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Fishbourne Roman Palace
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Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.

We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Nov 29
We're on here.
But so are Very Many Others who are worth a follow.
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Happy Birthday, Nero!!!

We can't believe you all forgot. 😭
A black and white image of a broken head of a boy, carved from marble, which has been identified as being Emperor Nero as a child. Someone has expertly, in colour, superimposed a party hat on his head and one of those party tooter things in his mouth.
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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#MosaicMonday
They absolutely nailed the grape treaders and the carts. They just about finished the bust.... and then the "Vines" key got stuck down. 😳

📷-By Wombatjpw - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Looking up at a curved ceiling that is decorated with a mosaic. The mosaic shows some people treading grapes in two opposing corners and a cart of grapes in the other corners. There is a female bust in the centre. Much of the rest of the design is taken up with scrolling vines.
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
Something tells us that this boi isn't going for a walk this morning.
#SundayHuxley
A bog floofy fool of a golden retriever snoozing on a sofa that no longer belongs to any humans.
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
This guy is out of control. 🙄
It's the cupid mosaic from Fishbourne Roman Palace, and someone has photoshopped onto it the drunk racoon that was recently in the news.
December 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
1 min 40secs in, and This old bloke we've never heard of but may have once stood in our hypocaust calls us a "Villa". 🤨

@durotrigesdig.bsky.social - we may have a vacancy....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce1J...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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What? The largest collections of in situ Roman mosaics in Britain not enough for you?

Sheesh... 🙄

So come to the Palace TOMORROW and there will be music too, you heathen.

Included in the admission price... more deets here: sussexpast.co.uk/event/sounds...
a cartoon of spongebob playing a trumpet on a sheet of music
Alt: a cartoon of spongebob playing a trumpet on a sheet of music
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December 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Full marks for this outstanding discovery. 😃
But minus several million for the horrible animation. 🧐

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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
romanpalace.bsky.social
It's not a pig. It's a capybara.
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Just got my official work PPE and now off down the secret passage to my paid government job hiding the evidence for all those ship timbers, swordfights on spiral stairs, and Britain's oldest pub.

THEY don't want you to know but the truth can be found in Youtube comments...
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Cat owners will totally relate to top left.
gettymuseum.bsky.social Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 7d
We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 5 medieval cats.
A collage featuring 5 cats taken from medieval manuscripts. One cat is eating a rat, one is looking left, one is in a tree scared, one is dressed as a pope sitting on a rock, and the last is climbing a tree being chased by a dog.
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Hey, @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social. Friend of yours?

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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat unearthed in Alexandria’s sunken harbor
A rare ancient Egyptian pleasure barge has been discovered in Alexandria’s sunken harbor, shedding light on elite life in early Roman Egypt.
archaeologymag.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Front of the Christmas tree vs back of the Christmas tree....
A vintage doll with brown hair, blue eyes, and a pale complexion wears a shiny pink satin bonnet and dress with lace trim. A vintage baby doll with rosy cheeks wears a crocheted dress and booties, sitting on a windowsill with light streaming in
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Between 1828-9 Samuel Hasell excavated a villa at Pitney #Somerset

Sheds were built to protect the villa but sadly they had gone by 1836 and so had the mosaics 😞

All we have left are lithographs like this one by Hasell of Cadmus thrashing a python*

*don't Google this 😬

Happy #MosaicMonday
Lithograph from a watercolour of a Roman mosaic floor depicting a naked man hitting a snake with a big stick
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
Serious Pac Man vibes...
#MosaicMonday
An overhead shot of three crouching people cleaning with brushes an stunning Roman mosaic. The mosaic design resembles a maze, picked out in red, with black and white triangles that give a clever 3D effect.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
#SundayHuxley went to the pub and pretended to be a rug.
A bored-looking golden retriever laying right in the middle of the wooden floor of a pub. Anybody who would like to pass is, in his view, welcome to go around him or step over him. Him moving is absolutely out of the question.
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
We have recently discovered we have an "I" shortage and far too many "Ys" and "Es".

So to remedy this we are holding an emergency...
🎅*WINTER FAYRE* 🎅

It is absolutely not a Fair, but it is TOMORROW!
It's a flyer for a Winter Fayre. The key information is that it's at Fishbourne Roman Palace, 10am to 4pm on the 6th December. It's 5 pounds for adults and 3 pounds for children and if you visit you can expect to find local craft stalls, a christmas trail, food and drink and festive cheer.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
While we acknowledge that "Fishbourne Roman Palace" is an anagram of "American Bran Flophouse", We would like to remind our followers that "Durotriges Dig" is an anagram of "Sir Doggie Turd".

Thank you.
durotrigesdig.bsky.social Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 11d
*American Bran Flophouse*

Jus sayin
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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It's @romanpalace.bsky.social on Dave with the Hairy Bikers right now lads
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
romanpalace.bsky.social
Is this how rumors start? 😳
It's a cloud showing the bluesky profile images of different accounts. The long and the short of it is that @merchantshallyork feature pretty highly.
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Look at this! For the first time since it was found, partially excavated and dispersed in the 1950s, someone has digitally reconstructed the 6th century mosaic from Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenacia, Libya. 😮🤯

#MosaicMonday
An ancient mosaic of astonishing complexity and beauty. The design is 10 rows of 5 squares in a grid formation. Each is separated by a coloured twisted rope border. Each square shows a different design - either animals, plants, buildings or people. Wowser.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Huxley enjoying his walk in the Autumn sun.
Putting the 'Golden' into 'Golden Retriever'. 🥰😘
#SundayHuxley
A golden retriever in his golden years bathed in golden autumn sunshine. He has a faraway look, facing south towards the sun. Good Boy, Huxley.
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This wonderful Ancient Greek gold coin dates from late 5th-century BCE.

It was issued by the city of Akragas, today’s Agrigento, in Sicily.

The coin features a crab on the reverse, and an eagle standing on a rock, devouring a snake.These symbols were common designs on the coinage of Akragas.
A round Ancient Greek gold coin with irregular edges, in the centre is a figure of a crab and some Greek lettering
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
Roman cats from the Palace were part of this research, so we're scientists now. 👨‍🔬🔬🧬

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cats became our companions way later than you think
In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
romanpalace.bsky.social
For "reasons" we've been thinking about the Lloyds Bank Turd: the biggest fossilized human poo ever found (it's from Viking York).

It's 8" long and 2" wide. We asked AI what else is that size...

"A large cucumber, a deck of card or a thick smartphone", apparently. 😬
We won't mess with you. This is a poo. It's a bit shiny and held in some kind of perspex mount, but it's undeniably a poo.
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 19d
The rumours are true 😲
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM