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
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)
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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
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@cotswoldarch.bsky.social @nationalhighways.bsky.social
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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!
I've been making good progress with some problems with the P51 brooches I've been having: first four pairs underway! Two pairs of P42s are about to head out and the second two pairs are close behind! Aa way to go but the battle is slowly turning!
#viking #vikings #craft #livinghistory #reenactment
#viking #vikings #craft #livinghistory #reenactment
May 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've been making good progress with some problems with the P51 brooches I've been having: first four pairs underway! Two pairs of P42s are about to head out and the second two pairs are close behind! Aa way to go but the battle is slowly turning!
#viking #vikings #craft #livinghistory #reenactment
#viking #vikings #craft #livinghistory #reenactment
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To celebrate yesterday's anniversary of the finding of the Cuerdale hoard (15th May 1840), we're going to look at this little silver ring for our Viking Camps #FindsFriday today.
This is database number T79, one of the earlier finds from the site, recorded by the late and great Mark Blackburn. /1
This is database number T79, one of the earlier finds from the site, recorded by the late and great Mark Blackburn. /1
May 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
To celebrate yesterday's anniversary of the finding of the Cuerdale hoard (15th May 1840), we're going to look at this little silver ring for our Viking Camps #FindsFriday today.
This is database number T79, one of the earlier finds from the site, recorded by the late and great Mark Blackburn. /1
This is database number T79, one of the earlier finds from the site, recorded by the late and great Mark Blackburn. /1
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Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social and myself are working on this theme at the moment, looking at how traces of the Great Army and the cultural influences of the force can be seen moving westwards. If you want to know more, you'll need to watch his presentation at the Midlands Viking Symposium tomorrow! /7
Midlands Viking Symposium - The University of Nottingham
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May 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social and myself are working on this theme at the moment, looking at how traces of the Great Army and the cultural influences of the force can be seen moving westwards. If you want to know more, you'll need to watch his presentation at the Midlands Viking Symposium tomorrow! /7
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After a Melsonby-hoard-related delay, the announcement of this is finally official - I've been on tenterhooks waiting!
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)
May 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
After a Melsonby-hoard-related delay, the announcement of this is finally official - I've been on tenterhooks waiting!
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)
The P42 oval brooches are polished, cleaned, and gilded, and I've started wiring them up now! The P51s are a little behind alas, but hopefully I'll have those back on track in the next month.
#viking #viking #archaeology #livinghistory #reenactment #crafts #vikingjewellery
#viking #viking #archaeology #livinghistory #reenactment #crafts #vikingjewellery
May 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The P42 oval brooches are polished, cleaned, and gilded, and I've started wiring them up now! The P51s are a little behind alas, but hopefully I'll have those back on track in the next month.
#viking #viking #archaeology #livinghistory #reenactment #crafts #vikingjewellery
#viking #viking #archaeology #livinghistory #reenactment #crafts #vikingjewellery
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1,000+ views of @eblueaxe.bsky.social's chat with me about The Power of Silver in the Viking Age: The Silverdale Hoard in Context!
Thanks again to Adam Parsons for asking me to talk about #Viking silver economies and trade networks.
📺 Click the link below, and do subscribe to Adam's YouTube!
1,000+ views of @eblueaxe.bsky.social's chat with me about The Power of Silver in the Viking Age: The Silverdale Hoard in Context!
Thanks again to Adam Parsons for asking me to talk about #Viking silver economies and trade networks.
📺 Click the link below, and do subscribe to Adam's YouTube!
May 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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1,000+ views of @eblueaxe.bsky.social's chat with me about The Power of Silver in the Viking Age: The Silverdale Hoard in Context!
Thanks again to Adam Parsons for asking me to talk about #Viking silver economies and trade networks.
📺 Click the link below, and do subscribe to Adam's YouTube!
1,000+ views of @eblueaxe.bsky.social's chat with me about The Power of Silver in the Viking Age: The Silverdale Hoard in Context!
Thanks again to Adam Parsons for asking me to talk about #Viking silver economies and trade networks.
📺 Click the link below, and do subscribe to Adam's YouTube!
My weekend up at Moorforge historic craft weekend, doing some experimental work and education!
May 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My weekend up at Moorforge historic craft weekend, doing some experimental work and education!
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I had a go at interpreting this fragment as a weight, using one of the lovely Loch Glashan brooch reproductions made by @eblueaxe.bsky.social (and with his help).
Adam had set an amber cabochon into the loop which I didn't have the heart to drill out - but otherwise I feel it turned out well. /6
Adam had set an amber cabochon into the loop which I didn't have the heart to drill out - but otherwise I feel it turned out well. /6
April 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I had a go at interpreting this fragment as a weight, using one of the lovely Loch Glashan brooch reproductions made by @eblueaxe.bsky.social (and with his help).
Adam had set an amber cabochon into the loop which I didn't have the heart to drill out - but otherwise I feel it turned out well. /6
Adam had set an amber cabochon into the loop which I didn't have the heart to drill out - but otherwise I feel it turned out well. /6