🔥 FIRED FOR HOPE IS LIVE!
Our Vindolanda Roman kiln stood cold after Sarah's breast cancer diagnosis.
Now it's burning again, and the pieces from our charity firing are ready! 🏺💗
Very limited numbers. Once gone, gone!
Shop 👇
potted-history.co.uk/collections/...
Our Vindolanda Roman kiln stood cold after Sarah's breast cancer diagnosis.
Now it's burning again, and the pieces from our charity firing are ready! 🏺💗
Very limited numbers. Once gone, gone!
Shop 👇
potted-history.co.uk/collections/...
November 7, 2026 at 7:50 PM
🔥 FIRED FOR HOPE IS LIVE!
Our Vindolanda Roman kiln stood cold after Sarah's breast cancer diagnosis.
Now it's burning again, and the pieces from our charity firing are ready! 🏺💗
Very limited numbers. Once gone, gone!
Shop 👇
potted-history.co.uk/collections/...
Our Vindolanda Roman kiln stood cold after Sarah's breast cancer diagnosis.
Now it's burning again, and the pieces from our charity firing are ready! 🏺💗
Very limited numbers. Once gone, gone!
Shop 👇
potted-history.co.uk/collections/...
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
Potter Sarah Lord says the items created at Vindolanda sparked conversations about breast cancer.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A positively great firing! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well done @potsofhistory.bsky.social and thanks to the ever willing volunteers.
Well done @potsofhistory.bsky.social and thanks to the ever willing volunteers.
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
Potter Sarah Lord says the items created at Vindolanda sparked conversations about breast cancer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
A positively great firing! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well done @potsofhistory.bsky.social and thanks to the ever willing volunteers.
Well done @potsofhistory.bsky.social and thanks to the ever willing volunteers.
Hands up if you have been affected by Breast Cancer!
This special Roman kiln firing at Vindolanda was @potsofhistory.bsky.social response to her treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This special Roman kiln firing at Vindolanda was @potsofhistory.bsky.social response to her treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Hands up if you have been affected by Breast Cancer!
This special Roman kiln firing at Vindolanda was @potsofhistory.bsky.social response to her treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This special Roman kiln firing at Vindolanda was @potsofhistory.bsky.social response to her treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Roman fort. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
Potter Sarah Lord says the items created at Vindolanda sparked conversations about breast cancer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Roman fort. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nasty Little Brits, Roman, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle. A report written by the Romans at Vindolanda refers to the Britons as Brittunculi or 'nasty little Brits’. It points out that the Britons did not wear armour and fought mainly from horseback without swords or spears.
November 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Nasty Little Brits, Roman, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle. A report written by the Romans at Vindolanda refers to the Britons as Brittunculi or 'nasty little Brits’. It points out that the Britons did not wear armour and fought mainly from horseback without swords or spears.
Headline of the day..
Thanks BBC... I think you may have made a boob! It has conjured up an attack by disaffected Northern Tribes probably using a Blunderbust!
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thanks BBC... I think you may have made a boob! It has conjured up an attack by disaffected Northern Tribes probably using a Blunderbust!
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
Potter Sarah Lord says the items created at Vindolanda sparked conversations about breast cancer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Headline of the day..
Thanks BBC... I think you may have made a boob! It has conjured up an attack by disaffected Northern Tribes probably using a Blunderbust!
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thanks BBC... I think you may have made a boob! It has conjured up an attack by disaffected Northern Tribes probably using a Blunderbust!
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yes! It's got all the Vindolanda letters that are (or may be) by women-- even if fragmentary.
November 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Yes! It's got all the Vindolanda letters that are (or may be) by women-- even if fragmentary.
¿Sabías que la carta de cumpleaños más antigua de Europa la escribió una mujer en la frontera del Imperio romano? Vindolanda #Historia
www.historiasinpretensiones.com/2026/04/vind...
www.historiasinpretensiones.com/2026/04/vind...
Vindolanda: el campamento romano del muro de Adriano que reveló la vida real de lo soldados
Vindolanda; campamento romano Vindolanda; fuerte romano Vindolanda; Muro de Adriano; Britania romana; frontera romana en Britania
www.historiasinpretensiones.com
November 4, 2026 at 9:47 AM
¿Sabías que la carta de cumpleaños más antigua de Europa la escribió una mujer en la frontera del Imperio romano? Vindolanda #Historia
www.historiasinpretensiones.com/2026/04/vind...
www.historiasinpretensiones.com/2026/04/vind...
Today was the day to unpack @pottedhistory.bsky.social and @potsofhistory.bsky.social 's special BOOB filled Roman kiln firing at Vindolanda Museum. The firing was to support Breast Cancer Awareness snd has been a great success.
November 2, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Today was the day to unpack @pottedhistory.bsky.social and @potsofhistory.bsky.social 's special BOOB filled Roman kiln firing at Vindolanda Museum. The firing was to support Breast Cancer Awareness snd has been a great success.
For National Engineering Day, we're celebrating Newcastle University engineers who used 3D scanning and printing to recreate a Roman board game discovered at Vindolanda, bringing history to life for museum visitors.
from.ncl.ac.uk/how-3d-print...
from.ncl.ac.uk/how-3d-print...
How 3D printing revived Roman Britain's most popular board game
Vindolanda Charitable Trust and Newcastle University have collaborated to create a 3D-printed version of a popular board game from Roman Britain.
from.ncl.ac.uk
November 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
For National Engineering Day, we're celebrating Newcastle University engineers who used 3D scanning and printing to recreate a Roman board game discovered at Vindolanda, bringing history to life for museum visitors.
from.ncl.ac.uk/how-3d-print...
from.ncl.ac.uk/how-3d-print...
Vindolanda Roman town excavation booking was successful!
Northern England is balmy in early April, right?
Northern England is balmy in early April, right?
November 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Vindolanda Roman town excavation booking was successful!
Northern England is balmy in early April, right?
Northern England is balmy in early April, right?
Does it take in documentary letters as well as literary ones? Claudia Severa's invitation to Sulpicia Lepidina at Vindolanda (c. AD 100) is the earliest surviving Latin writing by a woman, though only the closing lines are in her own hand. That gap is half the interest.
November 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Does it take in documentary letters as well as literary ones? Claudia Severa's invitation to Sulpicia Lepidina at Vindolanda (c. AD 100) is the earliest surviving Latin writing by a woman, though only the closing lines are in her own hand. That gap is half the interest.
‘The soldiers stationed at Vindolanda loved bacon, as we know from accounts logged on the surviving wooden tablets, while the couple who itemised their expenses on their trip to Pompeii splashed out on a fancy dinner.’
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench · How to keep count: Power to the Plebs
Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 5, 2026 at 11:05 AM
‘The soldiers stationed at Vindolanda loved bacon, as we know from accounts logged on the surviving wooden tablets, while the couple who itemised their expenses on their trip to Pompeii splashed out on a fancy dinner.’
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I had to read this multiple times before I remembered what "fired" meant in pottery terms. @apiln.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than 200 clay breasts fired at Vindolanda Roman fort
Potter Sarah Lord says the items created at Vindolanda sparked conversations about breast cancer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I had to read this multiple times before I remembered what "fired" meant in pottery terms. @apiln.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Una volta, solo per vedere il panico, dovresti provare a dar loro un testo in corsivo 😂
November 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Una volta, solo per vedere il panico, dovresti provare a dar loro un testo in corsivo 😂
More than 1,700 wooden tablets from Vindolanda preserve Roman letters, including a beer request, a sock note and Claudia Severa’s birthday invitation.
#History #RomanEmpire #AncientHistory #RomanLettters #beer
#History #RomanEmpire #AncientHistory #RomanLettters #beer
Beer, Socks and Birthdays at a Roman Fort
More than 1,700 wooden tablets from Vindolanda preserve Roman letters, including a beer request, a sock note and Claudia Severa’s birthday invitation.
www.ancientcontent.com
November 3, 2026 at 12:04 AM
More than 1,700 wooden tablets from Vindolanda preserve Roman letters, including a beer request, a sock note and Claudia Severa’s birthday invitation.
#History #RomanEmpire #AncientHistory #RomanLettters #beer
#History #RomanEmpire #AncientHistory #RomanLettters #beer
Hadrian’s Wall: Autumn
View across Vindolanda Roman Fort. Mid-morning sunshine, not a single other visitor on site yet. Why wait until summer to visit.
#hadrianswall
View across Vindolanda Roman Fort. Mid-morning sunshine, not a single other visitor on site yet. Why wait until summer to visit.
#hadrianswall
November 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Hadrian’s Wall: Autumn
View across Vindolanda Roman Fort. Mid-morning sunshine, not a single other visitor on site yet. Why wait until summer to visit.
#hadrianswall
View across Vindolanda Roman Fort. Mid-morning sunshine, not a single other visitor on site yet. Why wait until summer to visit.
#hadrianswall
I didn’t get into Vindolanda, so dozens of Roman artifacts will remain unearthed.
November 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I didn’t get into Vindolanda, so dozens of Roman artifacts will remain unearthed.
The story is however great. Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024, and created 225 clay breasts at the reconstructed kiln in Vindolanda Roman Fort.
And best of all you can support Breast Cancer Research here:
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
And best of all you can support Breast Cancer Research here:
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
Firing for a Cure: 200 Boobs in a Roman Kiln 🔥🎀🏺
Help Sarah Lord raise money to support Breast Cancer Now
www.justgiving.com
November 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The story is however great. Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024, and created 225 clay breasts at the reconstructed kiln in Vindolanda Roman Fort.
And best of all you can support Breast Cancer Research here:
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
And best of all you can support Breast Cancer Research here:
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
THE BOOBS ARE ON THE MOVE!
Pots packed, car loaded, oncology appointment squeezed in!
Tomorrow we're firing 200 ceramic boobs at Vindolanda for Breast Cancer Now.
Can you guess Graham's last minute creation? 👀
Donate 💗
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
#Vindolanda #BreastCancerNow
Pots packed, car loaded, oncology appointment squeezed in!
Tomorrow we're firing 200 ceramic boobs at Vindolanda for Breast Cancer Now.
Can you guess Graham's last minute creation? 👀
Donate 💗
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
#Vindolanda #BreastCancerNow
October 30, 2026 at 5:21 PM
THE BOOBS ARE ON THE MOVE!
Pots packed, car loaded, oncology appointment squeezed in!
Tomorrow we're firing 200 ceramic boobs at Vindolanda for Breast Cancer Now.
Can you guess Graham's last minute creation? 👀
Donate 💗
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
#Vindolanda #BreastCancerNow
Pots packed, car loaded, oncology appointment squeezed in!
Tomorrow we're firing 200 ceramic boobs at Vindolanda for Breast Cancer Now.
Can you guess Graham's last minute creation? 👀
Donate 💗
www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-l...
#Vindolanda #BreastCancerNow
‘The soldiers stationed at Vindolanda loved bacon, as we know from accounts logged on the surviving wooden tablets, while the couple who itemised their expenses on their trip to Pompeii splashed out on a fancy dinner.’
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench · How to keep count: Power to the Plebs
Ordinary people in the Roman Empire are often only glimpsed; where they are foregrounded, they tend to be treated with...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
‘The soldiers stationed at Vindolanda loved bacon, as we know from accounts logged on the surviving wooden tablets, while the couple who itemised their expenses on their trip to Pompeii splashed out on a fancy dinner.’
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on the lives of ordinary Romans.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...