The Land on the Edge project was commissioned by Historic England and Lincolnshire County Council to analyze the landscape history of the Lincolnshire coastline. The project resulted in two reports, a full academic report and a sh...
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The text discusses an Arabic account and map of Lincolnshire found in the Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī khtirāq al-āfāq, composed by the Muslim scholar al-Idrīsī in the 12th century. It highlights the accuracy of the description of Lincoln...
The text discusses the local name Macamathehou in Lincolnshire, which involves a version of the Arabic name Muhammad. It explores the possible meanings of the name, including the false Christian belief that Muhammad was worshipped...
The text discusses the history and use of the 'bluestones' and the 'Bluestone Heath Road' of eastern Lincolnshire, including notable examples such as the 'Louth Stone' and 'Haveloks Stone'. It also considers the potential etymolog...
The text discusses the origins of the nickname 'Cousin Jack' for the Cornish in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly in the context of emigration. It explores the evidence for the early usage of the term and sugges...
The post discusses the lost elements of the pre-modern landscape of Lincolnshire, focusing on the common land named Lissingleys and the road from Lincoln to Grimsby. It provides historical and geographical details about Lissingley...
The post discusses the recent discovery of a second Northern Song dynasty coin from England, providing evidence for contact between England and East Asia in the Middle Ages. It also explores the presence of medieval Chinese potter...
0A Middle Byzantine coin from Carbis Bay, Cornwall
2020-12-20 •
The text discusses the discovery of a late ninth- or early tenth-century Byzantine coin at Carbis Bay, Cornwall. It provides details about the coin, its context, and other similar discoveries in the area. The author also highlight...
The text discusses the importance of Lincolnshire in the fifth to seventh centuries AD, highlighting its significance in the pre-Viking era. It emphasizes the region's economic and political importance, as well as its role in the ...
The second edition of Britons and Anglo-Saxons: Lincolnshire AD 400–650 has been published, offering an interdisciplinary approach to the history of the Lincoln region in the post-Roman period. It indicates that a British polity n...
The text discusses the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It includes accounts from Arabic and Persian sources, detailing the trade routes and the use of tin in pottery and ce...
0More monstrous landscapes of medieval Lincolnshire
2020-11-21 •
The text discusses the existence of local folklore and tales in medieval and early modern Lincolnshire, focusing on the pits, mires, fields, pools, and mounds of the pre-Modern Lincolnshire landscape. It provides names of places t...
0Some interesting early maps of Cornwall
2020-11-07 •
The post shares images of early maps of Cornwall dating from the medieval era to the early seventeenth century. It provides details of each map and a brief discussion of the principal points of interest.
The text discusses the burial of a man of possible African or mixed ancestry in a late ninth- to early eleventh-century cemetery in York. It explores the findings of an osteological analysis in 2015, which suggested that the man m...
The post discusses the evidence for a late ninth-century AD embassy to India supposedly sent by King Alfred the Great, as mentioned in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'. It explores the potential context and feasibility of this voyage, ...
The text discusses the presence of Bactrian camels and dromedaries in medieval Kent, England, focusing on a reference in the fifteenth-century work known as John Stone's Chronicle. It identifies the 'Lord Patriarch of Antioch' who...
The post shares images of the submerged prehistoric forests at Trusthorpe and Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. It discusses the origins of the drowned prehistoric forest, the process of submersion, and the erosion of the forest remains....
The post discusses the global distribution of Indo-Pacific beads from the third century BC to the seventh century AD, stretching from northern and eastern Africa across to China, Korea, Japan, and Europe. It also mentions the dist...
The text discusses the existence of early medieval Christian and secular centers in the Hayle Estuary, Cornwall, with a focus on Phillack and the late Roman and early medieval periods. It shares pictures of key sites and finds fro...
The post discusses the discovery of an eleventh-century Chinese coin in Cheshire, Britain, and explores the evidence for East Asian contacts in the medieval period. It examines the archaeological context of the coin, the possibili...