Rare glass king piece from a ‘tafl’ gaming set, a strategy board game played in the Northern British Isles some 1,200 years ago. From Lindisfarne, Northumberland. 📷 Digventures #Archaeology

The remains of a cobbled alley from Caister-on-Sea Roman Fort, near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. The fort was built in around 200 AD, and served as a base for units of the Roman army and navy. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Norfolk

The 14th century west doorway of the Church of St. John the Baptist at Campsea Ash in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Suffolk

Long Meg and Her Daughters stone circle, named after a witch Meg of Meldon, who, along with her daughters was turned to stone by a local wizard named Michael Scot from the book: "Folklore of the Lake District" by Stephen G. Rae #wyrdwednesday #lakedistrict

One of the oldest wheels in the world! A ca. 5,000 year-old wooden disc wheel from Olzreute-Enzisholz. The site is part of the UNESCO World Heritage "Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps." The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the...🧵1/2 📷 me

Marching north on a campaign against the Scots, Æthelstan, king of the English, visited the shrine of St Cuthbert at either Cuncacestre (Chester-le-Street) or more likely Ubbanford (Norham) #OTD in 934. He gifted precious items, including books and vestments, to the church there.

The view from the summit of Mither Tap, on my walk last week up Bennachie. Love the views from up here. #HillfortsWednesday

It’s my 36th ancient relic from each country in the #WorldCup. This is SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This is the extraordinary Hunterston Brooch, a Celtic-style silver brooch with gold and amber decoration. It was used to pin a cloak and is thought to have belonged to a king just prior to the Viking age. 🕰️c700 AD

King Offa of Mercia who is said to have founded St Albans Abbey. BL Cotton MS Nero D VII; The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey (‘the Golden Book of St Albans’); 1380-c 1540; England (St Albans); f.3v @blmedieval.bsky.social

#ENGvsDRC He called himself "King of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes" - Cnut ruled an early medieval North Sea empire. England fell in 1016 to Cnut's army of Danes, Poles, Norwegians, & Swedes. He ruled for ~20 years, but infighting brought his empire undone.

Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland (England) reconstruction mock-up. Castle used as a muster point by Hotspur Percy & Lord Dunbar forces to intercept the Scots army at the Battle of Homildon Hill in 1402. #DunstanburghCastle #EnglishCoastalCastles

The dragon head of Skidbladner - a replica of the famous 9th century Viking Gokstad ship which was found in a burial mound at Vestfold in Norway in 1880. Skidblander can be found at Haroldswick on Unst in Shetland. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Unst #Shetland

Relief from Roman Trier depicting two young women involved in the cloth trade. Dating to the 2nd to 3rd century AD, the relief is part if the collections at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Trier. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Roman #Trier

It's the only #BlueSky day that counts 🧐 #HillfortsWednesday 🍻 Walk with me into the giant (13.6m diameter 😮) excavated roundhouse inside Dinas Dinlle coastal fort, Gwynedd - which is currently being lost to the waves An incredible Roman-period home by the sea 🌊 🎥 My own, yesterday

It's the last #HillfortsWednesday of June (and also the last one of #Durotriges26) so to celebrate / commemorate, here's a mighty Iron Age enclosure from central Dorset: Eggardon Hill, looked after by @nationaltrust.org.uk 📷 February 2020 of the sinuously rampartular multivallate south circuit

Not the same as yiyr average hillfort is the Birka castle on The Lake Mälaren. The castle has been dated to the Viking Age and used until the 10th or 11th century. The castle wall is about 350 m long, two to three m high and seven to eight m wide. Björkö, photo: Jan Norrman. #HillfortsWednesday

Holy oil is said to have seeped from John of Beverley’s tomb when Henry Bolingbroke made landfall in Yorkshire #OTD in 1399. The next year, as Henry IV, the king of England carried the Northumbrian saint’s banner into battle against Scotland.

Found in Strasbourg (FRA), this stone commemorates Comnis (or Comnisca), an eques in the #RomanCavalry serving in the turma of Celta in ala Indiana who lived to 25, only serving for 7 years. His unit later served in Britain (and was based at Cirencester). #TombstoneTuesday

Some of the most colourful finds from #Roman & #IronAge times are made from #glass. At #Trimontium, broken bottles were recycled into glass beads & bangles, & these constitute some of our favourite objects in the collection.  Come & see them for yourself at our wonderful museum!

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ A rare Athenian silver decadrachm, c. 467 BC. Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museum, Berlin 📷 ArchaiOptix #Archaeology

I rarely post personal stuff here, but I just wanted to share this: That's the house that made me want to be an #archaeologist. In Rottweil, the oldest town in Baden-Württemberg, archaeologists always show up before construction starts. My parents weren’t nearly as excited as I was, but ... 🧵1/2

More of our villa mosaic being uncovered today, at Halberton, Devon #MosaicMonday

The chapter house, Elgin Cathedral.

Two of the 18 ‘satellite’ burial mounds at Knowth - part of the Brú na Bóinne complex near Newgrange in Ireland. Dating to the Neolithic, the mounds surrounds the more famous larger mound which contains two passage tombs. 📸 My own #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Ireland

A medieval floor tile from Halesowen Abbey in the West Midlands depicting two Premonstratensian monks. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday

Roman building stone which was found at Carrawburgh Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall recording that ‘The Thruponian Century (built) 24 feet.’ The stone is now on display in the Clayton Museum at Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain

Imagines Italicae Vol. 2, p. 265. Pompei 1 = Ve 61 L(úvkis) mummis l(úvkeís) kúsúl. ‘Lucius Mummius, son of Lucius, consul.’ An Oscan inscription from Pompeii. This Roman consul presented gifts of looted booty to various cities after the sacking of Corinth in 146 BC, also Pompeii. #EpigraphyTuesday

The Four Seasons mosaic in the Yorkshire museum. Found in the House of the Three Mosaics in York in 1853. And thanks to the member of the museum staff for telling me all about it. #MosaicMonday

Actaeon torn apart by his own dogs. Mosaic from Cirencester, UK. #MosaicMonday www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

Bede, aged just 19, was made deacon by John, bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham), #OTD in 693.

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

To complement last week's #MosaicMonday shaggy-haired Orpheus in the Archaeological Museum in Split, here are two of the animals - bear and lion - in small compartments around him. They are each given the same backdrop of a tree. 📷2004 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#MosaicMonday 👀 A few years ago in the #French city of Nimes some amazing floor mosaics were discovered that portray the #myth of Pentheus, the king of Thebes. 2nd century CE. #Archaeology #History #Art #France   🇫🇷

Adorable Roman mosaic of a tigress and three playful cubs! 🐯❤️ Eastern Roman Empire, AD300s. 📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1987.65 #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Two duelling fighters - a 4th century mosaic from Roman Trier (Augusta Treverorum). Now part of the collections at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Trier. 📷 My own #MosaicMonday #Trier #Roman

Gothic splendour - looking east down the nave of Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #LichfieldCathedral #Staffordshire

This is a truly remarkable development: A carbonized scroll, sealed since the eruption of #Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and successfully deciphered in its entirety. What informations will the other carbonized scrolls reveal? What an exciting project! scrollprize.org/firstscroll

Final spot of Iron Age charioteering before I leave wonderful Chalke. Magical weekend, and can’t emphasise how hard the chariot builders worked in impossible heat to enable this. Next stop @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day!

Listening to Miles Russell give a very entertaining tour of two beautiful Iron Age roundhouses at the @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day, and two old blokes having a lovely catch up afterwards.

Gors Fawr stone circle,Mynachlog Ddu, Pembrokeshire. 📷 21.06.26 #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #Photography #PhotographersofBlueSky

Scarborough Castle (England) reconstruction mock-up. In 1312 King Edward II of England fled here with his friend Piers Gaveston by boat from Tynemouth Castle.(Scarborough was later besieged by the Percies from Warkworth) #ScarboroughCastle #HistoryRebuilt

The Mare and Foal Standing Stones - the only visible remains of a Bronze Age stone circle which is located close to Hadrians Wall, just off the B6318 in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Northumberland

Trumpet brooch from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) in Yorkshire. The brooch can be viewed in the site museum. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #Aldborough #Yorkshire

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This magnificent #Roman #fish-shaped flask was found during the excavation of a storeroom in the ancient city of Begram/Afghanistan. It was probably made in a workshop at Alexandria/Egypt, dating 1st/2nd century AD. Begram was a major....🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday with the early Christian Basilica, abutted by a Synagogue in Sarandë 🇦🇱 also a portion of the late Roman Wall see more of Sarandë in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE9w...

This statue of a household god was recovered in 1870 from a Roman house in Maryport, West Cumbria. He wears a toga and holds a patera in his right hand. Maryport Roman Museum, Cumbria. #RomanSiteSaturday

#RomanSiteSaturday with the Anastasius Forum & Baths of Dyrrachium, now Durrës 🇦🇱 see more of Durrës in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE9w...

The Hove Amber Cup, crafted approximately 3,500 years ago from a singular piece of Baltic amber, was discovered in 1856 within a Bronze Age burial mound in Hove, Sussex. It's the best preserved of only two such Bronze Age vessels identified across Europe. 📷 me 🏺 #Archaeology

Something lovely for the weekend! 🤩❤️ Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

The signs are out, finds prepared, trenches open, toilets cleaned, marquee emptied, team primed and chip shop, ice cream van and brewhouse all good to go We're now ready for the #Durotriges26 Big Dig open day tomorrow Maybe see you there? 👍