Historical Fiction and Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Book Reviews and ruminations on life
4
Jan
My mother probably thought I was mad when I asked for it but I was delighted with a present my parents bought me this Xmas. It is a replica of the Beagnoth Seax which is in the British Museum. Here is a picture of it: The Seax of Beagnoth was found in the river Thames in 1857 […]
29
Jun
When the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain they did not use Latin script. Instead when they did write anything they used the Futhorc or runic alphabet. This is a series of between 24 and 33 letters which we find engraved on weapons such as the seax owned by the British museum. It is also used upon […]
Tags: Anglo-Saxon, runes
4
Jul
In 1929 an RAF crew took aerial shots of the site of the old Roman town of Venta Icenorum around the church of Caistor St Edmund near Norwich. The photographs revealed an extensive road network and soon the archaeologists moved in. During their excavations they came across a large early Anglo-Saxon cemetery with burials dating from the 5th century. In the cemetery they found some cremation urns as […]
Tags: Old English, runes, saxons