Io, Saturnalia everybody!

The 15th century ‘Angel Roof’ of St Helen’s Church at Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. While restored in the later 19th century, the colours are based on extensive traces of the original paintwork. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #BrantBroughton #Lincolnshire #AdventAngels

Another successful PAS Cymru Finds Day in Aberystwyth yesterday, this time hosted at the @librarywales.bsky.social! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰 Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!

For #FindsWednesday A nice surface find of a pebble tool - with percussion damage at both ends - typical of prehistoric finds from other hillforts & promontory forts. One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me. This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold. Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD. Timeless beauty! 📷 Corning Museums of Glass 🏺

Really looking forward to giving the Cambrian Archaeological Association Christmas lecture tonight. There may be Druids! Am doing some last minute cramming with the help of some of the usual suspects. Thus I can blame them for any errors! #celts #ironage #veterans #archaeology #wellbeing

Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺

For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night. Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!

An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts

#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌 A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters 📷 Dr Adelle

@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.

All I want for Christmas is the abolition of the term ‘fibula’ (brooch), or worse: ‘fibula brooch’

No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻

Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales. I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳 @findsorguk.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐

Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am! You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http... Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in ID: 364 396 620 178 1 PC: bG2gD3ZU

On a chilly morning such as this, let’s imagine ourselves as a Hadrian’s Wall soldier starting his shift in one of the turrets, checking his section of wall, & then upwards on watch duty. Filmed Tuesday morning, at fabulous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social before the snow! #RomanFortThursday

It’s horrid & cold & barely light out there - so warm yourselves around the glow of this Roman cavalry horse chamfron at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social based on one found in the excavations. Bronze dazzling as gilt & leather smooth as caramel, this is the accessory every little pony wants this Xmas.🎄

Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯

The only reason to be on #AncientBluesky it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🍻 Lou Barker facing the majestic cliff castle of Gurnard's Head, west Penwith, #Cornwall. The far end is crowded with houses & dominated by a towering outcrop ⛰️😮 In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 📷 Yesterday

Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ... *opens manilla envelope* ... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ... *slides 8x10 photo across table* ... you wore the tutti frutti

Free lecture tonight! No need to book! ⏰ Tuesday 21 Oct 17:00 BST 📍 Online or in person (Society of Antiquaries of London) www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

#MosaicMonday - Discovered in 2003 at the submerged site of Riches Dunes, near Marseillan in France. The scene shows Apollo's punishment of the satyr, Marsyas. #Myth #Art 🏺 Image: Musée de l’Ephèbe et d’archéologie sous-marine du Cap d’Agde (n°2926). Link - musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/emble...

A rather grisly #MosaicMonday Villa de Noheda, Villar de Domingo García #Spain During the #Roman occupation of Spain, there lived a man who was so wealthy that he could have his wine shipped all the way from Syria. One of the largest mosaics ever found. #Archaeology #art #History #artwork

Lil pavement folly that entertains me greatly. A parkland estate for a tiny signpost.

I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC. To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone. Bernisches Historisches Museum. 🏺 #archaeology

Me: Academic journals are a racket we need to do something about this it isn’t sustainable 😠 Big Academic Journal: hello WORM, would you like to peer review this article for free? Me: ok

🏺 Has anyone done functionality experiments on Bronze Age lunate spears? The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage? Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)

#HillfortsWednesday White Castle is an Early Iron Age fort, on a promontory defended on three sides by steep slopes. It is oval on plan, measuring internally 230ft - 180ft, and is surrounded by triple ramparts which may have been topped by stone walls. #Archaeology #History

One of my favourite things about torcs, is that the word comes from the Latin word torquere (tor-kwe-ray) meaning twist, bend or torture. This is also where we get the word 'queer'. So even in its origin, queer meant twisted and wrong, as well as something shiny and fabulous.

Found a totally bonkers belt buckle in a department store in Kentucky It’s depicting a Roman coin hoard but the more you look, the more nonsensical it gets. I had to have it, it is now mine forever

"The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches." By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845. #FairyTaleTuesday

Pistyll Rhaeadr in #Powys, the highest waterfall in England and Wales. The natural arch is a particularly attractive feature. Legend has it this was formerly the lair of a #dragon: a giant flying serpent called a gwybr. A ruse involving a menhir and a lot of spikes destroyed it. #folklore #legend

'I'm rediscovering- That I too, am made of Iron. So here I sit- and here I remember, that although a docile thing- My heart is a blast furnace' #Shropshire #Poetry

Friends, it's #FolkyFriday! Our theme today is "Folkloric Food!" Let us glut ourselves with stories and fill the day's belly with peculiarity! From goblin fruit and Lembas bread to gingerbread houses and magic beans, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!

Prehistoric Bluesky. Go!

Another happy manuscript discovery: all the files from the 2010 digitization of the St. Chad Gospels by the University of Oklahoma/Lichfield Cathedral project have been CC licensed & made available for batch download at lichfield.ou.edu/cc-download! #medievalsky #paleography #insularart

18. The flag of Wales is the best national flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 of the British Isles

📰 Wake up babe, a new Sumerian myth just dropped 🏺 Archaeologists have deciphered a cuneiform tablet detailing a previously unknown tale, although its fragmented nature leaves the story unfinished #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologymag.bsky.social archaeology.org/news/2025/07...

💜Aphrodite and Eros 💜 This #MosaicMonday we step into the vibrant world of Aphrodite. She appears to be gazing at her own reflection in a hand-mirrored back with a face (maybe a Gorgoneion). A pair of doves and the presence of winged Eros cement the goddesses identification. #AncientBluesky🏺

Folklore needs to be told. It needs to be transmitted. It desires to jump from pub to pub, playground to post office queue. It has a. Intrinsic dislike of stasis, of being trapped in the ink cages of of books. Folklore wants to be in our conversations and in our shivers. - #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday

New open access book that sounds like it’ll speak directly to my weird horse girl heart so maybe of interest to some of y’all too: ‘Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History’ by Kanne, Benkert and Vo Van Qui (eds.)! www.sidestone.com/books/harnes...

I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of the Gundestrup cauldron until people start blocking me. Have some. National Museum, Copenhagen.

Like staring into an Iron Age mirror! Mount from the Dejbjerg Wagon peat bog find.

#FrescoFriday A finely decorated room fresco, from the cubiculum in the House of the Black Salon #Herculaneum. 📸 My own. #Roman #Archaeology #History #Art #AncientBlueSky

💂‍♂️ Calli, Olivia, Jess and Melissa from our HER team attended the offices in #London last week for the HER Forum. There were presentations on the redevelopment of the PAS database, the new Marine HER service for England, 🧵 1/2

What’s on my desk today?? 👀 - it’s made of iron - it’s broken on one end - it’s a metal detecting find, so there is no archaeological context - found in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Anyone want to take a stab at what it might be? 🧐

New discoveries from the Pleistocene-age Gantangqing site in southwestern China reveal a diverse collection of wooden tools dated from ~361,000 to 250,000 years ago, marking the earliest known evidence of complex wooden tool technology in East Asia. Learn more in Science: scim.ag/4krE5y3