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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.

Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper

#RomanArchaeology

Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4d

Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍

These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895

© Trustees of the British Museum

#Roman #Archaeology

Two copper alloy brooches with double-headed, long-eared, hare-like ends, inlaid with red and blue enamel decoration, both stained green after centuries in the soil

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 5d

The historic Vivian Slate Quarry in Llanberis, Gwynedd, rises out of dense autumn woodland with its narrow galleries visible 😮🍂

Now a scheduled monument, the quarry forms part of the Welsh Slate World Heritage Landscape

📷 My own, last weekend

🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40571

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 14d

The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 8d

I love Sandi! How exciting 🤩

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 8d

Oh wow, going to give this a go! I photographed some cup marks from Northumberland and some Norwegian rock art this year, wonder how they would turn out

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 9d

Late to the party, can you add me in? 🫠

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 9d

Ooh wow. Like a mini surface or terrain model?

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 10d

Oooh that's Sunday morning's reading sorted!

Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 10d

Hot off the press - the current issue of #AARGnews is available to download 🎉 Issue 71 shares postcards from the 42nd #AARG Conference in Trondheim, plus articles from Central Bohemia to the Ukraine. 🌎
aargonline.com/wp/aarg-news/
Enjoy!
#archaeology #aerialarchaeology #remotesensing #ALS

The front cover of issue 71 of AARGnews showing a coastal landscape with details of the issue articles

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 10d

A moment of mindfulness this morning with my rescue staffie Edie. The beauty of the Peak District never fails to captivate us.

#mindfulmoment #peace #mindfulness #mentalhealth #peakdistrict

A tubby blue female staffie called Edie sits next to her owner in a field, both are looking into the distance. Edie wears a red harness and tartan collar and her familiar wears a green wax coat and yellow bobble hat.

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 11d

#FindsFriday This curious bone object is apparently the back of a comb 🤔

It was found in an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near the Thames, from the 5th or 6th century AD

Now in the Museum of Reading

🏺 #archaeology #museums #heritage

A semicircular piece of bone with multiple rings inscribed into it, held upright in a museum stand

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13d

If you like hillforts AND brochs (and who doesn't?) here's Edin's Hall #ScottishBorders a Late Iron Age #broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside the NW corner of an earlier bivallate 0.9ha #hillfort

Beautifully captured in this kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011

🪁 📷 🤩

Happy #HillfortsWednesday

A low circular wall inside multiple grass covered ramparts with trees in the distance, as seen from the air

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 13d

#HillfortsWednesday oldie but Goldie!

This is British Camp in the Malvern Hills, an Iron Age hillfort built in 4 phases during the 1st millennium BC. The hillfort had 4 gateways and was populated by dozens of hut circles.

#Archaeology #History

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13d

Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses

Proper lovely 😍

🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011

For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html

#HillfortsWednesday

The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort plus foundations of stone built prehistoric structures looking down from the air

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 13d

It is Wednesday & so it is time for our weekly #hillfort clip. This time we have the Laws of Monifieth, an extraordinary site not far from Dundee. The site incorporates an Iron Age Broch, a stone walled fort that predates the Broch & an ancient cup & ring marked stone - see zurl.co/9HPpS

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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 13d

On this wonderful #HillfortsWednesday we look back at issue 68 of AARGnews where our Editor's Picture focussed on Uffington Castle - an Iron Age univallate hillfort. Environment Agency LiDAR shows incredible detail, including medieval ridge and furrow within the hillfort itself!

LiDAR DTM visualisation of Uffington IA Hillfort showing the univallate rampart enclosures and ridge and furrow earthworks

A historical black and white aerial photograph of the IA Uffington Hillfort, taken from AARGnews issue 68. Extract from a scanned image downloaded from the US Geological Survey EarthExplorer website.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 13d

Let's hear it for the minor chiefs for #HillfortsWednesday who didn't quite have the resources or followers to build Maiden Castle 🤔😟

The pretty stunning but little known Fan hillfort, commanding hill country between Llanwrda & Talley, Carmarthenshire, with a bold gateway approach 👌

📷 RCAHMW 2014

An upland hillfort seen from the air with strong earthworks defining the defences

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 13d

Well worth a visit next time you’re in Northumberland. It’s like stepping into another world

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 16d

Goodness, they could be a pair!! 😍 stunning, thanks for sharing

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16d

Wow, a small Roman glass bottle with preserved ointment from almost 2,000 years ago! 🤩

The ointment is composed of fatty acids, glycerine, and plant fibres (wood, pollen, and seeds). Perhaps a valuable cosmetic or medicinal cream.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier 📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows a small, Roman bottle made of translucent pale green glass. It has a square body with rounded shoulders, a short, narrow, cylindrical neck with an out-turned, flat rim sealed with a (cork?) stopper. There is a single curved handle attached between the shoulder of the bottle and top of the neck. The bottle contains a solid, yellowish-orange substance. Bottle height 9.6 cm. The bottle is displayed on a grey surface. Dated late-1st century to first-half 2nd century AD.

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 16d

The lovely Duddo Five Stones Stone Circle with an offering. 📸 my own.
#StandingStoneSunday

One of the Duddo standing stones in a grassy field, with a sunflower offering placed in a crack in the stone

Five of the Duddo standing stones in a grassy field with people stood looking at them

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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 17d

This is so perfect 😂 #InternationalArchaeologyDay

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17d

Happy International Archaeology Day!

#InternationalArchaeologyDay
🏺 #Archaeology

A book cover design with the title “The Desire to Be an Archaeologist (and Other Diseases of the Brain)” by Antique Christie. The cover has a vintage style with a red and beige color scheme, the publisher name “Great Auk Books” at the top, and a small illustration of an auk bird near the bottom.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 18d

For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 18d

This week on #findsfriday we have a post medieval silver finger-ring found in Heytesbury in 2015.

A simple four-petalled gilded flower covers the joint in the band, now partially damaged. The hoop has raised edges and between them is a gilded strip with a series of pellets running down through it.

Silver finger ring taken from all angles. Central clover shape stone

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 18d

#FindsFriday #Derbyshire #archaeology

A beautiful barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Early Bronze Age, produced on translucent, amber-coloured flint.

Found in Church Broughton, now in Derby Museum

A series of images of a Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, from all available angles, with a cm scale to left and bottom. The flint is translucent and amber in colour. Image credit Portable Antiquities Scheme

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