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Colour zoomable images of textiles from the Mammen Grave. You can zoom right in on the tablet weaving...
If you head up a level or two there is a large Viking section with silver hoards and all.
National Museum in Copenhagen, so have plenty of cool stuff which I have only scratched the surface. Yay bog bodies and graves :)

Aardvarchaeology has just released a (75pg!!:) )paper on Domed oblong brooches of Vendel Period Scandinavia (pdf linked off his blog post). Large amounts of detail and very cool image.

Read! You know you want to :)

Those who get the SCANews feed will already have it, but for those interested in Viking stuff, Blackwell Publishing is offering Acta Archaeologica 2000 v71 as their free sample issue at present. The issue specializes in Viking stuff and has some quite cool stuff, with each article downloadable as a PDF. Not certain how long it will stay free for.

And yes, basal_surge, I did download them all. Look when you get home:)

Very nice pdf (1.8Mb) of someone's presentation on Norse accessories. Got some gorgeous closeups of various things including combs and shoes.

I need a better way of keeping track of which articles I have and where they were from, that can cope with websites as well as journal articles. You end up with 3 separate entities: the paper collection - hardcopy so it ain't going to vanish in a puff of electrons but it can be borrowed and/or lost and wieght is a bit of a bastard (especially when moving), pdf/documents on the computer - less weight but you need to remember where you put them, what they were and where you got them in the first place so you can direct others there, and websites - grand and gloreous bookmark collections of stuff that may or may not still be there when you go back to it.

Can you tell I am stuck waiting at home for a freight company that may or may not deliver today and may or may not phone beforehand (hopefully they got my phone number as well as Z's since he is out rock hopping til tomorrow evening and not in cell phone range)? Have already assembled/bookmarked a partial list of Salvos stores, op shops, some second hand furnature places and second hand timber salvage yards for the weekend. Need some stuff from the shops but will wait til early evening when freight people are unlikely to turn up. At least have enough stuff for lunch and dinner. Doesn't help that the phone needs charging and I don't want to go far from it.

Oh, and I am getting really pissed off at search engines which pigeonhole and list based on their criteria, rather than what I put in. You would think that "bookcase" and "table" would be nice straightforward things to search on...

Gosh this is whingy sounding, given it really isn't that bad. Time for a break, LUNCH and starting apples and apricots drying, then nice patch of shade either in front or back yard with bean bag and the last half of a good book.

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Z, getting your library card asap would be a really good idea..., especially with the last one.