Robin Fleming

A child burial, uncovered last year, which included among its many grave goods a lapdog with a copper-alloy, belled collar inrap.fr/une-sepulture-antiq…

Came across this lovely acknowledgement in G. Speak "An Early RB Villa," Oxoniensia 77 (2012): “My final thanks should be to my dog, Oliver, who prompted the evening walk in August 2001 which led to the discovery of the site.” #romanbritain

Lauren Hosek and @meDHieval presented ideas @HaskinsSociety about the directional orientation of burials in England and Bohemia and showed visualization illustrating the relationship between topography, life-histories uncovered through bio-archaeology, and burial orientation.

Jakub Kabala’s talk @HaskinsSociety uncovers the mental geographies carried around in the heads of ninth-century writers like Nithard and explores the relationship between territoriality, the exercise of power over peoples, and control over resources.

David Austin’s paper @HaskinsSociety on the @ahrcpress Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries, on the complexity and variability of monastic interactions w/ places and their people and focused on Strata Florida. The Cistercian Church there centered on an earlier holy well!

Wonderful paper at the @HaskinsSociety @sliptonmedieval just now that included, among other things, the way preachers taught their listeners how to look at and think about art and to avoid image-based error. #medievaltwitter

Today's job: Thinking about the tiny Chihuahua-sized adult dog killed within a generation of the Roman conquest of Britain and placed in a pit with a smashed pot and two cremated lambs. In Carshalton (Published in A.B. Powell, Queen Mary's Hospital Carshalton (2017)).

Spent the morning thinking about a tiny Roman-period lapdog at a Roman villa in Northamptonshire buried in its own cist (circled in red) next to a woman in another cist. #archaeology #romanbritain

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Haskins 2021! Registration and Program here: thehaskinssociety.wildaprico… #medieval @HaskinsSociety

Roman-period dogs with harnesses rather than collars. Mosaics from Neapolis (Israel Museum) and Bodrum (Myndos gate, Bodrum).