Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Viking age culture on the Cumberland coast


The website of Popular Mechanics has a report  of the discovery by a community archaeological excavation at Silloth on the coast of Cumberland of a sizeable late Viking era hall. This would have been at the centre of what was probably a substantial farm.

The article also refers to archaeological work at the church in Workington after a fire in 1994 which revealed a rich deposit of Anglo-Viking age sculpture. The article has a link via Academia to the detailed and illustrated report on these discoveries by the archaeologists involved in the work.

Together these discoveries are filling in our hitherto limited knowledge of this area in the century and more before it was conquered by King William II.

The Popular Mechanics article, with its links, can be accessed at 50 Volunteers Dug Up a Farm and Discovered an Ancient Viking Structure



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