Detail from the ‘Four Season Mosaic’ depicting ‘Spring’ from Roman York (Eboracum). The mosaic was discovered in 1853 at Tanners Row in York, and is now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #YorkshireMuseum
The late 15th century ‘Middleham Jewel’. It was found by a metal detectorist in 1985, near Middleham Castle in North Yorkshire. The jewel is now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #MiddlehamJewel #YorkshireMuseum
The Yorkshire Museum. It's a neoclassical building made to look a bit like a temple - there is a central portico with four Doric columns and a triangular pediment, all in a pale limestone. The central portico, where the entrance is, is flanked by four broad windows. An additional extension is off to the left. It's all set in a botanical garden. This image shows the grass and rose garden in front of the museum on a bright day. The sky is blue and there are white clouds above.
Hey, come for a look around the lovely #YorkshireMuseum 👀
We're nearly 200 years old and have a really important collection of archaeology and natural sciences. Dead things and broken old stuff? Loads of that!
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A bronze figurine of Mars, the Roman god of war. The figurine is on display at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #YorkshireMuseum
Great visit today to the @YorkshireMuseum to see the new #Viking North exhibition which includes items from the Great Army (Micel Here) #yorkshiremuseum #york
Ceramic head pot from Roman York (Eboracum) depicting the Empress Julia Domna - wife of Septimius Severus who was based in York between AD 208-211. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #York #YorkshireMuseum
Medieval floor tile fragments from St. Mary’s Abbey in York. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #YorkshireMuseum
Two large fungus recognisable as a king Alfred's cake fungus and a bracket fungus. The king Alfred's cake fungus has a hole in the centre
A beige coloured hood displayed next to a white line drawing on black of a person wearing a similar hood.
New fav artefact is either this silk viking bonnet from York, or Alfred's cake fungus from Star Carr used to curate an ember 11,000 yrs ago - something I tried with Explorer Scouts a few weeks ago (it works amazingly well!). #YorkshireMuseum spoiling us with exhibitions at the moment, do go visit!
A fragment of a medieval jar rim with a large boss on the handle. A low relief applique figure of a woman is depicted there in ceramic she appears to be wearing a headdress (with straight sides framing her face) and has one hand held at her bust and the other at her waist. The ceramic has a dark, glossy green colored glaze. It is abraded in the surface to reveal a paler, white colour, beneath at the woman's face and hips.
The #YorkshireMuseum just repatriated bits of an archaeological archive in York dug by Dudley Waterman, who took it all to Ireland. It includes this rather excellent Medieval vessel handle decoration depicting a fancy lady. It's made of Hambleton Ware, so 14th-15th century stuff.
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Found the Yorkshire 3 peaks!
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A barbed and tangled flint arrowhead bearing the location name 'Peak' and an accession number.
Ah, this must be the official best flint arrowhead in the collection then 👀
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A late 9th century sword pommel - part of the Bedale Hoard which was found by metal detectorists in 2012. The hoard is now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BedaleHoard #YorkshireMuseum
Roman soldiers purse worn on the arm.
Silver denarii
You are welcome.
It was new to me when i saw one in York in 2023. Yes, I too like the clever design.
I posted (elsewhere) about it -
#Roman purse, c AD 200
#YorkshireMuseum #York
Worn tightly on the arm, it could keep soldier’s wages safe.
Buried nr Tadcaster, with its contents of silver denarii
A box of archaeological finds in bags and small boxes. Most are not visible but a Roman copper alloy brooch and a medieval buckly fragment are visible.
A Roman plate brooch. It is pear shaped and decorated with a background of blue enamel with a series of eight red circles surrounding it. It's still in a box lined with white foam.
A Roman copper alloy knee type brooch in a plastic box lined with black foam.
A Roman copper alloy bell, upside down, shown through the plastic bag it is still in.
Had a little furtle through the finds archive from Heslington East excavations in #York in a #YorkshireMuseum store.
Tasty little small finds from a mostly Roman site. A tiny selection of the 157 boxes of finds from this site.
A mosaic with a swirling border pattern & a human head with a bunch of grapes.
#Roman mosaic, #YorkshireMuseum #York
Summer , symbolised by a bunch of grapes, in a mosaic of the Four Seasons.
Found in the ‘House of Three Mosaics”, Toft Green in 1853.
#MosaicMonday
The 8th century Ormside Bowl. Made from gilded silver and bronze, it possibly originated from Northumbria. Found in 1823 at St. James’ Churchyard, Great Ormside, Cumbria, it was probably Viking plunder. Part of the collections at the #YorkshireMuseum 📷 My own. #FindsFriday
Nice to see the new #VikingNorth exhibition at #YorkshireMuseum in #York which features some great posters…including this dodgy looking character. 😁
Clash of cultures: #exhibition tells story of when #Vikings ruled the north of England
#VikingNorth at #YorkshireMuseum features UK’s largest exhibition of #Viking artefacts, including era’s ‘cheap’ jewellery and evidence of slave-owning
#History #Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Late 11th century floor tiles originally from All Saints Church in York. The tiles were imported from the continent and are now on display at the Yorkshire Museum 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #YorkshireMuseum
Fragment of painted Roman wall plaster which was found at Catterick in North Yorkshire. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain #YorkshireMuseum
Hey, Natural Science folks - come work with us in the #YorkshireMuseum
Associate Collections Curator- Biology
£26.7-£28.5k, FT, 6months
www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/about-us/our...
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Playmobil Roman in front of model temple.
Museums haven’t started searching my bag for #PlaymobilInfestation stowaways yet, and I’ve yet to be caught placing them in their displays for photos, but it’s only a matter of time.
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A decorative strap junction from the iron age Melsonby hoard. It's a 20cm long figure of eight shape with openwork decorations and fragmentary coral beads all across its surface.
It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it!
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...
The latest free talk at the #YorkshireMuseum in support of Star Carr: Life after the Ice will be held on 5th March 2025, 6-7pm. Dr Andy Needham will be presenting "Mesolithic art and personal ornamentation: Insights from Star Carr and beyond"
www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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👀 #Roman tombstone, #YorkshireMuseum #York
AD 70-410
A Blacksmith depicted with his hammer & tongs.
The tombstone stood in a vast cemetery, outside the city walls, in a prominent position on the road to Tadcaster.
#RomanBluesky #archaeology
#RomanSiteSaturday
• The cross was destroyed in 1539 with the Dissolution of St Mary’s Abbey. • Rediscovered in the Abbey grounds in 1826, but “mislaid” again. • Discovered in a private art collection in #Germany in the 1920s. • In 2019, it was bought by York Museums Trust for the Yorkshire Museum.
👀 #Limoges enamel figurine of Christ (detail) - Late 13th Century
St Mary’s Abbey, #York
Once on an enamelled cross - a focal point of interest in the abbey that was completed in 1294.
(Details of its amazing history in Alt box 👇)
Now #YorkshireMuseum, York
#Archaeology #Medieval #Tudor
Ho Ho Ho Yorkshire Museum Gardens York (not taken this year) #HoHoHo #YorkshireMuseum #Gardens #York #MuseumGardens #seasonsgreetings
Silver penny with a partial Latin inscription around the edge (that the author doesn't remember, sorry). Central devise is a hand of god.
An excellent Viking silver penny, hand of god type, dating to c.915. It's one of three surviving coins (in the #YorkshireMuseum) of the many hundreds discovered in the Bossal-Flaxton Hoard.
Also featuring hacksilver and jewellery, mostly now lost.
#ArchaeologyBlusky
#VikingBluesky
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A Viking silver armband, broken in half as hacksilver. It has three twisted silver chains in the middle joined at one end with a rounded knop.
A Viking silver ingot with four chisel marks in it from where it's about to be cut into hacksilver.
A copper alloy 9th century coin of King Osberht of Northumbria. A central cross is surrounded by the letters of his name.
Doing some real #Archaeology stuff this afternoon playing with silver from the Bedale Hoard and a copper styca of King Osberht of Northumbria.
Look at the shiny!
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