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Daisy @daisyshylass.bsky.social · 7h

How wonderful! 🤩

Have you read "Sarum" by Edward Rutherfurd? It's a fantastic novel tracing Sarum and its development (including Stonehenge), and later Salisbury, through the eyes of various families throughout the centuries. My favourite is "London", but both are unmissable. 🌟

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PooterheadPharm @pooterheadpharms.bsky.social · 7h

Man, when I build a fort, I want it to LOOK like a fort 3000 years later.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 6h

No, I haven't it sounds fab.

Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 8h

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

📷 (Historic England Photo Library

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 9h

#HillfortsWednesday

Monkodonja/Moncodogno is a hill fort occupied about 1800–1200 BC during the Bronze Age,located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria.

#Archaeology #History #Croatia

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 22h

Marble bust of Antinous depicted as Dionysus with a bronze vine wreath on his head.
The bust, found at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, was part of Marquis Giampietro Campana's collection and was regarded as one of his finest sculptures. Emperor Alexander II of Russia bought it in 1861 for the Hermitage.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#EpigraphyTuesday

Dedication to Serapis, Isis, the Nile and the Theoi Euergetai (Benefactor Gods), Ptolemy III and Berenice II. From #Egypt. #History #Archaeology

[To Sarapidi Isis Neilo / And to King Ptolemy / And to Queen Berenice / Benefactor of the Gods / Kallikrates, son of Antipatros]

1929: given to Bibliothèque nationale de France by Paul Perdrizet

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#TombTuesday

Arthur's Stone, on the Gower peninsula.

The massive stone that caps this chamber was set atop several smaller uprights in an impressive feat of Stone Age engineering.

#Archaeology #History #Wales

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#TombTuesday

Arthur's Stone, on the Gower peninsula.

The massive stone that caps this chamber was set atop several smaller uprights in an impressive feat of Stone Age engineering.

#Archaeology #History #Wales

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#EpigraphyTuesday

Dedication to Serapis, Isis, the Nile and the Theoi Euergetai (Benefactor Gods), Ptolemy III and Berenice II. From #Egypt. #History #Archaeology

[To Sarapidi Isis Neilo / And to King Ptolemy / And to Queen Berenice / Benefactor of the Gods / Kallikrates, son of Antipatros]

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible news from Wales 😓

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

Jeez ! 😩

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday

As we move into Winter proper. A final look at summer 👀

Lullingstone floor mosaic depicts the mythical figure of Summer wearing a garland of corn.

#AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History

Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated in Lullingstone near the village of Eynsford in Kent, south-eastern England. The villa is located in the Darent Valley, along with six others, including those at Crofton, Crayford and Dartford. Constructed in the 1st century, perhaps around AD 80–90, the house was repeatedly expanded and occupied until it was destroyed by fire in the 4th or 5th century. The villa was occupied over various periods within the Romano-British period, but after its destruction, it is only thought to have been reoccupied during the medieval period. The occupants were most likely wealthy Romans or native Britons who had adopted Roman customs.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 2d

#SpoliaSunday takes us up the #Aventine hill in #Rome to the splendid though brutally over-restored #palaeochristian basilica of #SantaSabina, where an ancient weight measure does service as a relic of diabolic frustration. #AncientBluesky 🏺

LAPIS DIABOLI, C3-C4. S. SABINA

In the corner between the counterfaçade and the base of the belltower inside the beautiful early Christian basilica of S. Sabina (425-432) on the Aventine hill stands a reused partial column with spiral fluting. Atop it is a smooth, fairly regular round black stone, flat on top and underneath. This was an ancient Roman counterweight or lapis aequipondus of a determined number of libræ, a standard unit of weight equivalent to 327 grams. Other Roman churches have further examples, possibly because churches were protected places to keep standard measures. However they became reused as relics and their original use forgotten. This one is known as the lapis diaboli or devil's stone, which was meant to have been thrown by the devil himself at the head of St Dominic, who was praying in this church at the time, after failing to tempt him. To me it looks like a stone used in the sport of curling, and with its now-missing metal handle it would have looked even more so.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d

Mosaic fragment from Roman Cirencester (Corinium). The fragment was discovered at Victoria Road in 1947, and would have been part of a larger mosaic pavement. Now on display at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Cirencester

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 3d

#StandingStoneSunday

The Pillar of Eliseg, stands near Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire, #Wales.
#Latin inscription consisted of some thirty-one lines of insular script. Excavation shows the Pillar sits atop a much earlier burial mound circa 2000BC.

#History #Archaeology

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

#RomanSiteSaturday

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and #Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the #Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in present-day #Syria.

#Archaeology #History

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Dura-Europos was founded
around 300 BC by Seleucus
I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great. In 113 BC, Parthians conquered the city, and held it, with one brief Roman intermission (114 AD), until 165 AD.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

Flag of the Spanish ship San Ildefonso, which fought against #Nelson and the Royal Navy at #Trafalgar 👀🤯

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5d

Capricorn, the sea goat, was mascot to the II Augusta legion being the favoured astrological sign of #Roman emperor Augustus

This splendid copper alloy figurine was found in 2012 at Burrington #Somerset

Now in the excellent @museumofsomerset.bsky.social

📷 July 2021

#FindsFriday

Bronze figurine of a Capricorn with head and front legs of a goat and tail of a fish

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 5d

#FindsFriday This 2000-year old whale vertebra seems to have been used by Iron Age people as a bowl!

Found at the Broch of Gurness in #Orkney, #Scotland, it is thought to have come from a beached whale and shows their resourcefulness

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #museums #photooftheday 🏺

A whale vertebra on a museum stand with a cup-shaped hollow at the top

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Serendi Pity @serendipitt.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting! do you know if were they painted?

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Barbara Appleby @barbapple.bsky.social · 5d

We still look like that!

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funkmachine.bsky.social @funkmachine.bsky.social · 4d

An Astrix is totally going to paint them soon.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 5d

#FindsFriday
Depictions of Gaulish mercenaries from Ptolemaic Egypt, 220-180 BCE,
📷 British Museum, London

#Archaeology #History #Artwork

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 5d

Pair of gold ear-rings. Found in #Egypt.

They follow the common disc and amphora type of the middle and late Hellenistic period, but the use of a large emerald is unusual: emeralds became more popular during the Roman period.

📸 British Museum.

#Archaeology #jewellery #History

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