Another early entry for #SundaySheep. Gorgeous! 🥰

The Odyssey! I have read, translated and compressed it into a handy half hour podcast for you. Here’s your quick guide on BBC Sounds. Infidelity and monsters aplenty… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Hedgehog 🦔🥰

An early, relaxing entry for #SundaySheep.

For #TombTuesday, Ballowall Barrow at Carn Gloose near St Just on a glorious day recently with great visibility. The beach in the distance on the left is Whitesand Bay near Sennen. Land's End is in the middle distance. What a location! 1/2

The newly discovered mosaic at Halberton Roman villa is now completely revealed. (Not all of it is shown.) Given how shallow the soil cover is, it's astonishing that anything has survived at all. Come and view the mosaic on Saturday 11th. sites.exeter.ac.uk/share/upcomi... #MosaicMonday

For this #MosaicMonday, Triton keeping cool after a dip in the water, in the Archaeological Museum in Split. He has crustacean claws in his hair, and also seaweed which falls onto his shoulders. 📷2004 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Reposting for #MosaicMonday (though suspect Virgil wouldn't have been a football fan!?).

Late for #SundaySheep - but gorgeous!

Always exciting to see a mosaic emerging from the ground, especially in an area where there are few. #MosaicMonday

A 1,500 year old Roman mosaic from Istanbul/Constantinople depicting a scene from rural life, (featuring a rather suspicious donkey). The Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul. #History #HistoryMatters

For all your Roman military equipment terminological needs (if you want to venture beyond 'pointy end' and 'blunt end'), try our Glossary page: romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/glossary

An early entry for #MosaicMonday.

It's #HillfortsWednesday, and I have ramparts to share! Two views of Maen Cliff Castle, beside the coast path between Land's End and Sennen, recently. The entrance (restored, I think?) is on the right of the first photo.

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 🏺

Something rather lovely for #MosaicMonday.

A late entry for #SundaySheep.

REGES • BRIT 🏛 '[Claudius] received the surrender of eleven KINGS of the BRITons and first brought barbarian peoples across the Ocean into the dominion of [Rome]' Inscription from Claudius' victory arch, Rome. Note the clamp holes for the missing bronze letters! My 📷 Musei Capitolini

A couple of frescoes from Pompeii depicting muscled cuirasses with pteryges, providing the sort of coloured information that cuirassed statues seldom supply. These have now been added to our galleries romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/galleries-of...

For this #MosaicMonday, a contrast with Romano-British Orpheus mosaics in which he wears a Phrygian cap. This somewhat shaggy-haired Orpheus is a detail from a mosaic in the Archaeological Museum in Split. 📷2004 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Another early, but very welcome, entry for #MosaicMonday.

Another early entry for #MosaicMonday.

Early for #MosaicMonday.

DO YOU HAVE A DIG OR ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT YOU THINK REALLY OUGHT TO BE ON DIGGING FOR BRITAIN SERIES 14? Then email [email protected] and maybe @toriherridge.bsky.social Rosanna or I will get to come out and visit! www.instagram.com/reel/DZViJ2T...

A (worrying?) question for an early #MosaicMonday. I assume no information in the records at Fishbourne?

Oh it's #MosaicMonday? Well here is the one being uncovered at Halberton, Devon as part of our SHARE fieldschool and community excavation project. Next open day, when the mosaic will be fully uncovered, is 11 July!

For this #MosaicMonday, the Chimaera with splendid heads (snake, goat, lion) breathing fire and unfortunately being attacked by Bellerophon. From Bell-Lloc, Girona, in the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya. 📷2005 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Callanish , rainbow and a passing storm #StandingStoneSunday

⚠️🚨 SAVE THE DATE ALERT 🚨⚠️ Our annual Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY is on: SUNDAY 28 JUNE Free entry - Everyone welcome!!! 🎉🤹💃🕺🎉 Details to follow - watch this space #Durotriges26 #Dorset #Archaeology

This book is epic in so many ways. I urge you to embark on an adventure into @carolawrence.bsky.social’s brilliantly inspiring & creative world of Homer’s Odyssey. Caroline’s unceasing passion & energy for Classics & fun bounces off the pages in her inimitable style. www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...

This dolphin in Winchester City Museum is an example of an early 'lifting' process: Steve Cosh's research showed that a tracing was made, the tesserae were shovelled up, and then they were reset in concrete. 1/2 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

New article: Ellen Swift argues the Thetford Hoard was buried in the 5th rather than late 4th century & that 'we must envisage a pagan cult center surviving into the 5th c.' cup.org/4voUskB

An extremely cute and also very interesting thread. 🦔🦔 #Hedgehogs

A very early - but very, very cute - entry for #SundaySheep.

Stopped at Nea Anghialos for a break on the long journey from Thessaloniki to Athens as part of a mosaics conference in 2002, where our hosts not only laid on lunch but provided an enchanting and thoughtful surprise of this hen and chicks. #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday with #SundaySheep.

Our Knitted Green Man made for our May Day celebrations is now on public display in our Chapel Gallery. He will eventually live in the actual museum, but we especially wanted all those who made and sent leaves to us to see the final glorious result.

Musical #FindsFriday 🏺 Large #bronze #Roman Pan pipes, decorated w temples. Found 1899 in ?metal workshops of Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus nr Pompeii's Vesuvian gate. Use connected to satyr plays + myths, but instruments also part of ceremonies eg processions of Isis. in MANN Naples

An early - and somewhat astonishing - entry for #MosaicMonday. (Hope that chair wasn't gouging holes in the mosaic ...)

Noah’s Ark. Somme le Roi, France 1294. BnF, Français 938, fol. 86r. #medieval #medievalart

Definitely one for #SundaySheep (even on a Thursday). 🐑🥰

A combined #HillfortsWednesday and #SundaySheep set of photos: two delights in one.

For this #MosaicMonday, a detail of the splendid lion from the Lion Hunt mosaic at Pella. 📷2002 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Early for #SundaySheep. (They do look comfy.)

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