Sadly the report still has him saying:
"It was an honour to see expert collectors taking these coins into their care"
Rather than:
"I enjoyed selling the coins for a lot of money to a group of wealthy anonymous buyers"
Must have been an honest slip of the tongue...
At least this records that folks were appalled by the sale...
#Archaeology #Treasurw #Detecting 🏺
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It was reburied to save it from frost and rain (which were loosening tesserae) and souvenir hunters (who were taking bits home). Sadly, in 1903, it was thought that other options, like constructing a cover building or lifting it, were too expensive
The swirling central panel of a #Roman geometric mosaic - almost hypnotic! #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky
Painting of a portrait in a roundel from a Roman mosaic possibly depicting Minerva or Mercury (or another helmet wearing deity or hero) surrounded by floral designs
Painting of a damaged Roman polychrome mosaic with floral designs
In 1903 a 4th century #Roman mosaic was uncovered at Fifehead Neville #Dorset
The central image was recorded by Mary Hartley just before souvenir hunters destroyed it 😱
The second painting © Stephen Cosh (2005) reconstructs the full floor from what was left before reburial
#MosaicMonday
The Blackfriars Pavement in the Jewry Wall Roman Experience. It was originally found in 1832. The Great Central Railway built a tiled chamber beneath the station where it was found. Interested observers could view the mosaic from above through a prismatic glass floor. Moved in 1970s. #MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday with the surviving in-situ mosaic floor at the Canterbury Roman Museum
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My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.
Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
One of our favourite archaeological photos
🤣 and simultaneously 😲😱
A vintage photo of archaeologists in a trench. The are peeling a mosaic, which has been reinforced and stabilized by adhering fabric to its surface, off the soil, over a drum and onto a large board.
The mosaic was... erm... "carefully lifted" for conservation and ultimately re-laid in it's original location, where it can still be see today.
#MosaicMonday
A lovely Roman mosaic showing floral motifs surrounded by a twisted guilloche border. Oh! And there's a fish! The colour scheme is white, black, grey and red.
This is where it started everyone!
Our "Floral Mosaic" was discovered in 1960 (don't ask how 😬😱). This led to 8 years of excavation during which the Palace was gradually revealed.
#MosaicMonday
Three fragments of Roman mosaic. At top left, a leopard between two trees. At top right, a hound and a boar separated by a tree, with part of a rectangular compartment below; this shows a rosette with three birds to the right. At bottom, a small fragment with a bear.
On #MosaicMonday over the last few weeks, I've been paying tribute to the wonderful animals from the Withington Orpheus mosaic as depicted in Lysons's engravings. It was a great thrill to see the originals again last week, now displayed in the excellent Corinium Museum. 1/2
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
Detail from the 4th century ‘Charioteer Mosaic’ featuring a victorious charioteer and quadriga (4 horse chariot). The mosaic decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire; now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own #MosaicMonday
A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
Painting of a portrait in a roundel from a Roman mosaic possibly depicting Minerva or Mercury (or another helmet wearing deity or hero) surrounded by floral designs
Painting of a damaged Roman polychrome mosaic with floral designs
In 1903 a 4th century #Roman mosaic was uncovered at Fifehead Neville #Dorset
The central image was recorded by Mary Hartley just before souvenir hunters destroyed it 😱
The second painting © Stephen Cosh (2005) reconstructs the full floor from what was left before reburial
#MosaicMonday
Pony Goes to Hollywood (well, Harvard anyway)
The Torrs Celtic pony *mythical beast cap* heads west
#IronAge #Archaeology
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Pony Goes to Hollywood (well, Harvard anyway)
The Torrs Celtic pony *mythical beast cap* heads west
#IronAge #Archaeology
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
😍😍
#FindsFriday & today its some fantastic Roman & Iron Age finds from a museum-where-you-would-not-expect-a-museum
its going to need a 🧵👇
This Roman bracelet with punched ring-and-dot decoration is complete making it a remarkable survival. The majority of Roman bracelets recorded with the PAS are fragmentary. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
A black & white line drawing/engraving of a pig headed trumpet raised above a spear carrying army.
For #FindsFriday this gorgeous depiction of the Deskford carnyx by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s Scotland Before History, 1958.
Found c.1816 Near Deskford, just south of the Moray coast, it dates to the later 1stC AD, deposited in a bog c.2/3rdC. Now in the National Museum of Scotland.
#CarnyxCrazy
Licence to sell... 🫠
For #FindsFriday one more chance to enjoy the extraordinary newly-discovered Roman lead pig from Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion; one of a pair seemingly abandoned 🤔
Emperor Domitian's name is cast on the top, declaring it to be Imperial property 🧐
👉 @rcahmwales.bsky.social 3D model here: skfb.ly/pG6DJ
These Celtic coins - plated copies of Ambiani staters struck from the same dies - ended up buried together centuries later in a Roman ditch in Hertfordshire.
Recently another small group of plated staters turned up in a 1st-century ditch. A pattern emerging, or simply coincidence?
#FindsFriday
A carved stone head in a glass. Are with reeds and a green background to either side
A carved stone face with eyes nose and mouth visible. The mouth has a hole in the upper right lip (as we look) perhaps for offerings
#findsfriday the astonishing, enigmatic Hendy Head from Anglesey now in Oriel Môn - found in a ploughed field overlooking the Menai straits and thought to be Late Iron Age. Did this Celtic god oversee the a Roman attack on the Druids and an end of the old ways? #celts #ironage #druids #anglesey
Kept them safe for future researchers, kept them on display for the public, kept them together as a find (not dispersed among private collections and never seen again). Archaeology should never, in our opinion, be for sale. Heritage is for everyone, not the privileged few
*History professor profits from sale of historical artefacts*
Another headline fixed
*History professor profits from sale of historical artefacts*
Another headline fixed
The partially excavated outline of a Roman fort and its vicus in a countryside landscape. There are reconstructed towers and sections of wall in the bottom right, outside the fort itself.
#Vindolanda pictured in May 1980, at a much earlier stage in the epic and ongoing excavations there. The reconstruction towers and sections of wall built in the 70s are plainly visible, bottom right. #RomanFortThursday #Northumberland
Image: Cambridge Air Photos, CUCAP 35kCB022
