#Mosaic from #RomanBritain, features #Bacchus riding on a #tiger rather than the usual spotted leopard, referring to the myth that the god visited #India. Discovered during building work on the premises of the east India Company in 1803 Leadenhall Street, London. #MosaicMonday

Roman mosaic of a victorious charioteer called Marcianus depicted commanding a quadriga (a four-horse chariot), 4th century AD, National Museum of Roman Art, Mérida. Credit: Carole Raddato #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii. Dating 1st century AD. Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕‍🦺🐩 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

It's probably a bit early in the day / week to be thinking about wine... but here's an exquisite little tessellated cantharus (wine cup) with S-shape handles Detail from the Oceanus Mosaic found in 1931 and now in the excellent Verulamium Museum @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social Happy #MosaicMonday 🍷

We’ve decided to stay on an extra couple of days in Wales as we are loving it so much. We visited Barmouth again today and walked along the viaduct for the second time (The first time was the other day in extremely high winds! 🌬️💨). Teddy especially liked Barmouth beach. #VisitWales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Feb 9: Feast of Rónán, bishop of Lios Mór (Lismore, Argyll). He could be identical to Rónán, abbot of Cenn Garad (Kingarth, Bute), who died in 737. 📸Otter #medievalsky

#MosaicMonday Lullingstone villa #mosaics - The mosaic shows famous scenes from #Greek and #Roman #mythology: the hero Bellerophon riding the winged horse Pegasus to defeat the Chimera. A scene of Europa cleverly depicted in a simple, yet effective linear style.  #History #art #RomanBritain

2nd century mosaic from Roman St. Albans (Verulamium) depicting Oceanus or Cernunnos. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations, and is on display at Verulamium Museum in St. Albans. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #VerulamiumMuseum

An early 15th century memorial brass effigy of Lady Alice, wife of Sir Ralph Shelton, at St. Mary’s Church in Great Snoring, Norfolk. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #GreatSnoring #Norfolk

St. Magnus Cathedral at Kirkwall in Orkney. Built from local red and yellow sandstone, the Cathedral was founded in 1137, and is Britain’s most northerly cathedral. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #StMagnusCathedral #Orkney

Rothbury Cross c. 800 CE Northumberland Part of the shaft section of the Anglo Saxon cross. On one face a haloed Christ holds a book. Now Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle #SundayStonework #SaxonSunday

Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.

Boscawen-un Stone Circle 📸 By me from a few summers ago. I miss Cornwall, but the journey and #MECFS are not happy bedfellows. #StandingStoneSunday

The Merry Maidens #StandingStoneSunday

A recent stones trip to Coldrum long barrow in Kent with @classicalalan.bsky.social - misty, muddy and very atmospheric! This place is 6,000 years old, just so awesome. #StandingStoneSunday

#OnThisDay - 8 February - in AD 421, Constantius III was proclaimed co-Emperor in the West by Honorius, whom he had served as 'Magister Militum'. Constantius would die seven months later. #History 🏺 Image: RIC X Honorius 1339; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 38758). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#StandingStoneSunday The Standing Stones of Torhouse (also Torhousekie) are a stone circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Scotland.

As it's #SuperbOwlSunday - let's enjoy this lovely Red-Figure Kalpis, attributed to the 'Group of the Floral Nolans' at Athens, ca. 480-470 BC. Truly, a Superb Owl. 😉 Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...

It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl. 🏈🦉 #SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026

Early Christian sarcophagus with five scenes of the life of Christ. Reused as an altar front. The inscription commemorates Saint Marcellus, Pope from 308-309, whose remains may have been placed in the sarcophagus. Formerly in the private collection of Rubens, now RMO Leiden. #stoneworksunday 🗃️🏺

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍 From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

#AncientSiteSunday - Beit She'an, also called Scythopolis/Nysa, is an ancient city in Galilee, where the Harod and Jordan valleys meet, 27 km south of the Sea of Galilee and 5 km east of the Jordan River. Its strategic position has influenced its history, making it an important archaeological site.

Cullerlie stone circle, near Echt in Aberdeenshire. Within the Bronze Age circle are eight small ring cairns which contained cremated remains. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Cullerlie #Prehistory #Aberdeenshire #Archaeology

A square-headed Anglo-Saxon brooch from Warwickshire. Dating to the 6th century, the brooch is now on display at the Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum at Wooler in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin

Medieval carved figure from the Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Geddington in Northamptonshire. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Geddington #Northamptonshire

Galicia in Spain belongs to the Atlantic megalith tomb area. Dolmens are Neolithic Age constructions formed by large stone slabs. In Galicia, with the abundance of granite rock, dolmens are common. In picture Dolmen de as Maus de Salas. #StandingStoneSunday

Avebury Cove Stones. Sunrise with the sheep. #StandingStonesunday

Is it #StandingStoneSunday already?! 😮🥳 Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it. Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8

Callanish #StandingStoneSunday

For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC. 📷Louvre, Paris

And so, to dispel the sluggard in me, in 10 days’ time - through the power of a camper-van-camino, in the dandling mizzle of the season - I will invoke the spirit of Edward Thomas by travelling the length of Britain north to south in pursuit of spring. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

#RomanSiteSaturday The bathhouses of Mactaris, Tunisia, with it's lovely mosaic floor and archways still intact 📸 Mine #archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺

Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, king of Leinster, and, according to later writers, 'king of Ireland with opposition', died #OTD in 1072. His power was such that he was also styled rí… Índsi Gall, ‘king of the Hebrides’, in his obituary. 📸NMIreland #medievalsky

Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle. A fort, built c. 125 CE, to house c. 600 men, stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall The tower gives a view over extensive remains, with a television screen showing a reconstruction of the sites’s development #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain

Elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome A new study suggests that a 2,200-year-old bone, which was discovered in 2020 near Córdoba might have originated from one of Hannibal's war elephants during the Second Punic War. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD. This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass. Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago! The Met. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Shocked! BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century; France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); f.173v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Some of the surviving third century walls of Caistor Roman Town (Venta Icenorum) in Norfolk. The town was established in around AD 70, and served as the principal centre for the region. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain

The ‘Balmaclellan Mirror’ - an Iron Age mirror which was found as part of a hoard at Balmaclellan in Kirkcudbrightshire. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #BalmaclellanMirror #IronAge

The saddleback tower of St Michael's Church at Duntisbourne Rouse in Gloucestershire. While the church has several Saxon features, the tower is 16th century in date. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #DuntisbourneRouse #Gloucestershire

#RomanSiteSaturday with Witcombe Roman Villa in autumn We've spent the last 4 autumns heading to Shropshire, as well as the Cotswolds & into Wales you can see more of that here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...

Timeline cleanse! A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉 The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens. On display at Antikensammlung München 📷me 🏺

An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death. Dating around 400 BC. On display at Antikensammlung München 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

#FindsFriday Slightly rarer than hen's teeth, the magical Nesscliffe Iron Age spoons on display in the brilliant Shrewsbury Museum 🥰 Thought to have been used for divination - perhaps by Druids - fewer than 30 pairs have been discovered since 1829....😮 🎥 My own, last week

#FindsFriday A huge hollow gold torq from the Snettisham Hoard, dating to about 70 BC in the Iron Age It may have been part of royal treasure of the Iceni tribe! Found in Norfolk, England, in 1948 📍 Seen in Norwich Castle Museum 📸 Mine #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

#FindsFriday - a stone, probably from the Lake District, perforated for use as a pendant, found in an #IronAge pit in Suffolk

This #findsfriday we have a gold mounted amber pendant. It consists of a flat central disc of amber framed by a wide round border of thin gold. Found with a primary cremation in Bell Barrow Wilsford G8 and excavated by William Cunnington.

A Roman bronze statuette of a 3 horned bull carrying portrait busts, possibily deities, on its head and tail A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social 📷 Sept 2025 #FindsFriday

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology