Robin Fleming

A child burial, uncovered last year, which included among its many grave goods a lapdog with a copper-alloy, belled collar inrap.fr/une-sepulture-…

Came across this lovely acknowledgement in G. Speak "An Early RB Villa," Oxoniensia 77 (2012): “My final thanks should be to my dog, Oliver, who prompted the evening walk in August 2001 which led to the discovery of the site.” #romanbritain

Lauren Hosek and @meDHieval presented ideas @HaskinsSociety about the directional orientation of burials in England and Bohemia and showed visualization illustrating the relationship between topography, life-histories uncovered through bio-archaeology, and burial orientation.

Jakub Kabala’s talk @HaskinsSociety uncovers the mental geographies carried around in the heads of ninth-century writers like Nithard and explores the relationship between territoriality, the exercise of power over peoples, and control over resources.

@HaskinsSociety Kathryn Dutton with more from the @AHRpress funded Monasteries project. She interrogates Kirkstead’s original charters and cartulary to rewrite the history of Kirkstead Abbey. We eagerly await her publication of the cartulary!

@HaskinsSociety Stocker & Evison present further work on @AHRpress funded Monasteries project. Spoke on the sacred landscape centered on the River Witham, in Lincs., a place thick with monasteries and the focus of ritual activity from the Bronze Age.

@HaskinsSociety Stocker and Everson present further work of @ahrcpress funded Monasteries project. Spoke on the sacred landscape centered on the River Witham, in Lincs., a place thick with monasteries and the focus of ritual activity from the Bronze Age. #medievaltwitter

David Austin’s paper @HaskinsSociety on the @ahrcpress Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries, on the complexity and variability of monastic interactions w/ places and their people and focused on Strata Florida. The Cistercian Church there centered on an earlier holy well!

Wonderful paper at the @HaskinsSociety @sliptonmedieval just now that included, among other things, the way preachers taught their listeners how to look at and think about art and to avoid image-based error. #medievaltwitter

⛏️Join us Thurs 18 Nov for our latest #CardiffArchaeology Research Seminar. Analysing the Early Medieval Ceramic Assemblage from Tintagel: Connecting Britain & Aegean with Dr Maria Duggan @romanpottery + Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi + Dr Noemi Muller @BSAthens 👉 ow.ly/skbi50GLm8J

Today's job: Thinking about the tiny Chihuahua-sized adult dog killed within a generation of the Roman conquest of Britain and placed in a pit with a smashed pot and two cremated lambs. In Carshalton (Published in A.B. Powell, Queen Mary's Hospital Carshalton (2017)).

Spent the morning thinking about a tiny Roman-period lapdog at a Roman villa in Northamptonshire buried in its own cist (circled in red) next to a woman in another cist. #archaeology #romanbritain

NOV. 11: Please join us for the 2021 AAEF-Paul Kardoush Annual Memorial Lecture: "Damascus: A History in Words," Presented by Professor Dana Sajdi @BarberDamascus! Location: goo.gl/maps/bxDLwN7XV… Reception 6:00pm / Lecture 6:30pm This event is free and open to public!

The image of hordes of barbarians destroying the Roman Empire is a fundamentally racist trope, @Calthalas writes. buff.ly/3pXvU3V

Can't believe our story on Iona in the Viking Age made the cover @CurrentArchaeo! Such an honour to work with some of the folk who taught me: Prof Kate Forsyth @morantango, Ewan Campbell @UofGArchaeo and Thomas Owen Clancy @CelticGaelic. Online too @read_the_past #HESsupported

For those of you who like to do something cerebral of an evening: This year's Joan Pye Lecture is on Thursday, 4th November. Dr Jane Webster of Newcastle University will discuss slavery in #Roman Britain. It promises to be an interesting and thought-provoking evening #Archaeology

@woolf_atthedoor @Pseudo_Isidore check back in a few weeks!

Medieval HISTORIANS (who are instructors of record): I am gathering data on the stop/start dates of classes on medieval history. Please consider taking. Should take no more than 2 minutes: Thanks! surveymonkey.com/r/7DZ8TGD