I'll be talking about Roman Baths in Britain at the Epping Forest District Museum on the 22nd April at 7pm. Tickets £7 to raise money for the museum. www.ticketsource.com/efdmuseum/ta... @theromansoc.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @uclarchaeology.bsky.social
Tonight's the night! Looking forward to hearing Dr. Lee Prosser lecture on the incredible ceiling of Hampton Court's Chapel Royal - truly a masterpiece! Join us for free, tickets available here: bit.ly/4viW8Nq
An iron sword in an iron scabbard, bent in half and on display together with two bronze suspension loops and its last owner (below) in a museum setting
An iron sword in its iron scabbard, bent in half and buried over 2,000 years ago
Ritually 'killed' so that it could not be repaired nor used by another, this Iron Age weapon was found alongside its last owner
From North Bersted #Sussex 2008. Now in the Chichester Novium
📷 March 2026
#FindsFriday
The #Melsonby Hoards - nearly 950 Iron Age objects buried c. 40 BC–AD 40 - reveal Britain’s first evidence for four‑wheeled wagons, as well as other types of vehicle. 🚗👀 Read the #blog and #openaccess article!
🔗 https://cup.org/4bf3b1F
#melsonbyhoards #ironage #archaeology @antiquity.ac.uk
Map of Western Asia and the Mediterranean, showing the expansion of Islam out of Arabia over time, coloured based on the various periods of expansion.
#OnThisDay in AD 1633 the first bananas went on sale in London. They had in fact been introduced to Mediterranean Europe centuries earlier, through Islamic expansion, but did not become widely accessible further north until the advent of Empire.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
... alternatively you can have my sweets that look like artefacts! 🤣
#Archaeology
Our Curator Andy is all set up at @favershamfleurmuseum for his first of two finds handling days, taking place today 10th April and Friday 17th April.
Perfect activity for the half term and those who are #archaeologically curious!
Come along and see what finds we've brought with us!
The Gordon Moodey lecture 2026 Monday 13 April at 7.45 pm 'Making the starry vault of heaven: unlocking a masterpiece of Tudor carpentry at Hampton Court Palace' by Dr Lee Prosser, Historic Royal Palaces The ceiling of the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace, with its gilded angels is one of England's greatest 16th century architectural achievements. Yet what appears to be a stone vault is entirely constructed in timber, and stands as a complicated creation of Henry VIII's carpenters in the 1530s. A new research project has begun to reveal the fascinating story of its conception and creation.
Save the date for our AGM on Monday, April 13 at 7pm, followed by the Gordon Moodey lecture at 7:45 (below).
To join the AGM, use the following link: us02web.zoom.us/j/88136330154
The lecture is free; book tickets on Eventbrite: bit.ly/4viW8Nq
We hope to see you there!
#localhistory
The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful
* Artemis II
Square glass bead featuring a checkerboard mosaic border in tan, white, black, and reddish tones, surrounding a female face with prominent white eyes and a subtle smile on a black background
A #Roman face bead: the miniature human face was made either through the cold bundling of rods or the hot working of pre-made parts to form the visage, which was then stretched to make a cane that was cut into sections with identical faces. This facial design had a relatively short production...🧵1/2
Photo (left) of an Iron dagger and sheath with illustrations (right) of decoration
A Roman legionary dagger and decorated sheath
Found during Ian Richmond’s 1951-8 excavations at Hod Hill camp #Dorset
Presumably lost when the fort was abandoned in the AD 50s as the legions moved west
© Trustees of the British Museum 1960,0405.3444
#RomanFortThursday and early #FindsFriday
Women in Archaeology. From 'Advances in Archaeological Practice'.
Women in archaeology are frequently undercited. To work towards a more equitable field, @saa-aap.bsky.social brings together many of the papers written by women, femme, and nonbinary authors over the years, free to read (where not already #openaccess) through 31 March:
📚 https://cup.org/4czkNWZ
One of the prehistoric galleries at Grime’s Graves - a Neolithic flint mine, near Thetford in Norfolk. Under the care of English Heritage, visitors can descend nine metres into one of the prehistoric mine shafts! 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #GrimesGraves #Norfolk
Fascinating to me from a heritage studies and information management standpoint:
Using femtosecond laser to store info in glass
Lecture klaxon! 🎺 Author/archaeologist Mark Landon speaks to the Chess Valley Archaeological & Historical Society TONIGHT at 8pm on 'Late Iron Age and Roman Braughing in East Hertfordshire'. Non-CVAHS members can get tickets for £4 here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cvahs Braughing has a fascinating history for what is now such a small village, we hope you'll enjoy Mark's talk.
Ticket link: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cvahs
Multiple angles view of Roman figurine head.Green in colour, faded face
This weeks on #findsfriday we have an incomplete Roman figurine, depicting the head and neck of a man, possibly Apollo, c. 43-410 AD. Found near Etchilhampton, Wiltshire.
See more of our collections here at: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...
Whilst I’m in my photos of the National Museum in Copenhagen, you’d better have this 360 of the Gundestrup Cauldron. Found in 1891 in a Jutland peat bog, there are more questions hanging over this silver Iron Age vessel than answers…only its shocking beauty is uncontested.
#FindsFriday
We're very pleased to announce that thanks to the Marc Fitch Fund, 72 years' worth of the EHAS Transactions are now available on the Archaeology Data Service website! A contents table is here: ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/...
Find us on the ADS here: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow...
Next Monday, the next CHAS online lecture is Naomi Sykes talking about "Animal Answers to Archaeological and Cultural Issues". Meeting starts 7.45pm, 2/2/2026. Free tickets from Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animal-ans... #archaeology @hertshistory.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social
argggghhh I wish I'd known!!
I now have unbreakable plans but if you are near Welwyn, GO - they are a great group anyway, but you can't miss a chance to hear THE @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
That moment.
When the scale of what you’ve uncovered starts to sink in.
The Norfolk Carnyx and hoard will feature on Digging for Britain tonight, showing how this remarkable discovery was made, from first sight in the trench to why it matters.
📺 Digging for Britain, BBC Two, tonight at 9pm
We're all definitely looking forward to welcoming our western neighbours the Durotriges! Let the feasting (well, all right, the listening) begin! 🏺
#AncientBluesky #IronAge #prehistory #archaeology
On the left of the photo Kris is holding a vintage Pentax 35mm SLR with the index finger of his right hand on the shutter button and his left hand cupped under the lens focussing it. He has a beard and glasses. On the right is the head of a shaggy Shetland pony looking very closely at Kris.
Fifty years (15/50) Kris and a Pony. Here's me trying to take a photo of a #Shetland #Pony with a vintage #Pentax camera. Photo by Ellen. #Hertfordshire #LamerPark #Wheathampstead @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @ehasarch.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social #VoteKris @currentarchaeology.bsky.social
It's time again for the Archaeology Awards, and this year our very own Kris Lockyear has been nominated for Archaeologist of the Year!
Kris is a tireless advocate for community #archaeology and geophysics, and we think he very much deserves to win.
Vote here: archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa...
#FindsFriday
National Museum of #Wales ( Cardiff ). Crescentic bronze plaque with triskele decoration, from Llyn Cerrig Bach lake deposit ( 200 BC - 100 AD).
#Archaeology #History #artwork
Brilliant!
The base of a black prehistoric pottery vessel, held in the red nail varnished hands of an archaeologist, showing an area of decoration, comprising a series of squiggles, scored into the fabric prior to firing
The base of a 2,000 year old, Late Iron Age Durotrigian style Black Burnished Ware bowl from Winterborne Kingston #Dorset
A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark?
📷 during cleaning in June 2013
#FindsFriday
The next CHAS lecture is a not-to-miss event! Join us on December 1 to hear British Museum curator Dr. Sophia Adams talk about the amazing Melsonby Hoard - and, as always, it's free!
More info and a link for tickets here:
ehas.org.uk/ehas.org.uk/...
#archaeology #ancientBluesky
A close-up of terracotta figurine of a dromedary carrying two amphorae, displayed in a museum with other figurines visible.
A terracotta figurine of a dromedary carrying two large amphorae on each side of a load frame.
From Egypt, Roman period, 2nd/3rd century AD.
📷 me
The photo was taken at the Caesar and Cleopatra exhibition in Speyer, having been loaned by the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
