For #FindsFriday and 🚀Artemis2 returning from the moon 🌕, these beautiful golden Lunulae: moon crescent shaped neck ornaments. They were elite or religious objects dating to the late Neolithic/EBA signifying contacts along the Atlantic seaboard. On display @rmoudheden.bsky.social #BronzeAge exh.
An irregular block of brown-red quartzite sitting on a museum stand, with black lines showing a kneeling king, outlining where the block is to be carved
I love that Ancient Egyptians used 'pencil' guides on their work before starting
I still do that for my drawings today 😅
This block of quartzite is ready to be carved into the shape of a kneeling Pharaoh, c.1340 BC
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📍 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
📸 Me
#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
Rooster, white clay pottery, 2nd-3rd century, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Rooster, white clay pottery, 2nd-3rd century
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
Rooster, white clay pottery, 2nd-3rd century, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Rooster, white clay pottery, 2nd-3rd century
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
We went to the Vapriikki DNA exhibition in Tampere today. Ulla Nordfors kindly showed us around. This Gotland type silver brooch is from Mikkeli and dated to the 12th century AD. It has two rune inscriptions with two Scandinavian female names. #FindsFriday
My photo shows a decorative gold brooch against a black background. The gold front plate is attached to a copper-alloy core by 8 silver rivets (not seen). The surface of the gold plate is ornately decorated with looped gold filigree, At the centre of the brooch is a circular blue glass cabochon set in a raised gold cell encircled by cloisonné garnets. Radiating out from the central blue glass cabochon are curved sections inlaid with cloisonné garnet like rays of the sun, forming a swirling pattern on the surface of the brooch. The 71 inlaid garnets come from Bohemia. Around the outer edge are four smaller round blue glass cabochons each set in a raised circular gold cell, alternating with four small square-shaped pieces of green glass set in raised square gold cells, at regular intervals. Overall, the piece is symmetrical, richly colored (gold, red, blue, and green), and highly ornate. This ornate brooch was found during the 2008-2009 excavations ahead of major renovation works at Grand Place in Quaregnon. The excavations uncovered a small Merovingian cemetery. The brooch comes from the tomb of a 7th-century female known as the ‘Lady of Quaregnon’. In addition to the brooch, her other items of jewellery included a necklace, bracelet, copper-alloy pins, and a pair of copper-alloy bow brooches.
Beautiful Merovingian brooch of the ‘Lady of Quaregnon’, AD 660-670.
Found during excavations ahead of construction works at the Grand Place, Quaregnon, Belgium, in 2008-2009. Gold, silver, copper-alloy, garnet, and glass. Diameter 5.6cm. 📷 by me
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Several clay, doughnut-shaped loom weights in situ.
Loom weights at the 2nd millennium BC site of Cabezo Redondo, south-eastern Spain #FindsFriday 🏺 #Archaeology
Many different kinds of weights were found in multiple houses, suggesting Bronze Age textile production was complex and widespread amongst domestic groups.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Footwear of a Gallic warrior, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Footwear of a Gallic warrior
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
Footwear of a Gallic warrior, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Footwear of a Gallic warrior
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
An electronic keyboard standing on its end on the pavement propped up against a grey painted wall at the side of a set of concrete steps to the right.
Well a top #FindsFriday item today 🎹 but I’m not sure the world is ready for another multitalented superstar of my calibre, so I decided to leave it there for someone else 😉😁
#litter #Flytipping #Keyboard #Piano #Camden #London
Reproduction of a Gallic chain mail, Centre d'interprétation Alesia, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: Reproduction of a Gallic chain mail
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
Reproduction of a Gallic chain mail, Centre d'interprétation Alesia, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: Reproduction of a Gallic chain mail
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
Brown sherds of a Neolithic pot have been put back together. They are held together by tape in places. The pot is not complete.
The pot is buried in the ground and is peeking out from the sand around it
Archaeologists 🤝 puzzle lovers
Found on site @sizewellc.bsky.social and pieced back together by our office staff, this early Neolithic pot features delicate fluting which you can explore here: skfb.ly/pIxG9
#FindsFriday #OCAArchTeam @cotswoldarch.bsky.social
Bronze Age halberd dated to 2400-551BC. It has four rivet holes, but there are just 3 rivets still in situ. It has a distinctive green patina with worn edges and is 28cm long
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This #BronzeAge halberd was found in 1989 near Helmsdale #Sutherland at Culgower Hill during works to erect a hydro electric pole. There were no other associated finds. It is now in the #Inverness museum.
📸 mine
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What's he got on his bookshelf today? Fresh off the printer, and with the lead piece by yours truly, CA can be bought in most reputable newsagents or downloaded from the Current Archaeology website - Read All About It! #Archaeology
A modern find & poignant reminder. A well worn George V halfpenny minted in 1912, the year of the Titanic #onthisday the ship departed on it’s fateful maiden voyage. The White Star Line’s HQ building still stands on The Strand in Liverpool.
#FindsFriday #Titanic #martimehistory
Elements of bridle-bit, iron, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: Elements of bridle-bit, iron
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
Elements of bridle-bit, iron, centre d'interprétation Alesia, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: Elements of bridle-bit, iron
Source: Centre d'interprétation Alesia
#FindsFriday!
We have excavated areas of our industrial site.
We don't have chariot wheels but we found these hidden in the de Witt kilns by our railway.
Don't get too excited but these are wheelbarrow wheels! About a century old!
The centre and one “leaf” of a trefoil brooch with what appears to be a bird of prey-ornament
A new VERY interesting find from Telemark fylke, Norway. 🥳 🇳🇴
A Viking-period trefoil brooch with what appears to be a bird of prey-ornament. I have personally never seen anything like it… 🏺
📸: Frank Brødsjømoen Måbø
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For #FindsFriday - the bronze cover of a wonderful compact/folding mirror!
Incredible to imagine this in the hands (or handbag 😆) of an Ancient Greek person 2000 years ago!
325-275 B.C.E.
📸 Us, Allard Pierson Museum. Amsterdam.
#Archaeology #AncientBluesky #history #Classicsbluesky #AncientGreece
Circular disk with embedded pattern against a ruler for sizing. Approximately 7cm
Circular disk with embedded pattern. Damage to the left side
This #findsfriday we have a pair of applied saucer brooches of impure copper and mercury gilded surface. It has a central rock crystal and animal design found at a pagan, Saxon cemetery called 'Black Patch' at Blacknall Field, Pewsey, Wiltshire
For #FindsFriday a Roman enamelled stud from the site of a mausoleum that stood for 700 years overlooking the Medway marshes. Here, a woman in a lead-lined coffin, nearby Roman silverworking, and rare Anglo-Saxon finds point to a site that remained meaningful across changing worlds. #RomanBritain
#FindsFriday a yellow glass Romano-British intaglio, 50 - 150 CE, found at Fox Hill, West Wickham.
It depicts Omphale, queen of Lydia draped in the fittings of Hercules who she purchases as a slave in mythology.
Ref: Excavations in West Kent, 1960 - 1970 by Brian Philp (1973), pg 55 - 66.
This girdle hanger dates to c. AD 410-600. Girdle hangers, often found in the graves of 6th century Anglian women, appear to be non-functional keys which symbolised the domestic and marital roles of women in their grave dress, and likely also in daily life. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
Close-up of a circular metal brooch with a decorative dot design and a curved pin on the back, shown from three angles against a black background.
#FindsFriday! For this week’s treasure, CFA Archaeology is excited to share a wonderful Roman brooch recovered from excavations in West Yorkshire. The upper face of this disc brooch was decorated with 10 circles (of which 4 remain) evenly spaced around a central raised circle.
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Zoomorphic brooch, silver, showing a hound chasing a hare, Roman, AD43-300.
Detector find in Hale, Halton.
On display at the Treasure exhibition. Liverpool. 📷 My own.
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Brooch, silver, Anglo-Saxon, AD800-900. Marbury, Cheshire On loan from the British Museum
Roman bracelets adapted into rings, like this example, are commonly seen in later 4th-mid-5th centuries AD with some examples from Saxon cemeteries. The number of examples recorded by the PAS suggests using one terminal end of the bracelet is common. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
