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Durotriges Dig
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We will, we will Broch you

#IronAge #archaeology 👇👇

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Plan approved to build Scotland's first broch for 2,000 years
The tall, double-walled drystone towers have only been found in Scotland.
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Alison Fisk
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✨The enigmatic Penbryn ‘spoons’ whisper secrets of long-lost rituals of the British Iron Age 2,000 years ago! ✨

Made for knowing rather than eating, these rare ‘spoons’ are thought to be magic objects of divination, used in ceremonies to seek knowledge and foretell events.

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a pair of cast bronze spoon-like tools. Each placed on a thin black metal stand in a display case with forest-like backdrop at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Dated 50 BC-AD 100. The bowl of each ‘spoon’ is oval-shaped and almost flat, with short, ornate handle, ideally-sized to be held between thumb and forefinger. Length 12 cm x width 7.3cm. The bronze has corroded and appears gold and green in colour. The top spoon has a small perforated hole near the rim. The lower spoon is divided into four areas by an incised cross. In the centre of each area is an inlaid dot of a different metal: top left gold, top right uncertain, bottom left bronze (different bronze composition to bowl), bottom right now filled with corroded material. The prevailing theory is that liquid was dripped from the perforated spoon to the other for the purpose of divination to predict future events. They are a rare find, with only 27 individual spoons from 17 pairs found to date, across Britain, Ireland, and France (one pair).
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM Everybody can reply
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Alison Fisk
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Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman emerald-green glass boat. From Pompeii.

#Archaeology

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A British Museum image of a translucent emerald-green glass vessel in the shape of a shallow boat, displayed on a black surface with light brown background. The boat has curved ends, rising slightly upward. The museum lighting emphasises the translucent dark green colour of the glass. It was ground from a mould-pressed blank, with wheel-cut bands on each side and four triangular feet. Height: 7.6 cm, Length: 22.5 cm. Dated AD 25-50.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM Everybody can reply
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Nina Willburger
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A marvellous painted terracotta sima with a lion head waterspout. A sima was a roof element that functioned as a gutter.

Found in Delphi, #Greece, dating late 5th century BC.

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#Archaeology 🏺
A terracotta architectural fragment depicting a lion’s head with an open mouth (spout), attached to a decorated block featuring geometric and floral painted patterns. The artifact is weathered and displayed against an orange background on a shelf.
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM Everybody can reply
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Jon Hawke
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#HillfortsWednesday oldie but Goldie!

This is British Camp in the Malvern Hills, an Iron Age hillfort built in 4 phases during the 1st millennium BC. The hillfort had 4 gateways and was populated by dozens of hut circles.

#Archaeology #History
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM Everybody can reply
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Kath Page
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Broch-tastic news. Taking experimental #archaeology to the extreme! Such a fantastic project, great news for #Caithness and Scottish archaeology. #IronAge #Broch #Scotland

www.northern-times.co.uk/news/scotlan...
Scotland’s first new broch for 2000 years wins planning approval
The approval of the Caithness Broch Project’s plans represents a major milestone for their bid to build a “faithful replica” on a site near Latheron.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM Everybody can reply
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Alison Fisk
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A brown bear on tiptoes, stretching up for some tasty fruit in this Roman floor mosaic! 🐻 🍎

From Trier (ancient Augusta Treverorum). 3rd century AD.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a fragment of a Roman floor mosaic depicting a brown bear standing on its hind legs with its front legs raised/ leaning on the upper trunk of a tree laden with round fruit, perhaps apples, which are a favourite of brown bears! The bear raises its head, mouth wide, as if about to eat a fruit from the tree. The bear’s outline is defined with black tessarae, and its fur is composed of dark and light brown tessarae. The fruit tree is covered with round orangy-red fruits amongst green and grey leaves. The trunk is coloured with olive and light brown tesserae. The background is made of off-white tesserae. This natural scene is supplemented by a small geyish green shrub between the tree and the bear, and in the background, a second tree without fruit. This mosaic fragment was found in 1875 at Südallee, Trier. Dated 3rd century AD. It has been partially restored.
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Jon Hawke
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#FindsFriday
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 Everybody can reply
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Dr Crom
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#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 (1/2)

Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
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Jon Hawke
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#HillfortsWednesday
Warham Camp Fort is located between the villages of Warham and Wighton. It is a large and well-preserved Iron Age fort where previous excavations in 1914 & 1959 produced evidence for timber palisade and Iron Age and Roman pottery.
#Archaeology #History
October 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM Everybody can reply
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Dr Tess Machling
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Better write up than is usual, with more detail about the Treasure Act, although not including 'significance'...

... but this sentence made me shudder:

"The pair then spent six-and-a-half hours excavating the coins."

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#Archaeology 🏺

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Roman coins found by detectorist could be Wales' biggest find
David Moss discovered 15,000 coins at a
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romanbritain.bsky.social
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A #Roman #ship was found in 1910 on the site of the County Hall, on the south bank of the River #Thames opposite #Westminster, #London. The ship had been abandoned at the edge of the River.
The construction of the ship is dated to about 300 AD.

#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
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Tony O
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Friday’s #Scape... The ruin of The Hanging Thorn Cairn
aka Ballyutoag Court Tomb, Antrim, Ireland
Image 2014
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Infrared #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #Art #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Antrim
October 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM Everybody can reply
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Antiquity Journal
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Tattoo from the preserved body of a Siberian ice mummy, from the Iron Age Pazyryk culture of the Altai Mountains. Depicting two tigers and a leopard attacking two deer, it shows the sophisticated methods of Pazyryk tattooers #InternationalSnowLeopardDay

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Illustration of a tattoo depicting two deer being attacked by three big cats; two with stripes, one with spots.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM Everybody can reply
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Oscar Lozada
@oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#TombTuesday This haunting Neolithic tomb on the Holm of Papay, a tiny spit of land in the Orkney islands, has a secret

It's said there are 5000-year old carvings on the walls inside, including *eyes* that watch you as you enter... 👀

📸 Mine

#archaeology #scotland #halloween #scary #photooftheday🏺
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM Everybody can reply
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Antiquity Journal
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The #AbuSimbelFestival is today, during which the sun reaches the inner sanctums of the Ancient Egyptian Abu Simbel temples, lighting up statues of Ramses II and the gods.
Many societies built monuments in alignment with the sun. We explore some in this mini #AntiquityThread 1/6 🏺 #Archaeology
Facade of a rock-cut temple. On either side of a doorway stand two large statues of pharaohs sat on thrones. The top half of one of the statues has been destroyed. Public Domain.
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM Everybody can reply
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Paul Blinkhorn
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I know I'm old, but I remember when "antiquities auctioneers" were called "fences" and “trade of archaeological material" was called "selling stolen goods" #ancientbluesky #archaeology
Rare Roman Legionary Helmet Looted from Serbia Appears in U.S. Auction - Arkeonews
Rare Roman legionary helmet sparks international debate over cultural heritage and illicit antiquities trade
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Xander Sable
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The Rosetta stoned? #Egyptology #AncientBluesky #Archaeology 🏺 #pharmacology #medicine #trade #commodities
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Stephen J Jenkins
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Corbridge, Northumberland. Eastern wall of the West Military Compound, home to either the Sixth or the Twentieth Legion (the other being housed across the street in the East Military Compound). #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #RomanBritain #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Photography
Black and white photograph of ruins from the Roman town of Corbridge. In the foreground, leading from lower-left toward mid-right, we see a row of four column bases, each with square cross-section, chamfered above about half their height, and featuring a square slot in their top face. Behind, the remains of a well-built wall stand to a height of as much as three courses above a chamfered foundation course, running from mid-left toward upper-right of frame. This is the eastern wall of the westernmost of Corbridge's two military compounds. In the distance, more ruins can be seen, but these lie outside the compounds on the far side of the Stanegate, the major road that runs through the town parallel to (and a few miles south of) Hadrian's Wall.
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Antiquity Journal
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#Mesopotamian irrigation, the earliest farming settlement west of the Nile and the origins of the world's first writing system. Explore all this and more in our Middle East & North Africa collection, with tons of FREE and #OpenAccess research! 🏺 #Archaeology

🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Side-view of Petra, with the text 'Middle East & North Africa, Antiquity' overlaid.
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Antiquity Journal
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NEW Miniature silver and bronze figurines from #Viking Age Sweden. Microscopic analysis suggests their manufacture and use may have mirrored how human bodies were treated, hinting at the complexity of Nordic pre-Christian religion and magical practices.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Ten miniature metal figurines depicting various anthropomorphic figures of different shapes and sizes.
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM Everybody can reply
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Rupert Ferguson
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Fourth-century AD bear mosaic from the co-rule of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 161–169), Bulla Regia, Africa Proconsularis, Tunisia; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday
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Tony O
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One of the burial chambers at the ruins of Farranmacbride Court Tomb
Image: 2025
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Infrared #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #Art #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Donegal
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Alison Fisk
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Wow, a small Roman glass bottle with preserved ointment from almost 2,000 years ago! 🤩

The ointment is composed of fatty acids, glycerine, and plant fibres (wood, pollen, and seeds). Perhaps a valuable cosmetic or medicinal cream.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a small, Roman bottle made of translucent pale green glass. It has a square body with rounded shoulders, a short, narrow, cylindrical neck with an out-turned, flat rim sealed with a (cork?) stopper. There is a single curved handle attached between the shoulder of the bottle and top of the neck. The bottle contains a solid, yellowish-orange substance. Bottle height 9.6 cm. The bottle is displayed on a grey surface. Dated late-1st century to first-half 2nd century AD.
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Tuatha
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In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trjp to a hidden glade below Cnoc na Cailligh (The Hill of the Hag), to find one of my favourite megalithic tombs, the wonderful Gaulstown Dolmen!

#SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Prehistory #Archaeology 🏺 #Waterford
A Neolithic portal tomb in Waterford Ireland. It consists of an enormous capstone supported by tall upright stones
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