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Mick Harper
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| It is already clear that Pliny, in his description of the Elbe Marshes, withheld a few things from his readers. |
What a fuddy-duddy. Going beyond what we actually know never holds us back.
| But how big and grand the harbor really was can until now only be guessed. |
That’s not entirely true, is it? If you remember, nobody knew it was there so there couldn’t really have been any guesswork about its size, could there? Just saying.
| "All the finds we have made come only from the surface," concludes Nösler. "Everything here is tightly packed. At the first excavation probe, the archaeologists of the Institute of Coastal Sciences of Wilhelmshaven immediately hit on the ruins of houses." Nösler’s gaze runs over the barely visible elevation in the field, "But in truth, we haven’t even begun working yet." |
You have worked wonders already.
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Wile E. Coyote
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Mick Harper
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I've just had quite a friendly exchange with a British Museum expert about Anglo-Saxon coinage. When I asked him whether he knew of any genuine ones he gave me the standard blather but when I requested he specifically name a single coin with an Anglo-Saxon inscription (i.e. using the Anglo-Saxon alphabet) he went silent. Maybe he is still searching on my behalf (you would think on our joint behalf) but the days lengthen...
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There are the runic ones though. I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous posting on page 14 of NEW CONCEPTS: Coin -
and if you are too busy to look at the site,
These East Anglian [Offa]
coins include a unique portrait coin
with the runic name of the moneyer
Lul in a zoomorphic frame on the
reverse, and an exceptionally ornate
coin of the moneyer Ecbald, also with
the moneyer's name in run | |
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Yes, I am well aware of all this. It is not so much my wishing to find Anglo-Saxon letters on coins as on finding out why nobody can (or will) tell me whether there are any. It really does seem a simple enough question. This is important in two respects
1. Since the A/S alphabet is only known from a) manuscripts b) inscriptions on stone and c) coins and there are no provably kosher examples of a) or b) then it may be the A/S alphabet is a forgery which holds open the possibility that Anglo-Saxon is a forgery and the Anglo-Saxons are a forgery.
2. What's the matter with these twats?
I've given up on runes.
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