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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Nov 15

There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:

A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday

Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...

Photo of a Bronze Age socketed axe head with a zoomed in thumbnail of a finger print on one of the faces towards the blade edge. The axe is dark green with oxidation and the surface of the blade edge has been lost.

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 23d

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.

A photo of a gate with rusty brown metal gate latch.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26d

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

A row of colorful ancient glass bracelets in blue, yellow, green, and brown, each with different patterns, displayed against a black background.

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28d

🏺 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)

Photo of three bronze elongated leaf-shaped spear heads. Each has two lunate 'gaps' symmetrically placed along its long axis. Image from: Molloy, B. 2017. Hunting Warriors: The Transformation of Weapons, Combat Practices and Society during the Bronze Age in Ireland. European Journal of Archaeology. Vol 20 (issue 2): pages 280-316.

Photograph of shiny bronze lunate spearhead, similar form as in image 1, but longer lunates and with added detailing on the spear body.
Image from Met Museum website: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470329

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · Sep 3

#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

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Aug 24

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.

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · Aug 24

The Sedgeford and Newark torcs - one from Norfolk, one from Nottinghamshire.

I still can't believe that anyone looked at these and said they were from the same mould...!! They're so clearly not.

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#Archaeology 🏺

The Sedgeford torc - one terminal found in 2004 after the rest of the torc had been found in 1965. The decoration on this torc is simpler than that of the Newark torc and sits more on the surface.

The Newark torc. The deco on this torc flows much more organically and the detail is more elegant.

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 20

Saw this on LinkedIn yesterday and now have a small team assembled in Wales to try to find and document them on the HER 😂

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 20

The department store belt buckle lore deepens omg I can’t wait to write my mini thesis on this belt buckle and credit you in the acknowledgements even though you’ve done most of the work!!! 😂 I’m going to XRF it at work and compare the metal comp to real Roman coins for the plot!

Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 20

I googled Teteatan and nothing came up besides Tetetlan, Mexico City 😂 maybe it’s curving the search results based on geographical location? Anyway, I’m impressed too, especially to find it in a random Dillards in Kentucky lol

Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 20

Someone above actually found some coins that were clearly the inspo for those on the buckle, and were apparently minted in Rome!
I’ve never seen them in a British context so they looked totally wacky to me, but winged sphinxes were a thing! Very creepy, very cool!
www.baldwin.co.uk/product/t-ca...

Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 20

Only three known of the inspo coin! So niche!!

Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very cool, I don’t think they’d need to be adapted to US sensibilities but I appreciate the adaptations nonetheless lol neat to see some coins the coins on the buckle were clearly inspired by!

Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 19

Isn’t it incredible? I can’t get over it, someone designed this and sent this to manufacture and I am so confused but so glad they did 😂

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

Photo of an oval belt buckle depicting a hoard of Roman coins except these coins don’t actually exist, the inscriptions are nonsense like ‘TETEATAN” who wasn’t an emperor, and VCVSTVS which means nothing. The coins depict classical “Roman” things in a style that’s true to how ancient Roman coins actually look, but they are again nonsensical, like a crocodile and a winged sphinx.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches, 1845.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

A waterfall. two ribbons of white water cascade over a narrow precipice.

Further down the waterfall, the water passes through and natural arch in the rock.

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · Apr 14

'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

A black and white image from the railings of the Iron Bridge. It shows it was built in 1779. You can see the river Severn in the distance.

The iron structures holding up the iron bridge

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · Aug 8

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!

a cartoon of snow white holding a shoe and a knife .

ALT: a cartoon of snow white holding a shoe and a knife .

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🍂 @archaedelle.bsky.social · Aug 6

YES the Must Farm volume!!! I wept (internally) when I saw it was open access!

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · Aug 6

Prehistoric Bluesky. Go!

CenasDaFaba @cenasdafaba.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is so off-topic, but I don't have enough knowledge to decide on what books to order, so if someone could advise me on books about Bronze Age Britain, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

The St. Luke Evangelist portrait from the St. Chad Gospels

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jul 30

📰 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

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News - Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth - Archaeology Magazine

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A riveting lost Sumerian myth was recently rediscovered thanks to University of Chicago Sumerologist […]

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · Jul 21

💜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🏺

Image description: The goddess Aphrodite is the central figure in this mosaic ﬂoor section. She is holding a mirror, likely from the open box on a table. A pair of doves perch on a nearby parapet. Eros stands nearby in something of a crouch. The scene is surrounded by an elaborate geometric border with wavy lines and overlapping circles. It is thought that Aphrodite was covered with a dress as part of a later Christian restoration. Image credit: Egisto Sani via Flickr.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

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