Three Viking warriors in a reenactment from the Jorvik Viking Festival (2012).
Reenactors and creators of the helmets, armour, clothing etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their marvelous work.
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11/10/2021
Uncategorized England, English, Jomsvikings, Jorvik Viking Festival, medieval warfare, Sweden, Valsgärde, Vendel Culture, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Viking longship, Vikings, York Leave a comment
Three Viking warriors in a reenactment from the Jorvik Viking Festival (2012).
Reenactors and creators of the helmets, armour, clothing etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their marvelous work.
07/11/2019
Uncategorized Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxons, Britain, Britannia, England, Great Britain, Prittlewell, United kingdom Leave a comment
Republication from Historic England
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Archaeologists have made exciting discoveries about the Prittlewell Anglo-Saxon princely burial in Essex.
Previously hidden secrets and insights into a high status burial in Prittlewell, Essex have been painstakingly reconstructed by a team of over 40 archaeological experts from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). The new research has been funded by Historic England and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council. It explores the nationally significant collection, including until now unidentified artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon burial chamber.
In 2003 archaeologists from MOLA excavated a small plot of land in Prittlewell, Essex. The discovery of a well-preserved burial chamber with rare and precious objects astounded them, but many of the burial chamber’s secrets lay concealed beneath centuries of earth and corrosion. Over the years since, as conservators and archaeological specialists carried out their meticulous work, the burial has slowly been giving up its secrets.
22/09/2019
Uncategorized Anglo-Saxon, Britain, Britannia, British, Briton, England, English, medieval warfare, Military history, Military technology, Nordic, Scandinavian, Shield, United kingdom Leave a comment
Some time ago, I found this image of an Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian heavy infantryman as it looks. The most interesting feature is his shield Design, so I chose to republish it. Most of his arms and armour are Scandinavian – and definitely the crow standart behind him – but most
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10/06/2019
Uncategorized Birdoswald, Britain, Britannia, Chesters, Engineering, England, Hadrian’s Wall, Μηχανική, Roman army, Roman engineering, Segedunum, Vindolanda, Wallsend Leave a comment
Republication from Following hadrian
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Hadrian’s Wall has long attracted hikers and history fans and is now the heart of an 84-mile-long (135 km) National Trail through some of Britain’s most beautiful countryside. Hadrian’s Wall stretches coast to coast across northern England, from Wallsend in the east to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast.
Three years ago, I set out to explore Hadrian’s Wall, following in Hadrian’s footsteps and of the Roman soldiers who once patrolled the empire’s frontier. Hadrian’s Wall consists not only of the visible remains of the Wall itself, but also of its associated forts, milecastles, turrets and earthworks. The sites of several Roman forts lie along the route including Segedunum at Wallsend, Chesters, Housesteads, Vindolanda and Birdoswald. Naturally, I visited all of them and I will certainly report on them in the future.
28/01/2019
Uncategorized Britain, Britannia, British, British History, England, Essex, Great Britain, Kent, London, Norfolk, Somerset, Suffolk, Wales, Welsh Leave a comment