Research News

• June, 2014 - Tents and Work Shelters: Looking at what period evidence we have for tents.
• June, 2014 - Drinking and Blowing Horns: A quick look for Viking horn mounts
• March, 2014 - Swords found in Britain: Carrying out a review and updating images and added more swords. We've also added a county index.
• February, 2014 - Art by Gavin Archer: We've uploaded some more manuscript images as drawn by the authors.
• Oct 12, 2013 - Manuscript Search: Updating the Manuscript pages to include a search feature that will be expanded in the future.
• Sept 29, 2013 - Coats (Men): Expanded the article as part of our research into Women's coats .
• Sept 22, 2013 - Mantels and Cloaks: Updated some more information on women's cloaks.
• July 26, 2013 - Patterned Cloth: Added some more finds from the Netherlands.
• July 20, 2013 - Socks & other foot coverings: Re organisation of our Sock page.

• July 17, 2013 - Fur & Feathers‎: Initial gathering of evidence of what kinds of furs were traded and worn.
• June 30, 2013 - Picture stones from the Isle of Man: Added photos from our recent visit.
• June 19, 2013 - Illuminated Ottonian Manuscripts 950-1050AD: Completed the list as based on Henry Mayr-Harting's excellent book 'Ottonian Book Illumination'. Images still to add and additional manuscripts as referenced in other books.
• June 8, 2013 - Axes found in Britain: Added Dane Axes to the list. Still have photos to add.
• June 5, 2013 - Psychomachia: Completed the list of illuminated Pschomachia manuscripts based in the list by Stettiner.
• May 27, 2013 - Viking burials found in England‎: Rediscovered Graham-Campbell's article in 'Vikings and the Danelaw' and amending our article accordingly.
• May 8, 2013 - Sun hats: A quick look at straw hats.
• Apr 24, 2013 - Spearheads found in Britain‎: Finally converting our earlier work over to this wiki. We're also revisiting all of our sources to more fully detail the entries.
• Apr 14, 2013 - Sprang‎: A quick look at Sprang after reading 'Excavation on St Patrick's Isle' where some was found.
• March 30, 2013 - Log Chairs: Trying to find images to match Bo Jensen's list of Chair amulets to see if they all look like log chairs.
• March 28, 2013 - Amulets: We are currently reading Bo Jensen's Viking Age Amulets in Scandinavia and Western Europe and updating our amulet pages.