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.


Monday, 19 January 2026

A personal Roman medicine box from Worcestershire


An excavation at Broadway in Worcestershire has yielded an intact bone box with a sliding lid ( remember those old pencil boxes we used to have?) which appears to have been used to hold a medicinal ointment and was associated with the burial of a young woman.

The discovery in described, along with other discoveries at the largest Roman burial site so far uncovered in the county, in an article from the Daily Telegraph which can be seen at Roman ‘medicine’ box carved from bone uncovered

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