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stellar_muddle ([personal profile] stellar_muddle) wrote2010-08-08 10:15 pm

Llangors Crannog textile fragment

Since just watched the Time Team episode on the Llangors Crannog, and Z found the reference to the textile fragment found there on a slightly earlier dig (not mentioned in the Time Team episode)

The textile fragment (Museum in Wales)
Heather Rose Jones overview, summarising data from an article: Granger-Taylor, Hero and Frances Pritchard. "A Fine-Quality Insular Embroidery from Llan-gors Crannog, near Brecon," in Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art, edited by Mark Redknapp et al. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001, 91-99

The textile piece was found charred onto a piece of wood in the lake near some of the still intact pieces of original wooden Anglo-Saxon palisade/causeway...