Friday, 11 July 2025
New exhibition on the Vikings in northern England
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The BBC News website has an article about the opening of a major exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum in the grounds of St Mary’s Abbey in Yo...
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Fr Ray Blake - Daily Telegraph obituary
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Last weekend I wrote in my post Fr Ray Blake RIP about my memories of the much esteemed Brighton priest who had died the previous week. ...
Medieval cellarage in Southampton
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The BBC News website had a very interesting article recently about a striking twelfth century cellar in Southampton which is one of the sur...
Sunday, 6 July 2025
The Monomachos Crown
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Live Science has a short article about the Monomachos Crown, apparently made in the years 1042-1050, and which features the Byzantine Emper...
Fr Ray Blake RIP
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I was very sorry indeed to hear last Thursday that Fr Ray Blake, formerly parish priest of St Mary Magdalene in Brighton, had died earlier t...
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Thursday, 3 July 2025
St Leonard’s Hospital in York
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There have been two reports online recently about the discovery of foundations of part of the buildings of the medieval Saint Leonard‘s Hosp...
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Wednesday, 2 July 2025
A Roman wrist purse from Moravia
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The Greek Reporter website has an interesting account of the discovery in Moravia of the remains of a bronze Roman wrist purse for coins th...
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Living History - Candlemas 1461
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The other day I came upon a video made by a group of re-enactors as an experiment in living history and archaeology which was conducted ov...
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