Wow! Look at this cleaned up C7th necklace from the bed burial at Harpole, Northamptonshire. Garnets as big as coins?

Gilbert H. Doble’s “Cornish Saints” series – online in Brittany roger-pearse.com/weblog/2023/03…

I report in a rather long footnote that there's now a further hint of this sort of thing! Namely, a prob fragment of a glass bowl of Anglo-Saxon/Merovingian type in a 6th-/7th-century context from an Indian Ocean site in E. Africa that has also produced Byzantine material! :)

In this light, it is interesting to ponder whether there are any items potentially from Anglo-Saxon England in areas under Byzantine influence. In this context, I've previously drawn attention to some possible finds of Anglo-Saxon beads in East Africa (twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/…) >

This is Roman glass made in Egypt but found nearly 10,000 km away in Bali!

It's one of many imported objects from the site of Pangkung Paruk that stem from inter-continental trade >1,600 years ago

In our South & Souteast Asian archaeology collection: buff.ly/3lCxUPm

Thrilled that Katie A. Hemer and my first paper on the origins of Anglo-Saxon ivory, in collaboration with Jane Evans & Michael Buckley, is now published open access! A short thread to give you the thrust of the findings 👇🐘👜 (1/5) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Indo-Pacific beads from Europe to Japan? Another fifth- to seventh-century AD global distribution — new post by me :) caitlingreen.org/2018/07/indo-p…

Due to my field work at Cerne Abbas, I've been thinking a lot about hill figures recently. Most intriguing are those excavated by TC Lethbridge on Wendlebury Hill, Cambridge. His findings were dismissed by his contemporaries as a combination of natural & invented features (1/5)

Section through a Goddess? Great thread from Hugh Willmott and timely reminder that if we dont preserve the site at Wandlebury Woods we wont be able to test Lethbridge's claims.

A piece of seventh-century glass found in excavations near St Mary's Aylesbury, where a 2m tall Iron Age ditch is thought to have been reused as an enclosure boundary around the early minster. Hopefully it's on show in the new exhibitions at Discover Bucks Museum! bucksas.org.uk/obj6cross.html

Hello, sculpture enthusiasts! As promised, let's look at some #earlymedieval figural sculpture associated with Romsey Abbey, Hampshire. First up: this Crucifixion panel (H 74cm/ W 44.5cm). Built into the reredos of the altar of St Anne's Chapel, at the E end of the S choir aisle.

Gold and garnet animal head terminals from a seventh-century chain found in 1922 'by a labourer while digging out tree stumps' near Isenbüttel, Germany; discussed doi.org/10.1017/S00035…. 📷S Steidl, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmus., Mainz

In other news, I'm pleased to say that this volume is now available—it includes my chapter 'Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon ‘Heptarchy’: Harun
ibn Yahya’s Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain', if you fancy a read! boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276868/…

Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain & beyond: another global distribution from Late Antiquity? — new post :) caitlingreen.org/2017/07/sasani…

Another coin of the Sasanian king, Khusro II, has just turned up in Britain, this one found in Clatterbridge, on the Wirral & prob made 615-18 in Shiraz. Portable Antiquities LVPL-BED8F3. Great discussion of others by Dr Caitlin Green caitlingreen.org/2017/07/sasani…