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Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/

The foundations of the corn dryer.
A view across York.
The two brooches and the coloured beads.
Mural of the saint with dark eyes and hair, wearing a shawl and surrounded by the shoal of trout said to have guided her across the Firth of Forth to safety.
Medieval depiction of a crowned Edward, seated and holding a sword.
The front of the Golgotha Stone, which is carved with a central cross flanked by two smaller crosses, representing the cross of Christ and those of the two thieves who were crucified with him.
Artist's impression of the early church settlement at Whithorn.
The grass-covered cairn and the path leading to it.
Shallow stream with grassy banks studded with trees.
The pieces of the hoard arrayed against a white background.
Silver penny of Æthelstan bearing his name, portrait and the title rex to Brit, 'King of all Britons'.
Pages from the Book of Deer.
Vicko Ševelj models the grey Dundee United away shirt beneath the Tay Bridge.
The lidded rectangular box, which was carved in relief and was big enough for perhaps a small book or some relics.
The Book of Deer, a pocket gospel-book, lying open.
A view of St Everilda's Church, bathed in sunlight, from its graveyard.
Mark Addy as King Robert Baratheon from Game of Thrones with the caption ‘Gods, it’s hot!’
King Edgar flanked by the Virgin Mary and St Peter from Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII, f. 2v.
Edgar Ætheling and his sister St Margaret of Scotland depicted on a 14th-century manuscript in the British Library.
Boisil greets Cuthbert at Melrose in a 12th-century miniature from British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert.
The ruins of the 13th-century Whitby Abbey.
A sign for Marshall Meadows, Northumberland.
Items from the Staffordshire Hoard against a black background.
Tomb of Cuthbert.
Inside the Galilee Chapel, Durham Cathedral.
A selection of items from the treasure including bowls and brooches.
St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth.
Close-up of the hilt, half-circle pommel, guard and part of the blade.
An extract of the text from Adomnán’s Lex Innocentium, 'Law of the Innocents'.
Æthelstan, head bowed, presenting a book to St Cuthbert from a manuscript copy of Bede's Lives of St Cuthbert.
A view across Loch Leven towards St Serf's Island.
A 15th-century depiction of a crowned Henry wearing an ermine-trimmed blue robe and holding a sword.
A 12th-century depiction of Bede writing.
Lismore Parish Church, also known as the Cathedral Church of St Moluag.
Egmond Abbey or St Adalbert's Abbey.
The 10th-century Bullion Stone is a whimsical portrait of a mounted warrior drinking from a horn.
A cow grazes in a meadow fringed with trees in modern-day Moira.
The Scotland pre-match shirt decorated with blocky shapes in different shades of blue.
A depiction of Æthelthryth holding a book and flower from the Benedictional of St Æthelwold.
The reliquary takes the form of a small, house-shaped casket, and is made of bronze, silver and yew wood.
Facial reconstruction of Magnús with hooded eyes and blond, wavy hair and beard.
Iona Abbey between hills in the background and the sea in the foreground.
Aerial view of Tresness & Cata Sand, Orkney.
Beverley Minster rising above trees at the edge of a field.
The bronze crosier, which was made in the 11th century, and its silver-gilt case, or coigreach, which was made later.
Silver penny of Æthelstan bearing his name, portrait and the title rex to Brit, 'King of all Britons'.
St Margaret's gospel-book.
Harry Kane bending over to scrutinise something on the pitch.
Nether Kirkyard, St Cyrus, Aberdeenshire, beneath cliffs on the left.
Artist's impression of the early church settlement at Whithorn.
An early ring-headed cross incorporated into a wall in Banchory.
The manuscript copy of Bede’s In Marci Evangelium Expositio lying open.
Lindisfarne Castle sitting atop Beblowe Crag.
Silver coin of Aldfrith of Northumbria which bears his name on one side and a lion with forked tail on the other.
Columba depicted with mitre and crosier from Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. B. 514.
The double-linked silver chain against a black background.
Iona Abbey between hills in the background and the sea in the foreground.
The ninth-century grave marker found at Lindisfarne, known as the Viking Domesday stone, carved on one side with seven men brandishing weapons.
The ninth-century Forteviot Arch, whose imagery includes a cross with the Agnus Dei, or 'Lamb of God', and a group of robed figures with staffs.