PSA: Public Sherd Amewncement
Showing my students some medieval pottery from Yemen at the ROM today, including this one with a cat's paw impression in it!
#MedievalSky #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff 🏺
#MedievalSky #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff 🏺
February 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
PSA: Public Sherd Amewncement
January 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
For #FindsFriday a blue on white transferware sherd from the Thames Foreshore. Haven’t been able to trace the design but loved seeing the butterfly perched on a tendril. Coincidentally, I’ve just seen my first one of the year in our garden, also a blue. It’s worrying how few there are #mudlark
May 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
For #FindsFriday a blue on white transferware sherd from the Thames Foreshore. Haven’t been able to trace the design but loved seeing the butterfly perched on a tendril. Coincidentally, I’ve just seen my first one of the year in our garden, also a blue. It’s worrying how few there are #mudlark
Gardening in my backyard always feels a bit like an archaeology dig 🏺
May 26, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Gardening in my backyard always feels a bit like an archaeology dig 🏺
Not sure if this is ominous or not, but found this morning on the Thames Foreshore a Victorian-era Transferware Sherd featuring an anxious angel (with one wing.) Though am taking comfort from my second sherd find of the day - a Gent out for a stroll with his loved one (I hope.) Solvitur Ambulando.
March 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Not sure if this is ominous or not, but found this morning on the Thames Foreshore a Victorian-era Transferware Sherd featuring an anxious angel (with one wing.) Though am taking comfort from my second sherd find of the day - a Gent out for a stroll with his loved one (I hope.) Solvitur Ambulando.
4th century face pot sherd which was produced at Toot Baldon, near Oxford. Now part of the collections at the Ashmolean in Oxford. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain
April 8, 2026 at 6:35 AM
4th century face pot sherd which was produced at Toot Baldon, near Oxford. Now part of the collections at the Ashmolean in Oxford. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain
It's SHARD.
'Sherd' is just some academic nonsense Big Archaeology invented to sell more pot shards.
'Sherd' is just some academic nonsense Big Archaeology invented to sell more pot shards.
August 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
It's SHARD.
'Sherd' is just some academic nonsense Big Archaeology invented to sell more pot shards.
'Sherd' is just some academic nonsense Big Archaeology invented to sell more pot shards.
Sherd with the maker's stamp MAMMIN
Found Apes Hall, Littleport, #Cambridgeshire
Stamp refers to Mammius of Lezoux, c.155-185 CE
Other examples of this maker's mark have been found in Norfolk and York.
Now in Ely Museum.
#RomanSiteSaturday
Found Apes Hall, Littleport, #Cambridgeshire
Stamp refers to Mammius of Lezoux, c.155-185 CE
Other examples of this maker's mark have been found in Norfolk and York.
Now in Ely Museum.
#RomanSiteSaturday
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Sherd with the maker's stamp MAMMIN
Found Apes Hall, Littleport, #Cambridgeshire
Stamp refers to Mammius of Lezoux, c.155-185 CE
Other examples of this maker's mark have been found in Norfolk and York.
Now in Ely Museum.
#RomanSiteSaturday
Found Apes Hall, Littleport, #Cambridgeshire
Stamp refers to Mammius of Lezoux, c.155-185 CE
Other examples of this maker's mark have been found in Norfolk and York.
Now in Ely Museum.
#RomanSiteSaturday
Sweet little sherd of medieval pottery found on the Thames Foreshore recently. Typical moss green-glaze of the period with a lattice design, possibly a Kingston-type of Surrey whiteware. Kingston (Surrey) was prolific in pottery production during the 13th and 14th centuries #Mudlark #RiverThames
August 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Sweet little sherd of medieval pottery found on the Thames Foreshore recently. Typical moss green-glaze of the period with a lattice design, possibly a Kingston-type of Surrey whiteware. Kingston (Surrey) was prolific in pottery production during the 13th and 14th centuries #Mudlark #RiverThames
And yet today, our most exciting find was a fingernail-sized sherd of green-glazed medieval pot. #notfair 😄
A completely preserved #Roman necklace made of gold wire and blue glass beads. It belonged probably to a child.
Found in Aalen, dating 3rd century AD.
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Found in Aalen, dating 3rd century AD.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
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April 23, 2026 at 4:15 PM
And yet today, our most exciting find was a fingernail-sized sherd of green-glazed medieval pot. #notfair 😄
Concept art of Kyoko Wakatsuki from "Koyasai: a sherd of youthful memories" (PS1) illustrated by Haruhiko Mikimoto.
[後夜祭]
[後夜祭]
May 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Concept art of Kyoko Wakatsuki from "Koyasai: a sherd of youthful memories" (PS1) illustrated by Haruhiko Mikimoto.
[後夜祭]
[後夜祭]
Early Neolithic, Mildenhall rim sherd with punctate decoration (rows of ?bone pin-prick impressions). Circa 3700-3500 BC
June 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Early Neolithic, Mildenhall rim sherd with punctate decoration (rows of ?bone pin-prick impressions). Circa 3700-3500 BC
Pretty sherd of blue Westerwald stoneware up from the Thames this morning. Westerwald is a distinctive type of salt-glazed stoneware from the Low Countries & what is now West Germany, predominantly blue or grey (sometimes magenta) with decorations. Here an unusual piece with tiny acorns.
July 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Pretty sherd of blue Westerwald stoneware up from the Thames this morning. Westerwald is a distinctive type of salt-glazed stoneware from the Low Countries & what is now West Germany, predominantly blue or grey (sometimes magenta) with decorations. Here an unusual piece with tiny acorns.
Pottery sherd from @durotrigesdig.bsky.social excavations - I’m coming back to find you and find out more!
#FindsFriday #pottery
#FindsFriday #pottery
November 22, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Pottery sherd from @durotrigesdig.bsky.social excavations - I’m coming back to find you and find out more!
#FindsFriday #pottery
#FindsFriday #pottery
Multi-coloured floral sherd, probably from a 1950s/1960s tea cup, providing a much needed pop of colour on a grey January day on the Thames Foreshore #ThamesMudlark
January 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Multi-coloured floral sherd, probably from a 1950s/1960s tea cup, providing a much needed pop of colour on a grey January day on the Thames Foreshore #ThamesMudlark
May 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We can't wait for Indiana Jones and the 100 hours of sieving to find one pottery sherd 😍
November 19, 2024 at 5:25 PM
We can't wait for Indiana Jones and the 100 hours of sieving to find one pottery sherd 😍
Bottom row:
• lead truck, child’s toy, possibly 1920s/1930s
• sherd of blue & manganese Westerwald pottery, a decorated grey salt-glazed pottery 17th/18thC
• piece of black flint. Nearly ignored it but picked it up, turned it over only to find the sweetest fossilised bivalve shell embedded in it.
• lead truck, child’s toy, possibly 1920s/1930s
• sherd of blue & manganese Westerwald pottery, a decorated grey salt-glazed pottery 17th/18thC
• piece of black flint. Nearly ignored it but picked it up, turned it over only to find the sweetest fossilised bivalve shell embedded in it.
September 30, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Bottom row:
• lead truck, child’s toy, possibly 1920s/1930s
• sherd of blue & manganese Westerwald pottery, a decorated grey salt-glazed pottery 17th/18thC
• piece of black flint. Nearly ignored it but picked it up, turned it over only to find the sweetest fossilised bivalve shell embedded in it.
• lead truck, child’s toy, possibly 1920s/1930s
• sherd of blue & manganese Westerwald pottery, a decorated grey salt-glazed pottery 17th/18thC
• piece of black flint. Nearly ignored it but picked it up, turned it over only to find the sweetest fossilised bivalve shell embedded in it.
Sweet little Thames Waterman sherd, blue on white 19th century Transferware pottery, found on the foreshore this morning.
September 12, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Sweet little Thames Waterman sherd, blue on white 19th century Transferware pottery, found on the foreshore this morning.
2,400 year old fingertips.
September 11, 2024 at 11:08 AM
2,400 year old fingertips.
The plant in the sherd.
March 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The plant in the sherd.
Blue on white pottery transferware sherd for you this morning, showing a bird in a basket. The thickness of the plate fragment indicates 19th century. The image taken near some chalk barge beds under Chelsea Bridge, boats & barges rested here at low tide, bringing coal to Battersea Power Station.
January 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Blue on white pottery transferware sherd for you this morning, showing a bird in a basket. The thickness of the plate fragment indicates 19th century. The image taken near some chalk barge beds under Chelsea Bridge, boats & barges rested here at low tide, bringing coal to Battersea Power Station.
Sherd of green on white Victorian-era transferware pottery from the Thames, featuring a crane. These birds were considered powerful symbols in Japan, where nature has played an important role in many myths & legends, also in arts and crafts. The crane represents peace, luck and longevity #mudlark
June 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Sherd of green on white Victorian-era transferware pottery from the Thames, featuring a crane. These birds were considered powerful symbols in Japan, where nature has played an important role in many myths & legends, also in arts and crafts. The crane represents peace, luck and longevity #mudlark