Enjoy the impressive rock-cut entranceway to Dunadd, political and cultural centre of the early medieval Dàl Riatan Scots, while I tell you of the benefits of signing up to my twice-weekly history-archaeology newsletter!
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Enjoy the impressive rock-cut entranceway to Dunadd, political and cultural centre of the early medieval Dàl Riatan Scots, while I tell you of the benefits of signing up to my twice-weekly history-archaeology newsletter!
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A treat for you in the New Year - the work at East Lomond, a major Pictish and late Roman fort conducted by Northern Picts and the Falkland Stewardship Trust will feature on the new series of Digging for Britain. The episode will be broadcast on the 28th January at 20:00 on BBC2.
December 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A treat for you in the New Year - the work at East Lomond, a major Pictish and late Roman fort conducted by Northern Picts and the Falkland Stewardship Trust will feature on the new series of Digging for Britain. The episode will be broadcast on the 28th January at 20:00 on BBC2.
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Lovely surprise to see the ace @amwillemsen.bsky.social’s new book delivered after getting in from work
Featuring my second ever academic paper written early/mid-2024: ‘PLACING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGDOM OF LINDSEY IN THE NORTH SEA’
Featuring my second ever academic paper written early/mid-2024: ‘PLACING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGDOM OF LINDSEY IN THE NORTH SEA’
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Lovely surprise to see the ace @amwillemsen.bsky.social’s new book delivered after getting in from work
Featuring my second ever academic paper written early/mid-2024: ‘PLACING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGDOM OF LINDSEY IN THE NORTH SEA’
Featuring my second ever academic paper written early/mid-2024: ‘PLACING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGDOM OF LINDSEY IN THE NORTH SEA’
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For #FindsFriday the gilt & niello silver mounts from Östra Påboda, Söderåkra, Sweden, clearly Carolingian sword-belt mounts that have been converted into ornaments. See their originally use in a detail of the Vivian Bible, produced in Tours in the 840s. Images: SHM / gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For #FindsFriday the gilt & niello silver mounts from Östra Påboda, Söderåkra, Sweden, clearly Carolingian sword-belt mounts that have been converted into ornaments. See their originally use in a detail of the Vivian Bible, produced in Tours in the 840s. Images: SHM / gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
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The tower at Little Ouseburn, NYorks, originated as a late C10/11th free-standing turriform church, as discussed in this new article in Early Medieval Europe by Duncan Wright @newcastleuni.bsky.social et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The tower at Little Ouseburn, NYorks, originated as a late C10/11th free-standing turriform church, as discussed in this new article in Early Medieval Europe by Duncan Wright @newcastleuni.bsky.social et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Bobby the dog at the ‘Giants Grave’ Penrith, a collection of well worn monuments showing the importance of the area in the Viking Age #cumbria #dogs #medievalsky
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Bobby the dog at the ‘Giants Grave’ Penrith, a collection of well worn monuments showing the importance of the area in the Viking Age #cumbria #dogs #medievalsky
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Finally got my hands on the physical book for Carved in Stone by Heather Christie @archaeoplays.bsky.social and Brian Tyrrell @stoutstoat.co.uk. Really gives me hope that early medieval archaeology can inspire worlds that are hopeful, empathetic and overall, fun
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Finally got my hands on the physical book for Carved in Stone by Heather Christie @archaeoplays.bsky.social and Brian Tyrrell @stoutstoat.co.uk. Really gives me hope that early medieval archaeology can inspire worlds that are hopeful, empathetic and overall, fun
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
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This will be a really nice little podcast series, I reckon. David has some excellent guests lined up from the world of Pictish Studies, and each one is only 10 mins, so nice bite-size listening.
We have a brand new mini-podcast, thanks to @monikierockart.bsky.social! PAS committee members and other Picticists answer five questions in 10 minutes about what got them interested in the Picts, sites they'd recommend, etc. First up is actually me (@fortrenn.bsky.social), with more to come soon.
Pictish Shorts Episode 1- Fiona Campbell-Howes
YouTube video by The Scot-Craft Podcast
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December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This will be a really nice little podcast series, I reckon. David has some excellent guests lined up from the world of Pictish Studies, and each one is only 10 mins, so nice bite-size listening.
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Currently being treated to a tour of the early medieval church of San Saba led by Giulia Bordi
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Currently being treated to a tour of the early medieval church of San Saba led by Giulia Bordi
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A 'Raven Banner Coin' minted in AD 941-44 for the Dublin-Jórvik Viking king Amlaíb Cuarán, a.k.a.
ANLAF CVNVNC-kunung-ᚴᚢᚾᚢᚾᚴ
Óláfr kváran Sigtryggsson
Amlaíb mac Sitric
🐦⬛✝️ Does the banner / shipvane include a raven or a cross?
My 📷 Historiska museet (3004628)
ANLAF CVNVNC-kunung-ᚴᚢᚾᚢᚾᚴ
Óláfr kváran Sigtryggsson
Amlaíb mac Sitric
🐦⬛✝️ Does the banner / shipvane include a raven or a cross?
My 📷 Historiska museet (3004628)
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A 'Raven Banner Coin' minted in AD 941-44 for the Dublin-Jórvik Viking king Amlaíb Cuarán, a.k.a.
ANLAF CVNVNC-kunung-ᚴᚢᚾᚢᚾᚴ
Óláfr kváran Sigtryggsson
Amlaíb mac Sitric
🐦⬛✝️ Does the banner / shipvane include a raven or a cross?
My 📷 Historiska museet (3004628)
ANLAF CVNVNC-kunung-ᚴᚢᚾᚢᚾᚴ
Óláfr kváran Sigtryggsson
Amlaíb mac Sitric
🐦⬛✝️ Does the banner / shipvane include a raven or a cross?
My 📷 Historiska museet (3004628)
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A GIS visualization of foreigners in Rome between AD 300 and 1000 as shown at conference “Rome and the Others”
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A GIS visualization of foreigners in Rome between AD 300 and 1000 as shown at conference “Rome and the Others”
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A fantastic 4-day tour led by Pictish art and inscriptions expert Dr Kelly Kilpatrick. See Pictish jewellery and sculpture, tour the newly-excavated hillfort of East Lomond, and get a Pictish stone-carving demonstration.
Scotland: In the Footsteps of the Picts - Brightwater
Discover the enigmatic Picts on our tour through Perthshire and Angus. Uncover their carved stones and ancient artifacts with Brightwater.
www.brightwaterholidays.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A fantastic 4-day tour led by Pictish art and inscriptions expert Dr Kelly Kilpatrick. See Pictish jewellery and sculpture, tour the newly-excavated hillfort of East Lomond, and get a Pictish stone-carving demonstration.
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In the tenth century a charm to control a bee swarm was added, upside down, in the margin of an earlier mss. It's one of the earliest Old High German texts. Tim Hertogh argues in recent article it was intended as an amulet to cut out & place in a hive - explaining the margins excised elsewhere.👇
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In the tenth century a charm to control a bee swarm was added, upside down, in the margin of an earlier mss. It's one of the earliest Old High German texts. Tim Hertogh argues in recent article it was intended as an amulet to cut out & place in a hive - explaining the margins excised elsewhere.👇
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The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Old English and proficiency in Medieval Latin? If yes, then you may be interested in this fixed term full time post...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Some news - I've graduated! 🥳
Bonus news - you can now read my thesis here: 📖
eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/82711/
Bonus news - you can now read my thesis here: 📖
eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/82711/
December 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some news - I've graduated! 🥳
Bonus news - you can now read my thesis here: 📖
eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/82711/
Bonus news - you can now read my thesis here: 📖
eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/82711/