For #FindsFriday a bit of a retrospective from my 20 years ago of Portable Antiquities & Treasure - one of the most elaborate lozengiform strip brooches known (8th- to early 9th-century), from Wellow (Hampshire), and extracted by me from the finder's 'junk box'! Drawn expertly by Alan Cracknell.

Back with the pilgrim badges for #FindsFriday. These two fragments Portable Antiquities & Treasure I think I have now better identified as former fragments of a type of crucifixion badge. Found respectively in N Yorks and Wakefield, they find parallels from London, Bristol and Stoke (Kunera) #MedRit

The Warhorse Project is holding a book launch seminar in Laver LT3, 12:30 on Thursday 27th. You can also join online: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

It's arrived hot off the press! Congratulations to all the Medieval Warhorse team. See you at the launch event on Thursday.

This Saturday SANHS is hosting the 2025 Annual Archaeology Day at Wells & Mendip Museum. Tickets will be available on the door. sanhs.org/event/wells-me…

Last week saw celebrations as the Medieval Warhorse book was launched! This major project involved manuscript and imagery research, zooarchaeology (including isotopes, GMM & DNA), studies of horse armour and equipment, and landscape studies. Congratulations to the authors!

Excited to announce that the Society for Medieval Archaeology student conference 2025 will be hosted at the University of Exeter, 31 July - 2 August! We invite interdisciplinary papers from across the medieval period. Submit your abstract by 28 April: forms.gle/2KpE7P9sJicT8a…

We have a Medieval Warhorse feature article in the latest edition of Current Archaeology magazine, and have the front cover! Current Archaeology archaeology.co.uk/issues/current…

Paper deadline for this has been extended until 12th May:

Yesterday I visited the fantastic exhibition ‘Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures’ at London Museum Docklands. So many fascinating objects uncovered by #mudlarks on the river’s foreshore give us a glimpse into London’s rich past. Love this wooden 3-pint

Find out more about this wonderful find (and various others in the exhibition) in our book '50 Post-Medieval and Modern Finds' amberley-books.com/50-postmedieva… Laura Burnett Amberley Publishing

Join us at Yorkshire Museum, York for a showcase of recent work by the Medieval Ritual Landscape Project, local metal detectorists, & digital animation students from York St John University? Book your tickets for this FREE event on Friday 13th June here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/merit-mediev…

For #FindsFriday some probable medieval spoon handles recorded by Portable Antiquities & Treasure. All would have had the same inscription - 'Mother of God, remember me'; one has the Virgin's image as well. #MedRit

Webinar reminder - mailchi.mp/sanhs.org/sanh…

🐴 Join us June 8 at 17:00 CET for the online launch of The Horse in History: A Festschrift in Honour of John Clark! Edited by Anastasija Ropa & Emma Herbert-Davies, this volume celebrates Clark’s legacy in equestrian history. 🔗 Zoom link: rsu.zoom.us/j/97585247211?…

Heureux que le travail d' Alban Pérès et de moi-même, publié par la Société française d'héraldique et sigillographie🦋, soit cité et salué par Rob Webley lors du colloque "Équipements et pratiques équestres de la Protohistoire à l’époque moderne en Europe occidentale" Unissons nos connaissances pour progresser !

J’étais très heureux de participer dans ce colloque MRSH Caen et partager ces objets très intéressants. J’ai hâte de voir les prochaines publications pendant de harnais médiéval Alban Pérès!

For #FindsFriday some medieval faces lost from monumental brasses, removed during the (long) Reformation. Recovered, and then recorded with Portable Antiquities & Treasure

Here's a new edited volume called 'Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History', edited by our research fellow Katherine Kanne and our PhD alumnae Helene Benkert and Camille Vo Van Qui. It contains some warhorse-related chapters and much more besides. sidestone.com/books/harnessi…