Stephen Pollington has been writing books on Anglo-Saxon England for two decades. His many published titles include works on the Old English language, military culture, healing and herblore, runes and feasting in the ‘meadhall’. He has recorded a double CD of readings in Old English.
He has lectured widely on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture since 1991, from local history to the details of verse metre, from theories of the origins of the Germanic runes to the handling of Anglo-Saxon weaponry.
Crop circles? Nope – cropmarks. Incredibly hot, dry weather across Wales this summer is revealing remnants of ancient settlements as patterns of growth in crops and grasslands.
1. Medieval castle mound at Castell Llwyn Gwinau, Tregaron
2. Cross Oak Hillfort, Talybont on Usk
3. Trewen Roman farmstead or villa, Caerwent, south Wales
What’s exciting about this is that if you go to the article, a bunch of things showing up have names and have obviously been known about for some time, but others are listed as ‘previously unknown’, so basically, cropmarks from our horrible global warming are giving archaeologists precise floor plans of buildings they didn’t know were there and haven’t excavated yet.
knitting in the dark 