A Bronze Age ‘belt plate’ which was discovered in 1879 when cutting peat at Langstrup, near Asminderød in North Zealand. Now part of the collections at The National Museum of Denmark. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Denmark

1st century fresco fragments from Fishbourne Roman Palace, near Chichester in Sussex. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne

14th century octagonal font from St. Martin’s Church at Stamford in Lincolnshire. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Stamford #Lincolnshire

A cresecent-shaped bronze decorated openwork mount originally fixed to the front of the helmet found with the North Bersted warrior Part of a two piece crest which created a piece of head attire quite unlike anything else discovered from the British Iron Age 🤩 📷 March 2026 #Novium #FindsFriday

Found in 2008, the North Bersted Late Iron Age warrior now resides in the Novium Museum Chichester 📷 March 2026 Laid to rest with a bronze *Coolus type* helmet with chin-strap connectors This blingy piece of prehistoric PPE originally came with an elaborate crested headdress 1/4 for #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday The incredibly important Paulinus Stone of Caerwent Roman town, south Wales, is accessible again in the church porch 🥳 Discovered in 1903, this former statue base bears the civic inscription of AD220 showing the noble Silures tribal name (highlight) still in use 😮 📷 My own, last week

The 9thC Dupplin Cross was installed at St Serf's Church, Dunning, Perthshire, #OTD in 2002. It had originally stood near Dupplin Castle before a spell in Edinburgh. Its Latin inscription links it with Causantín mac Fergusa (†820), king of the Picts and Scots. 📸Tom Parnell #medievalsky

Cuthbert was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne by Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, and six other bishops at York #OTD in 685. He would spend almost two years ministering and preaching across his diocese before dying from illness at his former Inner Farne hermitage. #medievalsky

A remarkable archaeological discovery beneath the waters of Lake Neuchâtel! In November 2024, the remains of a Roman cargo ship, dating 1st c. AD, was discovered. The wreck contained hundreds of pottery vessels, Spanish olive oil amphorae, tools and weapons, including the #sword shown here. 🧵1/2 🏺

Wonderful ancient artistry! Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved whip handle in the shape of a horse! New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

*Always* the most terrifying face-in-a-building 😱 Chepstow medieval Town Gate on Tuesday night 👌 📷 My own.

Bonna, modern Bonn, was a #Roman fortress opposite the confluence of the frontier river #Rhine and built by prince Drusus between 16/15 and 13 BCE. This new fortress was occupied by the First #Legion Germanica. #RomanFortThursday #History#Archaeology #Germany

Arbeia was a Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England, now partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s. All modern buildings on the site were cleared in the 1970s. The fort was built in AD 129 and from 198 it was altered in plan. It was abandoned c. 400. #RomanFortThursday

Tombstones of two #Roman auxilliary cavalrymen who both died in Britain during the 1st century AD Dannicus (from Switzerland) and Genialis (from the Netherlands) Illuminated in colour, to show how they may have originally looked, in the Corinium Museum #Cirencester 📷 Aug 2022 #RomanFortThursday

🏛️ The Roman Odeion (Odeum), Ancient Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece, dates back to the 1st century CE. It was used for musical and rhetorical contests and has an estimated capacity of 3,000 spectators. 📷 My own.

The remains and outline of the granary at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields on South Tyneside. The fort was probably built in around AD 128 to guard the mouth of the River Tyne. 📸 My own. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #Arbeia #RomanBritain #SouthShields

The medieval tower door of St. Mary’s Church at Acton (near Nantwich) in Cheshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Acton #Cheshire

Agrigento, Sicilia. Valle dei templi, one of the most outstanding examples of Greater Greece art and #architecture.

In the excellent #Novium museum in Chichester, West #Sussex, built directly upon the civic baths of #Roman NOVIOMAGVS I spy, with my little eye, a nice little underfloor heating system 😉 #HypocaustGate

Usually I don't post things older than the late Palaeolithic period, but #insects embedded in amber never cease to amaze me - the sheer age! This ant preserved in its finest detail is some 50-million-year old 🐜 Found in Gujarat, India. 📷 University of Bonn

#HillfortsWednesday Uley Bury is an multi-vallate, hill fort dating from around 300 B.C. It uses the Cotswold scarp to enhance its defences. A Romano-British temple was nearby and excavations in the 1970s revealed many wondrous objects such as a head of Mercury & several curse tablets.

#HillfortsWednesday with Caerfai looking incredible in a burst of March sunshine along the Pembrokeshire Coast See more of this & Pembrokeshire in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1nh...

#ancientbluesky #reliefwednesday #Roman Funerary relief of two freedmen and a freedwoman, late 1st Century BC "L(ucius) Gallonius L(uci) l(ibertus) Ascanio / L(ucius) Gallonius L(uci) l(ibertus) Philodamus / Gallonia L(uci) l(iberta) Laais"

#ReliefWednesday - Relief depicting the personification of the city of Salona, carved into Porta Caesarea in the 4th century AD. The letters MIVSF inscribed on the flag are the initials of the official name of Salona, Martia Iulia Valeria Salona Felix. Split Archaeological Museum, Croatia.

✨Augustus and Tiberius - the Gemma Augustea✨ One of the most impressive artefacts from the Julio-Claudian period, the Gemma Augustea is our pick this #ReliefWednesday.

Stone Lands is going to Orkney - yaay! I’m so excited to be doing a talk at this year’s St Magnus Festival (their 50th anniversary). If you are attending too, would love to see you in Kirkwall on 26th June! stmagnusfestival.com/festival-pro...

Gravestone fragment showing three Roman legionnaires. The fragment was found at Croy Hill on the Antonine Wall, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanScotland #NMS

Chesters Iron Age hill-fort in East Lothian. The hill-fort probably stood within the territory of the Votadini, as described by Ptolemy. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday

The ‘Winchester Round Table’ - a medieval replica of King Arthur’s legendary table. The table was repainted for Henry VIII (including the addition of the Tudor rose), and hangs in the C13th Great Hall at Winchester. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Winchester

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️ It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology

Fascinating world of #glass: Glass vessels from the 16th and early 17th century, found in a latrine in Ulm. Latrines were commonly used for waste disposal. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

It's #HillfortsWednesday!! To celebrate the wonder of hillfort-contemporary Iron Age sites, here's a banjo enclosure, appearing as a cropmark at Sixpenny Handley #Dorset 😍 Intriguingly, its ditch seems to divert around an earlier (Bronze Age?) barrow A stunning air photo © Jo and Sue Crane 2017

Isolated and wooded, D-shaped hillfort on Nesscliffe Hill above the Rivers Severn and Perry. Internal area c. 2.8ha. Small scale excavations by Hume and Jones 1953-56 and lately by Oxford. Several coins and 2nd to 4th century pottery. The top has been cleared and restaured. #HillfortsWednesday

Medieval floor tiles Two tiles discovered on the High Street, it is thought that these are evidence of wealthy people living on this part of the street in the medieval period. Now Museum of Cardiff #TilesOnTuesday #Medieval

An Early Bronze Age burial mound, close to the Hengistbury Head visitor centre, on the vernal equinox Now with extra added information board 😊👍 📷 March 2026 #TombTuesday @bcpcouncil.bsky.social

The remains of a kerb cairn at the Clava Cairns - part of a Bronze Age cemetery near Culloden in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #ClavaCairns #Prehistory

Building stone of the First Cohort of Dalmatians which was later reused as a step in the strongroom at Chesters Roman Fort In Northumberland. Now part of the archaeological collections at the fort. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #Chesters #RomanBritain #HadriansWall

13th century floor tiles from Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #MelroseAbbey

Fishing about 3,500 years ago 🎣 Bronze Age copper-alloy fishing hooks, from the pile dwelling settlement at Meersburg-Haltnau/Lake Constance. #Fish was a staple diet for pile dwellers - caught with hooks and lines, nets, harpoons, and fish traps. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

#TombTuesday I finally made it back to the incredible Presaddfed chambered tombs in central Ynys Môn/Anglesey last week - I was last here as a teenager 😬 The tombs sit on the edge of an ancient lake & probably represent fragments of a once complex, multiperiod monument 📷 My own

One of the surviving mosaics from the della Marciana baths complex at Ostia Antica, near Rome. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #OstiaAntica #Roman

The east end of Gisborough Priory through the North Yorkshire mist. The Augustinian priory was founded in around 1119 by Robert I de Brus, an ancestor of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #GisboroughPriory

Carved figure of the Virgin Mary from Winchester Cathedral. Dating to the late 15th century, it was once part of the Cathedral’s ‘Great Screen’. Now part of the Cathedral’s ‘Kings and Scribes’ Exhibition. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #WinchesterCathedral

Discovered in 2017, less than half of this 4th century mosaic from Bratton Seymour Roman villa survived Lifted for the excellent Museum at The Newt #Somerset, the central panel was partially recreated as depicting Bacchus, god of wine and ecstatic celebration Cheers 🍷 📷 May 2024 #MosaicMonday

An amazing gold bowl with depictions of animals, crescent moons and cirlcles representing suns and/or full moons. It was discovered in 1906 during the construction of a railway line in Zurich-Altstetten, Switzerland. Dating around 1000 BC. With a weight of 910 grams it's... 🧵1/2 📷 me

In a mixture of #SaxonSunday & #SundayStonework thought we could use a thread of some of the fantastic things on display in St Mary's Church, Wirksworth in the Peak District 🧵👇

A lovely annunciation scene at All Saints, Oakham for #mothersday even if the angel does look rather like he's launching his scroll at Mary! On the left is the coronation of the Virgin and on the right is the expulsion of Adam and Eve, the capitals at Oakham are all rather 'busy'. #SundayStonework

#StandingStoneSunday Clach an Trushal, translated to English "Stone of Compassion" is said to be the tallest standing stone in Scotland. Above ground it stands approximately 5.8 metres tall, is 1.83 m wide. The stone is in the village of Ballantrushal on the west side of Lewis. See Alt. For more

A beautiful evening on Kenidjack Common last autumn - Tregeseal stone circle (and its lost neighbour, destroyed in the 1960s) and the mysterious holed stones #StandingStoneSunday