Dr Tom Horne
@hornesupremacy
Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Gla) | History MA Oxon. Balliol, Oxford | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom; Treasures of the Vikings | Co-Editor / Co-Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | The Govan Stones
🗣 📺🎙 I loved talking all things #Viking with Becky Hill when we chatted about my new book, Treasures of the #Vikings, on the Valhalla Conversations Podcast! YouTube youtu.be/P03hjDCciRo Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4kKu... Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... @soulchaserbecky.bsky.social
Treasures of the Vikings is in good company, and back in the top 100 for Photography Collections 📈 📚
🏛 The Roman emperor Commodus as Hercules Probably carved in early AD 192, it was buried after his assassination at the end of that year, and so escaped the obliteration that befell many statues and inscriptions of him under the Senate's subsequent condemnation. My 📷 Musei Capitolini
🪨⛏️🤺 The Govan Warrior Is this the best find in our 1,500-year-old kirkyard since 1855? @govanstones.bsky.social
The Galloway Hoard, but multiple stashes of the better biscuits hidden by a decoy.
🏛 If you were to visit just one archaeological site in Rome, Nero's Domus Aurea - his Golden House - might be that place. Deliberately buried for the foundations of the Baths of Trajan, the scale is mindmelting and the preservation of the Roman-era murals astounding 🎨🖌 My 📷
I'm now taking expressions of interest for additional freelance and fixed-term contracts! Please contact me via my website if you're interested. Thank you! drtomhorne.com
📺 🎬 🪙 Viking Gold! It was a delight to record my interview with Giselle Király for The Archaeologist's Notebook, a great new YouTube channel that's all about #archaeology ⛏️ Watch this space and do subscribe to The Archaeologist's Notebook to see my episode when it's released and much more besides!
📚 📈 Soaring back into the top 100 Photo Collection books like an Olaf Guthfrithson Raven Penny corvid 🐦⬛
⚔️🪙 A Gallic and Gallo-Roman productive settlement and sanctuary complex at Allonnes la Gauloise in France has produced an array of metal devotional objects, including weapons, coins, and decorative elements. @inrap.fr open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
⛓️ A large Gallic and Gallo-Roman ‘productive settlement’ and religious complex at Allonnes la Gauloise in France has produced an array of metal objects, including shackles for female or child slaves. ⛏️ @inrap.fr open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
🏛 A Roman stone sculpture of a protective deity carved over 1,600 years ago has been discovered underneath a barrack floor in Vindolanda, near Hadrian’s Wall. Likely originally part of a shrine (lararium), it is thought the carved figure is a 'Genius'. open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
💥 The Archaeologist’s Notebook 💥 📰 Roman Guardian Spirit Sculpture Found Near Hadrian’s Wall | The Vindolanda Trust 📰 Iron Slave Shackles Discovered at Ancient Gallic Market | Inrap 📰 New Kingdom Tomb Unearthed in Egypt | Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
🏛 Ancient Roman bronze doors, reused at the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome. 🚪 The Roman Senate house's doors were removed from the Curia Iulia - then the Sant'Adriano al Foro church - in the Forum Romanum before being appropriated for SJL by Pope Alexander VII ⛪️
💥 What a weekend of the 18th and 19th July we'll have at the @govanstones.bsky.social. Includes LIVE ARCHAEOLOGY all weekend in our 1,500-year-old churchyard, Vanguard Centre medieval weapons workshops, a Hobby Clan dig, Giant Chess & a FREE TALK with Little Kingdoms author, @alexharvv.bsky.social!
☠️ 🏛 🏺 Iron Age Burials Reveal Elite Britons’ #Roman Links Of the c. 100 burials found in a cemetery near Chelmsford in Essex, five belonged to elite individuals, their status broadcast through a range of prestige Roman imports used as grave goods. open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
☠️🏛🏺 Iron Age Burials Reveal Elite Britons’ #Roman Links Of the c. 100 burials found in a cemetery near Chelmsford in Essex, five belonged to elite individuals, their status broadcast through a range of prestige Roman imports used as grave goods. open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
🇳🇴 ⚽️ 🏴 I'm in Morgenbladet, talking about Norway, England & Lindisfarne 'Alcuin was a real superstar. The fact that he wrote letters about the incident to the right people really got the message across' Lindisfarne braces for a new meeting with the Norwegians (£) www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/lind...
Break a Leg! Injured Late Medieval Hunting Bird Given Metal Splint 🦅 Archaeologists have revealed the probable use of a metal splint to help a valuable Late Medieval hunting bird recover from a broken leg 🩹 open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
This guy is my new hero! I was making the same point to a nice Morgenbladet journalist just the other day. All (really) good fun, of course, but the academic in me says he's right that the rowing tifo needs footnotes 🤣 www.instagram.com/reel/DalouSp...
⛪️🏛 Excavations in Oderzo, Italy, have uncovered spectacular mosaics from what is believed to have been the city’s first church. Digging in advance of a residential project, archaeologists have unearthed large areas of Late Roman multicoloured mosaic floors. open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
📜 One of only 11 known surviving copies of the Declaration of Independence printed in 1776 has been discovered in The National Archives, in London. ⛵️ The copy reached Britain after an American privateer was captured by a Royal Navy vessel on Christmas Eve, 1776. open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
📚 If you've read my magnum opus, A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain, would you be most kind and review it on Goodreads, please? Thank you! May the wind fill the sails of your longship, and your purse be full of hacksilver! www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...
Hall and Oats: Early Medieval Hall and Cereal Farm Found 🌾 Part of the A66 project, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology have uncovered an important rural settlement dating to between the 7th and 10th centuries near Kirkby Thore, Cumbria. @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian style Govan Stones 'hogback' grave marker! 🐖🪨⛏️ See it and its four siblings at the @govanstones.bsky.social ⛪️
💥 The Archaeologist's Notebook 💥 📰 WW2 Tank Destroyer Found in Airbase Sand Pit 🪖 📰 Sealed Roman Sarcophagus Opened in Croatia ☠️ 📰 Likely Prehistoric Ceremonial Timber Circle Monument Discovered on Arran 🪵 📰 Viking Age Fabric Factory Unearthed in Denmark 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
Circle of Life? Indications of Major New Prehistoric Circle Monument at Machrie Moor A possible prehistoric timber ceremonial circle has been discovered via a geophysical survey on the Isle of Arran by archaeologists from Historic Environment Scotland. ⭕️ open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...
🎬 My Reels are proving popular on the Govan Stones' Facebook, and that's before the upcoming films on our Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian hogbacks! ❤️ @govanstones.bsky.social