The ‘Malone Hoard’ - 19 polished stone axe heads from the Neolithic which were found at Danesfort House, on Malone Road in Belfast during the 19th century. Now part of the collections at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Belfast

The Reality and Absurdity of Archaeology an occasional series
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A proper mash up for #RomanFortThursday & #FindsFriday 🥳 #Archaeology
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Lost Roman city discovered on the Danube frontier in Austria share.google/oPlWvMN0crLT...

A little late for #FindsFriday but I’ve finally started working through this year’s artefacts from #CerneAbbey

At 22mm it's tiny but this fragment of Anglo-Saxon window glass is not only unusual but also really important for our interpretation of the site

Just goes to show, size isn’t important

The Trivulzio Diatreta Cup, in the Archaeological Museum in Milan. Fourth century. Glass. The inscription is held clear of the bowl by filaments of glass, and reads: BIBE VIVAS MVLTIS ANNIS, 'Drink and live for many years'. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Largest hoard of iron artefacts from the La Tène period discovered in a gravel pit in Upper Austria: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Largest hoard of iron artefacts from the La Tène period discovered in a gravel pit in Upper Austria: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000340605/groesster-eisenschatz-aus-der-la-tene-zeit-in-kiesgrube-in-oberoesterreich-entdeckt?ref=rss

For #FindsFriday
A roman silver Denarius of Domitian
92-93AD
Found this day, 15 years ago.

Nothing to see here, just a man in love with a carnyx, intending to spend the rest of the afternoon blocking other people from seeing its beauty.
The one…the only…Deskford carnyx and stunning reproduction of it in its prime, scaring Romans.
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National Museum of Scotland

So thought I’d hunt out the gaudy bauble that is the Netherurd torc terminal in the National Museum of Scotland, that always makes @tessmachling.bsky.social go all giddy, for #FindsFriday
Very splendid, and has Iceni / Snettisham connections to make it even more special.

#FindsFriday: `#Celtic rulers have been discovered who apparently bequeathed their treasures to their sisters rather than to their own children. A new study has found evidence of matrilineal dynasties in burial mounds in southern Germany. The reason for this […]

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#FindsFriday: `#Celtic rulers have been discovered who apparently bequeathed their treasures to their sisters rather than to their own children. A new study has found evidence of matrilineal dynasties in burial mounds in southern Germany. The reason for this may have been widespread extramarital
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#FindsFriday: `Macabre finds and a warrior figure in a Bavarian Celtic settlement baffle experts. Researchers have unearthed more than 40.000 new artefacts in Manching, near Ingolstadt. In the process, they have learnt new things about diet and craftsmanship and have come across what may be the
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#FindsFriday: `Macabre finds and a warrior figure in a Bavarian Celtic settlement baffle experts
Researchers have unearthed more than 40.000 new artefacts in Manching, near Ingolstadt. In the process, they have learnt new things about diet and craftsmanship […]

[Original post on hear-me.social]

Glad this one made it to #FindsFriday again! The oldest smile in the world @rmoudheden.bsky.social

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Among star finds from #Saxon Prittlewell Prince burial in Essex were #glass beakers w trailed lattice decoration.
Beautiful and rare, so similar they were likely made as a pair, in Kent. Few other examples are known, almost all in high status burials.
Southend Museums
#Ancientbluesky 🏺

It takes a moment to spot it, but for #FindsFriday here’s a lead figure of Venus from Roman Wroxeter. My 📷 object in care of EH

Smile, it’s Friday! 😃

Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years!

Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands.

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We're hoping that #FindsFriday includes display items that we hadn't noticed before.
We really like this Cat Clock in the Electricity Hall, which dates to c.1950. The tail swings as it ticks!

#FindsFriday. A cow skull (known as Trixie) that was removed from the ground this morning at Vindolanda