Snakes, Fairies and St Patrick January 5, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Medieval
***Dedicated to Adrian Sterling*** A lead up to tomorrow’s epiphany gift to all readers: Scary Fairies: the Proto Edition. Bede begins his Ecclesiastical History of the English in 731 with a geographical overview of the island of Britain and also, given its importance in the conversion of the English to Christianity, Ireland. It is a [...]
Doublets in Ancient and Medieval History October 27, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Ancient, Medieval
***BTW we’ve set up a twitter account under DrBeachcombing, though still understand nothing*** Beach had an emotional day today rummaging through screeds of old crap in cardboard boxes. In one of these he found a strange rectangular object that our ancestors called a ‘floppy disc’. And, after much trial and error, he also found a [...]
Genocide on the Isle of Wight? July 13, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Medieval
Beachcombing has noted before the refusal of archaeologists to face up to some of the bloodier customs of our ancestors. And what better example of this than the way that most archaeologists looking away on coming across any evidence of mass killings or human sacrifice in Dark Age Britain? Indeed, despite there being straightforward references in contemporary histories and [...]
