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Jul 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Images from the shipwreck in Poole harbour found in 2020. The mid-C13th ship - a v rare example of a medieval wreck - was carrying freshly-carved #Purbeck marble coffin lids and mortars. Will transform our understanding of the Purbeck marble industry. 1/ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
More photos here:
dorset.live/whats-on/whats… 2/
Intriguing that the ship's timbers came from Irish oak trees, felled 1242-1265: theguardian.com/culture/2022/j… 3/
The @HistoricEngland press release and official listing are here along with images of the domestic vessels on the ship too:
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news…
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… 4/
The find is also important because, apparently, it is the only wreck of a seagoing ship dating from from the 11th to the 14th centuries that has been found in English waters. Seems a remarkable statement: from @bournemouthuni press release. bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2022-07-2… 5/
The dendro report is here - which makes clear that the export of Irish oak planks at that time is well attested & doesn't mean the ship was built in Ireland:
historicengland.org.uk/research/resul…

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Next to a roundabout nr Burford, on the main road btw Oxford & Cheltenham, is Asthall barrow, where a man was buried with his horse in the early C7th, contemporary with the mounds at #SuttonHoo. He was buried with a copper bowl, prob from the east mediterranean ... 1/ Image
... a silver cup, a board game, Frankish pottery and this gilded copper strap fitting, now @AshmoleanMuseum AN1923.773. 2/ Image
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May 13, 2021
Cerne Abbas: mystery no more. It's hard now to doubt this is an Anglo-Saxon depiction of St Eadwold, the local saint of Cerne, as @ThomasMorcom suggested yesterday. @nationaltrust 1/n Image
In 2006, Tom Licence edited the lessons to be read on the feast of St Eadwold & argued they were written by Goscelin of St Bertin for Cerne Abbas in the 1060s or 1070s. Image
Eadwold was a hermit saint whose relics were transferred to the monastery at Cerne in the early C11th. The liturgy tells the story of his wandering as an exile in search of 'a place called Silver fountain'. He 'fixed his staff in the top of the sloping cliff' ...
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