#FindsFriday with some Roman Glass from various forts along the Antonine wall at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
October 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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The ‘Winfarthing Pendant’ - a 7th century Anglo-Saxon disc brooch that was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2015 at Winfarthing, near Diss in South Norfolk. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Winfarthing #NorwichCastle #Norfolk
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Mid 1st Century #Roman glassware on display at the @RomanCaerleon.
Great day out on a bank holiday!
📸My own.
#RomanBritain #History #Archaeology #Wales #artwork
Mid 1st Century #Roman glassware on display at the @RomanCaerleon.
Great day out on a bank holiday!
📸My own.
#RomanBritain #History #Archaeology #Wales #artwork
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Since beads were so popular last week, for #FindsFriday here are a few of the bead types from Dorestad, catalogued by Mette Langbroek in her fascinating article in Dorestad and its Networks, open access here: www.sidestone.com/books/dorest...
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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#FindsFriday What's he got in his pocket today? Something so rare around these parts that it may as well be rocking horse shit!
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Two ecstatic dancers party like it's AD 99 across a small sherd of #Roman samian ware pottery
Spotted in the excellent Llangollen museum #Denbighshire / #SirDdinbych
📷 Aug 2023
On loan from Denbighshire Archaeological Service
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling #ItsNearlyTheWeekend
Spotted in the excellent Llangollen museum #Denbighshire / #SirDdinbych
📷 Aug 2023
On loan from Denbighshire Archaeological Service
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling #ItsNearlyTheWeekend
October 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Your average Roman cooking ware jars from the Jewry Wall Roman Experience. In front a grey ware pot and behind it a coarseware pot. #FindsFriday
October 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Gold earring - 3rd Century BCE
Such beautiful workmanship in creating a tiny object nearly 2,300 years ago!
This Etrurian example was found in Volterra & is 1.85 cm high.
It has an amber head & has a cap covered in granulations.
Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
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Such beautiful workmanship in creating a tiny object nearly 2,300 years ago!
This Etrurian example was found in Volterra & is 1.85 cm high.
It has an amber head & has a cap covered in granulations.
Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
#FindsFriday
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A beautiful cameo showing Livia, empress of Rome, and wife of Augustus. He was probably the second figure on the left, now missing.
AD 1st C.
📸 my own, Capitoline Museums, Rome.
#FindsFriday #AncientRome #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
AD 1st C.
📸 my own, Capitoline Museums, Rome.
#FindsFriday #AncientRome #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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#FindsFriday This curious bone object is apparently the back of a comb 🤔
It was found in an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near the Thames, from the 5th or 6th century AD
Now in the Museum of Reading
🏺 #archaeology #museums #heritage
It was found in an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near the Thames, from the 5th or 6th century AD
Now in the Museum of Reading
🏺 #archaeology #museums #heritage
October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Wooden sheep as seen in the fabulous Design Museum in Helsinki 🇫🇮 last year.
#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday
#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday
October 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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This is a silver Roman radiate of Herennia Etruscilla dating to c.AD 249-251. Etruscilla was empress as the wife of Emperor Decius. As with most third-century Roman empresses, very little is known about her. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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#FindsFriday Researchers found traces of blue pigment on this 13,000-year-old artefact from Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. It questions the idea that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black, painting a picture of a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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This #findsfriday we have a bronze terminal of a chair in the form of a lioness seated on a rectangular pedestal, its front paw we think is on a human head, with stamped decorations on the sides. This was found in 1910 at Newbury Water Works, Berkshire.
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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💯 Read a thoughtful essay & watch a captivating conversation:
💬 "The interesting question is not just, Why do people excavate and look for the past? but, When do they not want to find the past?"
🏺 #archaeology #skystorians #findsfriday #Pompeii
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu...
💬 "The interesting question is not just, Why do people excavate and look for the past? but, When do they not want to find the past?"
🏺 #archaeology #skystorians #findsfriday #Pompeii
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu...
Herculaneum Uncovered
A Conversation with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
ideasroadshow.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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For #FindsFriday a Roman helmet visor from Trimontium (Newstead) a beautiful photographic illustration from the stunning 2-volume report of the excavations, A Roman Frontier Post by James Curle 1911. The pit content records are the stuff of dreams. From Pit LVII “at 15 feet a bronze helmet mask.”
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October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Roman water spout in the shape of a wolf's head.
Beautifully detailed and full of character it looks like a good boy proudly fetching the paper! 🐾 ❤️
Bronze, 2nd century AD. From Trier (Augusta Treverorum), Germany.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum
📷 by me
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Beautifully detailed and full of character it looks like a good boy proudly fetching the paper! 🐾 ❤️
Bronze, 2nd century AD. From Trier (Augusta Treverorum), Germany.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum
📷 by me
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#Archaeology
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Some lovely Early Bronze Age arrowheads and scrapers from fieldwalking near Aldwark
We don't do enough fieldwalking these days (kudos to ARS Ltd for this one) - on an unploughed site topsoil lithics can capture activity patterns on a landscape scale - hunting, settlement, ceremonial
Some lovely Early Bronze Age arrowheads and scrapers from fieldwalking near Aldwark
We don't do enough fieldwalking these days (kudos to ARS Ltd for this one) - on an unploughed site topsoil lithics can capture activity patterns on a landscape scale - hunting, settlement, ceremonial
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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From 6-7C Prittlewell Prince burial, copper alloy flagon from E Mediterranean.
Neck medallion has St Sergius on horseback so may be from shrine in Syria.
Style found in Byzantine Empire, rare in W Europe, so could be gift, or mercenary booty.
Also in Silk Roads at BM.
Southend Museums
From 6-7C Prittlewell Prince burial, copper alloy flagon from E Mediterranean.
Neck medallion has St Sergius on horseback so may be from shrine in Syria.
Style found in Byzantine Empire, rare in W Europe, so could be gift, or mercenary booty.
Also in Silk Roads at BM.
Southend Museums
October 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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This 13th century seal matrix depicts a bird surrounded by a Latin legend which reads [FRA]NGE LEGGE TE[GE] and translates to ‘Break, read, conceal’. Most medieval matrices were made of metal, but ivory, like this example, jet, and soapstone are also known. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Stoke Newington is a good example of the understandable limits of @bgs.ac.uk mapping. Beige polygons are mapped Ice Age sediments, red dot are stone artefacts from the Ice Age. We know Abney Park and Stanford Hill have these deposits, the artefacts help to map their presence.🦣🏺
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October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🪨A Neolithic scraper made from a breccia of Galena. It shows wear from use; perhaps a status implement. Galena is a sulphide mineral which has anti-microbial properties, which would have been useful in processing hides🐄🐐🐏
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Neolithic #Wirral
🪨A Neolithic scraper made from a breccia of Galena. It shows wear from use; perhaps a status implement. Galena is a sulphide mineral which has anti-microbial properties, which would have been useful in processing hides🐄🐐🐏
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Neolithic #Wirral
October 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Today's #IronAge #coin for #FindsFriday: a gold quarter stater of the Osismii, max 15mm diameter, with an eagle? gryphon? head on the horse, in place of the usual human head. From Le Câtillon, Jersey. #archaeology #numismatics
October 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Friday
#FallFriday
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#FaustianFriday
#FeatheredFriday
#FerrousFriday
#FictionFriday
#FindsFriday
#FingerpostFriday
#FishFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FolkyFriday
#FollowFriday or #FF
#FontsOnFriday
#FootpathFriday
#FootwearFriday
#ForestFriday
#FossilFriday
#FallFriday
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#FaustianFriday
#FeatheredFriday
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#FictionFriday
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#FingerpostFriday
#FishFriday
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#FollowFriday or #FF
#FontsOnFriday
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October 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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