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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1h

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11h

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 13h

St Andrew’s Church, Isleham, Cambridgeshire. A #medieval angel roof “with a carved date of 1495, with the name of its donor, Christopher Peyton” - Pevsner guidebook @yalepress.bsky.social #Woodensday #WoodCarvingWednesday

A medieval wooden roof of alternating tie-beams & hammerbeams. The hammerbeams have carved angels.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 14h

The Ballachulish figure which was discovered in a bog at Ballachulish in Inverness-shire. The figure dates to the Iron Age, and was possibly a goddess. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #IronAge #Ballachulish

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 13h

For #HillfortsWednesday the enormous, but heavily eroded, coastal promontory fort at Porth y rhaw, Pembrokeshire, in the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 🤩 The 5 metre+ high ramparts are among the most massive anywhere in west Wales. Excavations have revealed a long occupation 📷 My own, Saturday

A view along a cliff lined coast with the sea on the right & blue sky beyond

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 13h

St Jerome in early 16th Century collected glass in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge. He holds his Latin translation of the Bible, popularly known as the Vulgate, still in use by the Latin Church after various revisions and versions over the centuries. The lion he tamed in the desert looks up at him.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11h

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Modern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed 📷 Aug 2026 #MosaicMonday

Mosaic set into the floor of a terrace with stone benches looking out at a rural landscape with trees

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Timeline cleanse! 🐕✨ A charming Egyptian dog figurine made of faience, dating 2120–1795 BC. An adorable glimpse into the past 😊 On display at Neues Museum Berlin.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tomb with a view - Taversoe Tuick, a Neolithic chambered cairn on Rousay (one of the Orkney islands). Rousay is often referred to as the ‘Egypt of the North’ on account of its many wonderful archaeological sites. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Rousay #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology

A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Timeline cleanse! 🐕✨ A charming Egyptian dog figurine made of faience, dating 2120–1795 BC. An adorable glimpse into the past 😊 On display at Neues Museum Berlin.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New discovery: Tableware found in 2,100-year-old shipwreck located off coats of Adrasan, Türkiye It's believed that the cargo contained luxury tableware produced in Rhosus, modern-day Arsuz, and was intended for markets such as Rome. www.dailysabah.com/life/history...

Underwater photo of numerous pottery vessels across the sandy seabed, including bowlss and plate. A measuring scale is visible in the background.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a wonderful image of a Roman face pot from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt! Found in settlements, forts, graves, and ritual contexts, these mysterious vessels still leave archaeologists wondering about their original purpose. Foto: LAD/Sarah Roth

Close-up of a Roman face pot held in someone’s hands. The dark gray vessel features a molded human face with a prominent nose, eye, mouth, and textured hair or headpiece around the rim.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator!

A soil matrix triangle showing percentages of sand, clay and silt, but with regions identified using punny song names like Clay Jude and Only the Loamy

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10/09/2026

Comic artist Ulli Lust won Germany's biggest non-fiction prize for her book "Early Man was a Woman," out now in English. "The idea of an egalitarian society which didn’t diminish women is a wonderful realization for many people," she told me in an interview for @science.org. "We need that."

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This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of several mosaics from the Roman Town House at Dorchester in Dorset. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Following last week's post, and prompted by a comment made then, I'm sharing two more details from Ras al-Hillal in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) to document this floor. On the left, a cup with a ? dove. On the right, a ? gazelle and a ? fruit tree. 📷1991 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Ancient mosaic showing a damaged cup with a rectangular base and two handles. A small bird, probably a dove, perches on the left handle. There are slabs of marble at the top of the photo.

A panel of ancient mosaic which is disintegrating. On the left, the remains of an animal, perhaps a gazelle. Its front legs are visible at lower left of the photo. On the right, the trunk and top part of an attractive ? fruit tree. Loose tesserae are scattered around.

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Moon#9 HarvestMoon /2026-2 #Leiden #Moon #Photography

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A truly marvellous object: a 16th-century incense storage container in the shape of a #ship. Coins of the #Roman Emperor Nero, minted between 64 and 68 AD, have been attached as wheels. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

A intricately crafted incense storage container shaped like ship, made of bronze with a weathered patina. The container features a central lighthouse-like structure rising from its deck and is supported by Roman coins serving as decorative wheels, on is missing. The ship’s bow and stern are elevated and adorned with geometric carvings and porthole-like cutouts, enhancing its detailed, miniature design.

A Roman bronze coin, used as one of the ship's wheels, depicting Emperor Nero.

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week in Pembrokeshire has been full of beautiful beaches,medieval castles & Neolithic sites.There have been visits to places I haven’t yet posted on here,but I have to say,there is still much to see here.Sadly,I’m leaving tomorrow but I’ll definitely be coming back.I’m in love with the place!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The world hide and seek competition was held in Dolgellau yesterday, Wales were eliminated in the first round.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The famous Neolithic ‘dresser’ from House One at Skara Brae on Orkney. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Prehistory #SkaraBrae #Orkney

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All Saints Church, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk St Peter & the Four Evangelists - Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The stained glass is by Samuel Yarrington in 1843. A time when there was a revival in the use of coloured glass. #StainedGlassSunday

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So thought I’d hunt out the gaudy bauble that is the Netherurd torc terminal in the National Museum of Scotland, that always makes @tessmachling.bsky.social go all giddy, for #FindsFriday Very splendid, and has Iceni / Snettisham connections to make it even more special.

A highly decorated grotesque La Tene style gold TORC terminal.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The masonry footings to a 4th century Romano Celtic temple Preserved within the sheep-gnawed grass of Maiden Castle hillfort #Dorset Excavated by Tessa Wheeler in 1934-5 Visiting with @buarchanth.bsky.social Sept 2026 #RomanSiteSaturday

The low masonry walls of a Roman temple building, one square room within another, preserved in the grass with people approaching and blue cloud flecked sky behind

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad this one made it to #FindsFriday again! The oldest smile in the world @rmoudheden.bsky.social

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Church of St Peter and St Paul and - St Thomas of Canterbury, Bovey Tracey, Devon Not an optical illusion, but a tall thin west tower with battlements & pinnacles #SteepleSaturday

Tall tower with west door & window, tiny round headed windows & clocks to second stage. Windows to belfry & battlements & pinnacles.
A large aisle with four light windows & south porch.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

St. Peter’s Church at Dorchester in Dorset. The west tower and the majority of the church are 15th century in date. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Dorchester #Dorset

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#FrescoFriday Noticed more English apples hitting the market and supermarkets now, so here's a basket of not so early ones from Casa dei Cervi in Herculaneum.

A fresco of a woven basket with a handle, tipped over spilling apples in shades of red and gold along the floor.
The image is on a light blue background with a dark red border along the bottom, with a base panel of dark pink.

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Ardent Archivist @ardentarchivist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been in shock since early this morning, when I learned of the death of Dr. Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social We never did meet in person, but over the past few years she became a cherished friend just the same. I will dearly miss her warmth, compassion, incredible generosity, and humour. /1

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New discovery: An archaeological complex with colourful mosaics and wall paintings dating to the 4th century AD has been discovered in Qesarat, Albania. 👉 www.finestresullarte.info/de/archaolog... #archaeology 🏺

An ancient geometric mosaic partially exposed in an archaeological excavation, featuring interlocking red, cream, gray, and yellow patterns.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A #Roman glass bowl, in a beautiful cobalt blue with an irregular swirling white pattern. It looks amazing - especislly given that it is nearly 2000 years old! #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The waterlogged, anaerobic environment within prehistoric pile dwellings provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials like #wood. This bucket-like vessel made of oak wood and two smaller bowls (maple and ash wood) were found in In Reute Schorrenried. Dating 3900-3500 BC.

Three wooden vessels displayed on a neutral background: one tall, roughly carved bucket-like container with a flared rim and two smaller bowl-shaped vessels in front, showing worn surfaces and natural wood texture.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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Ardent Archivist @ardentarchivist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gosh, La Woofe must be getting old (and that sun is really blazing) because that’s the second time today she’s called time out of her own accord to go sprawl in the shade. Usually Mum has to do that!

An elderly black and white dog sprawls in the shade, panting, her tennis ball carefully placed between her paws for when play recommences!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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