Another great find from the sea
Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck
Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century
Could this be contemporary with the wreck?
#FindsFriday
Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck
Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century
Could this be contemporary with the wreck?
#FindsFriday
October 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Another great find from the sea
Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck
Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century
Could this be contemporary with the wreck?
#FindsFriday
Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck
Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century
Could this be contemporary with the wreck?
#FindsFriday
#findsfriday: `Thousands of pits from which iron ore was extracted, large-scale deforestation and a heavily fortified, sprawling #celtic settlement: this is roughly how one can picture the area around what is now Oberpullendorf in Burgenland 2,000 years ago […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
October 2, 2026 at 6:18 PM
#findsfriday: `Thousands of pits from which iron ore was extracted, large-scale deforestation and a heavily fortified, sprawling #celtic settlement: this is roughly how one can picture the area around what is now Oberpullendorf in Burgenland 2,000 years ago […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
#FindsFriday: `Thousands of pits from which iron ore was extracted, large-scale deforestation and a heavily fortified, sprawling #Celtic settlement: this is roughly how one can picture the area around what is now Oberpullendorf in Burgenland 2,000 years ago: www.derstandard.at/s...
October 2, 2026 at 6:18 PM
#FindsFriday: `Thousands of pits from which iron ore was extracted, large-scale deforestation and a heavily fortified, sprawling #Celtic settlement: this is roughly how one can picture the area around what is now Oberpullendorf in Burgenland 2,000 years ago: www.derstandard.at/s...
Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670.
It must have been a treasured possession!
From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London.
Museum of London 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
It must have been a treasured possession!
From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London.
Museum of London 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
October 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670.
It must have been a treasured possession!
From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London.
Museum of London 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
It must have been a treasured possession!
From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London.
Museum of London 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
#findsfriday #celtic #ironage: `The Gauls‘ use of wood demonstrates their technological skills. It ist believed that the extrordinary machinery discovered at the bottom of a 18m deep well at the settlement of Saint-Symphorien was used to pump water. The device […]
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[Original post on hear-me.social]
October 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
#findsfriday #celtic #ironage: `The Gauls‘ use of wood demonstrates their technological skills. It ist believed that the extrordinary machinery discovered at the bottom of a 18m deep well at the settlement of Saint-Symphorien was used to pump water. The device […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
#FindsFriday #Celtic #IronAge: `The Gauls‘ use of wood demonstrates their technological skills. It ist believed that the extrordinary machinery discovered at the bottom of a 18m deep well at the settlement of Saint-Symphorien was used to pump water.
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October 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
#FindsFriday #Celtic #IronAge: `The Gauls‘ use of wood demonstrates their technological skills. It ist believed that the extrordinary machinery discovered at the bottom of a 18m deep well at the settlement of Saint-Symphorien was used to pump water.
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#FindsFriday or me leaving work on Friday 🐻
‘Fragmentary Mosaic Floor with Bear Hunt, which is featured in a chapter of our upcoming publication Late Antique Egyptian Fabrics in a Scandinavian Collection
4th century A.D.
Unknown artist/maker
Image source: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
‘Fragmentary Mosaic Floor with Bear Hunt, which is featured in a chapter of our upcoming publication Late Antique Egyptian Fabrics in a Scandinavian Collection
4th century A.D.
Unknown artist/maker
Image source: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
October 2, 2026 at 3:48 PM
#FindsFriday or me leaving work on Friday 🐻
‘Fragmentary Mosaic Floor with Bear Hunt, which is featured in a chapter of our upcoming publication Late Antique Egyptian Fabrics in a Scandinavian Collection
4th century A.D.
Unknown artist/maker
Image source: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
‘Fragmentary Mosaic Floor with Bear Hunt, which is featured in a chapter of our upcoming publication Late Antique Egyptian Fabrics in a Scandinavian Collection
4th century A.D.
Unknown artist/maker
Image source: www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
Very happy that our very own @rmoudheden.bsky.social ‘Krijn’, the Neanderthal from the North Sea made the cover of National Geographic Historia 🌊 ! Reconstruction by Kennis and Kennis. #FindsFriday
October 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Very happy that our very own @rmoudheden.bsky.social ‘Krijn’, the Neanderthal from the North Sea made the cover of National Geographic Historia 🌊 ! Reconstruction by Kennis and Kennis. #FindsFriday
#findsfriday #ferrousfriday #celtic: The „Druid Crown“ from Roseldorf, Lower Austria, is the only known example of a ceremonial headdress found outside England or Ireland that was made of iron. Despite the iron material of this Roseldorf specimen, it should by […]
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October 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
#findsfriday #ferrousfriday #celtic: The „Druid Crown“ from Roseldorf, Lower Austria, is the only known example of a ceremonial headdress found outside England or Ireland that was made of iron. Despite the iron material of this Roseldorf specimen, it should by […]
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[Original post on hear-me.social]
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: The „Druid Crown“ from Roseldorf, Lower Austria, is the only known example of a ceremonial headdress found outside England or Ireland that was made of iron.
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October 2, 2026 at 2:23 PM
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: The „Druid Crown“ from Roseldorf, Lower Austria, is the only known example of a ceremonial headdress found outside England or Ireland that was made of iron.
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#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 a swarm of bees that was found on site earlier this year. They were being very busy...
October 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
#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 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!
#FindsFriday
youtube.com/shorts/Hlo3P...
#FindsFriday
youtube.com/shorts/Hlo3P...
Revealing hidden archaeological secrets with light🔦 Reflectance Transformation Imaging
YouTube video by UCL Archaeology South-East
youtube.com
October 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
This is Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and it’s changing the way we see archaeological objects!
#FindsFriday
youtube.com/shorts/Hlo3P...
#FindsFriday
youtube.com/shorts/Hlo3P...
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...
October 2, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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...
#FindsFriday 🏺
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.
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.
October 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM
#FindsFriday 🏺
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.
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
#FindsFriday
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
#FindsFriday
October 2, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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
#FindsFriday
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
#FindsFriday
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:
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...
Eames design 6, a cock standing facing left, with two annulets.
Find out more about our collections here:
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...
October 2, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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:
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...
Eames design 6, a cock standing facing left, with two annulets.
Find out more about our collections here:
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...
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.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
This iconography is associated with the god Sabazios, who was worshipped privately in domestic settings.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
October 2, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
This iconography is associated with the god Sabazios, who was worshipped privately in domestic settings.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
#FindsFriday
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.
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.
October 2, 2026 at 8:24 AM
#FindsFriday
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.
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
@theguardian.com
#FindsFriday
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/01/lismore-archaeological-finds-scottish-island-monastery-spread-of-christianity
@theguardian.com
#FindsFriday
‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity
Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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
@theguardian.com
#FindsFriday
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/01/lismore-archaeological-finds-scottish-island-monastery-spread-of-christianity
@theguardian.com
#FindsFriday
#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 >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...
AD365
We caught this at the Somerset Museum on our way to North Devon & Cornwall, see more of the journey >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...
October 2, 2026 at 8:09 AM
#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 >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...
AD365
We caught this at the Somerset Museum on our way to North Devon & Cornwall, see more of the journey >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...
Exceptional rare Lower Palaeolithic flint cobble chopper c.400,000 BC 🪨
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
October 2, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Exceptional rare Lower Palaeolithic flint cobble chopper c.400,000 BC 🪨
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
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
Hellenistic period bronze.
📸 Us, Archaeological Museum of Corfu
#skystorians #ancientbluesky #AncientGreece #archaeology #classicsbluesky #Hercules
October 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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
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.
#Roman #Archaeology #FindsFriday #artwork
#Roman #Archaeology #FindsFriday #artwork
October 2, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Roman #glass - flask found at Caerleon (Isca Silurum) 1st Century AD . 📷 My own. On display at Caerleon Legionary Museum.
#Roman #Archaeology #FindsFriday #artwork
#Roman #Archaeology #FindsFriday #artwork
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!
#FindsFriday
What would YOUR bed say about you? 👀
🏺 #archaeology #scicomm #ancientbluesky
The incredible preservation at Border Cave in South Africa has given us a unique insight into early human lives!
#FindsFriday
What would YOUR bed say about you? 👀
🏺 #archaeology #scicomm #ancientbluesky
October 2, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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!
#FindsFriday
What would YOUR bed say about you? 👀
🏺 #archaeology #scicomm #ancientbluesky
The incredible preservation at Border Cave in South Africa has given us a unique insight into early human lives!
#FindsFriday
What would YOUR bed say about you? 👀
🏺 #archaeology #scicomm #ancientbluesky
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...
October 2, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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...