You have to wonder whether those are tinned/silvered bell-shaped studs on that wooden screen thingy.

I'm a FLO losing the will to identify. I've given reasons as to why this 'Latin runic' inscription on lead is not Anglo-Scandinavian or medieval. I've consulted a relevant professor, and still charged with 'dismissing' this piece. Any thoughts, but no guesses - only reply if you know! Cheers

*Dick Van Dyke raises his bat to the pavilion*

Hello Susan. Can you make Cher stop being number 1 please? #TOTP

Although we are in a cost of living crisis, I can't help thinking that our current obsession with the monetary, rather than historic, value of artefacts is contributing to sudden rush of museum thefts... 🤔 #Archaeology 🏺 #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/07/s... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Open access and hot off the presses for anyone interested in the end of Roman Britain.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:

Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings". And now everything is broken.

Lovely to see Treasure: History Unearthed celebrated as winner of the @socmusarch.bsky.social annual award for excellence in the exhibition project category. It has great to work with a fantastic team & special objects! Book your tickets here👇 www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

I'm so happy for Lando Norris. A poor boy from a poor family who has struggled with disadvantage and adversity all his life. Is Lando even a name?

This picture was on FB group today. Why dig something (anything) up when you lack the rudimentary resources to identify it yourself? Hi guys just up today it's 17mm in hight and hole is 14mm wide with E+k stamped on, but I can't seem to find any hallmarks, any ideas please many thanks, luke

Russia • Racism • Reform

"Shamima Begum ran away, espousing horrific antisemitic ideals, at 15 – then three years younger than the age the youthful Farage was last credibly reported allegedly youthfully hissing at Jews" Stewart Lee

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

I've done more than my fair share of jury service - 4 cases in total - and am in favour of it as a direct result of that experience. It works. Feels like an important democratic check (not least) on the power of judges - who, through no fault of their own - must inevitably get jaded by experience.

In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article. Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”. Read it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w... or: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...

Your Horoscope from the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2024/11/horo... #horoscope

Something a lot of people don't realise is that, if something is illegally detected (so detected where finder doesn't have permission from landowner), the landowner still gets the 'reward' money from the find - in fact sometimes 100% of 'reward' money! Cont'd #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

me: i’m going to make one of those diagrams that uses circles dracula: venn me: probably tomorrow

My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures. We really are in a mess... #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...

Just in case you've got the Monday blues, here's a burst of colour to brighten your day. A huge thanks to Debbie who captured this autumnal scene at Sheffield Park and Garden.

source: p36 of this document. In 2023 (the latest figures available), fewer than 4k people in Eng + Wales reported finds to the PAS (p5). If there's 50k detectorists in this country (almost certainly a lot more), under 10% of them report their finds to the PAS #archaeology

Xmas presents sorted! #medievalsky

It's very cool to see Barnes and Noble listing my upcoming book, Treasures of the Vikings, on the US book market! 🇺🇲 📚

when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

Urghh... it's as bad as I hoped it wasn't - these really are 'the first', 'the earliest', 'the only'. In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless. So awful.😔 #Archaeology 🏺 1/2 www.bbc.com/news/article...

4% of annual finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme were DONATED to Museums.... thats right 4% 📢One last time folks 4%📢 C'mon people, without Generosity, Donation, Giving, Legacy or Sharing how do we & our future generations have access to our shared heritage?

Today's news: What happens when museums can't afford to buy coins... 'Auctioneer, David Guest said the "stunning" coins were sold to "bidders from all over the world and exceeded my expectations".' Bidders. From. All. Over. The. World. 😡 #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An important continuation of the discussion

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales. Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊 #Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

These are often mistaken for Early-Medieval pins but they are medieval strap ends. Only one published example is known from a 14th-15th-century context in Hartlepool. Some feature a terminal cross as on 13th-14th-century strap-ends. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

THIS IS SO GOOD

The one thing with Reeves and tax rises: where is the sense that this is being done for a positive reason? The narrative is still crisis.

Your timely reminder that the arseholes™️ aren't bothered that the person in custody was born in the UK, or is a Brit citizen, because to them being a tad darker than magnolia means you're a migrant by default. Pointing it out to them isn't going to change their screeching

Every football match in England: No Room for Racism English media and politics: Very Much Room for Racism

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

“Homosexuals and feminists face execution in Saudi Arabia. Now they’ve got the standups on to them as well” says STEWART LEE www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

This amazing object is a Bronze Age palstave axehead c.1500-1250 BC. The axe would be hafted to a forked wooden handle held in place by high flanges & deep stop ridge. It is decorated with a trident-like shield design. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

Badenoch reading Vimes' Boots Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness and thinking how much more economic growth comes from making poorer people buy cheap boots over and over

I came here to chew gum and call out lies on Twitter... and I'm all out of gum. (Photo @politicalpics)

Had a lovely private walk around the Liverpool Treasure:History Unearthed exhibition this evening. What a wonderful show! Amazing objects lit so beautifully! And it's not all precious metals! Portable Antiquities Scheme annual Conference tomorrow! Travel Tavern tonight! #PAS

Convinced that most British people want to live in a functioning, decent country where government improves stuff and everyone can thrive. The vast majority want nothing to do with this imported hate and atmosphere of violence directed at people just trying to live their lives.

We get it.

I'm done.

Let’s balance up this poll… POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist? www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.