Exciting new publication on warfare and weapon burial in Europe from the Iron Age through to the Roman period by Rasmus Birch Iversen. Not got hold of it yet, but it looks like it will be a really valuable and much-needed synthesis:

unipress.dk/udgivelser/w...

Isn't this great? A laser-scanned corpus of early medieval brooches from the Arctic Museum of Norway.

And, the renders also kind of look like ghost brooches, which is seasonally appropriate 👻

dataverse.azure.uit.no/dataset.xhtm...

#digitalcollections #opendata #archaeology

Any opportunity to hawk the open-access publication that came out of it 😉: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

A chill in the air and some blushing crabapples are telling me autumn has surely arrived now. Have a great week everyone.

This 5th-century quoit brooch from Rennes was a new one for me. A fascinating object with its best parallels in southern Britain: journals.openedition.org/archeopages/...

An early Anglo-Saxon sword bead is on my desk today, and a beautiful one at that.

Nice new PAS find. A glass bead, probably earlier than the fancy 7th-century gold pendant into which it has been set, usually reserved for much more expensive stuff like garnet, but both likely to be women's possessions. A memento from friend or family? A keepsake from childhood?