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:
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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/ ... a silver cup, a board game, Frankish pottery and this gilded copper strap fitting, now @AshmoleanMuseum AN1923.773. 2/

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 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.