Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Medieval News of the Week

Kirkleatham Museum to display jewels from Cleveland grave of Anglo-Saxon
princess


Ancient skull unearthed on farm


Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery


Skeleton revealed by excavation


Video: Bodies found in a Peterborough garden



Vikings 'were warned to avoid Scotland'



Staffordshire Gold Hoard:

This of course is the big news of the week. There's been a huge amount
of coverage, so the below is a selection of links to articles and such.


Perhaps the most important link is to the Staffordshire Hoard site


On this site there's all kinds of info including a link to the Flickr
site that has a number of images in addition to those in the news and on
the site

The Beeb's Coverage

Largest Anglo-Saxon hoard found


Anglo-Saxon treasures uncovered
(largely images)

What happens to a hoard of old gold?

The 'wonderful, wonderful' hoard


Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found


Hoard shines light on Dark Ages

Crowds visit Anglo-Saxon hoard


Anglo-Saxon gold hoard is the biggest - and could get bigger


The Great Nokes of Unlocked Wordhoard has a video roundup

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is fifty percent entertaining. But then again I am extremely high right now