Resharing for For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 + #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻

Open access publication klaxon! I was really honoured to be asked to write a response chapter in Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain. It is SO GOOD. www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...

A 1,050-square-meter single-piece floor mosaic in Hatay, southern Türkiye, described as the world’s largest of its kind, is now welcoming visitors again at the Necmi Asfuroglu Archaeology Museum after surviving the Feb. 6, 2023 earthquakes without damage. www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turk...

The Senhouse Roman Museum (the building to the right of the top right corner of the fort) is definitely worth a visit. Fantastic collection of sculpture.

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Well worth reading the full thread which is posted in the other place. A bravura compilation of a fascinating subject. #MosaicMonday

On this rather damp #MosaicMonday in the UK, something colourful and pleasing: a detail from the mosaic in East Hall of the House of Eustolius at Kourion on Cyprus. 📷 2018 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Early for #SundaySheep.

Early for #MosaicMonday.

🛡️ The Melsonby Hoard exhibition officially opens at the Yorkshire Museum tomorrow. It’s the largest Iron Age metalwork hoard ever found in the UK—over 800 objects including chariot wheels, cauldrons and weapons 🏺 shorturl.at/6EYNA #MelsonbyHoard #YorkshireMuseum #IronAge #BritishHistory

A late entry for #RomanSiteSaturday to highlight that the gardens and Roman temple at #Lydney will now close for this year on 31 May, earlier than previously advertised. Also, beware that the entrance has changed (and is very easy to miss!). 1/3

Inspired by recent posts, for this #MosaicMonday spot the birds in this mosaic in Room N11 at Fishbourne Roman Palace. They went unnoticed for decades and I only recognised them by turning a sketch in the excavation report upside down! Clues, if needed, follow ... 1/2

Spot the #Hedgehog!

#Hedgehog alert!

Visit us this Sunday to explore Iron Age Britain with the brilliant Raven Tor living history group! ✨🔥 Plus, the King's College London mosaic team are back in the Roman villa, laying a brand new mosaic design in our villa corridor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1gf...

www.getty.edu/publications... Did you know...The Getty Museum has a Virtual LIbrary with over 300 books and publications available FREE for reading and downloading (as pdf, epub)? Here is one of the latest on ancient glass published in 2025 1/2

Despite the losses, this unswept floor mosaic in the museum in Aquileia is still rather splendid and also has wonderful borders. The dsicarded remnants include seafood, nuts, fruit and an egg, all neatly arranged. 📷2012 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

On #openaccess co-edited with Anna Collar Paul Johnson and Katherine Crawford in honour of Prof. Simon Keay. Thank you to all of the colleagues and friends of Simon who contributed. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Early for #MosaicMonday.

Reposting for #SundaySheep.

For #SundaySheep, two very cute and frisky lambs I met recently.

We've decided we have too much money, so THIS SATURDAY (2nd May) you can visit for just FIVE QUID and kids go free! 🤩🤩. We're even laying on music, craft stalls, refreshments and that. Oh! Oh! And there's going to be a bouncy castle!! What's not to love??! 😍🏰

We are delighted to announce that every research article accepted for publication in Antiquity after 1 June 2026 will be published completely #OpenAccess at no cost to the author or reader! More information here: www.cambridge.org/core/service... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org 🏺 #Archaeology

📢 coriniummuseum.org/event/cotswo... 📢

Delightful 🦔 to brighten the day. 🥰

📣 The #Berlanga Cup links rural Hispania to Hadrian’s Wall, preserving the earliest inscription of eastern Wall forts. Read the article - out now #openaccess - in #Cambridge journal #Britannia. 🔗 https://cup.org/4mOyrc1 @theromansoc.bsky.social#Berlanga#openaccess#Cambridge#Britannia#hadrianswall #fortfriday #romanarchaeology

#AncientBlueSky🏺 (I have appealed the 'Adult Content' label. Sigh ...)

This gorgeous scene from Aquileia is usually interpreted as Europa with Jupiter in the guise of a bull, but the marine tail visible at upper right seems to belong to the bull. The female is completely naked and is comfortable perched on the bull's back. A Nereid riding a sea bull? 1/2 #MosaicMonday

A Roman Bronze Cup Found in central Spain was Made in Northern Britannia and Names the Forts of Hadrian’s Wall www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/a...

Wonderful hedgehog with an inscrutable expression. 🦔🥰

Well organised ark The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 8; Beatus super Apocalypsim (The 'Rylands Beatus'); end of 12th or start of 13th century; Spain; f.15r @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

The team will be back again next month to lay a brand new mosaic design in our villa corridor! Book a visit between 9-10 or 16-17 May to enjoy the rare opportunity of seeing a mosaic being laid in real time, using authentic tools and materials.

For this fine spring day (in the UK), shades of green. This simple, elegant mosaic is in the museum in Aquileia. #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Delightful study in time for #SundaySheep.

A very appealing #hedgehog to brighten Saturday, with thanks to @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social for alerting me.

For this #MosaicMonday, a handsome - and larger-than-life - athlete in the museum in Aquileia. The supporting brick wall in the display gives an idea of his size. The fragment is about the height of a person. #AncientBlueSky 🏺 📷 2012

#Hedgehog alert ! 🦔🥰

The wonderful sheep at Maiden Castle - an early entry for #SundaySheep.

For Easter #MosaicMonday, a blissfully unaware bunny in the House of Dionysus at Paphos: look behind you ... ! 📷2018 [@simonelliott20.bsky.social - are you there now? Say hello to this one from me.] #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Another bunny who is early for #MosaicMonday but surely not homicidal?! Looks like he/she is gently stroking the grapes: an elegant, restrained rabbit.

This greedy grape-guzzling bunny is early for #MosaicMonday.

An early and very appropriate entry for Easter #MosaicMonday. 🐇

For anyone whose Easter might be improved by some good news involving cute loVOLEy images. 🥰 (With thanks to @merchantshallyork.org for reposting this delightful report.)

The bow from Aquileia has been enjoyed here in recent weeks. Understandable that this detail is selected as it is exquisite, but the whole panel is wonderful, as are the vine leaves. #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺 📷2012

An amazing piece of beautiful, delicate Roman glass (C3rd AD), incongruously decorated with the slaughter of the arena. We see a retiarius, Pulcher (‘Pretty Boy’) fighting a secutor, Auriga (‘Charioteer’). The other side shows a leopard in a venatio, or wild beast hunt 🏛️📷 Trier’s Landesmuseum

For #MosaicMonday on #WorldBearDay, the wonderfully shaggy specimen in the Orpheus mosaic from Lyrbe in Turkey, now in the excellent Antalya Archaeological Museum. #AncientBlueSky 🏺 (Thanks @romanpalace.bsky.social for highlighting this special ursine day.)

Delightful Egyptian #hedgehog. 🥰🦔🥰

Adorable #hedgehog, with thanks to @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social. 🦔🥰

On this #MosaicMonday, these marine animals from Bath seem happy enough, especially the grinning dolphin, but they are all missing their tails. Did the disembodied tail at upper left once belong to the nearby sea horse? 1/2 #AncientBlueSky 🏺