Category: Finds
Oct 29
The Golden Rings of our Bronze Age “Elite”
These small, delicate gold objects are highly significant, they offer insight into the social status, trade connections, and cultural practices of early Bronze Age societies in Britain.
Chapter 7 – The Importance of Trade
What was so special about The Sacred Vale and Thornborough in particular, that meant this enormous monument complex had to be created? This is in no way a typical landscape for the time – nowhere else in Britain does a complex exist such as it does in The Sacred Vale.
Sep 23
Brigantia votive inscriptions – Finds and Analysis
Votive inscriptions to the Goddess Brigantia have been found in the North of England using four names: Caelestis Brigantia, Nympha Brigantia, Brigantia Augusta, and Victoria Brigantia. In this report I review what is known about them, and how this knowledge can help us understand how the Romano-British viewed the Goddess.
Sep 22
Heads at St Michael, Kirklington
Celtic Heads Celtic Head from Witham, 2nd c B.C. (British Museum) “Celtic” carved heads are found throughout the Read more Timeline 60BC – 138AD This timeline is focussed on the British Celtic culture and those cultures which had influence on the British Celts. It Read more Agricola In a series of annual military campaigns Agricola …
Sep 21
Celtic Heads
Timeline 60BC – 138AD This timeline is focussed on the British Celtic culture and those cultures which had influence on the British Celts. It Read more Heads at St Michael, Kirklington An analysis of head carvings in a local area In many churches throughout England there are carvings of possible pagan Read more Agricola In …
