Over 80 additional artifacts found in the area of the Staffordshire Hoard have been declared treasure. The gold and silver items were discovered near the original site when a field was ploughed. (photo)

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Heck yeah it is. You can be a Bard! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_BARDS/ You might look for a group local to your kingdom as well. For example, my

Though maybe some other readers here have more specifics to offer... I did a little Google searching around to see what I could come up with, and "sca irish

Greetings unto the Fencers of the East.

As you are no doubt aware, Kings and Queens Champions of Fence is being held this weekend in Montreal, Canada. At the same time there is a Noreaster coming our way. In light of that we all have concerns over travel and safety. So the question that has been posed is whether we will be having the event. At this time, there is no plan to cancel the tourney.

I will remain in contact with the Autocrat, our Royalty and our Champions to remain abreast of any decisions. IF there is any decisions made the will alter the time, date or location of the event, I will get that to you as soon as I hear.

YIS,

Don Caine Ramsey
KMOF

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The Board of Directors has granted a one-time variance to the following Society Financial Policy, Section XII, B to allow the Barony of Gyldenholt, Caid to test the PayPal system for accepting credit cards at the Gyldenhold – Calafia Friendship Tournament on

March 9, 2013. The Society Exchequer is currently evaluating the feasibility of PayPal for future SCA usage at events using this event as a test. Please direct any questions to the Society Exchequer at exchequer@sca.org.

Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas, CA 95036

You may also email comments@lists.sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for Creative Anachronism , Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic mailing lists.

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The Board of Directors of the SCA, Inc. would like to announce the launch of a new Office of SCA Staffing (OSS) as a Special Deputy under the President of the Society.

The purpose of this office is to address the growing need to improve the ability of the Society to fill Society Level Officer and Board positions of the SCA. The Office of SCA Staffing is intended to help the organization more effectively fill open positions, and eventually allow individuals to continuously submit themselves for potential openings and to improve their ability to access and apply for open positions. It is designed to better find and attract those members with strongly-related real world skills as well as needed SCA experience, so that they might best be able to put that experience and expertise to work making the Society a first class non-profit organization.

There are no immediate changes to the existing process for publication of open SCA positions or the need to submit applications to the Corporate office by the closing date for the position.

Hank Salvacion (Sir Tanaka Raiko, KSCA, OP) has been tasked with developing the Office and to serve as the lead to identify and recruit candidates for open key roles within the Society. Hank has over 25 years of experience as a professional recruiter and staffing agent, including recruitment of top executives and professionals across a wide range of industries including Engineering, Information Technology, Aerospace, Military, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services, and Wireless Technology.

Tanaka Raiko, is a 25 year veteran of the Society. He is a member of the Order of the Chivalry, and the Order of the Pelican, and has served as East Kingdom Earl Marshal, Pennsic War Marshal and has held several Regional and local posts within the SCA.

He can officially be reached at staffing@sca.org

Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas, CA 95036

You may also email comments@lists.sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for Creative Anachronism , Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic mailing lists.

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The basic T tunic really is indeed an easy start. I do like pairing it with something over it, like the Viking apron or a surcoat, though you'll need a basic

“To assume that Viking men were ranked above women is to impose modern values on the past, which would be misleading,” cautions Marianne Moen one of the organizers of the Viking Worlds Conference, to be held in March 2013.

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The decoration of "leaves" on what was thought to be a medieval pilgrim badge of St Blaise was actually something else!

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Lady Eleanor Ravenild, I have come up with the idea of a monthly meeting (or weekly) either meeting at Grey Gargoyles Sunday Fighter practice (Approval

His remains are believed to lie in an unmarked grave in Winchester and a team is reportedly applying for permission to dig up the spot at St Bartholomew’s Church. It is thought Alfred’s skeleton could be found among a collection of bones there.

But the job is expected to be much harder than the analysis on Richard III, as finding a living relative to provide a DNA sample would involve searching a much older family tree.

Katie Tucker, an archaeologist from Winchester University, told The Times: “As far as we’re aware there are five skulls plus other bones. The most simple part will be to work out ages, sexes, and put the bones back together. The problem is, where would we get a comparative sample from? It’s a hell of a lot further to go back to trace a living descendant.”

Click here to read this article from The Telegraph

... It depends on what you call black. Brown-black was easy, common and cheap; black sheep are brown-black, and any form of tannin (such as acorns) combined

For a thousand years, the Byzantine port city of Bathonea lay hidden and forgotten beneath farmland, but a recent drought revealed the town's seawall, leading to the discovery of a "well-connected, wealthy, fully outfitted harbor city that thrived from the fourth to 11th century." (photos)

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I too am new to sewing and the viking is really easy! There are lots of commercial patterns for chemises -- Burda patterns are useful but you need to lengthen

Senor Santiago Ruiz de Zaragoza reports that, at Their Midwinter's Revel, Their Royal Majesties, Vladimir and Kalisa of the Kingdom of Atlantia offered elevation to the Order of the Pelican to Baroness Elizabeth Hardyn.

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The historic costuming pattern site Old Time Patterns is currently holding an Historical Costume Contest for costumes created from the time periods 1500-1630 Tudor, Elizabethan, Early Settler through 1910-1940 Vintage, Titanic, WW1, Flapper.

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A UK£200,000 grant is set to finance the removal of power lines and poles from the site of the world-famous Anglo-Saxon burial mounds at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, England. Over a mile of lines will be replaced with underground cables.

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"And lo it came to pass that on Saturday, in Mulgrave, David was crowned King of Lochac, with Claudia at his side as his Queen," writes John Elder, a reporter for The Age (Victoria) about the recent crowning of Felix and Eva in the Kingdom of Lochac. (photos)

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Henry VIII's perfectly preserved wine cellar is underneath Britain's Ministry of Defence building - floating in a subterranean chamber.

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In an article on Cracked.com, Steve Kolenberg sets the world straight on 6 Ridiculous Myths About the Middle Ages Everyone Believes including the "Dark" Ages, everything was filthy, and knights were chivalrous.

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