Back now...

Back in Oz now. There was the joyous 6am flight to catch, which was luckily not extended to Brisbane due to fog in Sydney (we were very lucky there). Then the waiting at the airport for the bus (bastard McD got rid of their only good hot drink and no longer serves hot chocolate there), 3 hour bus home, 40 min bus hole - noone needs buses on Sundays, right?, home, quick milk, bread and dinner shopping expedition, Planet Earth doco on Mountains (pretty pictures, nice music, David Attenbourough, and animals eating each other, which was perfect for our alertness levels), then bed and sleep.

And now it is a Monday and neither of us has any work go to. Which is just as well, as one of the things we brought back with us, was a cold. Z had it ~Thurs onwards, I had it ~Sat onwards. Apologies to anyone who we inadvertantly gave it to along the way. So today will be spent doing a little tidying and housekeeping, kicking the boot into Westpac as hard as possible (ask Z for details), sewing silly princess dresses in front of TV and blobbing while trying not to loose too many brain cells to snot production.

Thank you to everyone we saw on sat evening - however briefly:)

There may be more updates later... but for now lets see if we can attack the clothing shogoths before they strike in the middle of the night...

That wasn't the link I was looking for but...

A while back I linked to an archeological for sale site with really cool finds. Of course it was bookmarked at work, not home, and I can't quite be arsed digging out the harddrive to find it. But while searching LJ entries for it, I did find the Council for British Archeology publications list which includes a large collection of online issues (linked to but not explored back here).
So far fun stuff has included:
Anglo-Saxon pottery: a symposium (1959)
Viking Age York and the North (1978) - especially "Industry and commerce in Anglo-Scandinavian York
by Arthur MacGregor(pp 37-57)". Annoying the articles come in small pdf sections so you need to download several for the full article, but worth it.

Their online library catalogue is a good point to start poking...

They also have databases such as:
Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire, 1998-2000 J.D. Richards, 2004
with the article available here.