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A necklace of alternating green and white beads resting on a museum stand
#FindsFriday A lovely Ancient Egyptian necklace of faience beads (with modern string)
From the New Kingdom, c.1300 BC
📸 Mine
📍 Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
#archaeology #ancientbluesky #photooftheday 🏺
#FindsFriday ‘La Dalle de St Belec’ Discovered in 1900 this schist slab from Brittany 🇫🇷 may be the oldest map in the world. Found in an Early Bronze Age tumulus the engraving appears to be a depiction of the Odet river valley and the La Motta tomb musee-archeologienationale.fr/collection/o...
Small fibulae in the shape of animals, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Fibulae were indispensable accessories in antiquity for fastening garments. They exist in various sizes and shapes. A group of small fibulae (nos. 1 to 4) in the shape of animals probably comes from the same workshop. They are made of […]
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Small fibulae in the shape of animals, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Fibulae were indispensable accessories in antiquity for fastening garments. They exist in various sizes and shapes. A group of small fibulae (nos. 1 to 4) in the shape of animals probably comes from the same workshop.
They are made of tinned bronze,
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Happy #FindsFriday! 🏺
We feel this Roman lamp in the shape of an actor's mask perfectly represents our Friday mood.
Read more about this lamp in Salvador Pozo's new book Corpus de lucernas antiguas – bronce, plomo e hierro – halladas en la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares.
Warrior on horseback wearing a helmet with a bird figure mounted on it, cut out from Marie-Lan Nguyen, Gundestrup cauldron 20170717 detail n5, CC BY 4.0
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `It is uncertain whether the approximately life-size bird figure on top of the helmet of Ciumeşti in Romania is a raven or another bird. This remarkable helmet has a parallel in a depiction on the Gundestrup cauldron found in Denmark.
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Warrior on horseback wearing a helmet with a bird figure mounted on it, cut out from Marie-Lan Nguyen, Gundestrup cauldron 20170717 detail n5, CC BY 4.0
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `It is uncertain whether the approximately life-size bird figure on top of the helmet of Ciumeşti in Romania is a raven or another bird. This remarkable helmet has a parallel in a depiction on the Gundestrup cauldron found in Denmark. On […]
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Some of the coins found at the Oppidum in today’s Manching, Celtic-Romans-Museum in Manching, Bavaria, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday: `#Celtic coins provide excellent iconographic documentation relating to the second Iron Age. This paper reports research made for a PhD thesis which, through iconography, archaeology and texts, studied images on coins and their evolution over […]
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A very heavy lump of rusted brown metal-type stuff, that looks like poo, but shaped like a doughnut. My dad had it wrapped carefully in an old green plastic money bag, stuffed in the back of his writing desk drawers. He used to do digs in York, Altofts, Normanton & Wakefield, finding items from Roman times, Jorvik, medieval and tudor eras. Is this one of those things, or just a random thingy he was going to do something with, but never got round to it?
Another angle of the Rusty Poonut. It shows that there is an outer layer of some sort of rusted metal, now flaking off, but inside is a core of more metal, perhaps a different kind, as it seems less affected by the outer rust, although still damaged by it.
A closer view showing the outer and inner metal layers of the Rusty Poonut. The outer layer is quite thick, and the inner layer appears to have some sort of seam where it may have come out of a mould at its making.
It is #FindsFriday & I need an #Archaeologist if you're out there, please!
This cross betwixt poo & donut was in my dad's Edwardian writing desk. Heavily rusted, it's either Great Treasure, or a rusty lump of Poonut. 😂
Dad did many digs in York & W.Yorks. Any ideas, please?
#Archaeology #History
The base of an Avar golden bowl which has a central scene of a griffin attacking a goat. Around it is an inscribed intertwined floral design, which is also around the rim of the bowl. Not illustrated, the inside has , a Byzantine-style openwork roundel which is circled by a Turkic inscription written in Greek letters. Its central cross hints that Avar elites knew about Christianity, perhaps via their interactions with the Byzantine empire. The Avars were a formerly nomadic people, they migrated west from the northeast Asian Steppe and, by the late AD 500s, established a powerful, multi-ethnic realm east of Francia, in present-day central Europe. In the late 700s, Charlemagne waged war against the Avars. Maybe, it was buried at this time.
Golden bowl - c. 750-800 CE
A griffin is mauling a goat. Other motifs may have adapted Byzantine, Sasanian & Islamic influences
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One of 23 gold vessels found in Nagyszentmiklós treasure. 1799
Disvovrred Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
In “Silk Roads” exhibition #BritishMuseum
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Copy of an Iron helmet with life-size bronze bird, probably a raven, Celtic-Romans-Museum in Manching, Bavaria, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday: Truth or propaganda? The helmet is #Celtic!
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Copy of an Iron helmet with life-size bronze bird, probably a raven, Celtic-Romans-Museum in Manching, Bavaria, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday: Truth or propaganda? The helmet is #Celtic!
"When here the Romans stood quietly at their posts, a Gaul stepped forward, distinguished by his size and armor, and when he had called for silence by striking his shield, he called through an […]
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Carved footprints found at Clickimin #Broch #Shetland.
Dated to the late #IronAge these footprints are associated with kingship and inauguration, whomever places their feet in them has dominion over the land. Also see Dunadd and the "#Orkney Boat" AKA the Lady Kirkwall stone
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A finds photograph of a small piece of decorated metalwork, TDB 1137, from the site of the Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire. Two sides of a flat, roughly rectangular piece of metal are shown against a white background. The back is plain and rough, but the front is decotated by a very fine, small knotwork design of interlaced lines.
I haven't got any little runes like we had for last week's Viking camps #FindsFriday, so instead I thought we'd look at another small and beautiful object. This is DB1137 from the Great Army camp at Torksey. It's a tiny cast piece, barely 25mm long, originally part of an Irish horse harness. /1
A piece of stone has rather wobbly lines scratched on it criss-crossing the surface to form a game board. On a small stand are four gaming pieces of stone, glass and ceramic in different colours. Below these are three dice: a small and a larger cube, and an elongated version.
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At extreme north of #Roman empire, Dacian and, later, Frisian soldiers made their own entertainment in Birdoswald Fort on Hadrian's Wall with:
- scratch gaming board
- gaming pieces of ceramic, glass, stone
- bone dice, including elongated variety.
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4 observations of a gold checkered plate. Possibly an earring with red sticker on the reverse
This #findsfriday we have an oblong gold covered bone pendant possibly in the form of two horns, decorated with an engraved chequered pattern and possibly an earring.
Excavated by William Cunnington in the 19th Century it was found with a primary cremation in Bell Barrow Wilsford
#FindsFriday - the astonishing gold spur found with two other gold objects in 1887 at Rød farm in Rygge, Norway. In Borre style, it's dated to the later 10th century. When I first read about it in Norwegian I couldn't believe that it was a SPUR in GOLD! Not very practical but ultimate bling.
Tomorrow is #InternationalPiDay celebrating π.
Matching this Black-burnished ware triangular-rim bowl to a chart estimates its diameter. Roman pottery is full of circles, and therefore π!
These were nicknamed pie dishes, though there’s no evidence Roman pies were baked in them.
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🪨🏹Everyone knows the larger Bronze Age metal spearheads, here are two small arrowheads/projectile points. The smaller is 24mm, the larger 30mm in height. First metal arrowheads copies of their lithic counterparts, were they status objects too?
#FindsFriday #Archaeology #Wirral #Prehistory #BronzeAge
Moulded antefix tile from #Roman #Colchester depicts the head of #Medusa.
The tile was inserted into the bottom row of roof tiles in order to provide a decorative trim. It was probably made locally.
#RomanBritain
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Sherds of reddish orange pottery with faded red geometric patterns on a black background.
Happy #FindsFriday! This week, we’ve got lovely, if somewhat degraded, decorated Samian ware sherds recovered during excavations in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Originating in La Graufesenque, France, these sherds are Flavian in form and date from 70 – 110 AD.
#OTD in AD 222, Roman emperor Elagabalus was murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He was replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. This denarius of Alexander was minted between AD 222-228. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
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A New excavation along Priory Street, Carmarthen in 2018 uncovered the main Basilica and Forum area of the #Roman settlement. Unearthing and documenting an array of finds. From #pottery, roof tiles, coins, glassware and nails.
#romanbritain
#Archaeology #Wales
A round table top covered in slices of oak, mostly quarters or narrower wedges. Bright pink tape round one sample. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024
Some of my samples from Dalkeith Old Oaks used to build a 450 year long oak chronology for South East #Scotland. Publication imminent.
#FindsFriday #dendrochronology
This mount is one of a set from a processional cross. Each mount depicted an emblem of an evangelist, Eagle of St John, Ox of St Luke, lion of St Mark, & angel of St Matthew. They were produced in Limoges, Central France, in the 12th/13th centuries. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#FluoriteFriday
#FossilFriday
#VolcanoFriday
#FortressFriday
#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday
#FlintFriday
#VikingFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#PharaohFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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A Roman coin depicting two people either side of two military standards
On #findsfriday looking forward to highlighting a couple of discoveries made by the op nightingale veterans (including this coin with military standard appropriately) to the Roman Finds Group. From Buckspool (with @henebtwa.bsky.social ) to Anglesey. #archaeology
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#FashionFriday
#FaustianFriday
#FeatheredFriday
#FerrousFriday
#FictionFriday
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#FingerpostFriday
#FishFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FolkyFriday
#FollowFriday or #FF
#FontsOnFriday
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For #FindsFriday, from this day, 13th March 1999
"Plano-convex knife; patinated yellow/ochre flint, chipped at tip, secondary working to longitudinal edges, fairly crude"
✨Something from the Bronze Age. An ingot of copper and a piece of raw amber. Extensive global trade links were established in Prehistory. Luxury goods made from raw materials like these would have been owned by the elite as markers of status and prestige.
#FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Prehistory #Wirral
