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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4h

Just an average morning

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 8h

Totally useless as PPE

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 8h

Are you saying he's the original Waterloo Helmet?

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3d

No Iron Age leader would leave the roundhouse without the Waterloo helmet and Battersea shield

Three Iron Age leaders wearing fashionably horned helmets and carrying impractical shields

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3d

Given she's a *valiant English queen*, surely it can only be Æthelflæd of Mercia? 🤔

Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err
it’s err, Boudoo…
it’s err, Bondi….
it’s err, Boaconstric….
it’s err, Baobab….
Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now…

Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974.
Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday!
#Echolands

Valiant comic cover with a colourful depiction of Boudica in her chariot with the title Who is It?

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16h

It totally was 👍

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 23h

A late (but spectacular) entry for #HypocaustGate on TV tonight as Bettany Hughes shows us all how to correctly stand in a #Roman underfloor heating system

Part of emperor Diocletian's palace in #Split Croatia no less 🤩

Epic #TreasuresoftheWorld @channel4.bsky.social @bettanyhughes.bsky.social

Hypocaust tiles from a Roman underfloor heating system. Torch and visitor in the distance

Bettany Hughes with torch standing in a Roman hypocaust

Professional hypocaust standing at its best

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

Close up of the central panel in a late 4th century AD floor, #Roman townhouse at Colliton Park #Dorchester

The design, a stylised flower surrounded by guilloche, is simple but highly effective 😍

Excavated 1937-8, it's today protected by Dorset council and Dorset Museum

📷 Sept 2014

#MosaicMonday

Roundel in a Roman mosaic floor featuring a stylised flower surrounded by interlocking guilloche

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about the Roman Empire on the commute home.
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

A pub sign for Ye Olde Watling featuring a Roman helmet

A glass signed display of Mithras sacrificing the bull

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 1d

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and of course, we've got to give it up for a nice bit of guilloche border

#MosaicMonday
🏺AncientBluesky

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 1d

#MosaicMonday - Discovered in 2003 at the submerged site of Riches Dunes, near Marseillan in France. The scene shows Apollo's punishment of the satyr, Marsyas. #Myth #Art 🏺

Image: Musée de l’Ephèbe et d’archéologie sous-marine du Cap d’Agde (n°2926). Link - musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/emble...

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

Detail from a mid-fourth century AD mosaic at North Leigh Roman Villa in Oxfordshire. The mosaic was probably from a dinning room or reception room. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #NorthLeighRomanVilla

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 1d

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So to go through the panels & story of this remarkable survivor from a bath block of a villa, laid around 350 AD

The first pannel shows the ships leaving troy

#MosaicMonday
🏺AncientBluesky

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 1d

Had a great time at the Somerset Museum on the weekend, so for #MosaicMonday a short thread on its mosaics which of course include this, the Low Ham mosaic of Dido & Aeneas

🧵👇

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

Close up of the central panel in a late 4th century AD floor, #Roman townhouse at Colliton Park #Dorchester

The design, a stylised flower surrounded by guilloche, is simple but highly effective 😍

Excavated 1937-8, it's today protected by Dorset council and Dorset Museum

📷 Sept 2014

#MosaicMonday

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err
it’s err, Boudoo…
it’s err, Bondi….
it’s err, Boaconstric….
it’s err, Baobab….
Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now…

Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974.
Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday!
#Echolands

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 4d

The eastern entrance (common to IA hillforts I believe) of Old Winchester Hill above the South Downs Way in Hampshire. Certainly a place that I wish to spend more time in the future.

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

#AncientSiteSunday & the rumps early this morning, not quite the sunrise promised earlier in the week, but still great to be back

We'll get to Cornwall soon but to catch up with our hillfort journey so far it's all here >>>
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Bet they're bricking it

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Marcus Goldendelicius ?

Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Infamy infamy...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Today just got betterer 🤩 👍

#AllIWantForChristmas

Paul D @pauld70.bsky.social · 2d

Even better, following the #COBI hashtag led me to a review of a minifigure set of Praetorian Guards entirely in German and, I've got to be honest, I might not recover from this www.steine-kanal.de/cobi-minifig...

COBI Minifiguren-Set Prätorianergarde 20072 Review

Mit dem Imperium Romanum Set Prätorianergarde 20072 liefert COBI detailverliebte, hochwertig gestaltete Minifiguren ab. Aufpassen müsst ihr jedoch beim Zusammenbau.

www.steine-kanal.de

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooo oooooooooo !!!!

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Mine too 🤣

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