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Lena Strid
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Zooarchaeologist, medievalist, re-enactor. PhD on parchment production in Scandinavia (in progress).
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And just a few days later, we found another spindle whorl in the same pit house! This one is slightly larger and more even. Perhaps the first one was made by a child learning the craft? #FindsFriday 🏺
Dark grey conical spindle whorl held in a slightly muddy hand.
October 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This little spindle whorl saw the daylight again today, after having been in the ground for over 1000 years! #FindsFriday 🏺
A dark brown spindle whorl, 3cm in diameter, held in a hand.
October 3, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Occasionally Seattle and Northumbria meet on my timeline ❤️
Top post: image of a sleeping fluffy grey cat, with text: anyway good night. Bottom post: image of a sunrise over the sea. Top post by Cherie Priest, bottom post by SeaWindowCraster.
July 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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For #FontsFriday, the font from Valleberga church, southern Sweden, made in the 1170s by the so-called Tryde master (Tryde being a nearby church with an equally splendid font).
An elaborately chiselled stone font, with a round top (this holds the water for baptism) on a round base. The base has four protruding heads of beasts and human figures. The other carvings show scenes from a medieval legend. There is hardly a fragment of the font that’s not decorated. Close-up of a protruding head: a lion holding a small animal in its mouth. Close-up of another protruding figure - not a head this time but two persons on horses on each side of the corner (yes, the font is round, but you know what I mean) embracing in the middle.
July 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Looking forward to lots of interesting talk today at the Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium in Copenhagen!
A printed conference schedule and a notebook on a desk.
May 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Spring in Lund
A park filled with blue Scilla flowers, and a small statue of a hare in the foreground.
April 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Have another one! (from the same site)
Cattle tooth with a zigzaging root.
March 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Will a wonky cattle incisor root do?
Cattle tooth with a root that zigzags rather than going straight down.
March 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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For #FindsFriday, just out from the soil sample: a small early medieval bone bead! (c.10 mm wide)
A little brown bead, on a wood laminate desktop.
August 9, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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The teddybear is up: Christmas is finally here!
Huge wirelight sculpture of a teddybear in a train station.
November 28, 2023 at 7:31 AM