Reposting for #SundaySheep. (Stones + Sheep = 🥰)

Opening today: Religion in Verulamium: Tolerance and Fusion. This new exhibition, using objects and images from Verulamium and beyond, asks how Roman, Celtic and global beliefs blended — and whether all religions were tolerated equally. On until 26 April.

Samian ware bowl (fragment) Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle. The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear. The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall. #FindsFriday #Roman

Great expressions!

To celebrate #NationalHedgehogDay, this illustration of two playful hedgehogs is from a Bestiary - a medieval book of beasts - in our Library collection. Bestiaries were popular in the Middle Ages and feature creatures, both real and mythical, and a moral lesson about each one.

#Hedgehog Better late than never: this is too good not to share! I aspire to be a 3, but this week it's probably a 9 ... 🦔

As it is #NationalHedgehogDay here’s a fine watercolour by Ferdinand Bauer, MS. Sherard 238 Pl. 6 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Happy snuffling to all who celebrate!

Impressive 🦔 ring.

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺 This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE. Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

#HappyHedgehogDay !!! 🦔 Check out this little guy!! A small model of a hedgehog that is about 4,500 years old! from Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period (2800-2300 BCE). National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. 📷 My own.

For this #MosaicMonday, the stag from the Withington Orpheus mosaic. Some of the animals have - excitingly! - been let out and can be enjoyed in the excellent @coriniummuseum.bsky.social, but this one remains in the BM's store. 1/2 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Reposting for #MosaicMonday.

News from the frontier! 🎉 The countdown is on… The #museum re-openson Friday 13th Feb! Our staff & volunteers are busy polishing the #armour, dusting #artefacts, & tidying up to get everything ready for your visit. This year holds some exciting surprises we can’t wait to share!✨ zurl.co/B1KaI

#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A puzzle for #SarcophagusSaturday. While visiting the wonderful Lowther Castle and Gardens last September, I came across this 'Roman Bath' which the visitor leaflet says 'is almost certainly Roman. There is one very similar (and rather less weathered) in the Vatican.' Do we think this is a bath? 1/3

Definitely deserves an early repost for #MisaicMonday: how lovely (and extensive).

A great entry for #SundaySheep, especially now details have been added of the sheep's name and what she cost. (Presumably she's worth much more now that she's famous on social media ... 😁).

An early and adorable entry for #SundaySheep, with thanks to the keen eyes of @chapps.bsky.social for noticing the problem with the display. (🤞that the BM rectifies this.)

This looks interesting.

For this #MosaicMonday, recalling a visit to the Musee Rolin in Autun many years ago, where this rather splendid but somewhat pensive sea bull is doing a few leisurely laps. #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #SundaySheep, two very, very young lambs with their mum. 😍😍😍(Photo cropped and enlarged, so not sharp, but I didn't want to get too close and disturb them.)

Sunday has got off to a good start with this adorable #hedgehog. (Big thank you, as ever, to @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social.)

Who can resist a porcupine?! (Especially if he/she is a vertical one as set out in the Alt text, but maybe it's just the orientation of the image?)

A 14th-century manuscript of the Romance of Alexander (the Great) that I saw in the Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library. [Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; fols. 43v-44r].

Excited about our upcoming exhibition ! www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/rel...

For anyone else whose Tuesday will be improved, as mine has been, by hanging out with some adorable bats. 🦇🥰🦇

A certain Iron Age boar has been attracting attention recently, so for this #MosaicMonday here's a perky Roman boar. He's from the wonderful Triumph of Neptune and the Seasons mosaic from La Chebba, now in the Bardo in Tunis, and he represents Winter. #AncientBlueSky 🏺

This is a particularly good day for #SundaySheep.

Detox Doodles! These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-... This page is all about hedgehogs! #art #hedgehog #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #inkart

Ooh, this is a rather fabulous photograph! #StandingStoneSunday

Another entry for #SundaySheep.

And everyone loves a standing stone with sheep! #SundaySheep

Glorious winter sunshine at Stanton Drew yesterday. The Great Circle is the largest in the British Isles after Avebury but is less photogenic than the smaller North East circle and remains of an avenue seen here. 1/2 #StandingStoneSunday

For #AppreciateADragonDay : A Natural History of #Dragons via @jstor.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/a-natural-hi...

Its #HillfortsWednesday, its winter & we've got these long nights So if you want something relaxing and escapist to have running in the background on a tv or whatever this >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXl...

Late/early for #MosaicMonday, publication of the Low Ham villa, with its internationally important Dido and Aeneas mosaic (pictured in the thread). 🤩Open access🤩 Great news!

Now look what's been in the mail! - Guess that finally means the big cat's out of the bag. 😉 📚🏺 reichert-verlag.de/schlagworte/...

We need to know this! 🦔

A charming #Greek terracotta aryballos in the shape of a hedgehog 🦔. The vessel was used to hold oil. Dating 6th century BC. On display at Antikensammlung München.

If the grey days of January are a bit of a struggle, think of poor Antaeus being man-handled by Hercules. Found at Aventicum (Avenches) in 1868. Photographed in the Musee romaine d'Avenches in 1997. 1/2 #MosaicMonday #PhallusThursday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Really interesting article with cute pictures. Shocking how hedgehogs have been libelled in the past! 🦔🦔🦔 (Thank you, @drnwillburger.bsky.social, for highlighting this one.)

Red squirrel in the snow

More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses 👇👇👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2 Wowzers 🤩

WOW!!! 🤩 “An ‘extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet that may have links to the Celtic tribe led by Boudicca in the period they were battling the invading Roman army has been discovered by archaeologists in Norfolk”. www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #Archaeology

Died (alas!) on this day in 1578, Giulio Clovio of Croatia, great miniaturist of the Italian renaissance. He did small what Michelangelo did large. Here, by himself (with his dog!) in 1528. @theframeblog.bsky.social

🛡 The handy natural history Boston, R.G. Badger, The Gorham press, 1910. [Source]

This elephant's expression seems appropriate for the first #MosaicMonday of the year: curious, circumspect, slightly worried? Impressively undulating trunk. The head turned towards the viewer is unusual. Photographed in the Musee romaine d'Avenches in 1997. #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Reposting a little late for #SundaySheep.