This is the next in our series of posts on metal-working written by Dr. Kevin Leahy, PAS National Finds Adviser. The articles were first published in The Searcher magazine and are reproduced here with kind permission of Harry Bain, editor for The Searcher. Of the 1.4 million objects recorded by the PAS to date, almost …more
Category: Early Medieval
Ӕthelflӕd, Lady of the Mercians and defeater of the Great Viking Army
June 12th 2018 marks eleven hundred years since the death of one of the most remarkable women that England has ever produced. Few have heard of Ӕthelflӕd (and fewer can spell her name) yet she was a warrior queen, absolutely the equal of Boudicca or Elizabeth I. Ӕthelflӕd was Alfred the Great’s eldest child, and …more
Powerful Anglo-Saxon Women
Today is International Women’s Day, and this year is the centenary of the first women voting in a UK general election. So I’d like to look today at a few objects that show us the power of Anglo-Saxon women, and where this power came from. We get hints of this power from written history, but …more
‘Beyond the Vale of York’ conference – Saturday 11th July, York
On Saturday 11th July a fascinating day conference on coin hoarding will take place in York. The joint meeting of the Royal Numismatic Society and the British Numismatic Society will discuss hoarding from the Iron Age all the way through to the Stuart kings of the 17th century. Proceedings will start at 10.20am at the …more
