Bexhill Museum
LightNews LightNews
banner
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
Bexhill Museum
@bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
570 followers 380 following 1.2K posts
We are an independent museum in Bexhill, East Sussex. Our collections include natural history, clothing and transport. Our opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11-4.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
antiquity.ac.uk
Monument from the mountain of Cerro Patlachique, south of Teotihuacan, depicting a jaguar clutching a bleeding heart #JaguarDay
A common depiction throughout Teotihuacan, it suggests the mountain was sacred to the powerful Mesoamerican city-state.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
3D model of a 0.62m-tall piece of stone, engraved with a depiction of a spotted jaguar clutching a bleeding heart in its claws (model by A. Texis Muñoz; © Project Plaza of the Columns Complex).
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
Don’t forget our gift shop when you’re doing your Christmas shopping. You are very welcome to come in and browse. We have a wide range of books, toys and local souvenir items. Lots of quirky things you might not find elsewhere.
#Bexhill #Christmas
A wide shot of the back wall of the gift shop. There are books both for children and adults, packs of mementos of different historical subjects, posters of the Sovereign Light and much more. This is a closer up shot of one area of the shop. There are books on various aspects of fashion history, local history, transport history, Spike Milligan books, wrapping paper, bird and butterfly identification cards, local magnets and much more. This close up shows the souvenir packs commemorating topics such as the RAF, gardening, Titanic, motoring, holidays and lots more. They contain multiple souvenir replicas. This close up shows the book Death & The Seagull. It is a really good book, a comedy crime caper, set in Bexhill and one part even takes place within the museum itself. I’ve read it and I truly recommend it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
kpw1453.bsky.social
One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
richardosgood.bsky.social
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
A bronze bulls head with curved horns and protruding tongue that forms a ring - the handle of an Iron Age bronze vessel.
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
kpw1453.bsky.social
The remains of the north gateway of Milecastle 37, just west of Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩

The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!

This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long curving neck and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
Don’t forget our gift shop when you’re doing your Christmas shopping. You are very welcome to come in and browse. We have a wide range of books, toys and local souvenir items. Lots of quirky things you might not find elsewhere.
#Bexhill #Christmas
A wide shot of the back wall of the gift shop. There are books both for children and adults, packs of mementos of different historical subjects, posters of the Sovereign Light and much more. This is a closer up shot of one area of the shop. There are books on various aspects of fashion history, local history, transport history, Spike Milligan books, wrapping paper, bird and butterfly identification cards, local magnets and much more. This close up shows the souvenir packs commemorating topics such as the RAF, gardening, Titanic, motoring, holidays and lots more. They contain multiple souvenir replicas. This close up shows the book Death & The Seagull. It is a really good book, a comedy crime caper, set in Bexhill and one part even takes place within the museum itself. I’ve read it and I truly recommend it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
"A sad end to Jaws." Bexhill Observer 29.11.1984. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Whale #History #1980s
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Sharing again because... 👀

This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.
A frieze showing Death as a skeleton on the left, and Medicine as a man on the right holding Death back. The man, representing Medicine, is holding a caduceus, the symbol of commerce.
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
"Bexhill From Marine Court." Marina Court, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex c.1905. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #History #1900s
Black and white photograph of Marina from Marina Court, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex c.1905.
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
sardonicus.eu
General Post Office poster, 1960
poster, a radio mast emmiting radio waves. send your seasons greetings by radio to ships at sea
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
camdiglib.bsky.social
We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
anniebrassey.bsky.social
Sunbeam #Pacific #Ocean 29.11.1876. "One splendid meteor flashed across the sky. It was of a light orange, with a fiery tail...We have seen many meteors, falling-stars, and shooting-stars since we left Valparaiso, but none so fine as the one this evening." #Brassey #Victorian #Travel #History #1870s
Pages and maps from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. South Pacific 29.11.1876.
November 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
drnwillburger.bsky.social
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

🏺
The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
anniebrassey.bsky.social
Sunbeam #Hao #Pacific #Ocean 28.11.1876. "The women seemed gentle and kind, and were delighted with some beads, looking-glasses, and knives I gave them, in return for which they brought us quantities of beautiful shells." #Brassey #Victorian #Travel #History #1870s #Sailing #Shells
Pages from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Hao Island, South Pacific Ocean 28.11.1876.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
theduncanmackay.bsky.social
A pair of gold armbands from the Colchester Fenwick hoard, buried before Boudica’s attack in AD60. As the Roman last stand took place where Colchester Castle now sits, the owner may have perished where their jewellery is now displayed @ColMuseums.bsky.social
#FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
A pair of gold wire armbands created from repeated figure eights, one seen through the loops of the other.
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
anniebrassey.bsky.social
Sunbeam #Hao #Pacific #Ocean 28.11.1876. "Before we had lost sight of Amanu, the island of Hao Harpe or Bow Island, was visible on our port bow. I wished very much to land & at last persuaded Tom, who was rather anxious on the score of the natives, to allow some of us to make the attempt.." #Brassey
Pages from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Hao Island, South Pacific 28.11.1876.
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
amberleymuseum.bsky.social
That's not a marina, it's a street with houses!
Or is Marina herself pictured there? 😜
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
maniagnosis.bsky.social
I've spotted Marina!
Close-up of the lower right of the original pic. A group of people walking away from the camera. A small dog is circled in red.
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
"Marina, Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard c.1925. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Street #History #1920s
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
drjoepajak.bsky.social
Rosalind Franklin (1920–58), physical chemist, @newnhamcollege.bsky.social revealed DNA’s double helix at www.kcl.ac.uk. Contemporaries @cambridgephysics.bsky.social + KCL won the 1962 Nobel. @nobelprize.org.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
Rosalind Franklin (1920–58), physical chemist, @newnhamcollege.bsky.social revealed DNA’s double helix at www.kcl.ac.uk. Contemporaries @cambridgephysics.bsky.social + KCL won the 1962 Nobel. @nobelprize.org. Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition. Injustice that demands correction. 1955 — Rosalind Franklin photographed at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Her X-ray diffraction work on DNA was pivotal to the double helix model. Image: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (CC BY-SA 4.0).
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
stuartackland.bsky.social
Here's an interesting variation on D.I.Y. From a map of Europe at the start of the War, 1914, an invitation from the Financial Times to fill in boundaries based on predicted peace terms. Offered at a time when 'it will be all over by Christmas' I wonder if anyone got even close? @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
newscientist.com
Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else
The 13 best popular science books of 2025
Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
timhitchcock.bsky.social
Looking forward to Helen Wilson speaking on Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850, to a joint session of @long18thsem.bsky.social and the Parliaments, Politics and People seminar @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, but please register at www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850
www.history.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reposted by Bexhill Museum
vch-home.bsky.social
A really exciting project from @exmoornp.bsky.social.

We've worked with the National Park in the past and made extensive use of their excellent Historic Environment Record for work on #Somerset more recently - we can't wait to see the results! 🗃️
exmoornp.bsky.social Exmoor National Park @exmoornp.bsky.social · 4d
Living Landscapes 'LIDAR' Project Launches on Exmoor - a groundbreaking heritage initiative using cutting-edge lidar (light detection and ranging) technology allow us all to explore the past and help preserve what remains....
LIDAR technology showing Bronze age barrows
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM