#FindsFriday a yellow glass Romano-British intaglio, 50 - 150 CE, found at Fox Hill, West Wickham. It depicts Omphale, queen of Lydia draped in the fittings of Hercules who she purchases as a slave in mythology. Ref: Excavations in West Kent, 1960 - 1970 by Brian Philp (1973), pg 55 - 66.

When she first started weathering, initially quite severely, I assumed her days were numbered and I’d outlast her, but now I think she’ll still be gazing at the tadpoles in 50 years time. The rain erosion on her back is quite exquisite and fragile.

My time-worn, plaster of Paris, pond-gazing Venus increasingly reminds me of a Pompeiian victim of Vesuvius. I bought her freshly cast at Strawberry Fair around 3 decades ago, and we have weathered many storms together, each frost and rain shower taking its tiny toll. 1of2

Am Sonntag könnte Orbán, Ungarns Premier, endlich abgewählt werden. Er hat mit viel Geld in Deutschland ein dichtes Netz aus rechtsradikalen Politikern, Wissenschaftlern und Medienleuten aufgebaut. Wer dahintersteckt und wie es funktioniert. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/orba...

This #findsfriday we have a pair of applied saucer brooches of impure copper and mercury gilded surface. It has a central rock crystal and animal design found at a pagan, Saxon cemetery called 'Black Patch' at Blacknall Field, Pewsey, Wiltshire

For #FindsFriday a Roman enamelled stud from the site of a mausoleum that stood for 700 years overlooking the Medway marshes. Here, a woman in a lead-lined coffin, nearby Roman silverworking, and rare Anglo-Saxon finds point to a site that remained meaningful across changing worlds. #RomanBritain

... alternatively you can have my sweets that look like artefacts! 🤣 #Archaeology

Queuing for the view: the summit of Yr Wydffa

For #FieldworkFriday start following the ASE 50th anniversary conference videos. Here's a link to the first one, focusing on our legacy of early Prehistoric archaeology and developing a geoarchaeological practise.🏺🦣

Crib Goch emerging from the cloud, as seen from the top of Yr Wyddfa

The start of the a new era of investigation began at la Cotte 65 years ago. The first mammoth tooth find turned into the discovery of two bone structures. One of which we helped @jerseyheritage.bsky.social reconstruct two years ago. 🦣🏺 www.facebook.com/JerseyHeritage

Walkers on the Miner's track, seen from the summit of Yr Wyddfa

Cherry blossoms in front of the Guggemheim near dawn

OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at www.sidestone.com/books/advanc... #digital #3dmodeling #imageanalysis

An iron sword in its iron scabbard, bent in half and buried over 2,000 years ago Ritually 'killed' so that it could not be repaired nor used by another, this Iron Age weapon was found alongside its last owner From North Bersted #Sussex 2008. Now in the Chichester Novium 📷 March 2026 #FindsFriday

This girdle hanger dates to c. AD 410-600. Girdle hangers, often found in the graves of 6th century Anglian women, appear to be non-functional keys which symbolised the domestic and marital roles of women in their grave dress, and likely also in daily life. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

#FindsFriday! For this week’s treasure, CFA Archaeology is excited to share a wonderful Roman brooch recovered from excavations in West Yorkshire. The upper face of this disc brooch was decorated with 10 circles (of which 4 remain) evenly spaced around a central raised circle.

Campaigning in Roman times: For #FrescoFriday a painting from Pompeii that was long believed to show the sale of bread. It's thought now to be the free distribution of bread ahead of an election by a politician in a white toga. Photo: MANN Inv. No. 9071 🏺 #archaeology #romanarchaeology

10 April 1929 | A Czech Jewish girl, Ruth Gallusová, was born in #Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Here is one of the replica mammoth bone structures, skilfully recreated by Neil Mahrer from Jersey Heritage, I love we can now take our students here to see such a great exhibit of Ice Age archaeology from the island. 🏺🦣

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 Lady Jane Grey - Reclaiming England’s Queen 📰 The Aberdeenshire village that once ruled a Pictish kingdom 📰 Lord of the Ring: Ultra-rare Old English runic finger-ring found open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

⚔️ 9th-century sword hilts ⚔️ Left: Eigg, Inner Hebrides, Sco. (copper-alloy, silver, gilt) Right: Søndersø, Jutland, Den. The immense expense of, and status associated with, the swords owned by Scandinavian elites across the Viking world is self evident here. My 📷 NMS | NMD

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Und für's Wochenende gleich noch ein #Podcast​-Tipp hinterher - in der jüngsten #WeltgeschichteVorDerHaustür​-Folge von #mdrKultur geht es dieses Mal um: Die #Schamanin von #BadDürrenberg. ▶️ In der ARD-Audiothek (die jetzt, na ja, #ARDSounds heisst): www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:...

Things we'd lick if they were not really really old.

KENT!!! If Greens can win there they can win anywhere. Congratulations to Team Green!!! #JoinTheGreenParty

One of the loveliest of walks: the tidal island of Llanddwyn from the fabulous beach it's attached to.

The Ministry of Works puts them signs on ancient monuments not just to preserve the stones and walls. They put them up as they don't want nasty accidents, ghost-makers. The Ministry knows they've got a spectral overcrowding problem. They don't want it getting worse. – Jake Wheeler #VOH

The Hunterston Brooch from the collections of the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. Dating to around 700 AD, the brooch was found at Hunterston in North Ayrshire during the 1830s. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #HunterstonBrooch

Do you want some Money? Of course you do. Here's a fund that will help early career archaeologists become *actual* career archaeologists... sussexpast.co.uk/research/the...

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An inscription from a temple to Serapis in York, possibly built during the stay of the emperor Septimius Severus and family c.208-211 CE. The northern-most attested temple to an Egyptian god, the York temple may have also housed shrines to Isis, Harpocrates and Anubis. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

Guess who's having cataract surgery tomorrow morning? ME! I get a pretty new lens, but I'm currently freaking out about needles and eyes. 💉👁️ 😱 So here's a sweet pair of bronze, frit, and stone eyes made for a statue, now lost. 🏺 Greek, 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

Am 12. April feiert der Legionärspfad Vindonissa sein Eröffnungsfest. Die Legionäre und die Römerinnen bereiten das Legionslager für das Rosenfest "Rosalia Signorum" vor. Überall wird gewerkelt, geschmückt und gefeiert – und alle dürfen mitmachen! Mehr Infos: www.roemerstrasse.net/erleben/vera...

I am off to Battersea tomorrow to see this...very excited!

Unthank Road, Norwich. I’m sure if this foot-shaped/sized hole in the tarmac had appeared on a lump of chalk at Warham Camp or some such place, we’d have it down as the place of inauguration of Iceni monarchs. #ArchaeologyWishList #Echolands

Beautiful blue glass beads from the Danish Bronze Age. Found by a farmer at Humlum in Denmark in 1885. Glass analysis published in 2015 shows the beads originated in Mesopotamia indicating far-reaching trade networks some 3,000 years ago. 📷 National Museum of Denmark #Archaeology

Ihr dachtet, ihr wisst schon alles über Holger Friedrichs „Ostdeutsche Allgemeine“? Aber noch nicht, dass sie sich nun auch anbiedert beim Milieu rechter Esoteriker! Meine Recherche mit Oliver Rautenberg @anthroblogger.bsky.social für @volksverpetzer.de: www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/ostd...

#AdoorableThursday Unusual C1 Pompeiian marble door of tomb with original #IronworkThursday fittings, near Herculaneum gate. Research in 2011 combined inscription fragments in stores to indicate it was tomb of freedman Lucius Caltilius L. L. Pamphilus and wife Servilia. #Roman 🏺

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Boycott the World Cup and the USA. It's not worth the trip to El Salvador.

An adorable little #Roman dog figurine, some 1700+ years old - once an ornament, a lucky charm, or a child's toy, perhaps..?

Lovely little find to pick up on #RomanFortThursday - at March 1971 this is surely the first @vindolandatrust.bsky.social site booklet for sale to visitors??

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/2MitpMw0Yjk And stay tuned for another video next Thursday!

The brick-blocked Norman north door in the predominantly 12th century redundant church of the largely abandoned village of Whitcombe #Dorset A barrier from yesteryear photographed yesterday Now looked after by the Churches Conversation Trust @visitchurches.bsky.social #AdoorableThursday

For #RomanFortThursday, a little ancient Scrabble: bronze letters from an inscription found at the Roman fort of Schirenhof near Schwäbisch Gmünd. Built around AD 160, the fort was abandoned in the mid-3rd century AD. It was the base of the Cohors I Raetorum, an... 🧵1/2 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

It's official. The dark side of the moon is 10YR 4\6 Dark Yellowish Brown #ArtemisII