There are quite a lot of Time Team episodes looking at AS England . Might be a good watch

I think everyone should encounter an Anthony once in their life. A colorful character for sure.

He also wasn’t Australian

Was a tactic of Napoleon

Pula we’re designed to bend so they can’t be used by the enemy. You wouldn’t reuse them in a battle. As for evidence, Josephus’s Jewish War, vegetius’s De Re Militibus, Arch of Titus and Trajans column are all good places to start

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Certainly in England they were manufactured in vast quantities by the royal armouries. The could have had makers marks but quantities would suggest no

I have a hypothesis that because so much damage is done to stone by the freeze and thaw cycle of water, that a cliff made of butter would be more durable than a cliff of relatively weak stone. I like to go to the next level and try some experiments, but so far nobody has been willing to underwrite my proposal for $1.7M worth of butter to build my test cliff.

Vikings established trade routes that were used for centuries. Makes perfect sense.

Why is the glass Islamic but the castle not Christian?

Truly unparalleled navigators.

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I just find this part of English society of the time fascinating and curious. They pretty much lived on a different world that's almost cryptic from most people. On the other hand you have the working class who couldn't have the time or luxury to do hardly any of that. The class divide structure of Britain has been a source of interest to me and it extended well into the military life there.

This is a perfect comment and the reason I come to this website

Did medieval archers sign or tag their arrows so they could tell who's arrow got a kill? Especially during volleys?

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Henry VIII had one bastard son, Henry FitzRoy, who was born in 1519. Not only was the question of legitimizing him raised, but the Pope at the time also agreed to grant a dispensation that would allow for the future Mary I to marry her half-brother, so they could become joint rulers.

The possibility of legitimizing Henry FitzRoy after the break with the Catholic Church remained open for a long time, but it ended when he died abruptly of tuberculosis at the age of 17.

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Meant tin, thanks for the correction.

The Vikings travelled the Atlantic in that?!

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Historians used to think of 410 as almost a rowdy tourist visit. I’m not sure that’s true anymore. It was the Vandals in 455 that really ruined things, then Belisarius versus the Ostrogoths and Lombards that did the coup de grace. But if you think about it, in 405 the Danube and Rhine frontiers are leaking but they are still there and 5 years later the Visigoths are in Rome. Very sad.

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There were also Muhammad’s running around medieval England and Ireland so it would not be surprising if there were actual Muslims who made it to Scotland as well as goods from the region (not suggesting that is how the glass got there though).

https://www.caitlingreen.org/2021/01/macamathehou-in-lincolnshire.html?m=1

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