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Kevin Wilbraham
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Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
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Wittenham Clumps, Castle Hill iron age hillfort. This was painted in public by @annadillon.bsky.social and here is her interpretation; "The Castle" share.google/3v6tt97IRKuZ...
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Tonight on #Hiddenwonders we go to Essex join a mission to recover the remains of 2nd Lt Lester Lowry a project run by @cotswoldarch.bsky.social on behalf of the DPAA

9pm More 4 or catch-up up on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD #Archaeology #WWII #History #Aviation #Militaryhistory
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Your naked, winged #Etruscan waiter pours you some olive oil while wearing a swan's head cap. God love the Etruscans.

3rd c. BCE bronze three-nozzle hanging lamp with a statuette of a rural Dionysian Etruscan 'spirit'. Replicas needed! 🏺🦢 #BritishMuseum

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Bronze three-nozzled hanging lamp surmounted by a statuette on a plinth. This winged figure wears a swan's head cap and appears to be an Etruscan spirit connected with the rural and Dionysiac world, and links with the scene on the underside of the lamp (a drawing of which shows three women holding paterae - offering dishes - and wine vessels while dancing around a floral centerpiece with the head of a smiling horned man). British Museum, London (1824,0454.25)
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Máel Coluim (II) mac Cinaeda, king of Alba, died at Glamis, Angus, #OTD in 1034. He slew predecessor Cinaed (III) mac Duib at Monzievaird, Perthshire, in 1005, and, with Owain the Bald, king of Strat Clut (Strathclyde), crushed a Northumbrian army at the Battle of Carham in 1018. #medievalsky
Satellite image of Scotland.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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What a gorgeous #Greek rhyton in the form of a #donkey's head! Dating ca. 450 BC.
Vessels such as this one were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, the content had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down

📷 Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

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Ancient Greek ceramic vessel shaped like a donkey’s head, with a black-glazed flaring rim decorated with figures and patterns, and a curved handle.
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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1 of 8 fabulous Medieval #TilesOnTuesday found in Tring Herts curiosity shop: all but one show naughty/playful child Jesus in imaginary tales.
Here, bully destroys pool Jesus made along the Jordan and falls dead. Virgin intervenes, and bully returns to life at touch of Jesus's foot.
In BM. More ALT.
A dark reddish brown tile decorated with yellowish tan border and scenes. On left, Jesus left finds one of the pools he's made on the Jordan has been interfered with by a bully, who drops dead on discovery and turns upside down. On right, Virgin comes along and raises her hand to Jesus and encourages his to make amends, while Jesus, looking back at her, raises his right foot to touch the bully ahead of him, who is walking away. One of incomplete set of 8 in British Museum. All but one story depicted are not found in Bible, but invented to illustrate childhood of someone human and divine. When tales result in death of a playmate, they're shown upside down, Virgin Mary or Joseph always intervene and return everything to normal.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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I was lucky enough to see this amazing medieval tiled pavement on a recent tour at Exeter Cathedral with the Devon Buildings Group.

Uncovered in the room above the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine during work on the roof.

#TilesOnTuesday #medieval
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾 🐕 😍

About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing.

From Richborough Roman fort
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#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a hand-sized, jagged, fragment of Roman red clay tile. There is an impression of a dog’s paw pressed into the clay. The imprint shows four toe pads arranged in an arc above a central pad. Above each toe imprint there is a small indent made by the dog’s claws. The imprint was made when the paw pressed into soft clay when the clay tile was laid out in the yard before firing. The tile fragment is set against a blue display case background. Excavated at Richborough Roman fort. My photo was taken in 2020.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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#EpigraphyTuesday An altar put up by Saturninus, Centurion of the II Legio Augusta.

DEAE SV / LI MIN(ERVAE) ET NV / MIN(IBVS) AVG(VSTORVM) G(AIVS) / CVRIATIVS / SATVRNINVS / C(ENTVRIO) LEG(IONIS) II AVG(VSTAE) / PRO SESV / ISQVE / V(OTVM) S(OLVIT) L(IBENS) M(ERITO)

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November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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An interesting inscription reveals new information about a previously unknown Roman governor at Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Spain.
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire

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A Roman Inscription Found in Cartagena Reveals the Name of an Unknown Governor and the Use of a Urn for Casting of Lots in Antiquity
A team of Spanish researchers has presented the discovery of an extraordinary object from the Roman period that sheds light on the history of ancient Cartagena (southeastern Spain). It is a metal cont...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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#TombTuesday This overgrown pile of rocks is all that's left of a Neolithic tomb - Holm of Papay North in Orkney

Excavations in the 1980s found at least 18 red deer were placed here with the burials 5500 years ago!

Why?? 🤔

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#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
A tangle of stones and overgrown grass with a narrow passageway in between, under a blue sky
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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One of the Carrowkeel cairns for #tombTuesday last week.
The climb up and the views around make this monument to a great experience.
Carrowkeel cairn in Ireland and surrounding views
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Dolmen de Cal Boixadera: Burial Chamber in Cataluña #TombTuesday 📷 LaSenyussana More: http://www.megalithi...
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Sweyne's Howes North on the Gower peninsula: tumbledown though not as ruinous as nearby Sweyne's Howes South! Was this Sweyne who came to be associated with the prehistoric burial chambers on Rhossili Down the same Viking who gave his name to Swansea (Sweyns-ey – 'Sweyne's island')? #TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Pyramid of Djoser c.2667 – 2648 BCE

Location:  Saqqara Necropolis, Egypt (northwest of the city of Memphis) and the bent Pyramid. c.2600 BCE

Location: Dashur Necropolis, #Egypt

#TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#TombTuesday

Looking down into a Bronze Age cist burial tomb

#Dartmoor
Granite rectangular grave pit from above - filled with black rippled water
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Daily #Wales with a little not-so-random archaeology from the village…

Oh, it’s #TombTuesday!
Mist and a burial chamber - the giant capstone still high at one end, but angled down to the ground at the other. Bushes and ancient leafless hawthorns blurring in the fog.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Part of the interior of Unstan Neolithic Chambered Cairn on Orkney. Some 30 bowl fragments were discovered during excavation which gave rise to the pottery type ‘Unstan Ware’. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Medieval floor tiles from St. Albans Abbey and Sopwell Nunnery. Now part of the collections at St. Albans Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #StAlbans
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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A bonus post for this #MosaicMonday. Ever puzzled over why Neptune has crab claws and Oceanus has a trident in some RB mosaics? My thoughts have just been published in the latest Journal of Mosaic Research. Open access, so feel free to enjoy! 1/2

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Journal of Mosaic Research » Makale » Neptune and Oceanus in Romano-British Mosaics: A Special Case?
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November 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Nice! But we can't help thinking the twisted border lost it's way a bit here.

#MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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What could this be? The label simply describes it as a ‘decorated part of an item of unknown function made of maple wood’.

A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?

Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC

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A decorated, slender wooden item made from wood, featuring intricate geometric carvings and a long open slot along its side
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The ‘Shell Mosaic’ from Verulamium - the third largest town in Roman Britain which is situated close to modern St. Albans. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations of the site and dates to around 150 AD. The mosaic is on display at Verulamium Museum. #MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Detail from a 9th century whalebone plaque - part of a grave good assemblage from the Scar boat burial, a Viking boat burial which was found near the village of Scar on Sanday in Orkney. Now part of the collections at the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The remains of North Elmham Chapel in Norfolk - a small Norman chapel which was eventually turned into a fortified house during the 14th century. The chapel was probably the site of an earlier Anglo-Saxon cathedral used by the Bishops of East Anglia. 📸 My own #MedievalMonday
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM