Late Neolithic macehead which was found during 1839 at Dounby Farm in Sandwick on Orkney. Discovered in a burial cist, the macehead is now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Orkney
July 10, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Late Neolithic macehead which was found during 1839 at Dounby Farm in Sandwick on Orkney. Discovered in a burial cist, the macehead is now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Orkney
This exquisitely carved 5000-year-old ceremonial macehead is one of Neolithic Europe’s finest works of art. Excavated from the passage tomb at Knowth in the Boyne Valley, Ireland, it is less than 8cm long and made of a hard, mottled cream-coloured flint. #FindsFriday #Neolithic
August 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This exquisitely carved 5000-year-old ceremonial macehead is one of Neolithic Europe’s finest works of art. Excavated from the passage tomb at Knowth in the Boyne Valley, Ireland, it is less than 8cm long and made of a hard, mottled cream-coloured flint. #FindsFriday #Neolithic
The Knowth Macehead • c.3300-2800 BC
It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
February 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The Knowth Macehead • c.3300-2800 BC
It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
An astonishing beach find from East Sussex recorded recently for #FindsFriday this week. A beautiful mesolithic stone macehead. For full record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
November 22, 2024 at 11:09 AM
An astonishing beach find from East Sussex recorded recently for #FindsFriday this week. A beautiful mesolithic stone macehead. For full record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
A lovely sunny day. Great for carving stone in the garden - a pestle macehead and a carved stone ball made today
May 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
A lovely sunny day. Great for carving stone in the garden - a pestle macehead and a carved stone ball made today
An exquisitely crafted ceremonial macehead dated to around 3300-2800 BC.
Found in Knowth passage tomb in Ireland, It bears spiral motifs similar to those found on the megalithic art surrounding the tomb
📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland #findsfriday #Ancientbluesky
www.museum.ie/en-IE/collec...
Found in Knowth passage tomb in Ireland, It bears spiral motifs similar to those found on the megalithic art surrounding the tomb
📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland #findsfriday #Ancientbluesky
www.museum.ie/en-IE/collec...
July 31, 2026 at 9:57 AM
An exquisitely crafted ceremonial macehead dated to around 3300-2800 BC.
Found in Knowth passage tomb in Ireland, It bears spiral motifs similar to those found on the megalithic art surrounding the tomb
📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland #findsfriday #Ancientbluesky
www.museum.ie/en-IE/collec...
Found in Knowth passage tomb in Ireland, It bears spiral motifs similar to those found on the megalithic art surrounding the tomb
📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland #findsfriday #Ancientbluesky
www.museum.ie/en-IE/collec...
I'm very slowly making a flint Maesmor-type Neolithic macehead. But I'm not sure the form of the blank is right to cut the lozenges, so I've made a plaster cast to practice.
June 30, 2026 at 8:47 AM
I'm very slowly making a flint Maesmor-type Neolithic macehead. But I'm not sure the form of the blank is right to cut the lozenges, so I've made a plaster cast to practice.
This #findsfriday we have polished oval macehead of limestone containing the fossil stromatoporoid (A shallow marine sponge). Containing traces of bronze, it found with a primary male inhumation in Bowl Barrow Wilsford G5, excavated by William Cunnington in 1808.
February 20, 2026 at 11:22 AM
This #findsfriday we have polished oval macehead of limestone containing the fossil stromatoporoid (A shallow marine sponge). Containing traces of bronze, it found with a primary male inhumation in Bowl Barrow Wilsford G5, excavated by William Cunnington in 1808.
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This intricately carved marble macehead was found at the #Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük 🇹🇷 in 2016. The level of detail and craftsmanship is unparalleled in the Neolithic of southwest Asia.
This intricately carved marble macehead was found at the #Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük 🇹🇷 in 2016. The level of detail and craftsmanship is unparalleled in the Neolithic of southwest Asia.
August 23, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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This intricately carved marble macehead was found at the #Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük 🇹🇷 in 2016. The level of detail and craftsmanship is unparalleled in the Neolithic of southwest Asia.
This intricately carved marble macehead was found at the #Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük 🇹🇷 in 2016. The level of detail and craftsmanship is unparalleled in the Neolithic of southwest Asia.
Look at this wonderful stripey gneiss macehead, from a cist burial at Dounby Farm, Orkney: sketchfab.com/3d-models/ma...
Macehead, Dounby Farm, Mainland, Orkney - 3D model by Stromness Museum (@StromnessMuseum)
This late Neolithic (c.3200-2300 BC) ‘pestle’ macehead was found in a stone burial cist while clearing land for agriculture at Dounby Farm, Sandwick, Mainland, in 1838. The date of the grave is not k...
sketchfab.com
April 3, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Look at this wonderful stripey gneiss macehead, from a cist burial at Dounby Farm, Orkney: sketchfab.com/3d-models/ma...
From MetÉireann: The highest gust record of 182 km/h set in 1945 at Foynes Co. Limerick has provisionally been broken during #StormÉowyn — #MaceHead, Co Galway recording a wind gust of 183km/h (114mph) at 5am IST.
#IRLwx #IEwx #Eowyn
#IRLwx #IEwx #Eowyn
January 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
From MetÉireann: The highest gust record of 182 km/h set in 1945 at Foynes Co. Limerick has provisionally been broken during #StormÉowyn — #MaceHead, Co Galway recording a wind gust of 183km/h (114mph) at 5am IST.
#IRLwx #IEwx #Eowyn
#IRLwx #IEwx #Eowyn
For #findsFriday the Garboldisham Macehead, 3483-3104 BC
The spirals incised into red deer antler share affinities with those of Newgrange and suggest interaction between East Anglia and Ireland in the middle Neolithic. A beautiful object.
The spirals incised into red deer antler share affinities with those of Newgrange and suggest interaction between East Anglia and Ireland in the middle Neolithic. A beautiful object.
March 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
For #findsFriday the Garboldisham Macehead, 3483-3104 BC
The spirals incised into red deer antler share affinities with those of Newgrange and suggest interaction between East Anglia and Ireland in the middle Neolithic. A beautiful object.
The spirals incised into red deer antler share affinities with those of Newgrange and suggest interaction between East Anglia and Ireland in the middle Neolithic. A beautiful object.
Shared for #FlintFriday
The Knowth Macehead c.3300-2800 BC
A ceremonial macehead, found beneath the eastern chamber tomb at the great passage tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated.
#Archaeology
The Knowth Macehead c.3300-2800 BC
A ceremonial macehead, found beneath the eastern chamber tomb at the great passage tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated.
#Archaeology
The Knowth Macehead • c.3300-2800 BC
It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
April 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Shared for #FlintFriday
The Knowth Macehead c.3300-2800 BC
A ceremonial macehead, found beneath the eastern chamber tomb at the great passage tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated.
#Archaeology
The Knowth Macehead c.3300-2800 BC
A ceremonial macehead, found beneath the eastern chamber tomb at the great passage tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland
All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated.
#Archaeology
Jaguar mace head
nephrite jade
500 BCE - 500 CE
Chorotega culture
Costa Rica
#handmade #ancientart #culture #chorotega #costarica #mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #carved #nephrite #jade #jaguar #macehead #weapon #ceremonial #ritual #religion #art #craft #oneofakind
nephrite jade
500 BCE - 500 CE
Chorotega culture
Costa Rica
#handmade #ancientart #culture #chorotega #costarica #mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #carved #nephrite #jade #jaguar #macehead #weapon #ceremonial #ritual #religion #art #craft #oneofakind
March 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Jaguar mace head
nephrite jade
500 BCE - 500 CE
Chorotega culture
Costa Rica
#handmade #ancientart #culture #chorotega #costarica #mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #carved #nephrite #jade #jaguar #macehead #weapon #ceremonial #ritual #religion #art #craft #oneofakind
nephrite jade
500 BCE - 500 CE
Chorotega culture
Costa Rica
#handmade #ancientart #culture #chorotega #costarica #mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #carved #nephrite #jade #jaguar #macehead #weapon #ceremonial #ritual #religion #art #craft #oneofakind
Big news from MaceHead! A new automatic flask sampler was installed as part of #NUBICOS, making it a European ‘supersite’ for greenhouse gas monitoring and radiocarbons.
Power outages, icy roads and record wind speeds - what was it like installing a flask sampler right before #StormEowyn hit the west coast of Ireland?
Find out more about the Mace Head 'supersite', a key part of the #NUBICOS project.
Read the story: www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-eve...
Find out more about the Mace Head 'supersite', a key part of the #NUBICOS project.
Read the story: www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-eve...
February 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Big news from MaceHead! A new automatic flask sampler was installed as part of #NUBICOS, making it a European ‘supersite’ for greenhouse gas monitoring and radiocarbons.
This Late Neolithic greenstone pestle mace head was discovered at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry. Interestingly it was found in a Roman ditch and seems to have been “curated” by someone during the Roman period before being purposely placed in the ditch.
March 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This Late Neolithic greenstone pestle mace head was discovered at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry. Interestingly it was found in a Roman ditch and seems to have been “curated” by someone during the Roman period before being purposely placed in the ditch.
Nice project by Joe Fenwick with the glass sculptor Fred Curtis to recreate it here:
www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...
It did establish that it was likely ground rather than carved.
www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...
It did establish that it was likely ground rather than carved.
Crafting the Knowth Macehead - University of Galway
www.universityofgalway.ie
September 16, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Nice project by Joe Fenwick with the glass sculptor Fred Curtis to recreate it here:
www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...
It did establish that it was likely ground rather than carved.
www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...
It did establish that it was likely ground rather than carved.
Battle Mage of the forces of Humankind, from Celestial Affinity, the 54mm skirmish game
Painted for Cerberus Studios
#miniaturepainting #wargaming #commissionpainting #pandaemonium_miniatures #celestialaffinity #cerberusstudios #wepaintminis #ttrpg #nerdlings
Painted for Cerberus Studios
#miniaturepainting #wargaming #commissionpainting #pandaemonium_miniatures #celestialaffinity #cerberusstudios #wepaintminis #ttrpg #nerdlings
October 10, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Battle Mage of the forces of Humankind, from Celestial Affinity, the 54mm skirmish game
Painted for Cerberus Studios
#miniaturepainting #wargaming #commissionpainting #pandaemonium_miniatures #celestialaffinity #cerberusstudios #wepaintminis #ttrpg #nerdlings
Painted for Cerberus Studios
#miniaturepainting #wargaming #commissionpainting #pandaemonium_miniatures #celestialaffinity #cerberusstudios #wepaintminis #ttrpg #nerdlings
This particular macehead was part of an elaborate assemblage of objects buried beneath a house floor including four obsidian projectile points, two flint blades and a basket containing the skull of a young adult male.
August 23, 2024 at 11:53 AM
This particular macehead was part of an elaborate assemblage of objects buried beneath a house floor including four obsidian projectile points, two flint blades and a basket containing the skull of a young adult male.
Reminder:
It's happening today!
Today at 5pm! at the G10 Hardiman Building, University of Galway.
Welcome all. #TheAirWeShare #Spéirscéalta #MaceHead #TAWS.
It's happening today!
Today at 5pm! at the G10 Hardiman Building, University of Galway.
Welcome all. #TheAirWeShare #Spéirscéalta #MaceHead #TAWS.
April 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reminder:
It's happening today!
Today at 5pm! at the G10 Hardiman Building, University of Galway.
Welcome all. #TheAirWeShare #Spéirscéalta #MaceHead #TAWS.
It's happening today!
Today at 5pm! at the G10 Hardiman Building, University of Galway.
Welcome all. #TheAirWeShare #Spéirscéalta #MaceHead #TAWS.
this would go very hard as a face tattoo
June 13, 2026 at 7:25 AM
this would go very hard as a face tattoo
Did you know there really was a Scorpion King in Ancient Egypt? This macehead depicts him wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, with a scorpion next to his head.
Scorpion Macehead, c. 3100-3000 BCE. Image by Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
#archaeology #ancientegypt #history #arthistory
Scorpion Macehead, c. 3100-3000 BCE. Image by Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
#archaeology #ancientegypt #history #arthistory
December 4, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Did you know there really was a Scorpion King in Ancient Egypt? This macehead depicts him wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, with a scorpion next to his head.
Scorpion Macehead, c. 3100-3000 BCE. Image by Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
#archaeology #ancientegypt #history #arthistory
Scorpion Macehead, c. 3100-3000 BCE. Image by Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
#archaeology #ancientegypt #history #arthistory
August 12, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Groundstone specialist Cristina Tsoraki's analysis indicates that the macehead has no signs of usewear and that it was probably buried not long after it was made (illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social)
August 23, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Groundstone specialist Cristina Tsoraki's analysis indicates that the macehead has no signs of usewear and that it was probably buried not long after it was made (illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social)