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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I wouldn't recommend giving a seminar presentation at 6:30am in the morning. But if you do, I would definitely recommend a strong cup of coffee and a script to read off of. Do yourself and your tired brain a favour 🙃 @flindersmap.bsky.social

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Things are kicking off here in Sydney. Staff introduction and tour before the media and social media previews, and then exclusive members' talk and tour. Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard opens at the Australian National Maritime Museum 28 May!! www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/...

Banner promoting Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard displayed at Wharf 7 of the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Procrastinating thesis-writing by spending time in my favouritest little nook of the @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Fun times at ANZAMEMS 2025 in Melbourne with all my nerdy medieval frens (and Penny the AirBnB doggo) Love getting the opportunity to tell these stories and to highlight all the hard work that’s been done by countless people to help us better understand the how, what and why of the Viking world 🙏

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Ouch! @ericasteiner.bsky.social discussing tattooing in the ancient/early medieval world, why people got tattoos, what they looked like and the (painful looking) implements they may have used @anzamems.bsky.social

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Flinders PhD candidate, @danclaggett.bsky.social, presenting his research on ship burials at the @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference. (Note here his use of @flindersuniversity.bsky.social alumna, Dr Claire Ratican's, new book!)

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

ANZAMEMS 2025 conference begins! @erinsebo.bsky.social on friendship in Beowulf and trying to understand the titular characters seemingly very unfriendly act of allowing his friend to be eaten by Grendel 🤔 @anzamems.bsky.social

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Had the opportunity to present my PhD work at the SA Museum a couple of weeks back as part of Viking Fest. Nerves aplenty talking to a public audience for the first time, but I held my own! Was great to see all the passionate people who came out to reenact and recreate the Viking world in Adelaide!

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

😮 can’t wait to see the results of this!!

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Half a worlds worth of travel back home and I finally get to see the Galloway Hoard with my own eyes 🤩 @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social and the SA Museum did a great job with this one 🥇

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Making a Warrior @makingawarrior.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Great Viking Survey is the most extensive study ever conducted on global perceptions of the vikings and their world. Your voice matters: no matter who or where you are, every response counts! Take the survey, spread the word, and be part of this groundbreaking project at vikingsurvey.org!

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thanks to everyone who attended my riveting (certainly not the last time I’ll be using that pun) talk last night at the @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social seminar series. Great audience and great questions!

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Those who had never before seen Constantinople looked upon it very earnestly, for they never thought there could be in all the world so rich a city…the height and the length of that city which above all others was sovereign." - Geoffrey of Villehardouin, 1203 CE

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Good morning from Istanbul 👋 🇹🇷

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hey, it’s me! Been a while since I’ve been able work with this kind of cutting edge kit. One of many “ooh, ahh” moments I’ll be experiencing in the months to come!

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Knock-e-Dhooney (KeD) Boat Burial Located at the highest point of the Parish of Andreas (I don't envy whoever had to drag it ashore and uphill), the KeD burial is strinkingly similar to Balladoole in size and the types of grave goods recovered, despite being located on the opposite end of Man.

Some cold dope standing atop the burial mound.

The Knock-e-Dhooney burial mound, located atop the highest point of the Parish of Andreas

Northfacing view from the Knock-e-Dhooney mound. The flat, northern coastal plain of the Isle of Man can be seen in the background.

Southfacing view from the Knock-e-Dhooney burial mound, looking towards the mountainous inland of the island.

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Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So lovely to be at the #SAMuseum for the launch of the Treasures of the Viking Age exhibition, opened by @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social's Dr Martin Goldberg, who spoke about the #GallowayHoard as the wealth of the community.

National Museum of Scotland's principal curator of Medieval archaeology, Dr Martin Goldberg, speaking about recent research on the Galloway Hoard.

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The last big 'reveal' of the Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard AHRC-funded project: the reading of the long runic inscription. Proud to say I played a small part in cracking it by spotting the two puncts around the final rune. The Hoard has now begun its worid tour! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Mystery behind Viking-age treasure find in Scotland may finally have been solved

A runic inscription on one of the Galloway hoard’s elaborately decorated arm rings has been deciphered

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Balladoole Boat Burial Built into what were likely the ramparts of an Iron Age hill fort and displacing several earlier, Christian graves (maybe by accident…maybe not), Balladoole is one of the largest boat burials found in Northern Britain. So grateful to have finally seen it in-person 🙏

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Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Balladoole Boat Burial rivet recording. The first step in a long, long process to understand the Manx boat burials better. (Not sped up. I’m just a very, very fast recorder). 📍 Manx Museum, Douglas

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