What do London's earliest known turkey bones, a metre-long medieval pike and one of the capital's largest prehistoric flint assemblages have in common? They all feature in 'This land of 50 hides', our new book exploring more than 10,000 years of archaeology beneath Fulham Palace. bit.ly/4vBgsbU

#FindsFriday 🪙 This Roman coin from the House of Constantine c.AD 347–8 depicts two winged Victories celebrating imperial victory. Alongside the Neolithic pits and Roman pottery we've already featured, it provides another snapshot into the thousands of years of human activity at Fordingbridge.

Amazing ancient Lurs from Bronze Age Denmark. Thirty-nine of these bronze horns have been found in Danish peat bogs, likely deposited as ritual offerings some 3,000 years ago! Fun fact: Lurs are the inspiration behind the name and logo of Denmark’s Lurpak® butter! 🧈 🎺 🇩🇰 #FindsFriday #Archaeology

It may not look like much, but this is part of the King's House, Charles II's unfinished palace, built on the site of Winchester Castle. We turned the excavation into a 3D model before it disappeared beneath the ground again. sketchfab.com/3d-models/wi... #FindsFriday

This flint core dates to the end of the last Ice Age, around 12,000 years ago, when mobile hunter-gatherers travelled seasonally across the lost landscape of Doggerland, now submerged beneath the North Sea. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Palaeolithic

For #FindsFriday, a jug with painted decoration and a tall-necked beaker, both New Forest wares dating to the second half of the 4th century AD. They were found side by side within a disused grain dryer and may have been deliberately placed after the structure had gone out of use. #Archaeology

A team from PCA Newark have recently rediscovered a hidden well within the gatehouse at Newark Castle. The well was first recorded in Archaeologia in 1782, where it was described as being 'still open'. Watch the timelapse and read more here: www.pre-construct.com/news/a-redis...

🌊 World Oceans Day 🌊 New Romney, now inland, was one of England's most important medieval Cinque Ports. Explore our free interactive book The Sea and the Marsh to discover how storms and shifting coastlines reshaped the town's connection to the sea. www.pre-construct.com/product/the-...

#FindsFriday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social keep bringing it at Boulton Moor - here's a nice intact Roman pot from a well or watering hole. Let's hope that trowel doesn't slip. And a hammered silver penny (Edward I or II) just to spoil the Roman vibe!

What do you find when you dig beneath one of the Tower of London's most historic buildings? Our excavation at the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula features in this week's episode of Inside the Tower of London. 📅 Wednesday 3 June 🕗 8pm 📺 Channel 5

#FindsFriday More Roman gubbins from Boulton Moor, a lovely little pottery flask (perfume bottle?) that emerged intact last week #Derbyshire #Archaeology

This rare Roman pottery lamp, shaped like a foot wearing a sandal, was made between 50-60 CE, and was found at Borough High Street in Southwark. Archaeologists discovered the lamp in a rubbish pit, close to buildings that had been burnt down during the Boudican rebellion in 60-61 CE. #FindsFriday

If you’re going to hobnail the shoe, then bloody hobnail the shoe, that’s what I say. 1st/2nd C AD, @vindolandatrust.bsky.social #FindsFriday

For #FindsFriday, I'm gifting you this fantastic Bronze Age felled tree we’ve just excavated from #Skipsea in Holderness. The marks of the socketed bronze axe are clearly visible, and the thud of the axe is almost audible. Used - we think - as a post, perhaps for a trackway.

For #FindsFriday we're following a trail of tiny beads left behind in Victorian Islington. Hundreds were recovered at Ironmonger Row Baths alongside fasteners, pins & buttons made from glass, shell and bone, hinting at the presence of a seamstress in one of the terraced houses that once stood here.

For #FindsFriday, we have this wonderful piece of worked wood from our trench on the edge of the palaeolake at #Skipsea. Our student, Lydia, found it in an area that was once alder carr. At the moment, we don’t know its date, but it is likely prehistoric.

In 1836 some labourers found these 2,600 year-old wooden figures whilst cleaning a ditch at Roos Carr, near Withernsea, East Yorkshire. One of the men is said to have given one of the ancient ‘dolls’ to his daughter to play with! 😱 Hull and East Riding Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

This delicately decorated bone object from a medieval settlement in Essex features a lion with tendrils emerging from its mouth, a motif paralleled in Romanesque sculpture. It may have been a dagger sheath chape, and reflects the transfer of ecclesiastical imagery to everyday objects. #FindsFriday

Less then a week to go until our Sping Archaeological Forum. The talks will be delivered by Harry Platts from @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social , Alfred Hawkins from the Tower of London and Han Li from MOLA. Details and tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-lon...

For #FindsFriday, a tiny plaque from the City of London, with delicately incised letters: [A]EÞVL-, probably a part of a name. Below, a t suggests the presence of a second line. Although typically lead, this one has parallels in coffin plates of the 11th–12th centuries, which are often cross-shaped.

An iron sword in its iron scabbard, bent in half and buried over 2,000 years ago Ritually 'killed' so that it could not be repaired nor used by another, this Iron Age weapon was found alongside its last owner From North Bersted #Sussex 2008. Now in the Chichester Novium 📷 March 2026 #FindsFriday

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

For #FindsFriday a Roman enamelled stud from the site of a mausoleum that stood for 700 years overlooking the Medway marshes. Here, a woman in a lead-lined coffin, nearby Roman silverworking, and rare Anglo-Saxon finds point to a site that remained meaningful across changing worlds. #RomanBritain

Construction of a new road revealed something already written into the landscape. An Iron Age enclosure and a Roman villa lay 1km apart, on slightly higher ground above the floodplain. Between them ran a route, a precursor of the modern bypass. The same route, reused and redefined across centuries.

This canister was left in a ditch near a Roman temple in Southwark nearly 2,000 years ago. When it was opened, it was found to contain a white cream still holding the fingerprints of the last person to touch it. Closed and set aside, a moment caught, right down to the fingerprint. #FindsFriday

Tombstones of two #Roman auxilliary cavalrymen who both died in Britain during the 1st century AD Dannicus (from Switzerland) and Genialis (from the Netherlands) Illuminated in colour, to show how they may have originally looked, in the Corinium Museum #Cirencester 📷 Aug 2022 #RomanFortThursday

This Neolithic end scraper came from a pit packed with artefacts in the New Forest. The pit is part of a wider cluster, probably representing seasonal activity. These deposits may mark the closing of individual episodes of activity at a site revisited over generations. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday

Tomorrow is #InternationalPiDay celebrating π. Matching this Black-burnished ware triangular-rim bowl to a chart estimates its diameter. Roman pottery is full of circles, and therefore π! These were nicknamed pie dishes, though there’s no evidence Roman pies were baked in them. #FindsFriday

These Celtic coins - plated copies of Ambiani staters struck from the same dies - ended up buried together centuries later in a Roman ditch in Hertfordshire. Recently another small group of plated staters turned up in a 1st-century ditch. A pattern emerging, or simply coincidence? #FindsFriday

For #FindsFriday we have a #Roman jet/shale assemblage from a coastal site in NE England, close to natural jet deposits and shale outcrops. The presence of unfinished pieces and production errors suggests that people living nearby made them, profiting from a valuable local resource. Details below!

A Late Roman graffito from Bishop’s Stortford has revealed a personal name, LOVERNICCA. It has been identified by Roger Tomlin as a Celtic woman’s name containing the name-element louerno, meaning fox. A small mark that bring a real life back into focus - Vixen of Bishop’s Stortford. #FindsFriday

This deep red, heart-shaped handaxe may already have been ancient when it was swept into Ice Age deposits around half a million years ago. It was found in Suffolk, where finds of this age are rare outside river gravels, making this an exceptional discovery. #FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Valentine

For #FindsFriday we’re celebrating the Roman festival of Fornacalia, the Feast of Ovens, held each February. Baking hearths were honoured as the goddess Fornax to ensure good bread & large ovens in the City of London show how commercial baking fed Roman London, with an iron shovel found with them.

We’re happy to share a new Inside Archaeology video, where Rachel chats with the PCA team who discovered the Norfolk carnyx. They reflect on excitement of discovery. Thanks to Rachel for bringing the team together! The PCA section begins at 13:51. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIK...

This mysterious object from Kent is a bifacially worked axehead or handaxe. It resembles a #Mesolithic transverse or tranchet axehead, however given it's heavily worn condition and the gravel from which it was recovered it may be a #Palaeolithic handaxe of an unusually elongate form. #archaeology

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 🏺

For #FindsFriday & #BoudicaFriday let’s stick to Iron Age Norfolk Iceni metalwork - behold this ‘long-snouted animal’ mount found at Snettisham, c.300-100BC. Possibly from the base of a drinking horn, there is something of the droopy, sleepy carnyx about it… British Museum #Echolands

Today’s #FindsFriday is the head of the Norfolk boar standard! Its fierce face was the first sign, on site, of the Iron Age hoard featured this week on Digging for Britain. www.pre-construct.com/news/the-nor... #IronAge #Archaeology #NorfolkCarnyx

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

Phenomenal. The Thetford Carnyx sound by @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social and seen tonight on #diggingforbritain

The boar’s head standard found by @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social is just so fabulous. #drawingdiggingforbritain #diggingforbritain

It was fantastic to see the Norfolk Carnyx and Iron Age hoard on Digging for Britain last night! Many thanks to the Digging for Britain team, and to our partners at Historic England, Norfolk Museums and National Museums Scotland. www.pre-construct.com/category/new...

That moment. When the scale of what you’ve uncovered starts to sink in. The Norfolk Carnyx and hoard will feature on Digging for Britain tonight, showing how this remarkable discovery was made, from first sight in the trench to why it matters. 📺 Digging for Britain, BBC Two, tonight at 9pm

You’ll be able to see more of the Norfolk Carnyx and Iron Age hoard on Digging for Britain on Wednesday. After a busy week of coverage, the programme offers a chance to step back from the headlines and explore why the hoard matters. 📺 Wednesday 14 Jan, BBC Two at 9pm #carnyx #Norfolk #IronAge

For today’s #FindsFriday, the Norfolk Carnyx! An Iron Age war horn built to be seen and heard and to unsettle. Polybius wrote that its sound in battle seemed to 'emanate from the entire countryside'. More to come, including on #DiggingforBritain next week. www.pre-construct.com/news/the-nor...

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 🤩

Here's Letty with a piece she composed for @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social in 2021. youtu.be/wNVKQw0-cIk?...

The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx… 1/…

We’re incredibly proud of the PCA team behind the discovery of a remarkable Iron Age hoard in West Norfolk, including a near-complete carnyx and parts of another. Working with Historic England and museum partners as conservation and research continue. 🔗 www.pre-construct.com/news/interna...

Hyde900 volunteers helping Dr Kevin Hayward and PCA to record medieval stone in abundance! We’re hoping to be able to add some more Abbey stones to our map: hyde900.org.uk/hyde-abbey/reuniting-the-stones #hyde900 @winchester.gov.uk @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social #hydeabbey #winchesteruk