What ho, sherd nerds! Just published a new article on the website - more lovely bits of pottery explored. 17th - 19th century goodies. #archaeology #Derbyshire #mudlarking glossopcuriosities.co.uk/2026/09/30/s...
Some Pottery Bits and Pieces
What ho! What ho! And, if you’ll permit me… What ho! As promised… some pottery! Ahhhh, the screams of joy and happiness that accompany those words, always a pleasure to hear. The …
glossopcuriosities.co.uk
October 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
What ho, sherd nerds! Just published a new article on the website - more lovely bits of pottery explored. 17th - 19th century goodies. #archaeology #Derbyshire #mudlarking glossopcuriosities.co.uk/2026/09/30/s...
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
Two in the row YouTube. TWO IN A F$&%ING ROW!!
2 Anti-trans Anti Sherd Brown ads in a row...
2 Anti-trans Anti Sherd Brown ads in a row...
Mikonay's Airplane Eye Gesture
ALT: Mikonay's Airplane Eye Gesture
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October 1, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Two in the row YouTube. TWO IN A F$&%ING ROW!!
2 Anti-trans Anti Sherd Brown ads in a row...
2 Anti-trans Anti Sherd Brown ads in a row...
im so god damn curious about the sift and sculk's relations and how long this has been planned, even in conceptual stages
was the sift's outline made before, during, or after the wild update? did the mourner sherd inspire the singer, or did the singer inspire the mourner?
was the sift's outline made before, during, or after the wild update? did the mourner sherd inspire the singer, or did the singer inspire the mourner?
September 30, 2026 at 10:27 PM
im so god damn curious about the sift and sculk's relations and how long this has been planned, even in conceptual stages
was the sift's outline made before, during, or after the wild update? did the mourner sherd inspire the singer, or did the singer inspire the mourner?
was the sift's outline made before, during, or after the wild update? did the mourner sherd inspire the singer, or did the singer inspire the mourner?
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.
Cont.
• Gambier of Paris Clay tobacco pipe, 19thC, featuring a man’s head known as Le Guetteur (the watchman)
Middle row:
• Green glass duck, broken, too sweet not to take home
• handful of handmade dress pins, copper alloy, 14th to 18thC
• Transferware sherd, blue on white, showing a Waterman 2/
• Gambier of Paris Clay tobacco pipe, 19thC, featuring a man’s head known as Le Guetteur (the watchman)
Middle row:
• Green glass duck, broken, too sweet not to take home
• handful of handmade dress pins, copper alloy, 14th to 18thC
• Transferware sherd, blue on white, showing a Waterman 2/
September 30, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Cont.
• Gambier of Paris Clay tobacco pipe, 19thC, featuring a man’s head known as Le Guetteur (the watchman)
Middle row:
• Green glass duck, broken, too sweet not to take home
• handful of handmade dress pins, copper alloy, 14th to 18thC
• Transferware sherd, blue on white, showing a Waterman 2/
• Gambier of Paris Clay tobacco pipe, 19thC, featuring a man’s head known as Le Guetteur (the watchman)
Middle row:
• Green glass duck, broken, too sweet not to take home
• handful of handmade dress pins, copper alloy, 14th to 18thC
• Transferware sherd, blue on white, showing a Waterman 2/
It’s the end of September. Haven’t had much time for #mudlarking this month but here are nine sweet finds spotted over the last few weeks. From the top, left to right:
• corner piece from a Medieval Penn tile featuring fleur-de-lis pattern ⚜️
• limestone marble, possibly from Salzburg 17th/18thC 1/
• corner piece from a Medieval Penn tile featuring fleur-de-lis pattern ⚜️
• limestone marble, possibly from Salzburg 17th/18thC 1/
September 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It’s the end of September. Haven’t had much time for #mudlarking this month but here are nine sweet finds spotted over the last few weeks. From the top, left to right:
• corner piece from a Medieval Penn tile featuring fleur-de-lis pattern ⚜️
• limestone marble, possibly from Salzburg 17th/18thC 1/
• corner piece from a Medieval Penn tile featuring fleur-de-lis pattern ⚜️
• limestone marble, possibly from Salzburg 17th/18thC 1/
My writing is in the tenth issue of local zine The Mystic Moneymaker!
If you can procure a copy, you'll find coffee, depression, oily tendril creatures, and arguments about brutalism.
Also, a little sherd of my soul is trapped within each printing of the story. Not quite sure how that happened.
If you can procure a copy, you'll find coffee, depression, oily tendril creatures, and arguments about brutalism.
Also, a little sherd of my soul is trapped within each printing of the story. Not quite sure how that happened.
September 30, 2026 at 6:10 PM
My writing is in the tenth issue of local zine The Mystic Moneymaker!
If you can procure a copy, you'll find coffee, depression, oily tendril creatures, and arguments about brutalism.
Also, a little sherd of my soul is trapped within each printing of the story. Not quite sure how that happened.
If you can procure a copy, you'll find coffee, depression, oily tendril creatures, and arguments about brutalism.
Also, a little sherd of my soul is trapped within each printing of the story. Not quite sure how that happened.
NEW Sherd of terra sigillata pottery from Roman Tuscany, stamped with a large, ornate image of an altar.
Stamps on terra sigillata were typically small and standardised, making this design completely unique. Was this vessel part of a limited series?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Stamps on terra sigillata were typically small and standardised, making this design completely unique. Was this vessel part of a limited series?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
September 28, 2026 at 7:13 AM
NEW Sherd of terra sigillata pottery from Roman Tuscany, stamped with a large, ornate image of an altar.
Stamps on terra sigillata were typically small and standardised, making this design completely unique. Was this vessel part of a limited series?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Stamps on terra sigillata were typically small and standardised, making this design completely unique. Was this vessel part of a limited series?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
You can get a New Kingdom pot sherd for under $20. Authentication might be sketchy, so caveat emptor.
September 26, 2026 at 5:23 AM
You can get a New Kingdom pot sherd for under $20. Authentication might be sketchy, so caveat emptor.
RT @GAMMA_RECURSE: The kiln does not fix what he meant, it fixes what happened to him: the slipped stroke hardens at the same rank as the sentence. Every one of these sayings ends in a break, not a full stop, and a break is what makes a sentence sound intended.
September 28, 2026 at 4:49 AM
RT @GAMMA_RECURSE: The kiln does not fix what he meant, it fixes what happened to him: the slipped stroke hardens at the same rank as the sentence. Every one of these sayings ends in a break, not a full stop, and a break is what makes a sentence sound intended.
Really wish I had some seriation worthy contexts to explore this interesting combination of Early and Late Snaketown traits on the same ceramic sherd. Is it already recognized trace examples of these traits in anachronistic fashion?
The 22 year old hypothesis of Middle Snaketown?
The 22 year old hypothesis of Middle Snaketown?
September 23, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Really wish I had some seriation worthy contexts to explore this interesting combination of Early and Late Snaketown traits on the same ceramic sherd. Is it already recognized trace examples of these traits in anachronistic fashion?
The 22 year old hypothesis of Middle Snaketown?
The 22 year old hypothesis of Middle Snaketown?
🚨 It's klaxon time again! 🚨 We've reached the 40,000th object in our Inventory Project!
Our milestone item is ELGNM: 1957.60.7, a decorated pottery sherd dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is 1 of 8 pottery sherds of an EBA beaker recovered from a cist discovered near Hopeman in 1866.
Our milestone item is ELGNM: 1957.60.7, a decorated pottery sherd dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is 1 of 8 pottery sherds of an EBA beaker recovered from a cist discovered near Hopeman in 1866.
September 23, 2026 at 8:10 PM
🚨 It's klaxon time again! 🚨 We've reached the 40,000th object in our Inventory Project!
Our milestone item is ELGNM: 1957.60.7, a decorated pottery sherd dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is 1 of 8 pottery sherds of an EBA beaker recovered from a cist discovered near Hopeman in 1866.
Our milestone item is ELGNM: 1957.60.7, a decorated pottery sherd dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is 1 of 8 pottery sherds of an EBA beaker recovered from a cist discovered near Hopeman in 1866.
But I believe we can now guess why this is called the "mourner" sherd.
Because the warden's portal is where souls come from.
The question now is, who is mourning? Past Minecraft people/villagers? The wardens?
Or perhaps both?
And, crucially, is the warden there to protect the portal from US?
Because the warden's portal is where souls come from.
The question now is, who is mourning? Past Minecraft people/villagers? The wardens?
Or perhaps both?
And, crucially, is the warden there to protect the portal from US?
September 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
But I believe we can now guess why this is called the "mourner" sherd.
Because the warden's portal is where souls come from.
The question now is, who is mourning? Past Minecraft people/villagers? The wardens?
Or perhaps both?
And, crucially, is the warden there to protect the portal from US?
Because the warden's portal is where souls come from.
The question now is, who is mourning? Past Minecraft people/villagers? The wardens?
Or perhaps both?
And, crucially, is the warden there to protect the portal from US?
A small creature comes out of the portal looking similarly shaped (but not identical, and much smaller in size) to wardens and the design on the mourner sherd. The creature is carrying a soul, and the narrator tells us that these souls "share their boundless power with all life within."
September 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
A small creature comes out of the portal looking similarly shaped (but not identical, and much smaller in size) to wardens and the design on the mourner sherd. The creature is carrying a soul, and the narrator tells us that these souls "share their boundless power with all life within."
Since archaeology & pottery sherds came to Minecraft, I've been intrigued by this one: the Mourner sherd.
It's a warden, but it's called 'mourner'. Nothing to do with protection/warding, really, so it was clearly something people in the past (in Minecraft) attributed to the warden.
#minecraft 🏺
It's a warden, but it's called 'mourner'. Nothing to do with protection/warding, really, so it was clearly something people in the past (in Minecraft) attributed to the warden.
#minecraft 🏺
September 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Since archaeology & pottery sherds came to Minecraft, I've been intrigued by this one: the Mourner sherd.
It's a warden, but it's called 'mourner'. Nothing to do with protection/warding, really, so it was clearly something people in the past (in Minecraft) attributed to the warden.
#minecraft 🏺
It's a warden, but it's called 'mourner'. Nothing to do with protection/warding, really, so it was clearly something people in the past (in Minecraft) attributed to the warden.
#minecraft 🏺
sherd
September 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
sherd
September 17, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Last full stream of custom power up shenanigans for Twitch Bonus Bits today!
Hardcore Minecraft shenanigans & cozies may be had.
www.twitch.tv/mandalin 💜
Hardcore Minecraft shenanigans & cozies may be had.
www.twitch.tv/mandalin 💜
September 16, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Last full stream of custom power up shenanigans for Twitch Bonus Bits today!
Hardcore Minecraft shenanigans & cozies may be had.
www.twitch.tv/mandalin 💜
Hardcore Minecraft shenanigans & cozies may be had.
www.twitch.tv/mandalin 💜
while you were partying I studied the sherd
September 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
while you were partying I studied the sherd
The audacity to say this with a handful of #zooarchaeology (and a sherd, fine)
Archaeologists Discover More Old Shit That Sucks https://theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-more-old-shit-that-sucks-1848400846/
September 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The audacity to say this with a handful of #zooarchaeology (and a sherd, fine)
Lots of stuff on the Ness of Brodgar pages. I knew I'd seen some "encrusted food residues" on a GW sherd somewhere and I've found it, the last photo on this post excavation page.
Not much has been said of these residues.
Porridge? Gruel? Or is it a mash?
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/pottery-tria...
Not much has been said of these residues.
Porridge? Gruel? Or is it a mash?
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/pottery-tria...
Triage volunteers recording pottery sherds of all shapes and sizes - The Ness of Brodgar Project
A mixed bag of finds from week five of our ceramics triage project - including a stunning example of decorated Neolithic pottery.
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk
September 14, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Lots of stuff on the Ness of Brodgar pages. I knew I'd seen some "encrusted food residues" on a GW sherd somewhere and I've found it, the last photo on this post excavation page.
Not much has been said of these residues.
Porridge? Gruel? Or is it a mash?
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/pottery-tria...
Not much has been said of these residues.
Porridge? Gruel? Or is it a mash?
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/pottery-tria...
Gans off topic de Gozitanen vijfduizend jaar geleden hadden ook vogelfotografie (toen nog geen fotokodaks) (deelde ik dit al eens? dat ik noorse lapvleugel zei voor pievit? ik heb die scherf gezien en was bewogen toen) heritagemalta.mt/news/paralle...
Parallel Realities - The Flying Bird Sherd - Heritage Malta
by Daphne Sant Caruana and Warren Bugeja. Closer to the heavens and … Continued
heritagemalta.mt
September 14, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Gans off topic de Gozitanen vijfduizend jaar geleden hadden ook vogelfotografie (toen nog geen fotokodaks) (deelde ik dit al eens? dat ik noorse lapvleugel zei voor pievit? ik heb die scherf gezien en was bewogen toen) heritagemalta.mt/news/paralle...
Watching an archeologist talk about how he doesn't dig out toilet columns in Ur because they use thousands and thousands of sherds to diffuse poop into the surrounding soil, and if you dig it out, you have to catalogue every sherd. So he just leaves them alone. I laughed.
youtu.be/TtKyHDhPaMU?...
youtu.be/TtKyHDhPaMU?...
Ea-nasir's House in Minecraft: Reaction to Trey the Explainer's Video
YouTube video by Artifactually Speaking
youtu.be
September 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Watching an archeologist talk about how he doesn't dig out toilet columns in Ur because they use thousands and thousands of sherds to diffuse poop into the surrounding soil, and if you dig it out, you have to catalogue every sherd. So he just leaves them alone. I laughed.
youtu.be/TtKyHDhPaMU?...
youtu.be/TtKyHDhPaMU?...
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.