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The Oseberg Ship from Norway is the World’s best-preserved #Viking ship. Built of oak around the year 820, it was pulled ashore fourteen years later for use as a burial ship for two powerful women. Found in a large burial mound in 1903, it was excavated the following year. 📷

Relief map of Europe.

Bede, aged just 19, was made deacon by John, bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham), #OTD in 693.

I hope you have some family fun this week, medieval lovers! 💀

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July 1: Feast of Servan (Serf) (C6th), bishop. Pictish king Bridei, son of Dargart, and Adomnán are credited with dedicating Culenros (Culross, Fife) and St Serf’s Island, Loch Leven, respectively to him. 📸Oliver Dixon

Marching north on a campaign against the Scots, Æthelstan, king of the English, visited the shrine of St Cuthbert at either Cuncacestre (Chester-le-Street) or more likely Ubbanford (Norham) #OTD in 934. He gifted precious items, including books and vestments, to the church there.

The Kingmoor Ring. An Anglo-Saxon gold finger-ring engraved with runes, thought to be a magical inscription. 8th-10th century AD. Found by a man fixing a fence near Kingmoor, north of Carlisle, in the early 1800s. 📷 British Museum britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… #Archaeology

July 3: Feast of Cilléne Droichtech (†752), abbot of Iona. He renewed Adomnán’s Lex Innocentium, 'Law of the Innocents', which protected women, children and clergy, especially during warfare. Sléibíne mac Congaile succeeded him.

The discovery of the C10th Skerne Sword was reported in the Hull Daily Mail #OTD in 1982. Archaeologists found it at Skerne, Yorkshire, sheathed in a sheepskin-lined scabbard of willow/poplar. The pommel and guard are decorated with inlaid silver and copper wires. 📸Hull Museums

Ceolfrith, having resigned the abbacy of Wiremutha-Gyruum (Wearmouth-Jarrow), left Northumbria on a ship #OTD in 716. He took the Codex Amiatinus, a gift for the Pope, but died in Gaul on 25 September. The book is named after the Tuscan monastery where it later appeared.

The St Ninian’s Isle Treasure was discovered by schoolboy Douglas Coutts #OTD in 1958. The 28 silver and silver-gilt objects were wrought in the second half of the C8th; most are considered Pictish. A porpoise's jaw bone also featured in the hoard. 📸National Museums Scotland

We are so excited for #IMC2025 next week, and we’ve put together a whole month of Medieval merriment to celebrate! Enjoy special prices on over 100 books in our Medieval and Viking Sale until 31st July 🛒bit.ly/3TmPzYA

The first pieces that make up the Staffordshire Hoard were found by detectorist Terry Herbert near the village of Hammerwich #OTD 2009. Subsequent excavations unearthed the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver treasure yet found. 📸The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

July 7: Feast of Hædde (†705), bishop of Wintancæstir (Winchester). He was educated at Streanæshalch (Whitby) and consecrated by Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, in 676. Bede remarks on his prudence and innate wisdom.

July 7: Feast of Boisil († c.661), prior of Mailros (Melrose, Scottish Borders). Bede calls him 'a priest of great virtue, endowed with a spirit of prophecy'. He died of plague. The village of St Boswells is named after him. Cuthbert, whom he mentored, succeeded him as prior.

I'm reading Tom's Midnight Garden having vaguely remembered the BBC adaptation. What a gorgeous story.

Today is the 1050th anniversary of the death of King Edgar, who died in 975. One of the first kings to rule a united England, his reign was remembered as a Golden Age of peace and prosperity. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records his death with a moving poem. patreon.com/posts/king-of-…

Edgar the Peaceable, king of the English, died #OTD in 975. He had ruled Northumbria and Mercia since 957, and became rex Anglorum upon the death of his brother Eadwig in 959.

Edgar Ætheling, having left Flanders, arrived in Scotland, where his brother-in-law Máel Coluim III and sister Margaret reigned, #OTD in 1074. The pretender to the English throne then departed for England, where King William I ‘reversed his outlawry and that of all his men’.