Five beautiful barbed and tanged flint arrowheads from the Boscombe Bowman burial, between 2500 and 2200 BCE. Now in the Salisbury Museum
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This #FindsFriday, check out these beautiful bronze bowls from the Iron Age Kingdom of Urartu, Armenia.

Inscribed with the names of Urartian kings alongside symbols of royal & religious authority, they acted as unique, portable expressions of power.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

The 'Glastonbury bowl'

Made of sheet bronze, less than 1mm thick in places, this gorgeous Iron Age vessel is only 80mm in height

Repaired in the past, the top joined to the base with decorative rivets, it's now in the Glastonbury Tribunal Lake Village Museum #Somerset

📷 Aug 2026 #FindsFriday

🪨A rather nicely designed Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 flint slightly notched scraper 41x19mm and 12mm thick providing a sturdy grip.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Lithics #Wirral

This is a Venetian soldino of Doge Leonardo Loredan dating to AD 1501 - 1518. In the 15th and 16th centuries the English economy experienced a shortage of halfpennies. Therefore people began using foreign coinage such as the soldino. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/pas/recorded...

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A fine relief brooch was found together with a finger-ring and spiral beads in one of the jewellery caches at Sandby borg in 2010. It quickly became clear there was evidence of a massacre as more and more bodies were found on the site at Öland
#Archaeology #History

Ancient Greek gold bracelet with terminals of maned #Lions, dated to the 4th century BC. The bracelet was found in the Taman Necropoleis, near the village of Vyshesteblievskaya, #Russia

#Archaeology #Art #Jewellery #History #artwork #FindsFriday

Happy #FindsFriday 🥳

This medieval cross-slab at the side of the historic embarkation point of Martin's Haven slipway, Pembrokeshire, was unearthed by chance during rebuilding of a Victorian wall in 1984.

It shows the deep antiquity of the maritime crossing point here.

📷 My own, yesterday

The ‘Winfarthing Pendant’ - a 7th century Anglo-Saxon disc brooch that was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2015 at Winfarthing, near Diss in South Norfolk. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Winfarthing #NorwichCastle

Friday

#FallFriday
#FashionFriday
#FaustianFriday
#FeatheredFriday
#FerrousFriday
#FictionFriday
#FindsFriday
#FingerpostFriday
#FishFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FolkWitchFriday
#FolkyFriday
#FollowFriday or #FF
#FontsOnFriday
#FootpathFriday
#FootwearFriday
#ForestFriday
#FossilFriday

#FindsFriday What's he got in his pocket today? Fresh from the ground in Suffolk

Fascinating talk by Dr Tom Lucking who as a #detectorists discovered the Winfarthing Treasure in 2015 🪙
What a remarkable project by a small village 😊
Looking forward to attending as many of the future talks on the project as work shifts allow 🗣
#Winfarthing #FindsFriday #Norfolk #AngloSaxon