The Avon Valley in the fifth to mid-seventh centuries: contacts and coalescence

[Imperial Dave]

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:920eaba8-94da-4813-9547-f04268691648

Very detailed but thoroughly absorbing treatise on the emergence of polities in the Avon Valley during the post Roman/early AS period

[Anton]

An interesting bit of work there.  Thanks Dave.

[Swampster]

Very interesting. This is my home area. I live right by Ryknield street and one of the finds sites is probably half a mile away from here.

I went to the Roman museum in Alcester (which gets plenty of mentions in the thesis) a couple of weeks ago. Not exactly enormous but a pleasant visit if you happen to be in the vicinity.

[Imperial Dave]

Very interesting. This is my home area. I live right by Ryknield street and one of the finds sites is probably half a mile away from here.

I went to the Roman museum in Alcester (which gets plenty of mentions in the thesis) a couple of weeks ago. Not exactly enormous but a pleasant visit if you happen to be in the vicinity.

thanks, one for the memory banks....not terribly far away from me (ish)

[Mark G]

Curious whether there is evidence of door to door cosmetics sales going on too.

Or is than a different Avon?

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Swampster]

Curious whether there is evidence of door to door cosmetics sales going on too.

Or is than a different Avon?

Curiously, the same Avon. The cosmetics chap apparently visited Stratford and afterwards used the name of its river for his company after having traded as California Perfume for two or three decades.
That and the smells of scented talc and cold cream which pervade the A435

[Imperial Dave]

and at a particularly tangential tangient......Avon make a really good mosquito deterrent thats sold as a hand moisturiser  

[Erpingham]

and at a particularly tangential tangient......Avon make a really good mosquito deterrent thats sold as a hand moisturiser

Doesn't explain why the miserable hero of Blake's 7 was named after a brand of handcream.

[Patrick Waterson]

Because the role was was mainly cosmetic?

[Swampster]

and at a particularly tangential tangient......Avon make a really good mosquito deterrent thats sold as a hand moisturiser

Doesn't explain why the miserable hero of Blake's 7 was named after a brand of handcream.

He was a bit of a smooth character.

[Mark G]

It astonishes me no one is referencing Avon barksdale at this point.

[Imperial Dave]

they just did 

[Mark G]

It's all in the game