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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5h

The dome of the Pantheon in Rome - still one of the largest domes in the world. Originally built by Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14), it was rebuilt during the reign of Hadrian (117 to 138 AD) following a fire. 📸 My own #RomanSiteSatutday #Pantheon #Rome

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5h

Some carved detail of a bird from the 15th century rood screen from St. James’ Church at Great Ellingham in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #ScreenSaturday #StJames #GreatEllingham #Norfolk

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5h

St. Wilfrid’s Church at Ribchester in Lancashire. The main body of the church is mostly 13th century in date, while the tower dates to the late 15th century. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StWilfrids #Ribchester #Lancashire

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 22h

Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s Field by Max Adams and Colm O’Brien birlinn.co.uk/product/nort...

Northumbria AD 367-867 | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books online

From the author of the bestselling The King in the North. The story of the lands between the Forth and Humber from the end of the Roman period to the Viking kingdom of York is one of the most richly f...

birlinn.co.uk

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 6h

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 11 of #ClassicsTober25: torch. On a Greek red-figured pelike two runners in the lampadedromia (torch race). Attributed to the Kraipale painter, made in c. 430 BC. Now in the British Museum. #ClassicsTober

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 6h

Great Witcombe villa in Gloucestershire was built c. AD 250, and lived in until the 5th century. The remains include a bathhouse complex and perhaps the shrine of a water spirit. Mosaic pavemen hint that the symmetrical U-shape villa was opulent in Roman times. #RomanSiteSaturday

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 22h

No medieval filter here! A modern recreation of a Viking ruler for Denmark’s National Museum, based on the depiction of Cnut in the New Minster Liber Vitae and on clothes found at a grave in Mammen, Denmark. #medievalsky

A man wearing a thigh-length red tunic beneath a cloak of a darker red, both richly embroidered, blue leggings and soft, tan-coloured shoes.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 17h

The tide of the battle of Cat and Mouse begins to turn.

BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320-c.1330; England, S. E. (London); ff.72v, 74v, 75

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Jan 7

'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped.
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

#FindsFriday! A Roman brush found in Bregenz.

Roman brush fragments are sometimes difficult to interpret; in this case, their function may relate to textile production, as suggested for similar finds in Eschenz.The bristled surface is suitable for carding or teasing wool fibers. 🧵1/2

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A photo of a well-preserved fragment of a Roman brush in a show case. The object consists of a rectangular base with rounded and scalloped edges, formed from wood into which hundreds of stiff rushes have been densely embedded.

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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 🛖

A 1934 photo of an excavation in the foreground, held up against the modern day view across a valley & village in the background

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 1d

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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Rebecca Griffiths @yorym-flo.bsky.social · 1d

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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

The *Commodus Passage reopens*

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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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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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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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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 20h

Pot of gold!

Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!

Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me

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My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

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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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

The font of St. Weonard’s Church in Herefordshire, with its 15th century octagonal bowl. #FontsOnFriday

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d

A Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally internal and led to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d

The remains of a courtyard house at Piercebridge Roman Fort in County Durham. The fort lies at a strategic point where Dere Street crossed the River Tees. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Piercebridge

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d

An amazing miniature portrait of the #Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms.

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On display at British Museum

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A green stone bust of a woman displayed in a museum. The sculpture features an elaborate hairdo and a solemn expression. The bust is mounted on a clear stand, with a blurred background showcasing other artifacts in the exhibition.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 3d

I think I'd cycle 80 miles in a headwind to see Ely Cathedral. No other cathedral feels so organically grown from the earth itself - it's lantern tower is one of the most verdant wonders of the medieval world. #thread

Ely Cathedral’s octagon and spires rise above the town’s tiled rooftops, their weathered stone and intricate pinnacles catching morning light beneath a pale blue Fenland sky.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3d

The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire

Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍

www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...

Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort bisected by a modern road from the air looking to the cloudless sky of the horizon

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 3d

Remains of the Mary Rose - Henry VIII’s warship that sunk in July 1545 at the Battle of the Solent. Raised in 1982, the ship is located and preserved at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #MaryRose #Portsmouth

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