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prehistoricwirral.bsky.social
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday
🪨🦣🔥All fired up, heat cracked flint tools from the Lower Palaeolithic c.400,000 BC. Found together with other Clactonian tools and Acheulean handaxes possibly made by Homo heidelbergensis
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #lithics #Wirral
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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classicalalan.bsky.social
This heavy copper alloy helmet once belonged to a Roman gladiator. It was originally tinned to give it a shiny, silvery surface and it would also have had a face guard. It was discovered in Hawkedon, Suffolk, and is the only example of gladiator equipment ever found in Britain. #FindsFriday
A side view of a Roman helmet, which is dented and a browny green colour.
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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ullamr.bsky.social
Finds from a Roman town house in the Jewry Wall Roman Experience in Leicester. #FindsFriday
Glass vessel, terra sigillata cup, a statuette and a beaker
December 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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yorym-flo.bsky.social
The is one half of a Roman cosmetic set. It is a mortar which would have paired with a pestle & used for grinding small quantities of powders for cosmetic or medicinal use. They are thought to be a British phenomenon with origin in the pre-Roman Iron Age. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
A Roman roof tile from Minety #Wiltshire stamped with TPF

Possibly TEGVLARIA PVBLICA FECERVNT (made by the public tile works)

This in turn could suggest civic production for the nearby town of CORINIVM (Cirencester)

📷 Dec 2025 in the excellent @athelstanmuseum.bsky.social Malmesbury

#FindsFriday
Broken orange tile in a display case stamped with the letters TPF in the bottom left hand corner An orange tile stamped with the letters TPF
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
Gilded disc brooches from the Galloway Hoard. Buried at the beginning of the 10th century, the hoard was discovered by a metal-detectorist in 2014 at Balmaghie in Kirkcudbrightshire. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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theduncanmackay.bsky.social
This little Iron Age piggy from Hounslow, Middlesex, would love to wish you a happy #FindsFriday, but is concentrating far too hard on sniffing out a truffle hidden beneath the baize.
2nd-1st century BC. British Museum.
Small bronze, very stylised pig or wild boar with huge ears, long snout and spiky back.
December 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
Paddington The Magdalen Reading, c. 1435, oil on panel, fragment of altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden, influential Flemish artist (c.1400-1464), pupil of Robert Campin, court painter to Duke of Burgundy. National Gallery London A woman in a glowing green dress and a white head dress is sitting on the floor leaning against a cabinet. She is delicately turning the page, beside her, on the floor is a small alabaster jar, presumably of ointment. In the background two figures are standing in blue and red robes, we can't see their heads, behind them a window looks out onto green fields.
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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chapps.bsky.social
You can find more information and a high res version of the photo for download on Flickr, below. 🏺 3/

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Polychrome terracotta group, perhaps Demeter and Persephone
UPDATE to an earlier photo, this one using a new camera. Terracotta group of two female figures sitting on a couch with elaborately turned legs, thick cushions, and draped with brightly painted text...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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chapps.bsky.social
Such a beautiful polychrome terracotta group of two female figures sitting on a couch, leaning towards one another as if to share a secret. The older woman clasps her bare breast. They are thought to be Demeter and her daughter Persephone, but the identification is unsure. 🏺 1/ #ancientbluesky

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Terracotta group of two female figures sitting on a couch with elaborately turned legs, thick cushions, and draped with brightly painted textiles. They lean towards one another as if to share a secret, and the older woman on the right, with her himation pulled over her head, places a hand over her bared breast. The younger woman on the left raises her right hand over her breast under her own himation, mirroring her companion; on her left hand, we can see a large ring with a circular bezel. Each woman wears thick-soled sandals, and the older woman's sole is painted dark red. We see remains of the white slip - the base coat over which pigments would have been applied - as well as the bright remains of blue on the couch's drapery, and vibrant rose madder pigment on the younger woman's himation (cloak) and the cushions of the couch, red on the sole of the older woman's sandal and the younger woman's chiton (tunic), and a pale pink on the flesh of both women. Hellenistic, circa 100 BCE. Made in Myrina (Turkey), Asia Minor, where it was said to be found. Terracotta with pigments. British Museum (1885,0316.1)
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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chapps.bsky.social
The figurine is from Myrina, Turkey, part of the Roman province of Asia Prima (Greek Aeolia), ca. 100 BCE. It's painted with vibrant pigments: blue, pink, red, white.

Best of all is the *thumbprint* of the potter on the knee of the older woman (guess who found this?). 🏺 2/

#BritishMuseum
Closeup of the right knee of the older woman, where all the pigments have degraded, leaving the bare orangey terracotta. On it is an imprint of a thumb, turned to about a 45º angle, as you'd expect if someone were holding the wet clay in both hands. There are undoubtedly several fingerprints under all of the pigments, something the original owner would never have seen. A few years back, I spotted the thumbprint on a high res photo I took of this figurine, and reported it to the British Museum. They had never seen it before, so the print was added to the object's archived info (they track these examples of fingerprints).
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
natsky777.bsky.social
#jewellery #souvenirs #traintravel
#bored 🚂
Hmm. Left my book to read back home. Bugger!
Please admire my ensemble of jewellery: pendant of base metal & glass; bracelet in plastic(both from Tower of London in August '25); and ring with red rose from Pandora bought yesterday! I love them all! 😊
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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nickraschke.bsky.social
Happy Friday.
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
It's not a pig. It's a capybara.
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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theduncanmackay.bsky.social
Well, I know you all think I keep #PlaymobilÖtzi in a bespoke matchbox with little compartments for all his kit (absurd!), but I haven’t actually seen him since the Alps last winter.
Hope he still fares well.
Might be time to mount an expedition to hunt him out soon…
#PlaymobilInfestation
Playmobil figure kitted out as Ötzi the iceman on a rock surrounded by snow.
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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conjaertsa.bsky.social
Northern lights going wild last night
December 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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wxmanmehlberg.bsky.social
The Northern Lights are back in view over the Northland!

My thanks to those in the region who have shared their photos of them with our station.

Enjoy!
Northern Lights in Cloquet, Minnesota on December 10, 2025. Photo courtesy of Ben Boyum Northern Lights in Cotton, Minnesota on December 10, 2025. Photo courtesy of Emma Dunsmore Northern Lights in Glidden, Wisconsin on December 10, 2025. Photo courtesy of Darryl Hedman Northern Lights over Sand Lake in Britt, Minnesota on December 10, 2025. Photo courtesy of Michael Skogman
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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theduncanmackay.bsky.social
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
Cat paw print in a red brick wall.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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janephuong.bsky.social
It's #FlyDay
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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birdsbyme.bsky.social
Morning Melbourne! 🌞☀️🌞

Eastern yellow robin: gregarious mouthy.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #easternyellowrobin
Image of a tiny Eastern yellow robin with its beak open in full throat. Inquisitive, gregarious, mouthy, and aggressive. Good birbs.
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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pauljwillson.bsky.social
Morning light at Loch Maree
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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theromansoc.bsky.social
Two tur-tur doves (oh yes they are!) for advent.

Our posting sequence of vaguely Christmas images from our IMAGO image library is a bit out of sync this year but please enjoy anyway.

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...
December 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Morning.
🖼️ Tunnicliffe
Magpies perched in wintered silver birches, two prominent birds in foreground, landscape and cloudy sky seen through the trees, painting.
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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astrozombies76.bsky.social
Good morning everyone ☀️
#k9
A picture of a German shepherd dog sitting with k9 from k9 and company.
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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astrozombies76.bsky.social
Evening everyone 🙂✨
#DoctorWho
The Brigadier and the 4th Doctor.
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM