A poster for a talk called Place names and public assembly in early medieval Europe
The state of governance now 🫣 Another great looking talk in the WELHMA series as part of the Institute of Medieval Research 👇 #archaeology #history #Nottingham 🏺🏛
Garlic cloves and bread from a fresco originally from Herculaneum and now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), Italy. Photo by Sophie Hay
Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...
[stale] Traces of legendary multi-shot Roman weapon found in Pompeii
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Brown pottery head with scrunched up eyes and looks like he is blowing bubbles with large lips (where spout would have sat)
This #findsfriday we are bringing back a favourite from staff on display in our Roman Gallery.
Found in Westbury Iron Works in the late 19th century, this potter spout froma vessel takes the form of an actor with a comic mask.
Are commercial archaeologists miserable?
In our latest open access article from British Archaeology, Ellen Durbin explores the gap between the wellbeing benefits associated with archaeology and the realities of commercial practice. Read here 👉 bit.ly/3NYunJo
Illustration by @robhedge.bsky.social
I want one of these! 😍
Online talk by Simon Timberlake 23rd April 7.30 pm covering recent excavations in Wales on early mining sites. Donations for a ticket help to fund excavations and research at Abbey Cwmhir abbeycwmhir.org/discussion/o...
Close-up detail of a Samian ware pottery vessel showing a raised relief of a rabbit or hare crouched in profile, facing left. The animal appears to be nibbling on a dandelion, with its long ears upright and front paws extended. The reddish-brown surface of the pottery is smooth and glossy, with a central vertical crack running through the image. Decorative arches and floral motifs frame the scene
Easter bunny resting 🐰
A #Roman samian ware bowl depicting a rabbit eating a dandelion.
Found in Eschenz/Switzerland.
📷 AATG, Daniel Steiner 🏺
Medieval pottery.
I was at the ROM this week working on pottery from excavations at North Elmham in Norfolk. Here are some very nice 13th-14th century Grimston Ware handles!
#medievalsky 🏺
Today I've been making and decorating this replica Bronze Age beaker from Seahouses in Northumberland. The original is in the collection of the Great North Museum in Newcastle. It's one of the pots that inspired me to do what I do. 🏺 #Archaeology #Pottery potted-history.co.uk
How much did it cost to unload and reload cargo onto various vehicles in the Roman Mediterranean? ⛵In the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, James Page calculates these costs in a new, open access article. Such an interesting paper for GIS transit modeling & for labor cost (bookkeepers got 20 nummi!).
This canister was left in a ditch near a Roman temple in Southwark nearly 2,000 years ago.
When it was opened, it was found to contain a white cream still holding the fingerprints of the last person to touch it.
Closed and set aside, a moment caught, right down to the fingerprint.
#FindsFriday
Medieval and Post-Medieval Pottery Trainee
MOLA
Salary: £28,860 per annum
Date: April 12, 2026
Location: Northampton
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Read all about Roman pottery production with the latest issue of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, which presents new data on previously unknown kiln sites and explores how potters in the Nene Valley adopted the potter’s wheel into their traditions and practices ➡️ bit.ly/3ZR4cq5
#FindsFriday
Two scenes from the amphitheatre on Samian sherds. In one a man spears a lion during a staged beast hunt ('venatio'). In the other 2 gladiators face off. The pieces are now in @coriniummuseum.bsky.social in Cirencester, just round the corner from the old amphitheatre.
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#RomanBritain
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.
#FindsFriday
An open archaeology excavation of a large cobbled surface sitting over a series of ditches and wall slots.
Trays of Roman pottery and glass drying in a wooden hut
A very worn broken piece of a decorated Samian ware bowl, with what looks like a running hare
The broken base of a Samian ware vessel, with scratched marks that might be a name.
Been back looking for the Roman fort at Drumburgh on the Solway with Grampus Heritage. Did we find it? No! But it's definitely here somewhere, we found bits of the vicus settlement next to the fort.
So many lovely finds despite the mud, ice and freezing east wind
#archaeology #cumbria #hadrianswall
Two dark grey pottery shards with rough textures displayed above a centimetre scale on a white background.
We’re staying close to home for this #FindsFriday with these two fragments of Roman-era Derbyshire ware pottery found by #TeamCFA in Yorkshire. Produced between the 2nd and 4th centuries, Derbyshire ware travelled far and wide - it's been recorded on sites across central and northern Britain.
Not all coarse wares are dull - look at this lovely micaceous fabric, a #Roman example made in Britain, which sparkles beautifully in the light 🏺 A small joy on a grey, rainy day. @sgrp.bsky.social #pottery
Laid out against a dark grey background are ten biscuits that resemble aged, chipped mudlarking finds. An oval biscuit in a rich, dark green looks like the seal of a glass bottle, and features a raised characterful face at its centre. Next to it is an unevenly shaped black biscuit with grey chips and the raised shape of a hare’s face, ears, and upper legs. There are two large biscuits with jagged edges, each decorated in blue and white to look like broken pieces of delftware plates. One features the shape of a small bird surrounded by swirling lines, the other has a series of concentric circles and curved shapes. A small biscuit with a multifaceted texture replicates a knapped flint arrowhead. Next to it are a tiny hammer-shaped biscuit in pewter with delicate cross markings, and a very small gold biscuit button etched with lines, circles, and a rough star shape. The smallest biscuit is made to look like a yellow glass cufflink with decorative circles in blue, white, and red. Another small biscuit has the appearance of an aged metal button edged with decorative white and turquoise dots. Finally, there is a small angular biscuit in a terracotta colour with raised lines roughly in the shape of two intwined figures.
Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪
This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition.
The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!
The 21st volume of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies will be making its way out of the kiln very soon. This latest issue focuses on production, presenting new evidence for the adoption of the potter's wheel in the Nene Valley 🧵⬇️
Four unique pottery vessels with varied shapes, colours and designs.
This highly-decorated pottery was produced in medieval England. The creative designs required complex commercial networks but also innovation on part of the potters, highlighting the role of individual entrepreneurship in shaping commercialisation.
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🏺 #Archaeology
Poster for new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon Saxon finds. Image of gold brooch
New exhibition opening tomorrow curated by @uonclassarch.bsky.social Prof. Chris Loveluck and Ann Inscker from Nottingham Museums and Galleries. Free entry www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t... 🖼🏺🧪 #archaeology #history #Nottingham
Enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape, featuring intricate geometric patterns in turquoise, red, and gold against a green patinated surface, with visible cracks.
This beautiful #Roman enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape was found in Welzheim.
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
A dark fragment of pottery, with the name Sabina scratched into it.
I’ve been doing some research into the Roman graffiti in @colmuseums.bsky.social and came across this lovely example. Sabina was probably either the person that wrote this or who owned the vessel (or both).
Either way, a rare example of a Roman woman’s name written on an object.
Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳.
The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two photos. On the left, a pair of students, viewed from behind, looking at a screen in a lab. On the right, a close up of the screen, where you can see a fingerprint on a piece of orange-coloured pottery.
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Students from @uoearchhist.bsky.social have been using fancypants digital microscopes to record fingerprints on Roman pottery from the Palace. We hope this will enable individual potters to be identified.
If you don't think this is cool, you're dead inside.
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Iron Age Copper alloy war trumpet being excavated c Norfolk Museum Service
Iron Age shield bosses and wild boar standard
Iron Age Copper alloy boar standard being cleaned c Norfolk Museum service
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
A reproduction of the bronze boar-headed Deskford carnyx held in the air.
The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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CT scan of the hoard
We’re incredibly proud of the PCA team behind the discovery of a remarkable Iron Age hoard in West Norfolk, including a near-complete carnyx and parts of another.
Working with Historic England and museum partners as conservation and research continue.
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