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Vauvert Moths

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Phil de Jersey, archaeologist/numismatist based in St Peter Port, Guernsey. Started out with my son on that other place as moth fans, hence the name. Likely to be some other creatures, some books and some photography. And a bit of archaeology.

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 2d

A blast from the past - well, 2016 - for #TombTuesday, with my son admiring the face on the capstone in the Dehus dolmen, #Guernsey #archaeology

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, it is the same type. However the coins are almost unknown from the area occupied by the Veneti - they are from further NE, probably territory of the Redones. The Veneti attribution goes back to work in the 1940s/50s which has largely been superseded. Auction houses take a while to catch up...

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 12d

Chaotic good, tending to lawful evil if I don't have something to hand for chaotic good...

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 13d

Can't let #FindsFriday go past without another fine Iron Age coin. This is a base silver stater attributed (probably wrongly) to the Veneti, in southern Brittany. Diameter 22mm. Note the recumbent figure below the horse - what is he holding? #archaeology #numismatics 🏺

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 14d

There's at least one published example I can think of where an IA coin seems to have inspired an Anglo-Saxon sceatta, see www.britnumsoc.org/images/PDFs/...

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 17d

St Peter Port #Guernsey skyline just now #photography

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 18d

For #StandingStoneSunday, a marvellous photo of Callanish, complete with (Victorian?) policeman... #archaeology #Scotland 🏺

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 20d

Late in the day but struggling to upload images - for #FindsFriday & #FlintFriday, a beautiful flint axe from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, acquired by Frederick Lukis from Mr Talbot, c.1850. Watercolour of other side probably by his daughter Mary-Ann Lukis. #archaeology 🏺

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 21d

Five go mad on Vazon beach, or, our French/British team sampling peat deposits #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 23d

I don't think you should, I've only known about them for a year since our French visitors first managed to sneak them in

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 23d

The rasette, the blade on a stick on the left of the photo. It's just wrong! 😄

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 23d

We are digging with French colleagues here and the entente cordiale is being strained by their use of the rasette – personally I would confiscate them at the border and replace them with a WHS trowel, but what do you think? #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 27d

Can't beat an evening swim then chips on the beach at Cobo #Guernsey

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 27d

A while since I posted a nice Iron Age #coin, so for #FindsFriday here's a silver quarter stater loosely attributed to the Baiocasses in Normandy. From the Le Câtillon hoard, #Jersey. Fine example of the human-headed horse on the reverse which dominates the coinage of this region. #numismatics 🏺

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · 28d

Think it's only fair to say that a) this was the only typo I spotted, and more importantly b) it's another great instalment in the #SloughHouse story...

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 12

Not off to a great start, says the proofreader in me - paletts?

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · Sep 15

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 16

For #TombTuesday, here's the Sandy Hook #Guernsey cist-in-circles, at the time of its first excavation in 1912. Postcard by Thomas Bramley, renowned local photographer #archaeology 🏺

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 15

A Viking B Iron Age. It would be easier if it were coins 😉

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some exciting Neolithic settlement evidence coming up on Herm in the Channel Islands, but the picture doesn't quite convey the difficulty of standing up on site in the gale blowing this morning... #Guernsey #archaeology

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 12

Not off to a great start, says the proofreader in me - paletts?

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Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 12

This arrived today so basically everything else is on hold for the next day or two... #slowhorses @baskervillejmp.bsky.social

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 10

A few photos from tonight's spectacular #RedArrows display, #Guernsey #RAF

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 8

Scoring highly in the 'there are worse places to be working' category... unfortunately on my way back #Herm #Guernsey #photography

Vauvert Moths @vauvertmoths.bsky.social · Sep 6

A dismal catch in the moth-trap - just 13 #moths on a clear and windy night - but some recompense in the form of a Sexton or Burying Beetle, the first time we have seen one of these #entomology #Guernsey #teammoth

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