Some very sexy replica Roman Era and earlier pottery. Via Aardvarchaeology.

Interesting blogs added to my RSS feed recently (grrr to Chrome for not handling them, so I need to use Firefox for that):
Encyclopedia of New Zealand/Te Ara blog
Terri Windling's blog. Fantasy editor, artist and writer. I very much like her book "The Wood Wife".
Ellen ( Read more... )

I'll see an interesting link occasionally while at work and then email it to myself to post about later while at home.
And then forget about it.
Time to catch up. The assortment may be somewhat random or oddly clustered.

Caching for future archeologists (Aardvarcheology)
Viking era amber gaming pieces (ditto). Have to make a set...

Paleopathology ( Read more... )

Back from Winter Weekend. Yay to catching up with people. Need more sleep.

Finished handwoven satchel now. Pictures at some point. Suspect it will be lined in canvas or lighter linen at some point, but it is usable now.

Random cool links I just found:

Kopert: Medieval book binding. Latest post (as of today) is on some extant 15th C tablet ( Read more... )

Yay to the LJ feed of Loose Threads: Yet Another Costuming Blog by Cathy Raymond who posts cool stuff about Viking clothing amongst other things. I had been following sporadically when I remembered, and I know several people reading follow her already, but yay for feeds...

Amongst the cool stuff she has linked to:
Shelagh Lewin's Reconstructed ( Read more... )

Eldrimner Viking era food blog by an archeology PhD student specialising in the subject. So far appears to cover beer, food smoking and various grinding amongst other things. And one of the entires has links to other people doing the same sort of thing.

Apparently he is basically doing a summer of experimental archeology cooking at Lofotr Viking ( Read more... )

A glorious database of Kentish Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods where someone has put a large database of grave by grave finds and descriptions online from the antiquarian reports. And some of them even include some fabric details (what little they were reporting in the 19th century and earlier) eg Sarre Grave 4 with gold 'braid'. Plenty of ( Read more... )

ScienceBlogs these for today (1 July US/other side of globe) is zombies.

Fun articles include:
Zombie decomposition
Zombie orbits
Zombie evolution
Zombie vaccine
Zombie day shopping
and much more...

Happy reading :)

Ironmaking at the National museum of science and technology, Stockholm 2005 (via Four Stone Hearth 92 blog carnival.

And for somethign completely different, links to taco recipes. For later.

Very nice replicas here (Neolithic to Viking/Anglo-Saxon era).
Found off Haandkraft Blog who also do very cool stuff.

All of which was revisited when going back to see When the Boys are on parade (which I have linked to previously) for Anzac Day. For which I found the full lyrics here (pdf) pg 8 onwards ( Read more... )

Hit and miss but can be randomly good
My First Dictionary (Thanks Dad :))
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Sleep Talkin Man (Thanks alpha_angel)
Tree Lobsters
Hark, a vagrant by Kate Beaton

Steampunk
Girl Genius
2D Goggles (And now there is an LJ feed. Yay!)

Everyone knows about xkcd.

Any other favorites/recent addictions/random giggles?