#FindsFriday is usually about inanimate objects, so we thought we'd make a change.
This is a swarm of bees that was found on site earlier this year. They were being very busy...

This is Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and it’s changing the way we see archaeological objects!
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For #FindsFriday unique pre-reform deniers from the same unidentified mint, struck by Pippin III (751-68) and Charlemagne (768-93), reading XPI (presumably: Christi). Found near Wijk bij Duurstede and Laon respectively. Both now up for auction in November. elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/167/2...

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Superb bronze chimera: likely emblem (episema) on C6 BC warrior's shield w lion's head on flame-like mane + scaly fierce snake striking from centre.
From high status tomb w arms, tools, ceramics + iron wheels of chariot excavated in Melfi, Basilicata.
Melfi Nat Archaeological Museum.

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge…
Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found.
Chariot ponies knew they were cool.
National Museum Scotland
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This week's #FindsFriday is a Medieval floor tile from Bradenstoke Priory, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire.
Eames design 6, a cock standing facing left, with two annulets.

Find out more about our collections here:
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For this week's #FindsFriday here is a sherd of a ceramic vase from a villa in Roman Spain, decorated with a two-headed snake.

This iconography is associated with the god Sabazios, who was worshipped privately in domestic settings.

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Iron knife with bone handle inscribed with ring and dot decoration, and knurled headed copper alloy pommel. From a context dated c AD 290-320 in the ditch at Rock Roman Villa, #Brighstone, #Isle of Wight. See #NHLE 1008304 shorturl.at/sKuOw
On display at Newport Roman Villa.

Archaeological finds on a Scottish island shed light on the spread of Christianity, according to #research published in @antiquity.ac.uk.

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/01/lismore-archaeological-finds-scottish-island-monastery-spread-of-christianity

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#FindsFriday with the West Bagborough hoard, a mixture of 681 silver coins & other pieces of hack silver
AD365

We caught this at the Somerset Museum on our way to North Devon & Cornwall, see more of the journey >>>
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Exceptional rare Lower Palaeolithic flint cobble chopper c.400,000 BC 🪨
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This intricate statuette of #Herakles - shown with his club and lion skin is exquisite and a wonderful way to start the weekend on this #findsfriday

Hellenistic period bronze.

📸 Us, Archaeological Museum of Corfu

#skystorians #ancientbluesky #AncientGreece #archaeology #classicsbluesky #Hercules

Roman #glass - flask found at Caerleon (Isca Silurum) 1st Century AD . 📷 My own. On display at Caerleon Legionary Museum.

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Have we found beds that our ancestors slept on 200,000 years ago? 😮 🛌

The incredible preservation at Border Cave in South Africa has given us a unique insight into early human lives!

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What would YOUR bed say about you? 👀

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This silver penny of Edward I is an Irish issue dating to c.AD 1279 - 1302 from the mint of Waterford. Irish coins of this period are easily distinguished from English issues by the triangle on the obverse within which the kings bust sits. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/pas/recorded...

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A coded letter carrying a message from Napoleon Bonaparte to one of his senior generals has been cracked by AI after 217 years.

Eugène, Napoleon’s stepson, sent the letter to Auguste de Marmont in 1809.

👉 www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Hugely exciting finds on tiny Scottish island of Lismore shed light on spread of Christianity

This is a patch of medieval copper-alloy mail armour dating to c. AD 1300-1450. It comprises wedge riveted rings mixed with welded rings. The mix of wedge riveted rings and welded rings became increasingly uncommon into the 15th century. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/pas/recorded...

Some prehistoric bling for #FindsFriday

3 stone and 5 decorated glass beads found with the burial of a young Iron Age woman at Langton Herring now in #DorsetMuseum

They may originally have been worn individually as amulets or together as a necklace (as shown here) 😍

📷 Sept 2026 #Durotriges

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