Beautiful Merovingian metalwork from a very nice exhibition, "The World of Clovis", in the Royal Museum at Mariemont, of which I was previously unaware. There's lots of other lovely material there, but it was the metalwork that really caught my eye - here are two fibluæ, a reliquary and some rings and things. These last are from a grave known as ( Read more... )

We had a little excursion yesterday to the Roman Archæological Museum in Oudenburg, close to Bruges
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Second paragraph of third chapter:
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AE Housman, A Shropshire Lad XXXI:On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble ( Read more... )

Launch of Sheela-na-Gigs Map
Looks very useful!
(tags: northernireland archaeology ireland maps )

Article 50 annotated - with comments from its author
What Lord Kerr thinks it says.
(tags: ukpolitics eu brexit )

Siberian princess reveals her 2,500 year old tattoos
Fascinating. (Story from 2012.) (h/t Annie Cúglas.)
(tags: archaeology )

A Map of Europe's Fastest-Eroding Coast
Bye bye, Withernsea...
(tags: maps )

Why you should always put a coin ( Read more... )

Azerbaijan's lost transparency
Ilgar Mammadov still effective though in jail.
(tags: azerbaijan )

Belgian civil service and my car: the unbearable lightness of incompetence.
@AlinaBelskaya loses 7 months and 3000 euro.
(tags: Belgium )

David Rockefeller, Philanthropist and Head of Chase Manhattan, Dies at 101
His wife (who dies in 1996) was a ( Read more... )

Russia’s 5th Column
Buying up the Far Right in Europe and the US.
(tags: democracy eu ukpolitics uspolitics elections russia )

Electing Europe?
My colleague @MariellevHeumen on the Dutch elections.
(tags: Netherlands elections eu )

Chizhov: Don’t ask me if Russia plans to have an ambassador in Edinburgh - EURACTIV.com
Russia has over centuries had ( Read more... )

Theresa May’s Brexit poker face
What happened re the U.K. in Brussels yesterday.
(tags: eu ukpolitics brexit )

Hungary’s actions speak louder than words
@ncjcampbell on Órban's war on NGOs.
(tags: hungary democracy )

Irish lost in translation
The European Parliament needs interpreters!
(tags: ireland irish eu )

FACT CHECK: Were Mysterious Caves ( Read more... )

Northern Ireland: Did the centre hold?
@nickjbarlow quotes me, so he must be right.
(tags: Northernireland )

BBC: We should thank Buffy for today’s ‘Golden Age’ of television
Indeed!
(tags: tv buffy sf )

Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
Fantastic!
(tags: archaeology )