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Rebecca Griffiths @yorym-flo.bsky.social · Jun 20

This Roman denarius of Septimius Severus shows the emperor in military attire on horseback. It proclaims 'the most auspicious return of the emperor' after having established peace in the east by the destruction of Pescennius Niger. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · Jun 16

Please share!

The Royal Numismatic Society is seeking two freelancers to work on its administration and archives. Both positions are part-time for one year, based in London. No archival qualifications or experience necessary.

Further details on our website: numismatics.org.uk/2025/06/16/r...

RNS seeks two freelancers for Administration and Archive projects

The Royal Numismatic Society, which is currently advertising two new freelancer opportunities: Administrator Archive assistant Both are to cover a one-year project to get our records and administr…

numismatics.org.uk

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · Jun 6

1,800 years ago, someone snipped the edge of this denarius, discovered it was just a silver-plated forgery, and then vented their rage on the poor coin itself by repeatedly hacking its surface. Recorded with @findsorguk.bsky.social this week: finds.org.uk/database/art... #FindsFriday #RomanBritain

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · May 18

*Is* there a nicer flower than a lupin? ☀️

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · May 9

One of the very few images of Amminus, an #IronAge ruler from the area of Kent, who might have been the person #Suetonius tells us fled across the Channel to seek aid from #Caligula c. AD 40. This is the first example recorded with @findsorguk.bsky.social #FindsFriday
finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · May 9

(My views on the merits of retributive corporal punishment for heritage offences are mine and not those of my employer, although they should be).

Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · May 9

They deserve a good beating, at the very least, if for no other reason than they were thick enough to film it and take pictures.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 9

Two men found guilty of felling Sycamore Gap tree

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · May 9

They deserve a good beating, at the very least, if for no other reason than they were thick enough to film it and take pictures.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 9

Two men found guilty of felling Sycamore Gap tree

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, found to have criminally damaged tree and Hadrian’s Wall Two friends who embarked on a “moronic mission” to fell the Sycamore Gap tree with a chainsaw have been found guilty of “mindless” criminal damage. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, cut down the cherished tree next to Hadrian’s Wall, in Northumberland, as Storm Agnes raged in the early hours of 28 September 2023. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · May 3

Carpets of English bluebells on the slopes of the Wrekin in #Shropshire.

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · May 2

A heap of radiates struck for Tetricus I (AD 271-274) at Trier, Germany. From the massive Frome hoard of c 54,000 other third century coins, now in the final stages of being sorted at the British Museum. @findsorguk.bsky.social #FindsFriday #RomanBritain

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Sussex Portable Antiquities Scheme Team @sussexflo.bsky.social · Apr 11

#FindsFriday today with a lovely counterfeit Roman coin!
A copper-alloy cast contemporary copy of a Roman denarius of Diva Faustina I (AD 138-161), struck under Antoninus Pius, dating to the period c. AD 141-161
To see the full record, follow the link: finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · Mar 28

Excellent! Look forward to seeing it, and thank you for recording.

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Rebecca Griffiths @yorym-flo.bsky.social · Mar 28

The Melsonby Hoard is one of the UK's most significant Iron Age finds & could rewrite what we know about the period. Help the Yorkshire Museum acquire & conserve the hoard, keeping it in a public collection. #FindsFriday #SaveTheMelsonbyHoard Donate today: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · Mar 28

That’s a lovely coin — looks more like it’s copying an early issue of Trajan to me: IMP NERVA CAES TRAIAN AVG GERM. It would be great to have it recorded on PAS database if not already.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · Mar 15

One of the most remarkable objects in #Pompeii is a marble table support with P. Casca Longus inscribed on it. Longus was the 1st assassin to stab Julius Caesar on the #IdesOfMarch (today in 44 BC). On his death Longus’ possessions were auctioned & this table was bought by a Pompeian

A white marble table leg in the form of a lion head and descending into a claw as the foot. The view is from above and since there is no table top the inscription of P. Casca Long can be seen engraved into the table top support.

View across an atrium of the so-called House of Casca Longus (he never lived here!). To the left a blue painted wall. In the centre-right an impluvium basin with a circular ceramic cistern head. On the far side the white marble tripod table support.

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is the strongroom in the headquarters building of the Roman fort at Corbridge, just south of Hadrian's Wall. Corbridge was a base for the Second Legion Augusta and the money to pay the troops who garrisoned the Wall would have been stored down in this underground chamber #RomanFortThursday

The ruins of an underground chamber, now roofless, with a paved stone floor.

The ruins of an underground chamber, now roofless, with a paved stone floor and a flight of stone steps running down into it.

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · Mar 7

Agnus… (stupid, non-Christocentric autocorrect)

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · Mar 7

A mass produced Angus Dei pendant of the late 19th or early 20th century. Sometimes they’re engraved on the reverse by the people who gave them out. C R = Christus Rex?

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · Mar 6

"Killed by enemies inside the fort" says this tombstone of a father and son, Flavius Fuscinus and Flavius Romanus, who died at Ambleside, Cumbria #RomanFortThursday

Excavations show Ambleside was attacked at least once - did these men die in its defence?

📸Armitt Trust #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

A grey tombstone with a crude Latin inscription, broken into two fragments in the middle, held by metal supports and on a blank black background

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · Mar 5

National Trust membership for a family costs £14.05 a month. A Telegraph subscription costs £104 a month. And don’t get me started on the quality of the product.

National Trust raises fees to £3,000 for family life memberships

Charity squeezes an extra 25pc from members over three years

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Feb 26

Exceptional new discovery in
#Pompeii: large frescoed banquet hall with stunning wall paintings emerged

www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...

🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

A picture taken in the banquet hall, showing columns and wall paintings

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Brittunculus @brittunculus.bsky.social · Feb 22

#RomanSiteSaturday: A huge courtyard villa flourished at North Leigh, Oxfordshire, in the early C.4th. It's one of the largest discovered from #RomanBritain with 60 rooms, 11 hypocausts (channelled type), 16 mosaic floors and 3 bath suites.
#romanarchaeology

View across the site, taken on a cold clear winter's day. A cross-shaped channel hypocaust is in the foreground, while low stone walls forming the footings of the west wing stretch away to a modern mosaic cover building.

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Pete Savin @petesavin.bsky.social · Feb 20

The finds trays are working overtime at the Carlisle Roman Excavations this week. Here the destruction level is being removed to reveal the Hypocaust stacks. The site is open for visits except Sunday till the 1st March #HadriansWall #Archaeology

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · Feb 17

a reminder that the Royal Numismatic Society runs a series of small grants for research and/or practice which deploys the outcomes of research in various areas of numismatics. The next deadline is 28th February - find out more and apply here: numismatics.org.uk/grants/

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · Feb 18

High on a Northumberland hillside near the Roman fort of Bremenium and the ancient road we call Dere Street are the remains of a mausoleum. It is probably the finally resting place of a high-raking Roman soldier and a couple of its stones still feature enigmatic carvings #TombTuesday

The foundations of a circular Roman mausoleum. Its stones are covered in lichen and there is grass growing out of the top.

A relief carving on one of the stones of the mausoleum which resembles the head of a horned animal.

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Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk · Feb 13

One of my oldie reconstructions from 2014 of Rough Castle Roman Fort & Antonine Wall, near Falkirk in #Scotland. It shows the barracks, Principia, Horrea, and the Praetorium. The bath house is in the annexe, in the top-left corner. Commissioned Work. © Bob Marshall / Historic Environment Scotland.

Digital reconstruction illustration of Rough Castle Roman Fort near Falkirk in Scotland. This image shows the barracks, Principia, Horrea, and the Praetorium. The bath house is in the annexe, in the top-left corner of the image. Commissioned Work. © Bob Marshall / Historic Environment Scotland 2014.

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