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Pieces discovered at Llangors Crannog may be a royal tunic over 1,000 years old.
In early medieval times, the crannog, an island constructed in the lake, was the site of a royal llys or court.
Conservators have analysed these fragments and found that they are made of linen and silk. The tunic was once decorated with birds, lions and vine leaves.
St. Fagans National Museum of History, nr. Cardiff, Wales
Stone With 1,600-Year-Old Irish Inscription Found in English Garden
A geography teacher, Graham Senior, stumbled across a rock with mysterious incisions while tidying his overgrown garden in Coventry, England. The discovery of a small stone carved with an early form of Celtic script has caused excitement among archaeologists.
The rectangular sandstone rock was found by Graham Senior in Coventry during lockdown in 2020 while he was weeding, but its true value was only recently understood.
The 11-centimeter-long and 139-gram rectangular sandstone rock had cryptic inscriptions on it that suggested a history spanning over 1,600 years, all written in the mysterious Ogham alphabet.
Ogham is an early medieval alphabet used to write the Archaic Irish language from the 4th to the 6th century and Old Irish from the 6th to the 9th century. It is usually found carved on stones in Ireland, Wales, and western Britain. It was the first written language in Ireland. The majority of the 400 or so known inscriptions from the Archaic Irish period are family name pillars that were built to announce land ownership.
Ogham is an extremely unique writing system among all writing systems, with lines arranged in groups of one to five only. The stones provide insight into the Irish language before the use of the Latin insular script.
Finds liaison officer for the Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that the discovery on an Ogham stone in the English midlands was a rare find.
“These finds do not turn up in the midlands. The bulk of Ogham inscriptions are found over in Ireland,” she said.
Professor Katherine Forsyth of Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow conducted additional research that shed more light on the stone’s provenance. Her findings point to a period suggesting a timeframe ranging from the fifth to sixth centuries, with the possibility of an even earlier date in the fourth century.
The stone is inscribed on three of its four sides. The inscription on the stone, “Maldumcail/S/ Lass,” puzzled researchers, with interpretations pointing towards a version of the personal name Mael Dumcail, but the meaning of the S and LASS is unclear. Given the usual purpose and significance of ogham stones, it may be a location reference.
Theories regarding the origins of the stone abound, with speculations ranging from migration patterns to the presence of early medieval monasteries in the region.
The rock will be displayed at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, to which Senior has donated it permanently. It will feature in the forthcoming Collecting Coventry exhibition, which opens on 11 May.
By Oguz Kayra.
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Worth butterfly fancy dress ca. 1912
From Whitaker Auctions
'The Blair Drummond Iron Age Hoard', Gold Torcs, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Babe you ok? You’re posting ornate London sewage pumping stations again
Funerary Crown of Mary of Burgundy, 1482.
Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston
Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.
Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
Do you like not spending huge amounts of money on them?
They got pretty much everything!! Vintage maps, mushrooms, flowers, trees, bugs, birds, corals, fish, palm trees, feathers, tropical fruits, you name it!!
They even got some works of my dude Ernst Haeckel on there!!!!
I could go on and on but I suggest you check it out yourself. Personally, I will be covering my entire apartment with these once copyshops are open again. But even if you don’t want to do that, just browsing all these beautiful illustrations is a great way to spend your time.
Have fun and stay save!
Hampton Court Palace by Jenny Adin-Christie
hand embroidery
I was re-reading the last couple of chapters of the return of the king yesterday. The hobbits are mainly refered to as just their first names, except for in more professional settings. But there’s this one time that stood out to me, where the narrator refers to Frodo as ’Mr. Frodo’. It’s not in on special occasion, theyre just talking about how he’s wearing Arwen’s jewel.
And I was like ”haha it’s almost like Sam wrote it, and forgot that he had to stick with just calling him Frodo.” And then. I just. Yeah. That’s probably exactly what happened. Later in the chapter, when Frodo gives Sam the Red Book, Sam notices that everything, except for the very last few pages of Chapter 80, is unfinished. And LO AND BEHOLD the gray havens chapter is Chapter 80 of the Red Book (the red book of westmarch contains both The Hobbit and the Lord Of The Rings)
So, i was blown away by this obviously. I felt like the Champion Of Lotr Lore for figuring all of this out by myself. But I wanted to make sure I was right, so I googled it. And someone on Reddit had noticed it too!
So yeah, I’m like 99% sure we can pinpoint exactly where Frodo stops writing, and Sam starts. Right down to the sentence. And I think that’s really cool.
Detail of Panel from window on north wall of the chapel of Christ’s College, Cambridge, depicting Lady Margaret Beaufort wearing a coronet, kneeling at a desk in front of a book of hours . Probably made at the time of the consecration of the chapel in 1510.
This window is actually in All Saints' Church in Landbeach, Cambridgeshire (Christ's College does have spectacular stained glass featuring Margaret, although much of it is 19th century art.) It was originally from Wimborne Minster in Dorset, where her parents are buried; the window also features images of her parents, John Beaufort and Margaret Beauchamp:
This may be an incredibly rare contemporary image of Margaret from before her last widowhood, after which she was posthumously portrayed as an old woman in severe mourning garb.
So I have this concept for a retelling of Much Ado About Nothing where everything takes place in a post WWII spy agency and Hero is actually being accused of treason instead of infidelity, and she and Beatrice are both Japanese American.
Have you seen our new Anglo Saxons home learning pack yet? 📚✏️
Travel back in time to Anglo Saxon England with a short video from our Learning team, try your hand at a quiz and have a go at two jigsaw puzzles. You can also learn how to make your own Anglo Saxon brooch in our short craft activity video.
Give it a try today: ashmolean.org/home-learning-anglo-saxons
These coins are from the Crondall Hoard, which was buried before AD 650 and includes the earliest-known Anglo Saxon coins. The hoard was found in Hampshire in 1828 and came into our collections in 1944.
• Cloak.
Date: 1560-1569 (woven), 1580-1590 (altered)
Place of origin: Spain (made); Florence (woven)
Reconstruction of mediaeval mural paintings showing Queen Philippa of England (c.1310-1369) with her daughters at prayer by Ernest William Tristram (1882-1952)
