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.


Saturday, 8 November 2025

An Iron Age gold coin from Germany


His garden maintenance has an online account of the discovery of a gold quarter-stater from near Leipzig that is dated to the fourth century BC.

The article sets out to firmly place the discovery in its historical and cultural context. The coin may be more in the way of a tribute offering rather than something used in monetary exchanges. 

The writer also suggests, from the wonderfully long German name of such tiny cup shaped gold coins - or maybe tokens would be an equally good term - an interesting explanation of the folklore notion that one could find a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow.
 



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