#FindsFriday It’s no great surprise to find #Roman remains if you dig in your garden at Great Casterton. The crossing point of the River Gwash was the location of a fort and the next significant town north of Durobrivae on Ermine Street.(1/4) #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #History👇🧵

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

The Roman Empire’s ‘road map’ is twice as extensive as previously thought | Science | EL PAÍS English english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Capidava was an important Geto-Dacian center on the right bank of the #Danube. After the #Roman conquest, it became a civil and military center, as part of the province of Moesia Inferior (later Scythia Minor), modern Dobruja. #RomanFortThursday 🗡️ #Archaeology #History

White ground, Attic, c. 460, Cylix of Apollo, who pours a libation. #Greece #ancient #Art #pottery #myth

#ReliefWednesday This magnificent stucco relief of a cherub riding a Triton decorated one of the panels in the vault of the frigidarium, at the Suburban Baths at the Marine Gate in #Pompeii (We all would if we could 👀) #Archaeology #History #Art #Myth

#HillfortsWednesday my pics of the trip to Llanquian #Hillfort near Cowbridge in #Glamorgan south #Wales. An oval enclosure, c.140m by 87m, defined by a bank and ditch, largely reduced to a scarp, set with a sub-circular enclosure, c.165m in diameter. #Archaeology

#EpigraphyTuesday Bronze tablet on which are engraved two decrees by Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo; in the first, Roman citizenship is granted to several Iberian equestrians. It includes the name of a Lucius Sergius, almost certainly Lucius Sergius Catilina there as witness. 👀 #Roman #History

A 2,000-year-old 'Tomb of Cerberus' with stunning frescoes discovered in #Italy The fresco portrays the moment in the #myth of Heracles, where he captures Cerberus as part of his twelve labors. 📸 Credit: Ministry of Culture, Italy #TombTuesday #Archaeology #art

This gold spray of myrtle was found in a tomb, inside a bronze vessel, resting atop the cremains of the tomb's occupant. Gold myrtle wreaths were buried with the dead to signify the deceased’s importance or as an offering to the gods for safe passage into the next world. 🏺 1/ Greek, 400-350 BCE

#EpigraphyTuesday Bronze tablet on which are engraved two decrees by Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo; in the first, Roman citizenship is granted to several Iberian equestrians. It includes the name of a Lucius Sergius, almost certainly Lucius Sergius Catilina there as witness. 👀 #Roman #History

A 2,000-year-old 'Tomb of Cerberus' with stunning frescoes discovered in #Italy The fresco portrays the moment in the #myth of Heracles, where he captures Cerberus as part of his twelve labors. 📸 Credit: Ministry of Culture, Italy #TombTuesday #Archaeology #art

#MosaicMonday #Mosaic of Aphrodite. From East Bouleuterion of Aphrodisias, the 2nd century AD. A naked female figure, Galene or Tranquillity, was looking towards a figure labelled Aph[rodite], now lost. #Archaeology #History #Myth #Art #AncientBlueSky🏺

#MosaicMonday The central emblem of a floor #mosaic inspired by the #myth of Perseus that depicts the head of the Medusa Late 2nd – 3rdC AD 1.92 x 4.67, Marble, limestone, glass paste and sigillata pottery / Opus vermiculatum. Museum Tarragona. #Archaeology #Roman #Spain

#MosaicMonday Mosaic known as "The Tree of Life" depicting a tree, gazelles, and a lion in the audience room of the bath house of Hisham s Palace in the West Bank city of Jericho, Palestine. #Archaeology #History #Art #Nature

Fragment of 4th century mosaic from the #Roman bathhouse of Lydney #Gloucestershire Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩 Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

#StandingStoneSunday The Wolverhampton Pillar is the shaft of an Anglo-Saxon High cross, dating from the ninth or tenth centuries AD. The scheduled monument is still standing in its original location, in what is now the churchyard of St Peter's Collegiate Church, in Wolverhampton, England.

Part of the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Orkney #Prehistory #Archaeology

#RomanBritain From the fortress gates at York. The 9th Legion founded York. They were replaced by the 6th Legion in 120. It is not known for sure what happened to the 9th, though there are traces of their presence in the Rhineland after 120. #Archaeology #Roman #History

Iron Age hillfort near Perth 'mysteriously faded' from use - BBC News share.google/qndUR7ppkvwm...

#Bull's head ornament from a lyre; bronze inlaid with shell and lapis lazuli; height: 13.3 cm, width: 10.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of #art Period: Early Dynastic III Date: ca. 2600–2350 BCE Geography: Mesopotamia Culture: #Sumerian #History

#FindsFriday 2014 - Hundreds of ancient artifacts found buried in the garden of #Rome's British embassy. The important collection had been hidden for decades in the garden which had been allowed to grow wild after years of neglect. #Archaeology #History #Roman (1/2)

#OnThisDay - 30 October - in 1829 the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2), was excavated and offered up some truly staggering painted stucco reliefs. Imagine eyes being cast on this for the first time in 1750 years. #Pompeii #Archaeology🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9595)

This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/ Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum 📸 me

#RomanFortThursday Forden Gaer, probably the Lavobrinta of the Ravenna Cosmography, lies on the line of the road which connected Caersws and Wroxeter (Viroconium). The fort occupies a slight rise above the east bank of the River Severn. #Archaeology #History #Roman #Military

#ReliefWednesday gives us a #market scene from #OstiaAntica, a bustling stall where clients on the left argue, while two women are selling fruit from full baskets on their counter. A huge wicker container holds snails, a delicacy. But what are the two monkeys? Pets or meat? #AncientBluesky 🏺

Its #HillfortsWednesday & as you may know, we're in the middle of a series on Hillforts 😊 We're working hard on a Somerset episode, but for now we're in North Wiltshire & Oxfordshire - and thought we could do a short thread on the forts in this episode 🧵👇

#HillfortsWednesday Castle Ditches Llancarfan - A substantial univallate enclosure, set along a steep-sided east-west ridge defined by a single bank, and counterscarped. Occupation is attested from the Iron Age through to the Romano-British period. #AncientBlueSky🏺 #Archaeology #History

Interesting area, Llancarfan: quite a bit of early Med monastic stuff kicking about... and legends too

Requiem for a hillfort Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows 📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️ 📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002 #HillfortsWednesday

Gold bracelets of King Ramesses II. Decorated with two little duck heads. 🦆 🦆 😍 Body lapis lazuli. Dynasty 19. Reign of Ramesses II, 1279-1212 BC. Found in a hoard of jewels, gold and silver plate, during railway construction at Tell Basta (Bubastis) in 1906. NMEC, Cairo. 📷 by me #Archaeology

#HillfortsWednesday wasn't on my mind when taking these photos last month, but it transpires that Dunbar Castle started life as a hillfort. Takes some imagination, especially as the harbour entrance was blasted through the ruins in 1844! 1/2

Marble relief sculpture (50-40 BC). A maenad and a satyr #dance for Dionysus. & #ReliefWednesday🎉 Work of Hellenistic workshops. It belonged to the collection of Cardinal Camillo Massimo. 📸 source National Prado Museum #AncientBlueSky

#HillfortsWednesday Warham Camp Fort is located between the villages of Warham and Wighton. It is a large and well-preserved Iron Age fort where previous excavations in 1914 & 1959 produced evidence for timber palisade and Iron Age and Roman pottery. #Archaeology #History

#HillfortsWednesday Castle Ditches Llancarfan - A substantial univallate enclosure, set along a steep-sided east-west ridge defined by a single bank, and counterscarped. Occupation is attested from the Iron Age through to the Romano-British period. #AncientBlueSky🏺 #Archaeology #History

Marble relief sculpture (50-40 BC). A maenad and a satyr #dance for Dionysus. & #ReliefWednesday🎉 Work of Hellenistic workshops. It belonged to the collection of Cardinal Camillo Massimo. 📸 source National Prado Museum #AncientBlueSky

I wouldn't say me and Wilf the #Whippet have separation issues....but ... 😍 #Dogs

Egna (Bolzano), Roman building resurfaces: possibly a forge on the Via Claudia Augusta www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...

#EpigraphyTuesday Middle Assyrian cylinder seal with Lahmu and Centaur, mid-late 13th C, from J.M. Padgett’s (2003) The Smile of The Centaur In an Assyrian cylinder seal of the 13th c BCE, we can clearly see a man with wings, the body of a #horse, and the tail of a scorpion. #Archaeology #Myth

#TombTuesday Carrowcrom is one of the best preserved wedge monuments remaining in #Ireland. Wedge #tombs are large stone boxes with a sloping roof slab. #Archaeology #Prehistory #History 🇮🇪

#EpigraphyTuesday shows us ideal formal #epigraphy, with this fragmentary base from the #Forum of #Augustus dated to 2 BCE of a statue of #Aeneas: "AEN[E]A[S PRIMVS]/LATIN[ORVM REX] / REGNAV[IT ANNOS III]", Aeneas, first king of the Latins, ruled three years". #AncientBluesky 🏺

#MosaicMonday This fragment of a mosaic comes from an ancient cathedral that was once located in Apamea, Syria. Apamea, located on the right bank of the Orontes River. This mosaic was made c. 533 #Art #History #Archaeology (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)

#MosaicMonday 💥 Ancient Olbia, modern Qasr Libya. The town contains a museum with fifty Byzantine mosaics. This mosaic dates to the 5th C AD and shows a scene from River Bank. lt portrays a crocodile swimming in shallow water. 👀 #Archaeology #History #art

Fresh air on a lovely autumn day 🍂🍁🌅 #nature #sea

#MosaicMonday 💥 Ancient Olbia, modern Qasr Libya. The town contains a museum with fifty Byzantine mosaics. This mosaic dates to the 5th C AD and shows a scene from River Bank. lt portrays a crocodile swimming in shallow water. 👀 #Archaeology #History #art

#MosaicMonday This fragment of a mosaic comes from an ancient cathedral that was once located in Apamea, Syria. Apamea, located on the right bank of the Orontes River. This mosaic was made c. 533 #Art #History #Archaeology (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)

The seven metre high Sueno’s Stone near Forres in Moray - a Pictish cross slab dating to the mid-C9th and early C10th, with depictions of a battle scene and a possible royal inauguration📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Picts #SuenosStone

On 9 September 1349 a devastating #earthquake shook #Rome. The façades of the eastern buildings of #TrajansMarkets fell into the street below, and the last house had to be completely rebuilt in what I would call opus incertissimum, including a #cipollino column for #SpoliaSunday. #AncientBluesky 🏺

#StandingStoneSunday Waun Mawn is the site of a possible dismantled #Neolithic stone circle in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, #Wales. The diameter of the postulated circle is estimated to be 110 m (360 ft), the third largest diameter for a British stone circle #Archaeology

Lochbuie Stone Circle This is a beautifully situated and well preserved stone circle located near the shores of Loch Buie and overlooked by Ben Buie #StandingStoneSunday