From the BBC News:
The land surrounding a mysterious ancient monument in Sherwood Forest is to be researched after a local history group received a £50,000 lottery grant.
A Thynghowe or Thing, an open-air meeting place where Vikings gathered to discuss the law, was discovered in Sherwood Forest seven years ago.
Experts surveyed the site this year and […]
Filed under: Vikings, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on January 17th, 2012 | No Comments »
From Fox News:
A British man rewrote medieval history on his lunch break when he unearthed evidence of a previously-unknown Viking king.
Darren Webster, a metal detector enthusiast, stopped by a field near Canforth, northern England, to practice his hobby and uncovered a hoard of silver Viking treasure buried three feet (0.9 meters) below the earth, The (London) […]
Filed under: Vikings, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on December 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
From the BBC News:
Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected.
The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones, posts or fires to mark the rising and setting of the sun.
Read […]
Filed under: Archaeology on December 5th, 2011 | 4 Comments »
From The Telegraph:
A Viking legend which tells of a glowing “sunstone” that, when held up to the sky, disclosed the position of the Sun on a cloudy day may have some basis in truth, scientists believe.
The ancient race are believed to have to discovered North America hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus.
Now experiments have shown […]
Filed under: Vikings, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on November 8th, 2011 | No Comments »
From IrishCentral.com:
A tiny County Louth village has been confirmed as home to one of the most important Viking sites in the world.
Carbon testing on trenches at a ‘virgin’ site in Annagassan have revealed that the small rural community once housed a Viking winter base, one of only two in Ireland.
The other went on to become Dublin […]
Filed under: Medieval News, Vikings, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on October 12th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From the BBC News:
Experts believe rare 12th Century slate inscriptions found on a castle were probably made to protect against evil.
The dozen scratchings were uncovered during a three-week excavation at Nevern in Pembrokeshire.
Archaeologists think the stars and other designs were made by a serf, labourer or soldier some time between 1170 and 1190 when the castle […]
Filed under: Medieval News, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on October 7th, 2011 | No Comments »
From USA Today:
So much for Hagar the Horrible, with his stay-at-home wife, Helga. Viking women may have equaled men moving to England in medieval invasions, suggests a look at ancient burials.
Vikings famously invaded Eastern England around 900 A.D., notes Shane McLeod of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Western Australia […]
Filed under: Vikings, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on July 20th, 2011 | No Comments »
From the scotsman.com:
The discovery of the remains of an aristocratic Scottish “Amazon” killed in battle during the Wars of Independence, is set to rewrite the history books.
Her skeleton was among the remains of five “high status” individuals - all of whom had suffered violent deaths - found beneath the paved floor of the “lost” Royal Chapel […]
Filed under: Medieval News, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on May 31st, 2011 | No Comments »
An interesting post from Medieval News, with reference articles.
A Viking legend tells of a glowing ’sunstone’ that, when held up to the sky, revealed the position of the Sun even on a cloudy day. It sounds like magic, but scientists measuring the properties of light in the sky say that polarizing crystals — which function […]
Filed under: Medieval News, Vikings, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »
From the Vancouver Sun:
B.C.-based, Scots-Canadian writer Jack Whyte, a leading author in the genre of historical fiction, is touting the Robin Hood-Wallace link as part of the rollout of his latest novel, The Forest Laird, based on the life of the Scottish knight who led successful battles against English overlords before his execution in 1305…
…Recent […]
Filed under: Medieval News, Archaeology, Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Historical Fiction on January 4th, 2011 | No Comments »
