Simon Coupland
@scoupland.bsky.social
FRHistS, lover of Carolingian coinage, Vikings, Jesus and my wife and daughter, though not necessarily in that order
This afternoon! Nelleke speaks about #Frisia, #Vikings, North Sea connections and much more. In Dutch 🇳🇱 but with an English translation available.
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Inaugural lecture Prof N. (Nelleke) IJssennagger-van der Pluijm FSA: Randzaken verbinden
More informationInaugural lecture Prof N. (Nelleke) IJssennagger-van der Pluijm FSATitle: Randzaken verbindenChair: Cultural history of the southern North...
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February 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
This afternoon! Nelleke speaks about #Frisia, #Vikings, North Sea connections and much more. In Dutch 🇳🇱 but with an English translation available.
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
"The skeleton of a young 6ft 5in-tall (1.9m) Viking-era man who had undergone trepanation has been found in a mass grave in Cambridgeshire." It's too early to say whether he was Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian. #vikings #medievalsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wandlebury's Viking-era mass grave finds include trepanned skull
The skull belonged to a young man whose remains were flung into the burial pit, say archaeologists.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
"The skeleton of a young 6ft 5in-tall (1.9m) Viking-era man who had undergone trepanation has been found in a mass grave in Cambridgeshire." It's too early to say whether he was Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian. #vikings #medievalsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For #FindsFriday the Tønsberg hoard from Vestfold (Norway). a-e: Louis the Pious, Christiana religio; a: Dax; b: Melle; c Sens; d: Paris; e: uncertain mint; f: Æthelstan. There is also a small fragment of a second coin of Melle. Photos: Kim Arneson Svingen and Tore Sørensen.
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
For #FindsFriday the Tønsberg hoard from Vestfold (Norway). a-e: Louis the Pious, Christiana religio; a: Dax; b: Melle; c Sens; d: Paris; e: uncertain mint; f: Æthelstan. There is also a small fragment of a second coin of Melle. Photos: Kim Arneson Svingen and Tore Sørensen.
Anyone out there want to tell the good people of Cardiff about #vikings?
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royalhistsoc.org/calendar/nor...
Norwegian and Scandinavian History and Heritage in the British Isles - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Norwegian and Scandinavian History and Heritage in the British Isles, 6–7 October at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. Call for Papers deadline - 15 May. Since December 2023, the team at...
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February 5, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Anyone out there want to tell the good people of Cardiff about #vikings?
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royalhistsoc.org/calendar/nor...
The Skumsnes hoard from Vestland in Norway: eight Christiana religio deniers and one Ecgberht of Wessex (802-839), Rochester mint, from a woman's grave. Also present: two early Danish pennies (KG 3:5 and 4:2). a: Dax; b-e: Melle; f-g Paris; h: Reims; i: Ecgberht. Photos: Søren Diinhoff. #medievalsky
February 4, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The Skumsnes hoard from Vestland in Norway: eight Christiana religio deniers and one Ecgberht of Wessex (802-839), Rochester mint, from a woman's grave. Also present: two early Danish pennies (KG 3:5 and 4:2). a: Dax; b-e: Melle; f-g Paris; h: Reims; i: Ecgberht. Photos: Søren Diinhoff. #medievalsky
For #FindsFriday Scandinavian imitations of Frankish deniers, found at Castricum in Noord-Holland, for a chapter in a book ed. by @ccooijmans.bsky.social. One copies a coin of Louis the Pious, one Lothar I: we know #vikings were settled in this area. Find report at
www.academia.edu/43960277/2020
www.academia.edu/43960277/2020
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 AM
For #FindsFriday Scandinavian imitations of Frankish deniers, found at Castricum in Noord-Holland, for a chapter in a book ed. by @ccooijmans.bsky.social. One copies a coin of Louis the Pious, one Lothar I: we know #vikings were settled in this area. Find report at
www.academia.edu/43960277/2020
www.academia.edu/43960277/2020
Reposted by Simon Coupland
Interesting line-up of numismatic events for this year including talks from @lucymoore.bsky.social and @scoupland.bsky.social among others…
The Yorkshire Numismatic Society Programme for 2026 is now live on our website at tinyurl.com/ynsprogram
YNS Programme
YORKSHIRE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY – 2026 Programme All meetings take place at 7.00pm on the third Monday of the month, via Zoom, unless otherwise...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Interesting line-up of numismatic events for this year including talks from @lucymoore.bsky.social and @scoupland.bsky.social among others…
Do you want to read about recent #viking period textile finds from Denmark, Estonia and Norway? (and earlier and later things too, including Roman scale armour). You'll find them all here, in Archaeological Textiles Review 67: atnfriends.com/wp-content/u...
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January 26, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Do you want to read about recent #viking period textile finds from Denmark, Estonia and Norway? (and earlier and later things too, including Roman scale armour). You'll find them all here, in Archaeological Textiles Review 67: atnfriends.com/wp-content/u...
For #FindsFriday two very small gold bars from the #viking age found in Denmark (🇩🇰 East Jutland) last month
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www.tv2ostjylland.dk/randers/muse...
January 23, 2026 at 5:45 PM
For #FindsFriday two very small gold bars from the #viking age found in Denmark (🇩🇰 East Jutland) last month
www.tv2ostjylland.dk/randers/muse...
www.tv2ostjylland.dk/randers/muse...
An amazing 5th C bronze cauldron now going on display after 10 years of restoration and research
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January 22, 2026 at 9:12 PM
An amazing 5th C bronze cauldron now going on display after 10 years of restoration and research
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/au...
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/au...
Tomorrow - livestream of a #Viking evening at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, with talks in Dutch but then at 20:00 UK time in English! rijksmuseum-van-oudheden.webinargeek.com/vikingverhal...
22 januari: Vikingverhalen
Tijdens de eerste editie van Vikingverhalen nemen vier internationaal gerenommeerde wetenschappers ons mee in boeiende verhalen over oud en nieuw onderzoek naar de Vikingtijd. Het gaat deze avond over...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Tomorrow - livestream of a #Viking evening at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, with talks in Dutch but then at 20:00 UK time in English! rijksmuseum-van-oudheden.webinargeek.com/vikingverhal...
Who'd like to see a #viking sword from the Netherlands? I mean, who wouldn't?!
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www.gld.nl/amp/nieuws/8...
January 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Who'd like to see a #viking sword from the Netherlands? I mean, who wouldn't?!
www.gld.nl/amp/nieuws/8...
www.gld.nl/amp/nieuws/8...
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🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 17, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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For #FindsFriday the gilt & niello silver mounts from Östra Påboda, Söderåkra, Sweden, clearly Carolingian sword-belt mounts that have been converted into ornaments. See their originally use in a detail of the Vivian Bible, produced in Tours in the 840s. Images: SHM / gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
January 17, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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For #FindsFriday a fabulous set of Carolingian sword belt mounts found near Deventer in 2022. Long ago while writing my PhD I drew how they were worn.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
For #FindsFriday a fabulous set of Carolingian sword belt mounts found near Deventer in 2022. Long ago while writing my PhD I drew how they were worn.
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New book just out by Thomas Cirotteau, Lucie Malbos & Éric Pincas - Vikings : enquête sur les femmes des terres gelées cescm.hypotheses.org/35266
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
New book just out by Thomas Cirotteau, Lucie Malbos & Éric Pincas - Vikings : enquête sur les femmes des terres gelées cescm.hypotheses.org/35266
For #FindsFriday a map of Danish single finds of Carolingian coins from 2016 to 2025, most unpublished. This is for a chapter in a book being edited by @ccooijmans.bsky.social. It shows that Frankish coins were reaching all parts of Denmark, not just trading centres or royal estates.
January 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
For #FindsFriday a map of Danish single finds of Carolingian coins from 2016 to 2025, most unpublished. This is for a chapter in a book being edited by @ccooijmans.bsky.social. It shows that Frankish coins were reaching all parts of Denmark, not just trading centres or royal estates.
For #FindsFriday the Hiddensee hoard, found in the 1870s in Neuendorf, Lkr. Vorpommern-Rügen. Scandinavian style and Christian crosses suggest a late 10th C date. The neckring is 13.5 cm, the brooch 8 cm, the cross pendants 5.1–6.9 cm. Total weight: 595.5 g pure gold. Now in Stralsund Museum.
January 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For #FindsFriday the Hiddensee hoard, found in the 1870s in Neuendorf, Lkr. Vorpommern-Rügen. Scandinavian style and Christian crosses suggest a late 10th C date. The neckring is 13.5 cm, the brooch 8 cm, the cross pendants 5.1–6.9 cm. Total weight: 595.5 g pure gold. Now in Stralsund Museum.
The largest medieval kogge merchant ship yet discovered, found in the Øresund off Copenhagen and professionally excavated - dating from c 1410 and built in the Netherlands.
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...
Arkæologer afslører middelalderligt superskib: "Det er verdens største kogge"
I 600 år har havet ud for København gemt på en kæmpe hemmelighed. Nu kan Vikingeskibsmuseets marinarkæologer sammen med DR-dokumentaren Gåden i dybet afsløre fundet af verdens største kogge, et middel...
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December 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The largest medieval kogge merchant ship yet discovered, found in the Øresund off Copenhagen and professionally excavated - dating from c 1410 and built in the Netherlands.
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...
For St John the Evangelist's day a beautiful little (34 mm) 9th-C Anglo-Saxon gold plaque bearing his symbol, an eagle, found in Brandon (Sufolk) and now in the BM. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
December 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For St John the Evangelist's day a beautiful little (34 mm) 9th-C Anglo-Saxon gold plaque bearing his symbol, an eagle, found in Brandon (Sufolk) and now in the BM. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
As we approach Christmas here's another ivory depiction of the nativity - this time in whalebone, on the early 8th C Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket. MAGI is written in runes above - the bird leading them is seen as the Holy Spirit (dove or duck? 😂) 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...
December 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
As we approach Christmas here's another ivory depiction of the nativity - this time in whalebone, on the early 8th C Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket. MAGI is written in runes above - the bird leading them is seen as the Holy Spirit (dove or duck? 😂) 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...
For #MosaicMonday a gorgeous colourful mosaic of garlands and birds in the Vatican collection. 📷 my own.
December 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
For #MosaicMonday a gorgeous colourful mosaic of garlands and birds in the Vatican collection. 📷 my own.
As tomorrow I am leading our carol service, here's a gorgeous Carolingian ivory of the nativity in the Vatican (Vat 64477). 📷 my own.
December 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
As tomorrow I am leading our carol service, here's a gorgeous Carolingian ivory of the nativity in the Vatican (Vat 64477). 📷 my own.
A conference coming soon...
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Colloque – Signes, images et représentations du pouvoir lombard (VIe-XIe s.) : les rois, les ducs, les princes / Segni, immagini e rappresentazioni del potere longobardo (VI-XI sec.): i re, i duchi, ...
Organizzazione: Guilhem Dorandeu – École française de RomeVito Loré – Università degli Studi Roma TreBernhard Zeller – Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften – In…
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December 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A conference coming soon...
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For #MosaicMonday one of the glorious mosaics in the baptistery of San Giovanni in Fonte in Naples cathedral. 5th century. 📷 my own 3/3
December 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
For #MosaicMonday one of the glorious mosaics in the baptistery of San Giovanni in Fonte in Naples cathedral. 5th century. 📷 my own 3/3