@primitivemethod.bsky.social
Traditional goldsmith with a research interest in Early Medieval archaeology. In particular, complex gold hinges from the 6th and 7th centuries.
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Early Medieval hinges. I wrote a paper about the hinges from Sutton Hoo: digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/...
The Great Gold Buckle (picture) was the inspiration for that paper and is still at the centre of my research, as it combines several unusual features.
#earlymedieval #archaeology
The Great Gold Buckle (picture) was the inspiration for that paper and is still at the centre of my research, as it combines several unusual features.
#earlymedieval #archaeology
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More on the princely burials from the Sizewell C site in Suffolk. This is a really lovely BBC news article, you can almost feel the archaeologists glee
Sizewell princely cemetery reveals more Anglo-Saxon secrets
www.bbc.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 7:54 AM
More on the princely burials from the Sizewell C site in Suffolk. This is a really lovely BBC news article, you can almost feel the archaeologists glee
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Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in Medieval Studies
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQB312/l...
Lecturer in Medieval Studies
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQB312/l...
Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Medieval Studies at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in Medieval Studies
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQB312/l...
Lecturer in Medieval Studies
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQB312/l...
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Don't forget to explore our collection of 2025's most-read #archaeology, covering great research on diverse topics, from West African ancestry in medieval England to prehistoric Siberian tattoos 🏺
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 9, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Don't forget to explore our collection of 2025's most-read #archaeology, covering great research on diverse topics, from West African ancestry in medieval England to prehistoric Siberian tattoos 🏺
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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?...
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?...
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📝 I'm very proud to have contributed to this great book on a hugely important Viking-Age and Late Norse site!
📚 The Earl's Bu, Orphir. Feasting, Farming and Commerce at the Heart of the Orkney Norse Earldom
C E Batey with R Barrowman and I Mainland - The Orcadian on behalf of HES
📚 The Earl's Bu, Orphir. Feasting, Farming and Commerce at the Heart of the Orkney Norse Earldom
C E Batey with R Barrowman and I Mainland - The Orcadian on behalf of HES
January 2, 2026 at 1:00 AM
📝 I'm very proud to have contributed to this great book on a hugely important Viking-Age and Late Norse site!
📚 The Earl's Bu, Orphir. Feasting, Farming and Commerce at the Heart of the Orkney Norse Earldom
C E Batey with R Barrowman and I Mainland - The Orcadian on behalf of HES
📚 The Earl's Bu, Orphir. Feasting, Farming and Commerce at the Heart of the Orkney Norse Earldom
C E Batey with R Barrowman and I Mainland - The Orcadian on behalf of HES
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My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky
JULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS | Traditio | Cambridge Core
JULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS - Volume 80
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky
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The paperback is now out and available to buy. I'm very glad the book is finally available at an affordable price.
The paperback of Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum is now available to pre-order. There is currently a Black Friday discount of 25% available with the code BF2025S, making it < €39/£33!
www.routledge.com/Ethnic-Ident...
www.routledge.com/Ethnic-Ident...
Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum: A Modern Framework and its Problems
For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past. These finds have been used to reconstruct the alleged communities, migration patterns, ...
www.routledge.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The paperback is now out and available to buy. I'm very glad the book is finally available at an affordable price.
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For what is worth my first book is going into paperback now, so you can actually have it for less than 40 euros. (Or even better: recommend it to your librarian!)
www.routledge.com/Roman-Infras...
www.routledge.com/Roman-Infras...
Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone
Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, ...
www.routledge.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
For what is worth my first book is going into paperback now, so you can actually have it for less than 40 euros. (Or even better: recommend it to your librarian!)
www.routledge.com/Roman-Infras...
www.routledge.com/Roman-Infras...
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Me, tomorrow!
How to (re)build an early medieval church: new light on the Whithorn ‘minster’ and shrine
@firstmillennia.bsky.social 18:00, Tuesday 2 Dec
Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Teviot Place (enter via doorway 1)
How to (re)build an early medieval church: new light on the Whithorn ‘minster’ and shrine
@firstmillennia.bsky.social 18:00, Tuesday 2 Dec
Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Teviot Place (enter via doorway 1)
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Me, tomorrow!
How to (re)build an early medieval church: new light on the Whithorn ‘minster’ and shrine
@firstmillennia.bsky.social 18:00, Tuesday 2 Dec
Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Teviot Place (enter via doorway 1)
How to (re)build an early medieval church: new light on the Whithorn ‘minster’ and shrine
@firstmillennia.bsky.social 18:00, Tuesday 2 Dec
Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Teviot Place (enter via doorway 1)
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Some fabulous talks at this FREE day symposium on Thursday 20th November.
You can even hear me chatting about how some tiny tool marks can give us some big insights into the torc makers of the Iron Age.
#Archaeology 🏺
You can even hear me chatting about how some tiny tool marks can give us some big insights into the torc makers of the Iron Age.
#Archaeology 🏺
The LPFG symposium will be taking place on Thursday 20th November.
The full program can be found below.
Do join us from 10am - 5pm via the link here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
The full program can be found below.
Do join us from 10am - 5pm via the link here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Some fabulous talks at this FREE day symposium on Thursday 20th November.
You can even hear me chatting about how some tiny tool marks can give us some big insights into the torc makers of the Iron Age.
#Archaeology 🏺
You can even hear me chatting about how some tiny tool marks can give us some big insights into the torc makers of the Iron Age.
#Archaeology 🏺
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Enjoyed discussing AI and LLMs with MSc students today: we were all slightly puzzled by the recent Microsoft claim that puts Historian as the job that's no. 2 at risk from AI.
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Enjoyed discussing AI and LLMs with MSc students today: we were all slightly puzzled by the recent Microsoft claim that puts Historian as the job that's no. 2 at risk from AI.
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Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...
Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
An academic position as a Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...
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To celebrate the looming release of my next book, LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, I thought I’d do an A-Z!
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...
LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025
As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)
Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵
LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025
As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)
Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵
Little Kingdoms
Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
To celebrate the looming release of my next book, LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, I thought I’d do an A-Z!
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
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Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
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We're doing a conference on the Early Medieval Period and demand that you buy tickets and then share this post immediately.
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
The Sussex Archaeological Society Conference - Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record - Sussex Past
The Sussex Archaeological Society's Annual Conference: Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record on Saturday 8 November at University of Sussex.
sussexpast.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're doing a conference on the Early Medieval Period and demand that you buy tickets and then share this post immediately.
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
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Need cheering up on a gloomy October afternoon? The new issue of Early Medieval Europe is out!
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
Early Medieval Europe: Vol 33, No 4
Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Need cheering up on a gloomy October afternoon? The new issue of Early Medieval Europe is out!
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
Articles on justice in Bavaria, tolls in Italy, women in 10th-c. Rome, Carolingian kingship, and child slavery: mostly available Open Access 😎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254/2025/33/4
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How Copper Smelters Accidentally Sparked the Birth of the Iron Age
https://scitechdaily.com/how-copper-smelters-accidentally-sparked-the-birth-of-the-iron-age/
https://scitechdaily.com/how-copper-smelters-accidentally-sparked-the-birth-of-the-iron-age/
How Copper Smelters Accidentally Sparked the Birth of the Iron Age
Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, suggesting that copper smelters experimenting with iron-rich rocks may have unintentionally paved the way for the invention of iron. The [...]
scitechdaily.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
How Copper Smelters Accidentally Sparked the Birth of the Iron Age
https://scitechdaily.com/how-copper-smelters-accidentally-sparked-the-birth-of-the-iron-age/
https://scitechdaily.com/how-copper-smelters-accidentally-sparked-the-birth-of-the-iron-age/
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Anyone got any good recommendations for books about the Visigoths or, more generally, 4-7th c. Spain? 📚
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Anyone got any good recommendations for books about the Visigoths or, more generally, 4-7th c. Spain? 📚
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There's a new book by Martin Carver about the extraordinary project to build a copy of the ship that was buried in Sutton Hoo mound 1. Published by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and available from saxonship.org/product/book...
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There's a new book by Martin Carver about the extraordinary project to build a copy of the ship that was buried in Sutton Hoo mound 1. Published by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and available from saxonship.org/product/book...
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🏺 Has anyone done functionality experiments on Bronze Age lunate spears?
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
September 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🏺 Has anyone done functionality experiments on Bronze Age lunate spears?
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage?
Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)
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Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
Will the Real Hildegard von Bingen Please Stand up? It's Replicas All the Way Down — Sonja Drimmer
A year ago, I received a fascinating email from a stranger. The stranger was a man who had recently traveled with his wife to visit family in Germany and had decided to visit Bingen with the expectati...
sonjadrimmer.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
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Anglo-Saxons with West African roots: DNA analysis of 7th century burials reported in @antiquity.ac.uk today reveals long-distance connections reached across continents and cultures. Read about it @science.org:
Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA
Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers
www.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Anglo-Saxons with West African roots: DNA analysis of 7th century burials reported in @antiquity.ac.uk today reveals long-distance connections reached across continents and cultures. Read about it @science.org:
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"nine of the ingots – accounting for nearly a third of the hoard’s silver – were geochemically matched to silver minted in the Islamic Caliphate"
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
The hoard, which includes 29 silver ingots and several elaborate neck-rings, dates to the late ninth or early tenth century and reflects the blending of different cultural and economic influences in Viking Age England.
The hoard, which includes 29 silver ingots and several elaborate neck-rings, dates to the late ninth or early tenth century and reflects the blending of different cultural and economic influences in Viking Age England.
Viking silver hoard reveals far-reaching trade links between England
New research into a remarkable Viking-Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire, led by Dr Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, School of Archaeology, has shed light on
www.ox.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"nine of the ingots – accounting for nearly a third of the hoard’s silver – were geochemically matched to silver minted in the Islamic Caliphate"
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Spread word! In memory of the late Walter Goffart, we kindly invite scholars to submit proposals for papers on a range of topics clustered around quintessential Goffartian subjects Maps, Migrations, and the Mechanics of Settlement & Taxation in Late Antiquity. To be held at @imc-leeds.bsky.social.
August 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Spread word! In memory of the late Walter Goffart, we kindly invite scholars to submit proposals for papers on a range of topics clustered around quintessential Goffartian subjects Maps, Migrations, and the Mechanics of Settlement & Taxation in Late Antiquity. To be held at @imc-leeds.bsky.social.