Shot of a tarmac road surface with double yellow lines and a foot-shaped hole highlighted in yellow.
Unthank Road, Norwich.
I’m sure if this foot-shaped/sized hole in the tarmac had appeared on a lump of chalk at Warham Camp or some such place, we’d have it down as the place of inauguration of Iceni monarchs.
#ArchaeologyWishList
#Echolands
Small cream coloured stoneware jug depicting Boudoir ca and Britons.
Lucky little find at an antiques fair: 1/2 size version of a Staffs stoneware jug 1839 by Charles Meigh depicting Boadicea rousing the Britons, and Caesar’s landings over a century before on the other side. I’ve had the big one for years, didn’t know the little one existed.
#Boudica #Echolands
Old team timetable featuring a silhouette of the Boadicea statue against Big Ben a haunting green sky.
I don’t understand the world. We could still have timetables that look like this.
LCC Trams May 1932.
#BoudicaFriday
#Echolands
Currently staying in Suffolk and heading towards Colchester for the day armed with my kindle version of @theduncanmackay.bsky.social ‘s #Echolands
#Echolands — proof of life — work in progress… #handmade #comics #StoriesForHumansByHumans — arriving sometime in your future from @imagecomics.com
Roman oil lamp of sandalled foot from the side.
Roman oil lamp of a sandalled foot from above.
The original, previously on display in the Museum of London, is just 10cm long. Oil was poured into the ankle, & the wick lit at the big toe. Overfilling causes an oil gush from the toe!
I cover the story of this remarkable find in #Echolands - A Journey in Search of Boudica.
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Stylised long snouted animal with big eyes drooping over a conical base in green bronze.
For #FindsFriday & #BoudicaFriday let’s stick to Iron Age Norfolk Iceni metalwork - behold this ‘long-snouted animal’ mount found at Snettisham, c.300-100BC. Possibly from the base of a drinking horn, there is something of the droopy, sleepy carnyx about it…
British Museum
#Echolands
Here’s a little something to alleviate the mind for a moment from the bullshit going on. #Echolands proof of life. #handmade #comics #StoriesForHumansByHumans — arc 2 sometime in your future from @imagecomics.com
There are some fantastic carnyx recordings out there, particularly by John Kenny& more recently by the brilliant Letty Stott if you search for them. They also get brief (ahead of curve!) mentions in my book about the archaeology of Boudica’s rebellion #Echolands - A Journey in Search of Boudica
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Echolands by Duncan Mackay on Christmas wrapping and decorations.
Stop!
I know what you’re thinking!
You need that final stocking filler for a history-loving loved one! Something under £15, small, perfectly shaped for wrapping, easily & quickly available from (all good) high street shops or online!
I’ve got your back…
#Echolands - A Journey in Search of Boudica
A pair of gold wire armbands created from repeated figure eights, one seen through the loops of the other.
A pair of gold armbands from the Colchester Fenwick hoard, buried before Boudica’s attack in AD60. As the Roman last stand took place where Colchester Castle now sits, the owner may have perished where their jewellery is now displayed @ColMuseums.bsky.social
#FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
A view through the dry stone doorway from the interior of the broch.
A doorway to, or from, the Iron Age…?
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
Waxwork of Boudica stabbing a Roman soldier in the throat with a spear.
‘Wish you were here…’
In a dangerous “don’t cross the streams” #BoudicaFriday and #Halloween combo, here’s my ‘Boadicea’ postcard bought at the (original) London Dungeon c.1983 when it was a waxwork museum. Shame they used a flash - the place worked a lot better in subdued light…
#Echolands
Valiant comic cover with a colourful depiction of Boudica in her chariot with the title Who is It?
Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err
it’s err, Boudoo…
it’s err, Bondi….
it’s err, Boaconstric….
it’s err, Baobab….
Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now…
Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974.
Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday!
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Fourth day of #Halloween season art posts. This time going back into #Echolands to show raw art from issue 4, two pieces this time. About being trapped under water, and murderous mermaids. That’s scary enough, yeah?
Roofs of Iron Age roundhouses at Butser Ancient Farm under a cloudy sunlit sky. Nothing at all to place you in the present.
Time slip.
#IronAge #Butser #Echolands
@butserancientfarm.co.uk
#Echolands Update: Been a minute since doing one of these. I rarely show the raw art for our fake cheap ads and cartoon we do every issue in The Echo mag section before adding text and tones. I have fun with these. #comics #handmade #StoriesByHumansForHumans — in your future from @imagecomics.com
Snettisham treasure mug with gold torc.
Snettisham treasure mug with text describing the find.
The things you find in north Norfolk junk shops…🤩
Never seen one of these before. 1990s? Norwich Castle exhibition?
#Snettisham
#Echolands
#Archaeology
#Echolands by @theduncanmackay.bsky.social finished I realize that I should have read it before visiting Colchester but time to do do was too short. However, now I have more reasons to return and search for the armies, both Roman and Britton, in the landscape and archaeological archive. 🤩
#Echolands progress update: Here’s what’s happening sometime in your future. #comics #handmade #StoriesByHumansForHumans From @imagecomics.com
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica, by Duncan Mackay
My next read! #echolands #boudica #duncanmackay
A gold Roman armlet from the Fenwick hoard.
Pieces of a rusty iron Roman helmets pieced together.
A silver Roman military award bracelet.
Broken and burnt Roman pottery.
Possessions of the Roman dead from Boudica’s destruction of Camulodunum AD60. These cabinets in ColchesterCastle, site of the Temple of Claudius & last stand of the Roman colonists, are a poignant cenotaph
@colmuseums.bsky.social
#Echolands -A Journey in Search of Boudica
#BoudicaFriday
#FindsFriday
Boadicea statue, London.
Well, she was slightly out of my way, but I can never pass up a chance to glimpse her. A statue so lovely only an Ordnance Survey bench mark on the base could enhance it. Or a severed head dangling from the harness.
#Echolands
#Boudica
#Boadicea
#Echolands progress update: Here’s a few panels from a recent spread. Still 3 more pages, front and back cover, cartoon and in-world ads, scanning, then this chapter will be done. With 2 more to go! #StoriesForHumansByHumans #comics #handmade @imagecomics.com
Finished #BetweenTwoRivers by @moudhy.bsky.social & I loved it. It makes me want to dive into my sister's cuneiform course (she studied Assyriology, while I did a stint in Archaeology). Just to learn more. I highly recommend the book. It's amazing.
Next up #Echolands by @theduncanmackay.bsky.social
Here’s some #Echolands progress for ya… still need to give it one more pass for fine tuning… (sorry, blurry pic as usual)…
Village sign for Wolferton and n Norfolk featuring enormous black wolf.
Wolf country.
#Wolferton
#Echolands
#IceniWolf
#Norfolk
#Echolands brief update: These pics might be my favorite panels from this past week’s work. #StoriesByHumansForHumans @imagecomics.com
