Monday

Wow

Cwm Teigl, Eryri

Tightly coiled fronds of fern about to unravel

Tightly coiled spirals of megalithic art at Newgrange

Hmmm 🤔

'I could not believe I had found buried treasure in a Surrey field' A man says he thought someone was playing a trick on him when he struck gold in a Surrey field.

#ItsAllAboutTheHistory News

"He explained that people can try to make a deal with the landowner where they agree to share anything valuable they find 50:50."

Another, unquestioning, seemingly Fast Show inspired,

"Metal Detecting, isn't it brilliant!"

story from the BBC.

Metal detectorist stumbles on sinister 'witchcraft' note Lancashire decorator Alex Farrow made the unsettling discovery, thought to be more than a century old.

They're coming fast and furious. Here's another. Recording mentioned, but detecting at the corner of graveyards is never a good idea. Too many potentials to disturb human remains.

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Central panel from a Roman mosaic featuring two naked male characters, one seated playing a lyre, the dancing with pan pipes

Here's one of our favourite #Dorset #Roman floors for #MosaicMonday

The lively depiction of a music battle between Apollo (with lyre) and Marsyas (pipes)

[Spoiler alert: things end badly for Marsyas]

Found 1834 and moved to Sherborne Castle

Painting by David Neal for @antiquaries.bsky.social

Agreed, this the need for the glass

Don't hold your breath

A photo of 6 bottles of Belgium beer with an ornate beer glass on a grey Orla Kiely tablecloth

No one mention the football.
I've been buying beer (with an added new glass for the collection) to dull the pain.
@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @worldofwoe.bsky.social

Absolutely still relevant.
"Hold onto your sanity as best you can.
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man..."

Probably the best pound or two I've recently given to charity, and listening gives rise to plenty of thoughts comparing the problems of the early 80s to those of today.

An image from a far right magazine of a reconstruction of Stonehenge, which is captioned ‘A tremendous monument to Celtic culture and achievement’

Another day at the library collecting data on far right publications and archaeology/history. And inevitably, there’s always a link to Stonehenge

The picture shows a fibula (a brooch) in the shape of an owl, decorated with enamel in different colours: The large are orange with blsck pupils, the wings are green with red circles.

A charming #Roman enamelled fibula (a pin for fastening garments) in the form of an #owl.

Found in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort.

Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg / Peter Knierriem

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#HillfortsWednesday with Twyn y Gaer Hillfort just outisde Brecon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If you didn't see this at the time - catch our conversation with @drtobydriver.bsky.social on all things Hillforts & Wales >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...

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Barbury Castle, a large and impressive Iron Age hillfort in the Marlborough Downs at around 260m elevation. #HillfortsWednesday (there, I used it!)

The inside of an Iron Age roundhouse with timber uprights and white walls with a red stripe at the bottom and spiral designs. In the middle cooking pot hangs over a fire and a ‘firedog’ is in the foreground

A Manx ram with two sets of horns sitting on straw within a grassy enclosure with fence hurdles on the left

Manx tam with four horns sitting down in a grassy paddock with straw, hurdle de zing to the left and two trees and two roundhouse thatched roofs in the background

#hillfortswednesday the interior of the reconstructed roundhouse from Moel y Gerddi hill in north Wales at @butserancientfarm complete with lovely La tene artwork, firedogs and rather splendid sheep! a super place to visit. #ironage #celts #archaeology

A satirical take on the awful Trump post about being Jesus. In this version Lord Flashheart blesses Bob surrounded by Trump's AI generated bollecks

Who did this?

Dales pony and owner embark on trek between Dorset hill forts Roger Sewill has given himself three weeks to complete the challenge with his pony Scarlet.

Roger Sewill's 3 week 200 mile challenge to walk to every Iron Age hillfort across Dorset to support @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social begins today

With perfect timing for #HillfortsWednesday 😊

Good luck Roger 👍

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Works for me.

A photo of the statues with red Devo hats.

New research hints at the true history of the Easter Island statues.
Jocko Homo?

A slightly stylised view of the Castle rising up through trees with distant hills, a blue sky and fluffy clouds, rosy in the evening light

A vibrant proof copy of SR Badmin‘s Ludlow Castle travel poster

Black and white photograph of 6 very well dressed men with shovels and forks removing soil from a large prehistoric ditch with trees in the background

The grass and gorse covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with trees in the background

It's #HillfortsWednesday! 🥳

Here's the the inner ditch (Cutting IV) on the W side of Hembury Iron Age hillfort #Devon:

1) then - in 1930 during excavations directed by Dorothy Liddell (© Devon Archaeological Society)

2) now - the same area 91 years later (📷 July 2021)

Colour photo of a white tea towel printed with pale green coloured drawings of items from the Lare Bronze Age Havering Hoard. Items include socketed axes, socketed spears, sickle and sword fragments

The Havering Hoard tea towel - well-used (like the socketed axes!)

Hadrian’s Wall turned out to be pretty epic. And good to see the sycamore is sprouting again!

The beautiful red sandstone of Lindisfarne priory, turned to honeycomb by centuries of wind and rain.

The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 15 Glascote up close by Tess Machling I had the very great pleasure of being able to visit this intriguing torc recently and, as you’ll see from below, it has a rather fabulous story to tell us, both in the past&…

The latest blog in the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: Glascote up close!

#Archaeology #Torcs #StaffsTorcOdyssey 🏺

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