Here is a wonderful silver ring from the #Roman fort at #Vindolanda

With the simple and poignant inscription ‘Matri Patri’ (Mum & Dad) ❤️ ❤️

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📸 Us, museum at Vindolanda.

#romanbritain #archaeology #romanmilitary #skystorians #classicsbluesky #ancientjewellery

#FindsFriday this week is a section of a beam from the barn at Northgate Nurseries, Devizes (demolished in the late 1970s), with a bas relief carving of a threshing scene and the date 1788 carved into the beam, from Devizes, Wiltshire.

🪨A rare Lower Palaeolithic Clactonian c.421,000-412,000 BC flint flake backed knife 52x36mm. Thought to be made by Homo heidelbergensis. Found on the East coast of England.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic

Strap ends are common Early-Medieval finds classified into different types. This is a ‘Wooperton-type’, featuring two serpentine beasts, whose distribution is suggestive of a workshop in York with most found within a 100-km radius of the city. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/pas/recorded...

Friday

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#FeatheredFriday
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#FictionFriday
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#FlowersOnFriday
#FolkWitchFriday
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#FollowFriday or #FF
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#OTD in AD 96, Roman Emperor Domitian's reign came to an end when he was assassinated by court officials. He was succeeded the same day by his advisor Nerva. This denarius of Domitian was minted between AD 88-89. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/pas/recorded...

The Clandon Barrow lozenge, a diamond-shaped sheet of beaten gold incised with a geometric design over 3,800 years ago 🤩

Found in 1882 during the excavation of an Early Bronze Age burial mound to the SW of Dorchester

Now on display at Dorset Museum

📷 Sept 2026 #FindsFriday

The bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celtic chariots were occupied by two people, the driver and the warrior. The warrior, who mainly fought from the chariot with javelins, also got down from the chariot and continued fighting on foot with his sword.`
Source: NHM […]

[Original post on hear-me.social]

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celtic chariots were occupied by two people, the driver and the warrior. The warrior, who mainly fought from the chariot with javelins, also got down from the chariot and continued fighting on foot with his sword.`
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Fresh from the trenches...

(Fresh indeed - the cheeky chap on the Samian sherds is lucky that break spared his blushes)

#ashwell26 @chapcic.bsky.social

What did Neolithic people think these were? 🤔

This is a fossil sea urchin from 90 million years ago, found in the Neolithic flint mines of Grimes Graves in Norfolk

The ancient miners must have had stories about how all this sealife got there!

📸 Me

🏺 #FossilFriday #FindsFriday #archaeology

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celtic armies consisted of chariots, foot warriors and cavalry. The chariots were used particularly on the wings of the battle formation or with the cavalry in the forefront.
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#FindsFriday #Celtic: Toiletries (forceps, ear spoon, mirror), bronze, from the Gracarca, Carinthia, 300 - 1 BCE
Source: kärnten.museum

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Toiletries (forceps, ear spoon, mirror), bronze, from the Gracarca, Carinthia, 300 - 1 BCE
Source: kärnten.museum

Our offering for the #FindsFriday council this week: This 6,000-year-old elm tree leaf we uncovered during excavations in west Lancashire 🍃

Thank you to the peaty conditions that preserved it for all those millennia (and the archaeologists who carefully excavated it too)

#FindsFriday

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While it slightly muddies the water in the horned helmet discourse, a lot to love about the Viksø helmets
around c10 BC

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It's #FindsFriday!

We have this lovely broken #SpindleWhorl from Faversham made of a piece of Samian ware.

📸©️ Kent Archaeological Society 2026

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Of course there is no getting away from the phenomenal Sun Chariot
found in 1902 in the Trundhome Mose bog
made around c15 BC

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