
“The glassmakers in Ribe were clearly connoisseurs who preferred the clearest glass they could get their hands on.” Gry Hoffmann Barfod from the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University
“The glassmakers in Ribe were clearly connoisseurs who preferred the clearest glass they could get their hands on.” Gry Hoffmann Barfod from the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University
How the east end of the Abbey church and its furnishes may have looked – crafted by illustrator Stephen Conlin, based on evidence from the study. Image courtesy of Stephen Conlin
“Next job is to put all that sand in those decaying sand bags over our path to even it out a bit and bed all the stones in.”
“We’re a migratory species – who can connect through time and place.”
“Bryn Celli Du in Anglesey – one of my favourite places on this earth.”
“Tankerness House Museum, Kirkwall, has many exceptional ‘finds’ from the Iron Age and Pictish era – one which I particularly like is an object labelled ‘ Egg shaped amulet’ which was found at the Bu of Burray in 1989. “
“I was hoping that someone from Orkney would go to see the British Museum exhibition which includes items from the Ness of Brodgar dig, and that that person would write about it – and it’s happened! “
“Not far from where we live is what’s left of the old Rendall Parish Kirk, where I’ve often met with folk from far away looking for their relatives.”
The Neolithic Heart of Orkney – or – ‘The Procession’
The archaeologists and chemists found evidence of the use of lignite in the dental calculus of Bronze Age people from Greece.