Dr Tom Horne

📼 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 EXCLUSIVE: Prehistoric Gold Torc Hoard Found in Cumbria 💛 📰 Iron Age Silver Coin & Mini Model Weaponry Hoard Unearthed in Gloucestershire 🪙🗡 📰 Ancient Greek Shipwreck ⛵️🏺 📰 Devon’s Largest Roman Silver Hoard 🏛 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

📼 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Exquisite Roman City Centre Found in Umbria? 🏛 📰 Medieval Ming Anaesthetic Discovered on Surgical Tools 💉🩺 📰 C18th Scottish Ship Aqueduct Drained 💧 ⛵️ 📰 ‘Extraordinary’ Bavarian Iron Age Structure Unearthed 🪵🧱 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

🪨 Govan Stones on Sunday: Shrine-like Viking-Age grave stones? @govanstones.bsky.social

📚 Lovely to see my book on sale at the @govanstones.bsky.social!

📼 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Iron Age Hillfort with Mystery Grave & Early Medieval Afterlife ⛏️ Exclusive, with @stirlingdigger.bsky.social 📰 Schoolkid Finds English Civil War Cannonball 💥 📰 Venetic and Roman Sanctuary Unearthed 🏛 📰 Rare Bronze Age Neck Rings 📿 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

📼 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Biggest British Iron Age Gold Coin Hoard Gets Bigger 🪙 📰 Forkbeard Fear? Viking-Age Aethelred ‘the Unready’ Hoard 💰 📰 Roman Lead Coffin Burial in Colchester ⚰️ 📰 Whisky Archaeology 🥃 📰 Centuries-Old Gold Dentistry in Scotland🦷 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

🪨 Govan Stones on Sunday returns with two of our early medieval recumbent gravestones! @govanstones.bsky.social

📚 My new book is out now! Treasures of the Vikings can be ordered from all good book shops, AND I'll also be doing a launch in June at the glorious @govanstones.bsky.social! *HUGE* thanks to everyone for their help, and to my publisher, Amber Books 📖

📼 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Spectacular Viking Gold Arm-Ring Hoard Found in Denmark 🌟 📰 Doomed Franklin Expedition DNA Reveals Crew Identities ⛵️ 📰 Elite Burials in Roman York 🏛 📰 Walker Finds Exquisite Early Medieval Gold Sword Scabbard Fitting 🗡 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

🪨 Stones on Sunday returns! Today, we've got the early medieval Cuddy Stane, which shares key features with Govan's Sun Stone and the Govan Cross 🏇 ✝️

📼 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 6-Year-Old Schoolchild Finds 1,300-year-old Sword 🗡 📰 Isle of Lewis Crannog’s Neolithic Roots 🪵 📰 Huge Roman-Era Athena Statue Found 🏛 📰 Prehistoric Beaver Hunters 🦫 📰 Pompeii Victim’s Improvised Shield 🌋🛡 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

The Govan Stones on Sunday returns with the Govan Cross, a.k.a. the Jordanhill Cross! @govanstones.bsky.social

🏛 The enormous Fishbourne Roman Palace, with its stunning mosaics and dramatic history, is one of the most remarkable survivals from the #Roman empire, never mind Roman Britain! @romanpalace.bsky.social

💥 A Whole Lot of History 📼 📰 Hadrian’s Wall Souvenir Cup Found in Spain 🏛 📰 Gold-tongued Mummies in Roman Egypt 🌟 📰 The Art of Medieval Chess ♟️ open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

💥 A Whole Lot of History at Fishbourne 🏛 📰 ‘Hat Wars’ in Early Modern England: The importance of 'Hatiquette' 🎩 📰 Prehistoric Funeral Pyre Found at Sizewell C Nuclear Plant ☢️ 📰 Papyrus of Homer’s Iliad found inside Roman-era Egyptian Mummy 🏛 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Tiberius carved as Pharaoh on newly-discovered stele 🏛 📰 Unexploded mortar shell from the Battle of Culloden unearthed 💣 📰 C6th Runic Gold Pendant found in Gotland Flowerbed 🏅🌷 📰 Northern Norway's Sutton Hoo ⛵️ open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

📼 A new series: @govanstones.bsky.social on Sunday, with episode one featuring the Sun Stone!

🎉 TFW @historyextra.bsky.social feature your article on the Viking Age Wandlebury mass grave in an Insta carousel! Music: Dry Heat Musician: Yari (from Audiio)

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Shakespeare's Lost London Home is Found ✍️ 📰 Prehistoric Roundhouses at Medieval Glasgow Castle 🏰 📰 Tracy Borman and the Tudor Secrets of 'The Ambassadors' Painting 🖼 📰 Discover Your Family's Nazi Past 💻 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

🪖 In 1940, Churchill authorised an elite defence: the Auxiliary Units. Known as the ‘Stay Behinds’, this secret network of farmers, gamekeepers, and miners was trained not to survive an invasion, but to sabotage it from within... 📺 @thehistoryguy.bsky.social 📰 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Churchill's Secret Army - The amazing archaeological survivals of the 'Stay Behinds' 🪖 📰 Viking Age gateway at The Govan Stones in Glasgow's Govan Old ⛪️ 📰 Roman timber recycling at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in Goodwood 🏛 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Lady Jane Grey - Reclaiming England’s Queen 📰 The Aberdeenshire village that once ruled a Pictish kingdom 📰 Lord of the Ring: Ultra-rare Old English runic finger-ring found open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Two Viking Age filigree crucifixes from early 10th-century Scandinavia ⤵️ Left: The silver 'Birka Crucifix' from grave Bj 660 on Björkö, Sweden. Right: The gold 'Christ from Aunslev', Denmark. Note: both Christs have rope ligatures attaching them to the Cross. My 📷 Birka & Nationalmuseet

📼 💥 Pompeii, the Book of Kells, The Alamo, and prehistoric burials ☠️ feature in today's AWLOH 📰 (AND the @govanstones.bsky.social 🪨 👀) open.substack.com/pub/historyh...