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Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello, we're the Durotriges Project 👋

If you're here for updates on prehistoric Dorset, archaeology info or just to look at pictures of Iron Age / Roman artefacts, we hope you'll find something of interest

#Durotriges25

⚠️ warning: may contain random references to #DoctorWho and #HypocaustGate

A complete Late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pot from the #Durotriges24 excavation

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 8h

A #Roman copper alloy plaque with Victory carrying a trophy including shields and two trumpets (carnyxes)

Probably commemorating triumph over the poor Silures in the late 1st century AD

From Caerleon © Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales CC BY-SA 4.0

For more see
images.museumwales.ac.uk

#FindsFriday

Bronze plaque with a relief image of a winged female personification of Victory carrying a trophy of armour, shields, trumpets and a helmet fixed to a pole slung over her right shoulder

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 11m

Great mirror carved into the bottom left of the stone too 😍

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11h

A 7th century Pictish symbol stone discovered in 1936 during excavations at the Knowe of Burrian - a broch at Netherbrough in the Orkney Isles. Now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Picts #Orkney

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Lena Strid @lenamstrid.bsky.social · 30m

And just a few days later, we found another spindle whorl in the same pit house! This one is slightly larger and more even. Perhaps the first one was made by a child learning the craft? #FindsFriday 🏺

Dark grey conical spindle whorl held in a slightly muddy hand.

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 7h

Here are two Romano British triskele brooches from Verulamium (left) and Wroxeter (right) that I have recently been comparing for an EH article. The design was as old when they were made as the brooches are now. #FindsFriday

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2h

Classicists, eh 🙄

a black and white photo of a man with his mouth open in a suit .

ALT: a black and white photo of a man with his mouth open in a suit .

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3h

Undoubtedly 😉

Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3h

Titter ye not!! 🤣

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3h

The *Commodus Passage reopens*

(Oo-er)

Secret tunnel used by Roman emperors inside Colosseum reopens

It is believed Emperor Commodus survived an assassination attempt while walking through the tunnel

www.independent.co.uk

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4h

A little researching and writing about Roman York today, so have a bit of 3rd/4th century Multangular tower Playmobil action.
#PlaymobilInfestation

A group of Playmobil Roman legionaries standing in front of a Roman tower in York.

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 8h

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

Three ancient roman shoes with pierced decoration displayed on dummy feet.

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Rebecca Griffiths @yorym-flo.bsky.social · 8h

This amazing object is a Bronze Age palstave axehead c.1500-1250 BC. The axe would be hafted to a forked wooden handle held in place by high flanges & deep stop ridge. It is decorated with a trident-like shield design. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 12h

Quernstones from Hunsbury in Northampton. In the front, rings, beads and a currency bar (?). Iron Age. In the Northampton museum. #FindsFriday

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 8h

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tracconference.bsky.social @tracconference.bsky.social · 1d

Our opening keynote is 'Roman Archaeologies 2025: Reflections on Theory and Practice' by Professor Dominik Meschek! (abstract in link)

We're rather excited for this!

www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20...

TRAC-TiDA 2025

Registration now open! We are pleased to announce that the The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, TRAC-TiDA 2025 will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format thro…

www.trac.org.uk

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22h

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Totally 😊

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

In the footsteps of Professor Daryll Forde's 1930s excavations of Pendinas #hillfort, #Aberystwyth, this lunchtime, recceing a guided walk

This press photo from 1934 shows the dapper 32 yr old Prof (sitting, right) on the south gate excavation, looking out over the very same view of Penparcau 🛖