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Hey long time no see! Very interesting

I will adjust the assigned roles to reflect the new roster as I find time to do so (this changes the little assigned icon on your profile if you hold an office). The only one which really matters is Sencha because only the Sencha can post minutes in the Meeting Meetings forum.

Comyn, Sabha, Brogan, Guthrum, and Foinoulla attended the Norseland Fall Thyng assembly to pay respects to Moriah and Wolfgang and help to send them to Valhalla. We believe this is just the Norse word for the otherworld. Comyn arrived by mid-day on Friday and set up his 8 by 10 wall, 2 Clann tables ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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from ...

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 ...

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) each year to ...

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 ...