Who do you call when you find something as astonishingly rare and unique as the king from a tafl set? Mark Hall!
Mark is a leading specialist in Roman and early medieval games, and Collections Officer at Perth Museum & Art Gallery.
“It is extraordinary to find a glass tafl gaming piece like this in such perfect condition. They’re as rare as hen’s teeth,” he told us when he came to inspect it!
An early medieval smithy, a handful of coins, and a burial with signs of a fatal headwound are among some of the most notable discoveries from this season’s community-powered excavation on Lindisfarne. We’re now…
We’re back on Lindisfarne, getting ready to start our fifth season of excavation on the island so that we can continue to investigate the early medieval community who lived here before, during and after…
This year, we’ve had so many great discoveries at Lindisfarne that we couldn’t fit them all in one video! It’s the end of our fourth crowdfunded dig at Lindisfarne and this year, we’ve made…
