The castle has no Biblical imagery?

Somebody did not read the article.

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There's a reason we still use ceramics for plates, cups, bowls etc... not strictly stoneware but I suppose it could still come under that bracket. Weve made items from ceramic for a long time and it's incredibly durable, cheap, easy to clean and tough. Look at how we'll preserved many roman mosaics are as well

Not quite Scotland, but King Offa of Mercia minted gold coins containing Arabic script in the style of Caliph al-Mansur of Baghdad in the mid-8th century.

Westerns think of the era of post Roman downfall as a 'dark age', but it was really an age of global trade links being established by technological improvements. Norse longships that could run on ocean and way upriver. Arab warriors incorporating horses into their mobile attacks. And a BIG example of the establishment of Arabic as a wide-ranging spoken and then written administrative language, after the introduction of paper-making from China.

Clovis!! That’s all I got.

Hmmm... Sounds like something Liam Neeson would say!

Eh, just depends on whether you care where you end up.

Thanks!

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Likely hard to steer though.

Here's an article with pictures of the actual glass fragments found

I think its from the name of a tribe of celts that the Greeks believed to be the main tin traders on the fabled isles of cassiterides. They called them something like the prettanoi - but this was first mentioned like 400 years after the tin trading had stopped.

The Romans ran with this theory, the name was latinised, the celts subjugated, a B swapped with a P and boom Britannia it is.

Oh look, another storage pit full of pot sherds and random faunal remains. Maybe a rodent burrow or twenty

It's larger and more buoyant and stable than it looks.

You took their words out of context!!!

>it made them so rich that the French King Philp IV and the Pope Clement conspired to steal it all.

Well... the Knights Templar were effectively French, despite later retrocon that makes them an "English" bastion, and they made a great deal of wealth from ursury so the money was always in a legal limbo. Eventually, as you say, the cash was taken by the Crown and the Knights fell from favour.

My genealogy traces back to medieval times- a relative born in Scotland during that period is recorded as having died abroad in Syria. Family legend says he was a falconer; is there potentially any truth to this?

Absolutely and same here lol. It's not just the material you study though - you learn loads about the people who used them, the place they lived in, the society they were part of and how they interacted with the wider world.

Also you learn so fucking much about their trash

>Anthony Eden in Brideshead Revisited is based...

Anthony Blanche

The Knights Templar set up that system and it made them so rich that the French King Philp IV and the Pope Clement conspired to steal it all.

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I think the first heatwave would end your experiment, assuming animals had not eaten it.

I hope this will be more substantial than the time they wondered how roman coins could have ended up in a medieval castle in okinawa.

It always amazes me the rabbit holes of information you can go down into. I’m not sure I’m interested enough in glass to read the book ancient glass but I would absolutely watch a video on it.