Adam
@eblueaxe.bsky.social
Archaeologist working in Northern England; specialist in the early medieval. Interested early medieval archaeology, board and PC gaming, miniature modelling, WW2, and most nerdy stuff
Off to speak to Glasgow archaeology Society. Everyone's overnight bag looks like this right?
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Off to speak to Glasgow archaeology Society. Everyone's overnight bag looks like this right?
Our latest #A66 video on the Roman cemetery: youtu.be/z_Zq9LASTqg?...
Archaeology on The A66: Rome's legacy in our landscape
YouTube video by Oxford Cotswold Archaeology
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January 13, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Our latest #A66 video on the Roman cemetery: youtu.be/z_Zq9LASTqg?...
I haven't seen the episode yet, but think this might be one of the bottles from the A66 as we recorded it before Christmas ready for a video you'll be seeing VERY soon! If not, it's a dead ringer! Keep tuned to @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social
The 1,800-year-old finds from Carlisle were beautiful, and it’s amazing that they survived intact. #DrawingDiggingforBritain
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I haven't seen the episode yet, but think this might be one of the bottles from the A66 as we recorded it before Christmas ready for a video you'll be seeing VERY soon! If not, it's a dead ringer! Keep tuned to @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social
Tune in tonight to see what the '66 gang have been up to!
Our Oxford Cotswold Archaeologists (OCA) on the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project are back on #DiggingforBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social tonight at 9pm on BBC 2 👀
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@cotswoldarch.bsky.social
#archaeology #A66NTP #OCAArchTeam #Cumbria
@nationalhways.bsky.social
@cotswoldarch.bsky.social
#archaeology #A66NTP #OCAArchTeam #Cumbria
January 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Tune in tonight to see what the '66 gang have been up to!
Last Feb I spoke at a reenactment conference: Vallhall: during the Jorvik viking festival. I was asked to talk on viking age houses and the talks are up on the organisers YouTube channel where you can watch all the speakers!
#archaeology #vikings #livinghistory
youtu.be/4GCt_zsjz8Y?...
#archaeology #vikings #livinghistory
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VALHAll:A 2025: Adam Parsons - "Keeping up with The Ragnarsons: The Archaeology of Early Med. Homes"
YouTube video by The Eoforwic Project
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January 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Last Feb I spoke at a reenactment conference: Vallhall: during the Jorvik viking festival. I was asked to talk on viking age houses and the talks are up on the organisers YouTube channel where you can watch all the speakers!
#archaeology #vikings #livinghistory
youtu.be/4GCt_zsjz8Y?...
#archaeology #vikings #livinghistory
youtu.be/4GCt_zsjz8Y?...
Starting to complete some of my reconstructions of repaired viking age oval brooches. #viking #archaeology #reenactment
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Starting to complete some of my reconstructions of repaired viking age oval brooches. #viking #archaeology #reenactment
We have worked so hard putting these videos together so everyone can see what we do and some preliminary findings! #archaeology
youtu.be/E0nII2SklCE?...
youtu.be/E0nII2SklCE?...
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We have worked so hard putting these videos together so everyone can see what we do and some preliminary findings! #archaeology
youtu.be/E0nII2SklCE?...
youtu.be/E0nII2SklCE?...
First prototype of a repaired P37 viking oval brooch, with a replacement iron hinge fitting, attached with iron bosses. Similar to a single shell led brooch from Clibberswick, Unst, Shetland, they are different types. But both early styles and single shelled. #vikings #archaeology #earlymedieval
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
First prototype of a repaired P37 viking oval brooch, with a replacement iron hinge fitting, attached with iron bosses. Similar to a single shell led brooch from Clibberswick, Unst, Shetland, they are different types. But both early styles and single shelled. #vikings #archaeology #earlymedieval
Multi-period handling kits done and off to their forever home! #roman #anglosaxon #vikings #museums #archaeology
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Multi-period handling kits done and off to their forever home! #roman #anglosaxon #vikings #museums #archaeology
A year; well that has flown by! #vikings
One year on from my epic chat about all things Viking-Age silver and #Viking money with the legend that is Adam Parsons!
(Dirhams were mentioned)
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(Dirhams were mentioned)
🎙 @eblueaxe.bsky.social
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The Power of Silver in the Viking Age with Dr Tom Horne
YouTube video by Blueaxe Reproductions
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November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A year; well that has flown by! #vikings
The last of few pairs of viking oval brooches in this latest batch done! #vikings #archaeology
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The last of few pairs of viking oval brooches in this latest batch done! #vikings #archaeology
A little video; the first of many, that the team and I have been working on!
Take a look at our excavations along the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project in Cumbria🚗!
@cotswoldarch.bsky.social @nationalhighways.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/zxnpMl7Ku0o
@cotswoldarch.bsky.social @nationalhighways.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/zxnpMl7Ku0o
Archaeology Along The A66: The Story So Far
YouTube video by Oxford Cotswold Archaeology
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November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A little video; the first of many, that the team and I have been working on!
A really stunning pair of gilded P37.12 viking brooches I have made for a very patient customer! I don't often get to gild the P37 series, but I am really taken wth these! #viking #vikings #livinghistory #archaeology
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A really stunning pair of gilded P37.12 viking brooches I have made for a very patient customer! I don't often get to gild the P37 series, but I am really taken wth these! #viking #vikings #livinghistory #archaeology
Working away on finishing off viking age oval brooches again today! #vikings #archaeology
September 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Working away on finishing off viking age oval brooches again today! #vikings #archaeology
Bit of a delay due to hols/Illness, I'm back with wire and silver boss work on these two viking age oval brooches. Top right are P51 double shelled type, the lower left are a custom adaptation of a single shelled P37; gilded with silver inlays soldered in the channels and engraved. #viking
August 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bit of a delay due to hols/Illness, I'm back with wire and silver boss work on these two viking age oval brooches. Top right are P51 double shelled type, the lower left are a custom adaptation of a single shelled P37; gilded with silver inlays soldered in the channels and engraved. #viking
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A week away - and two Viking festivals - means I need to catch up on Viking camps #FindsFriday again! I can't think of a good Jórvík-related find for today's Yorkshire Day celebrations, but I talked weights with Howard @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social at Heysham festival... so let's look at scales. /1
August 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A week away - and two Viking festivals - means I need to catch up on Viking camps #FindsFriday again! I can't think of a good Jórvík-related find for today's Yorkshire Day celebrations, but I talked weights with Howard @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social at Heysham festival... so let's look at scales. /1
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However, our three scales show how busy our Viking camps were with trading: they were far more marketplaces than they were fortifications. I'm going to take this opportunity to re-post Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social and my chat with Howard about scales and weights - and their links to the Great Army. /8
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August 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
However, our three scales show how busy our Viking camps were with trading: they were far more marketplaces than they were fortifications. I'm going to take this opportunity to re-post Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social and my chat with Howard about scales and weights - and their links to the Great Army. /8
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Viking Bling with Adam and Trix www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p9t... @trixranderson.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Viking Bling with Adam and Trix www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p9t... @trixranderson.bsky.social
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𝗨𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 #𝟭𝟯: 𝗧𝗮𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘄'𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁
Scattered across the landscape like ancient sentinels, hillforts rise from the earth—silent, enduring, and powerful. Yet some slip into obscurity, veiled by the mists of time, until archaeologists breathe life back into their stories.
Scattered across the landscape like ancient sentinels, hillforts rise from the earth—silent, enduring, and powerful. Yet some slip into obscurity, veiled by the mists of time, until archaeologists breathe life back into their stories.
July 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
𝗨𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 #𝟭𝟯: 𝗧𝗮𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘄'𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁
Scattered across the landscape like ancient sentinels, hillforts rise from the earth—silent, enduring, and powerful. Yet some slip into obscurity, veiled by the mists of time, until archaeologists breathe life back into their stories.
Scattered across the landscape like ancient sentinels, hillforts rise from the earth—silent, enduring, and powerful. Yet some slip into obscurity, veiled by the mists of time, until archaeologists breathe life back into their stories.
Another completed pair of viking age P42 oval brooches. Being able to make artefacts makes a huge difference to how you understand them from an academic perspective. It prevents poor interpretations as well as inaccurate writing regarding how things are made; prevalent within archaeology #vikings
July 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Another completed pair of viking age P42 oval brooches. Being able to make artefacts makes a huge difference to how you understand them from an academic perspective. It prevents poor interpretations as well as inaccurate writing regarding how things are made; prevalent within archaeology #vikings
Twi sets of silver plate soldered into the channels of these P37 brooches and engraved. Next to fit the face mounts, then they can be gilded! #viking
July 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Twi sets of silver plate soldered into the channels of these P37 brooches and engraved. Next to fit the face mounts, then they can be gilded! #viking
There seems to be a lot of younger academics talking absolute garbage about finds due to inexperience these days, with an awful lot of confidence and self promotion. I thought those days were past us, but perhaps that is just the circle of life!
July 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There seems to be a lot of younger academics talking absolute garbage about finds due to inexperience these days, with an awful lot of confidence and self promotion. I thought those days were past us, but perhaps that is just the circle of life!
My mate Ezra made a stonking video all about Vikings (with a little help from Mum and Dad!) Give it a watch and a like! youtu.be/twIDqfQQD1Q?...
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July 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My mate Ezra made a stonking video all about Vikings (with a little help from Mum and Dad!) Give it a watch and a like! youtu.be/twIDqfQQD1Q?...
My eldest did his work experience in our office recently and him and three other students put together this short video on some of the post-excavation processes they did and why we do them (including the video!) Please give it a watch and a like; I think they did an awesome job!
We recently hosted a group of students in our Lancaster Office where they had the opportunity to get hands on with archaeology. Check out video below to hear more about everything they learned ⬇️
Thank you to the students for being so enthusiastic - we see a bright future ahead! 🎥🎙✨
Thank you to the students for being so enthusiastic - we see a bright future ahead! 🎥🎙✨
Student Snapshot: A Day in the Lancaster Office
YouTube video by oxfordarchaeology
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June 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
My eldest did his work experience in our office recently and him and three other students put together this short video on some of the post-excavation processes they did and why we do them (including the video!) Please give it a watch and a like; I think they did an awesome job!