A pig playing the bagpipes whilst sat on a stool; a medieval painted glass panel in the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough.pic.twitter.com/xaWAnhUM56
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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A pig playing the bagpipes whilst sat on a stool; a medieval painted glass panel in the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough.pic.twitter.com/xaWAnhUM56
One of the Mesolithic red deer crania headdresses from Star Carr, N.Yorks, made c.9000 BC, poss a shamanic costume:pic.twitter.com/BsJyMgG771
A c.11,000 year old barbed point made of red deer antler; found Star Carr, N.Yorks, now in the Rotunda, Scarborough.pic.twitter.com/etiCXHPgS1
An Early Bronze Age coffin from Gristhorpe Barrow, near Scarborough; dates c.2200-1900 BC & made from an oak trunk:pic.twitter.com/nLDatqFZx6
Closer view of the Bronze Age coffin from Gristhorpe, N.Yorks, showing a rough carving of a human face at one end:pic.twitter.com/eOIh6vZrOO
An oak branch from 1750-1530 BC, placed on the Gristhorpe coffin when the barrow was reopened at that time:pic.twitter.com/nFJWzbeyNy
are there thoughts that this is a burial of a high-status, non-warrior, religious figure, maybe an important/founding druid?
Beyond saying is clearly unusual rite and involved a lot of effort, so prob high-status, not sure we can say more, alas?
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