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Archaeodeath

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Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger http://linktr.ee/archaeodeath

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The Govan Stones
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🪏 One of the biggest and best weeks in our recent history is here, and it's all free! 🎬 Check out the video for an amazing line-up that includes LIVE ARCHAEOLOGY, Glasgow Doors Open Days, and our TWO-DAY Viking-Age Festival!

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The Govan Stones
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⚔️ Don't miss our biggest living history event yet! 🙌 We’ve expanded our Mini Viking-age Festival at the Govan Stones to 2 FULL DAYS! 🛡️ Expect far more Viking-age practitioners, live craft displays and hands-on activities than ever before. 📍The Govan Stones 🗓️ 19 & 20 Sept 11– 4pm 🎟️ Free Entry

Archaeodeath
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New evidence shows 'Viking burials' predate Vikings www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... "This is very exciting because it shows the practice of ship burial has deeper roots in Scandinavia than previously known,"/"It's a myth that these elaborate ship burials belong only to the Viking Age"

nationalgeographic.comNew evidence shows 'Viking burials' predate VikingsThe discovery of 1,300-year-old ship nails in a burial mound in Norway raises new questions about who was actually entombed there.
Archaeodeath
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Archaeodeath update: I've a few more long-format videos to record and share through Sept and Oct via my YouTube channel and then I intend to postpone sharing new content. Still, you can watch and enjoy over 360 videos posted from May 2020 to the present here: www.youtube.com/@archaeodeath

youtube.comArchaeodeathThe Archaeology and Heritage of Death and Memory - Past & Present Professor Howard Williams shares public lectures, interviews, chats and more!

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Mel Roxby-Mackey
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Old Oswestry is also home to Mark Evans’ beautiful Janus Horse sculpture which is featured in an excellent blog post on borderland identities from @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/j...

Mel Roxby-Mackey@archaeoborders.bsky.social

Today’s Country Diary from @theguardian.com featuring Old Oswestry Racecourse. One of the most culturally liminal parts of the Anglo-Cymric borderland

theguardian.comCountry diary: The eyebright paradox: a sunny healer and tiny parasitic thief | Paul EvansThe Marches, Shropshire: Eyebrights are ancient herbs used to cure eye problems, but they also penetrate grass roots to siphon off water and nutrients
Archaeodeath
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I'm quite convinced King Harold still lives on my street to this very day.

Mel Roxby-Mackey@archaeoborders.bsky.social

A further twist in the depiction of Harold being shot in the eye comes through the myths that Harold survived the battle and lived out his days in the relative safety of the culturally liminal Anglo-Cymric borderland

theguardian.comDid Harold II take an arrow to the eye? We cannot be sure | LettersLetters: Jane M Card, Tim Wicks and Rev Dr John Caperon respond to an article about the Bayeux tapestry’s journey to the UK