Term beings...

[annwfyn]

*sighs*

You can tell I'm back in Oxford.

I got back today to discover a nice package from my supervisor for this term. She wants me to write an essay and hand it in by Wednesday 19th. That, for the record, is the day after my first lecture of the course.

Does anyone out there know anything about the architecture of the early christian church?

I am apparently about to find out.

I shall be enthused! I shall view this as a challenge! And it will all be good.

Comments

[slappersire.livejournal.com]

It's made with rock?

Erm, not the sort you eat. The sort that lives underground.

Yup, definitely rock.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

OK. That's a start. Do you think I can fill an introduction with that?

I bet there were ceramics as well. Tiles, or pots, or something. Old places always have bits of pottery lurking somewhere.

[slappersire.livejournal.com]

If you go into a big discussion on the different types of rock and how they're created, probably could fill an intro.

And they definitley had pottery, possibly not tiles, bowls maybe, and badly carved wooden statues.

How early is early? I mean, are we talking back in the days when it was a wattle and daub hut (or whatever) and the locals were all still worshipping Things Wot Weren't Christ (tm) and occassionally thought about burning the priest? 'Cos if that's the case you might need to head away from rock and towards mud.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I believe it is after they stopped burning them and there was a proper church, with lots of references to Byzantium, where there were loads more beads than anywhere in the west. Oh, and amythyst. I know they had a lot of amythyst coz they exported their surplus to Britain. Any time amythyst beads show up in Britain one has to say 'ah...trade with Byzantium' in a knowing manner.

[slappersire.livejournal.com]

*looks at her favourite ring*

Ah.... trade with Byzantium.

*nods*

Can I be an archeologist now?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Actually, on a random and disconnected level, do you know if there is anywhere in the UK where one can mine amethyst? It's something that I was always sure we had in the British Isles until I was told that amethyst always meant foreign trade.

It's been confusing me for some time.

[slappersire.livejournal.com]

For some reason I always though that Wales had amethyst mines. But I have no real proof of that.

Main things that I know we mine over here would be coal, tin and copper. After that I start getting confused and remembering things I've read in fantasy novels. *looks embarassed*

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

They mine all sorts of random things in the Lake District, but I don't think amethyst is one of them.

<googles>

OK, apparently you can get amethyst out of West Penwith mine in Cornwall. So there you go.

pots

[melsner.livejournal.com]

were the pots shaped like penises?