A terracotta sparrow from Roman Aosta in Northern Italy. Now part of the collections at the Regional Archaeological Museum in Aosta. 📸 My own. #Roman #Aosta

The Arch of Augustus at Aosta in Northern Italy. The arch was erected in 25 BC following the Roman victory over the Salassi - the local Gallic tribe. The victory led to the foundation of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum - modern day Aosta. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Aosta

St. Michael’s Church at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire. The main body of the church dates from the C12th to the C15th, with the central tower belfry added in the C15th. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StantonHarcourt #Oxfordshire

There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy. By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for making cheese. 🧵1/2 🏺

PENSYCHNANT UPLAND GUIDED HISTORY WALK Saturday 23rd May 2026 10am - 3pm The walk finishes with tea and cake at Pensychnant Nature Reserve £25.00 per person Booking essential - please follow the link to Eventbrite to book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989553264...

How people in the Late Iron Age divined the future 🧙 Modern copies of the Ffynogion spoons, discovered nr Ruthin, north Wales, in the C19th & now in the collections of the National Museum Scotland Fewer than 30 pairs are known from Britain & Ireland 😮 Held by artist Olivia Hicks 📷 My own 2024

The Cuerdale Hoard was discovered by workmen beside the River Ribble near Preston, Lancashire, #OTD in 1840. One of the largest Viking silver hoards ever found, it comprised around 8,600 items. 📸British Museum

This Roman limestone sculpture of a hunter was discovered in 1977 during excavations near Southwark Cathedral in London. Thought to have been carved locally, it features attributes of Mithras (the cap), Apollo (the arrows) and Diana (the stag). #FindsFriday

This delicately decorated bone object from a medieval settlement in Essex features a lion with tendrils emerging from its mouth, a motif paralleled in Romanesque sculpture. It may have been a dagger sheath chape, and reflects the transfer of ecclesiastical imagery to everyday objects. #FindsFriday

In 1836 some labourers found these 2,600 year-old wooden figures whilst cleaning a ditch at Roos Carr, near Withernsea, East Yorkshire. One of the men is said to have given one of the ancient ‘dolls’ to his daughter to play with! 😱 Hull and East Riding Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

The ‘Ballyclare Hoard’ - a collection of barbed and tanged flint arrowheads that date to the Mesolithic. It was discovered in 1968 during the construction of a housing estate in Ballyclare. Now part of the collections at the Ulster Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday

The ‘Pioneer Helmet’ - an Anglo-Saxon crested helmet found at Wollaston in Northamptonshire. Dating from the 7th and 8th centuries, the helmet was excavated in March 1997 and is now part of the collections at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday

14th century octagonal font from the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul at East Harling in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #EastHarling #Norfolk

The superb little chapel of St Fillan's at the head of Strathearn, where Dál Riata and Pictland meet. The post-medieval chapel and burial ground likely have much earlier predecessors, then as now in the shadow of the mighty Pictish hillfort of Dundurn www.trove.scot/place/24872?...

Fresh from the ground for #FindsFriday A rather nice Late Iron Age shale core 2,000 year old residue from bracelet manfacture (the square hole being from where this centrepiece was originally held in place on a pole lathe) 📷 Winterborne Kingston #Dorset July 2024 #Durotriges24 #FindsFriday

Neolithic graves in the Upper Düden Waterfalls Park. Antalya. 🇹🇷

Eardwulf replaced Osbald as king of the Northumbrians #OTD in 796, the latter dying three years later in exile in Pictland. In 798, Eardwulf defeated a conspiracy against him by Wada, and in 800 slew Alcmund, son of former king Alhred. He also fought against Coenwulf of Mercia.

Northumbrian rebels slew Walcher, Lotharingian bishop of Dunholm (Durham), and his followers at Gateshead #OTD in 1080. The murder of a thegn called Ligulf by one of Walcher’s kinsmen seems to have been the last straw for a people chafing under the Norman yoke. 📸British Museum

A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks. Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD. 📷 me, taken in 2021 at the Museum of London

A 6,000 year-old pottery bowl with five small hippos and a crocodile. From the grave of a woman and child at Matmar, near Asyut, Egypt. Early Predynastic, Naqada I. 📷 by me #Archaeology

One of the most spectacular coastal limekilns I have visited recently is this splendid example on the estuary of the Afon Braint nr Rhuddgaer, Ynys Môn/Anglesey - surveyed with @rcahmwales.bsky.social colleague Lou Barker for the national survey Note: no public access 3D here: skfb.ly/pJxyT 🤩

St Michael and All Angels Church, Stoke Prior, Worcestershire. #adorableThursday

Buttercups and storm clouds earlier on Glastonbury Tor.

#PortraitThursday - Roman Egyptian mummy portrait of a girl wearing a laurel wreath and a white tunic. Encaustic painting on sycamore wood, dated AD 120-150. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main.

Denton Hall Turret on #HadriansWall, then and now (beside the A186). For #RomanFortThursday © Simon Edwards, 3D Artvision History Rebuilt.

The remains of the vaulted strongroom (or treasury) which formed part of the headquarters building at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall #Northumberland

The north doorway of the Church of St. Mary at Swineshead in Lincolnshire. According to Pevsner, the door is the medieval original.📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Swineshead

Bron y Foel Isaf: An enormous capstone rests propped against an upright stone, with a wall surrounding it. This site can be driven to with a map and determined attitude, directions on our page. Fantastic views also surround. 📷 w650marion More: http://www.megalithi...

This glass bowl has had quite the journey. Made by Italian glassblowers sometime in the late 1st century BC, it made its way to Britain before the Romans even arrived and ended up buried at Stanway in what archaeologists call the Warrior's Burial, carefully placed inside a wood box around AD 40–50.

Layers of history here. This 2nd century AD Roman floor mosaic decorated a wealthy house in Noviomagus (now Chichester) and was discovered under the pavement of the east end of the medieval Gothic cathedral in 1966. It’s now permanently on display under glass. 📷 mine

And did those feet in ancient time: walking Britain’s oldest paths www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

The York Helmet was discovered by mechanical digger operator Andy Shaw during work at 16-22 Coppergate #OTD in 1982. The 8thC Anglian helmet is made of iron and copper alloy, and bears a Latin Christian inscription mentioning Oshere, presumably its owner. 📸York Museums Trust

Robert de Mowbray, rebel earl of Northumbria, refused to attend the Whitsun court of William II, Rufus, king of the English, at Windsor #OTD in 1095. William ordered a siege castle named Malveisin, ‘bad neighbour’, be built before Bamburgh. Robert was later seized. 📸Ian Capper

Finally got to visit the gloriously weird Ardchattan Priory cross slab. 9-10th century, maybe? I don't so much see the supposed Norse influence, but certainly lots of bonkers Pictish ideas here deep in the heart of Dál Riata www.trove.scot/place/318536...

For another later than planned #HillfortsWednesday another magnificent shot of the defensive ramparts of the Herefordshire Beacon courtesy of James.Stringer. #IronAge #Archaeology

The eastern entrance to Barbury Castle hillfort in Wiltshire, built first in the 6th century BC #HillfortsWednesday It once had much steeper banks, a wooden pallisade, and even sarsen stones as defences 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology #photooftheday #ancientbluesky

It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳 Here's the tree-covered ramparts of mighty Buckland Rings near Lymington #Hampshire at the southern margins of the New Forest Bought by a forward-thinking Hampshire County Council in 1988 A glorious if sometimes overlooked Iron Age enclosure 📷 Sept 2018

14th May is the feast of the Ascension. Here is depicted the Ascension of Christ, preceding the benediction for the feast of the Ascension. BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold; 10th century; England, S; ff.64v-65r @blmedieval.bsky.social

#OnThisDay - 12 May - in 2 BC Augustus' Temple of Mars Ultor (Mars the Avenger) was dedicated in Rome, accompanied by a set of Games. The Temple had been vowed in 42 BC at the Battle of Philippi. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 104; BM (1867,0101.594). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

The Edward Despenser Chantry or Holy Trinity Chapel at Tewkesbury Abbey contains a fine 14thC depiction of the Trinity flanked by enthusiastically censing angels and kneeling donors. How wonderful it must have been when newly painted. #WednesdayWallPaintings

Hercules, the son of Jupiter, Was bringing his new bride home When he came to the river Evenus. A centaur galloped up. This was Nessus. 'Let me take her over,' he offered. The Boeotian hero hoisted his darling Onto the centaur's back. Dejanira clung there, white with fear.

There's two exciting events in store this month for Tuatha Members! We have the brilliant Dr Elizabeth Boyle who will be discussing the Myths behind Irish Mythology in our upcoming Tuatha Talk.... #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology

#WindowsOnWednesday & while we didn't have long there, great to see the western fascade of Monza Cathedral 🇮🇹this is it's beautiful rose window

The remains of an early Christian pulpit that was discovered during excavations at Aosta Cathedral in Northern Italy. Dating to the 8th century AD, the pulpit is now part of the collections at the Regional Archaeological Museum in Aosta. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Aosta

Castle Howe Hillfort at Little Langdale in the Lake District. The fort guards the Wrynose Pass, and possibly dates to the Iron Age. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Cumbria

#HillfortsWednesday A vanished giant of north Wales 😥 The enormous stone-walled hillfort of Braich y Dinas ('the arm (peninsula) of the fort') once commanded the north Gwynedd coast from this rocky summit 🛖 By the 1920s it was being quarried away & is now entirely lost 😮⤵️ 📷 My own, Sunday

Roman fans loved sports merch too! This 2,000-year-old Roman glass cup from Colchester is a chariot racing souvenir. A Latin inscription hails ‘Cresces’ the winner! 🏆 It also bids farewell to his three losing opponents, Hierax, Olympus, and Antiocus! 👋 👋 👋 📷 by me #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

An adorable #medieval boot, made for a #kid too young to walk. From Constance, dating 14th-15th century. On display at Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg 📷 me 🏺

One of three Bronze Age burial cairns on Foel Drygarn ("The hill of the three cairns") - an Iron Age hill fort in the Preseli Hills, just west of the village of Crymych in Pembrokeshire. 📸 My own. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Pembrokeshire

Building stone fragment from one of the gateways at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields on South Tyneside commemorating the work of the Sixth Legion. Now on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Arbeia