A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon gold cross pendant from Newball (Lincs) for #lincolnshireday; hollow & poss held a relic: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/519474 …pic.twitter.com/VfRXZHLJvE
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A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon gold cross pendant from Newball (Lincs) for #lincolnshireday; hollow & poss held a relic: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/519474 …pic.twitter.com/VfRXZHLJvE
Detail of the late 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Witham Pins for #lincolnshireday; found 1826 in the River Witham: http://medieval-illumination.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/anglo-saxon-treasure.html …pic.twitter.com/yEIqAFS1Gc
A Romano-British shoe from a 'bog body' discovered on the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire, in 1747 #LincolnshireDay http://makinghistory.sal.org.uk/ajax.php?id=164&st=3_a_2&p=0 …pic.twitter.com/xLDbew88c4
A Samanid dirham of al-Shash, Uzbekistan, c.AD 912, found Revesby, Lincs #LincolnshireDay https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/470382 … & http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/12/distribution-of-islamic-dirhams-in-england.html …pic.twitter.com/LydxR8Sg4C
There's a great resemblance to the Bayeaux tapestry - I wonder if the planners saw these sort of mosaics...?
Parallels have definitely been seen between mosaics and the tapestry :)
Amazing sense of movement & colour in a mosaic form.
Yes! It's so full of life :)
Incredible scene so well preserved. Local work do you think? (Albeit 'encouraged by Roman pointy sticks and whips)
Yes, probably local work or itinerant craftspeople, possibly though by no means certainly from a pattern book :)
That is fabulous.
Agreed! :)
Wonder why one person is on horse back and another seems to be leading a horse?
Looks like he got off his horse to help the charioteer whose wheel came off
Various interpretations of the figures—good online discussion here fwiw :)https://romanlincolnshire.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/horkstow-mosaic-sporting-allegory/ …
Thanks!
so the British obsession with gambling on horse races has deep historical roots...
Hmmm. I just realized that chariot racing is the predecessor to NASCAR. Gorgeous mosaic!
Any idea what the white w red stripes thingies in the chariots are?
Bayeux tapestry is already there!
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