Re: date, letter-forms on the reverse of the slate date 8th-9thC. Some analysis of slate here https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QNxLUoinbAsC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/FFX3sN1RNr
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Re: date, letter-forms on the reverse of the slate date 8th-9thC. Some analysis of slate here https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QNxLUoinbAsC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/FFX3sN1RNr
Another Viking-era drawing on slate, this of a boat figurehead, from Jarlshof, Shetland, via http://www.peacham.com/nordic/lerwick.html …pic.twitter.com/cyaYYzVR2S
@caitlinrgreen I take it you have seen the graffiti in Maes Howe
@JaneGrover1 Yes, wonderful stuff! Thank you for reminding me :)
@caitlinrgreen I had a tear in my eye in there (not because I knocked my head on the way in)
@JaneGrover1 Ah, you are luckier than me--I have never had the chance to see the site in person!
@caitlinrgreen Oh you should. It is staggering. The neolithic engineering is incredible - the viking graffiti is very poignant but funny
@JaneGrover1 One day it would be lovely to do that, and yes, the graffiti is great! :)
@caitlinrgreen @irarchaeology
Love the Scandinavian 'Big Hair'!
@johnghughes3 @irarchaeology Oh, I know, the hair is absolutely marvellous! In fact, I love everything about this slate!
Thank you for sharing, fascinating
my pleasure :)
@BradshawFND @irarchaeology I see the left figure having a small handbag , a female?
Possibly a portable reliquary? :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/758770278709268480 …
@caitlinrgreen @irarchaeology and there are no written records from that time just tapestries or such carvings?
@Umarkarim89 Oh, there are accounts, but also lovely depictions like this one! :)
@caitlinrgreen ahaan and which one is more authentic for a researcher specially if they are conflicting?
vichingo con tanti capelli trascina un ostaggio verso la sua nave. monastero di Inchmarnock v @caitlinrgreenpic.twitter.com/4sqSPX952I
@AlcuinsLibrary would this have struck a chord in York in 866-7: http://archive.archaeology.org/0303/newsbriefs/vikings.html … pic.twitter.com/G3JtLhelAe via @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen @irarchaeology Perhaps it's a slave?
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