Sons of Wayland

19/05/2026

Summer Time 🌟

12/05/2026

Wayland’s Smithy through the Sutton Hoo lens

Wayland’s Smithy Through the Sutton Hoo LensThere are places in Britain that seem to exist slightly outside of ordinary time. Places where successive cultures have arrived, looked upon the same earthworks, hills, stones or carvings, and each declared with complete confidence that they understood what they were seeing. Then, after a few centuries, they vanished themselves into archaeology.Wayland’s Smithy is one of those places....

Wayland’s Smithy Through the Sutton Hoo LensThere are places in Britain that seem to exist slightly outside of ordinary time. Places where successive cultures

11/05/2026

The Wayland's Smithy Legend through the Lens of Sutton Hoo.

11/05/2026

Early Medieval history nerd out warning!!!!!
Yesterday I applied the "Sutton Hoo lens" to my Legend of Wayland Smithy Ring. A 7th Century Anglo Saxon world view of a Neolithic Burial mound and a Bronze age Geoglyph.

07/05/2026

Title: Echoes of Sutton Hoo

A ring inspired by the ancient treasures uncovered at Sutton Hoo.

Interwoven knotwork, Anglo-Saxon runes and the great ceremonial buckle of the early medieval north brought together into a modern artefact carrying echoes of an older world.

ᚹᚣᚱᛞ ᛒᛁᚦ ᚠᚢᛚ ᚪᚱᚫᛞ
Wyrd bið ful aræd
“Fate governs all.”

07/05/2026

I think part of the reason I’m drawn to the art and craftsmanship of early medieval northern Europe is because these objects feel rooted in something deeper than trend or novelty.

Whether Anglo-Saxon, Norse or runic in origin, the objects left behind from this world carry an extraordinary sense of weight and intention. Knotwork, inscriptions, carved metal, weathered iron, gold buried beneath the earth for centuries… these things were made slowly, carefully, and often with symbolic meaning woven deeply into them.

That feels important to me.

In a culture increasingly built around speed, disposability and distraction, there’s something grounding about sitting quietly for hours working through knotwork or engraving runes into metal.

Not because it is efficient.
Not because it is fashionable.
Simply because it feels worthy.

The pieces I’m making are not replicas of the past, but conversations with it. Small modern artefacts carrying echoes of older worlds and older ways of thinking.

ᚹᚣᚱᛞ ᛒᛁᚦ ᚠᚢᛚ ᚪᚱᚫᛞ
Wyrd bið ful aræd
“Fate governs all.”

The Kings Belt buckle from the Sutton Hoo excavation- part of the incredible hoard which lit up the Dark Ages.

01/05/2026

The Dragon ring - perpetual loop. The final iteration of my Dragon Ring inspired by the 11th Century Borgund Stave Church in Norway. I'm very interested to hear what you all think of this ring in particular in relation to the earlier Dragon Ring. Please let me know!