Yay! Two lovely sites, both from the same source, on how to avoid common spelling/grammar errors and on how to properly deploy an apostrophe! 

Read them. No, really. They are both useful and pretty funny.

A nice website on Anglo-Saxon Buckets!



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I stumbled on that site because I WANT a bucket and have been looking around for a reasonably priced, but functional bucket. Good gods, there are a lot of "decorative" buckets out there. For my reference and yours, some of the sites with "real" buckets and associated items:

Probably the best one is at Panther, on their Christmas list. Bonus - it comes with a lid!

Others:
Custom Wagons - Pine buckets, oak buckets, butter churns
AmishCraft - oak bucket
Smoke and Fire - pine waxed bucket
Bucket outlet - oak barrels
Amish Shop - buckets - not sure if these are decorative
Bratcher Cooperage - oak bucket
Colonial Trading - buckets and butter churns

Sadly, not many of them are "reasonably" priced. Or maybe I'm just cheap. *sigh*

I've been doing A LOT of online research the past week or so and some of it I just HAVE to share and some I am recording for my own later use.

Viking Hoard, including some interesting "buttons" and associated silks in Dunmore, County Kilkenny - Info here, here, and here. Sadly, limited info for now. However, since it is not related to the current question, I'll have to chase down more info later. (Note to self: Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2, Netherton and Owen Crocker page 30 has citations for these items.
I have found some neat stuff while cleaning out my storage spaces, but not a Viking sword!

There are some really neat finds from the Old Scatness Broch - I just with they had more info online! Related research - including Orkney, Shetland, Faroe islands.

A newly-discovered cache of saint's relics in a portable altar. Very cool.

A living Luttrell Psalter video.

And an online gallery of manuscripts at the Philadelphia Library

As if the Tudor Tailor was not tasty enough, they have come out with a second book - The King's Servants - a book on men's clothing at the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII. Drool. Not to be published until June, dammit.

And two print sources:

I found a new citation for the Trewiddle Horde - David M. Wilson, Catalogue of Antiquities of the Later Saxon Period (London: British Museum Publications, 1964), no. 91. Does anybody have that by any chance?

Plus a similar technique used as a garment edging in 189 James Graham-Campbell, "Tenth-century Graves: The Viking-age Artefacts and their Significance," in Excavations on St. Patrick's Isle, Peel, Isle of Man. Can I just declare my love for Mr. Graham-Campbell right now and be done with it. The man puts out some particularly tasty books and articles, I'm just saying...