tdbcelts.org

Rare La Tene style Celtic helm and several other items have been discovered in Poland at Łysa Góra which expands the known area of Celtic influence into northern Poland. The helm is a very rare type and one of the few examples known to exist. Evidence of a defensive settlement spanning roughly three...

Lots of great information about torcs and their making to be found at this website: https://bigbookoftorcs.com/ You can find links to open access papers about torcs and lots of shorter articles. Reason for posting is that Ford Hallam, one of the goldsmiths involved in the project sadly passed away a...

Done in a sort of game show format, the host speaks out a sentence in Gaulish and speakers of various modern day Celtic languages attempt to figure out the meaning. They don't have a dedicated Irish speaker but the Manx teacher also speaks Irish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_4GOYFlVc Gaulish.p...

Archaeological State Collection in Munich Found in Gde. Manching, district Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm, Reg.-Bez. Upper Bavaria in 1972 circa 200BC 4.3x3.3 cm It was originally sealed with an organic material, presumably a leather strap. The diameter of the smallest coin is 6.5mm coin-purse.png from https:/...

Time Team, Season 3 Episode 5 The Hunt For The Lost Irish Palace Time Team is a show that ran on Channel 4 in the UK from 1994 to 2014 (recently revived online) which did archaeological investigations over a weekend at various sites (mostly in England). The team changed from week to week but it was...

It is also spelled Gothrun in some sources. He is called the "king of the pagans" by Alfred, but he actually was in England because his bid for the Danish throne had failed, so instead he led a sizable army of Danes in the 870s across England choosing a new locale (about 100 miles away) ea...

Alfred, alone of Anglo-Saxon kings, inspired a full-length biography, written in 893, by the Welsh scholar Asser. This work contains much valuable information, and it reveals that Alfred laboured throughout under the burden of recurrent, painful illness; and beneath Asser’s rhetoric can be seen a m...

It's been many years since the BBC special about this project so it's awesome to see how far they have come since then.

https://youtu.be/Ajqort8ldXA

Comyn

Midrealm's winter RUM event in Fairborn Ohio is scheduled for Feb 12, 2022
Of interest to others is that their A&S will have a virtual component.
Zoom links to be published on Feb 9 on their schedule page:
The schedule lists several classes which might be of interest.

This area was retired sometime last year. All PDFs and scans were downloaded at that time and archived.