Anglo Saxon Brooch Has Oldest Writing In English

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-7-2003 | Paul Stokes

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

The brooch obviously came from Neiman Marcus.

[EggsAckley]

Oh. GREAT article. I'm very interested in this kind of stuff. Brooches especially. Thanks for the post.

look here.

[visualops]

No pictures :(

[Tax-chick]

Cool! I guess the public works accounting records haven't survived.

[4mycountry]

four runes representing the letters N, E, I and M scratched on the back of a bronze brooch

Never
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Obviosly, this is the oldest sign of the Viking Kitties.

[blam]

"look here."

Beautiful.

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"No pictures :("

Sorry no.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!!

[blam]

"Obviously, this is the oldest sign of the Viking Kitties."

Give me a minute and I'll give you the latest archaeological news on the Vikings.

[blam]

Experts to repair 'faeces fossil'

The Viking fossil is a key attraction at the museum Archaeologists are carrying out one of their most delicate projects to date - the careful restoration of 1200-year-old human faeces.

Measuring 20cm by 5cm, the exhibit is thought to be the largest fossilised human excrement ever found.

But despite surviving for well over 1,000 years, the Viking relic was broken into three pieces during a recent school visit to its home, the Archaeological Resource Centre (Arc) in York.

Now team member Gill Snape, a student from the University of Bradford, has the unenviable task of restoring the artefact to its former glory.

But despite admitting she has "never done anything quite like this before", the 21-year-old told BBC News Online it was not quite the revolting job people assumed.

"It's rock hard, it doesn't smell and it's certainly not squishy," said Ms Snape.

Centrepiece attraction

Museum chiefs are desperate to see their star exhibit glued back together because it is popular with the schoolchildren that make up a large percentage of their visitors.

"The kids loved it," Ms Snape added.

"We've even had thank you letters saying 'thank you for showing us the poo'."

After it is delicately glued back together, Ms Snape said the fossil would be mounted on perspex for visitors to "fully appreciate its glory as the centrepiece of the Arc".

And she had a message for anyone who doubted the impressive stature of the item, which was discovered in 1972 on land now occupied by Lloyds TSB Bank in York.

"It's huge - and bear in mind it's shrunk since it was deposited," she added

[savedbygrace]

M I N E

[decimon]

Probably says, "Driving is a privilege."

[dukeman]

Aha! Yet more proof that my Anglo-Saxon ancestors have a prior cliam to Britain- superior to that of those pesky Normans. I demand reparations for the Norman conquest of 1066. I figure I lost a lot of prime real estate in that deal. Where's Al Sharpton when you need him?

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"Aha! Yet more proof that my Anglo-Saxon ancestors have a prior cliam to Britain- superior to that of those pesky Normans. "

Read This about Cheddar Man.

Cheddar Man

[4mycountry]

ROTFLMBO!!!
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restoring the artefact to its former glory.
the fossil would be mounted on perspex for visitors to "fully appreciate its glory as the centrepiece of the Arc".

It's poo. What's so glorifing about it? Why don't I get an award evey time I do that?

You know, you have to wonder if perhaps that Viking is looking down from heaven, going, "Oh god, they're doomed. You know thet're doomed when they're fascinated with poo. They're absolutely doomed..."

[BigLittle]

[dukeman]

Wow! That's pretty old cheese. I suppose my stronger reaction is to wonder why you have such a ready access to the Cheddar Man archives.

[dukeman]

I understand also that the Viking fossil is strangely in the shape of James Carville's head!

[BigLittle]

Measuring 20cm by 5cm, the exhibit is thought to be the largest fossilised human excrement ever found.

What about Teddy (the swimmer) Kennedy?