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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 19h

The Roman bridge at Pont-Saint-Martin in the Aosta Valley, northwest Italy. Dating to the 1st century BC, the bridge is one of many impressive Roman monuments in the area. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #AostaValley

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 19h

A collection of Bronze Age spearheads with a Scottish provenance. The spearheads are currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as part of the museum’s ‘Scotland’s First Warriors’ Exhibition. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Archaeology #Scotland

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 19h

St. Andrew’s Church at Colney on the western outskirts of Norwich in Norfolk. The round tower and nave are pre-1100 in date, while the chancel dates to the 14th century. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Colney #Norwich #Norfolk

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another great find from the sea Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century Could this be contemporary with the wreck? #FindsFriday

Two divers recover a medieval grindstone from the sea bed

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Priest bowing before a chalice in the margin: "Erige cor sursum satanam prece reice deorsum" St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 342; Calendar, Lectionary, Gradual, Sacramentary; 10th c / 11th c with 12th c additions; St. Gall; p.287 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FindsFriday 🏺 Superb bronze chimera: likely emblem (episema) on C6 BC warrior's shield w lion's head on flame-like mane + scaly fierce snake striking from centre. From high status tomb w arms, tools, ceramics + iron wheels of chariot excavated in Melfi, Basilicata. Melfi Nat Archaeological Museum.

A large thin bronze decoration probably displayed on a 6th C BC warrior's shield. At the top the head of a beast with a stylised lion's head and snout, on a long neck with incised flame-like mane, emerges from a scaly circle. This serves as the body of a fierce snake (which probably wrapped round the lion's body), which extends to the top right with a long head and open mouth, with wing below lower jaw.
The culture in Melfi at the time was in flux, with native Daunian cultures interacting with Lucanians from the north.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#PortraitThursday – Marble portrait of an unknown ruler, possibly Sauromates II of the Cimmerian Bosporus, from the late 2nd century AD. He has idealised features, including flowing hair and a short beard. It was discovered at the Theatre of Dionysus in the 19th century. 📍 Acropolis Museum, Athens.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roman #glass - flask found at Caerleon (Isca Silurum) 1st Century AD . 📷 My own. On display at Caerleon Legionary Museum. #Roman #Archaeology #FindsFriday #artwork

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some prehistoric bling for #FindsFriday 3 stone and 5 decorated glass beads found with the burial of a young Iron Age woman at Langton Herring now in #DorsetMuseum They may originally have been worn individually as amulets or together as a necklace (as shown here) 😍 📷 Sept 2026 #Durotriges

Eight circular beads of different size, 3 of stone and 5 of glass, threaded together for display in a museum case

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tilberht was consecrated as bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham) by Eanbald II, archbishop of York, at a place called Wulfeswelle, ‘well of the wolf’, #OTD in 780/81. 📸Kevin Wilbraham

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very pleased to have worked on this fascinating group of finds with the wonderful @francescatinti.bsky.social , and thanks to the comms team @cam.ac.uk for putting together the release. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/angl...

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Anglo-Saxon expats got special treatment in Rome’s 'Little England'

The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests the Anglo-Saxons in Rome were a thriving and valued expat community.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A proper #FolkHorror scene spotted at the weekend..😱🫣 The wooded driveway to the former Warpole Court hotel, St David's.. Headless horseman anyone? 😬 📷 My own

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

Fragment of a fresco depicting part of a human face, mostly the eyes. Thin lines form a grid pattern, simulating the edges of tesserae.

Fresco fragment showing a naked torso of a woman, her legs and pubic area covered in a red himation (cloak). Her right hand carries a basket laden with fruit, which look like giant globes of grapes. Grapevine leaves appear in the background. A Dionysian scene. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of the body.

Fresco fragment depicting some sort of half-human creature with wild hair and bare torso, gesturing upwards with his right hand and holding a branched stick with his left. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of his garment and body.

Fresco fragment with the torso of perhaps a god with golden skin, a red himation flowing outwards and partially covering his or her legs. Perhaps Dionysos?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. It must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circular Saxon brooch made of copper, the front of which is ornately embellished with gold and garnets. There are five raised, circular, gold bosses which are outlined with inlaid garnet slabs, and each set with a central, round garnet. Four of the gold bosses are arranged around a fifth, larger, gold boss in the centre of the brooch. The central boss sits within a star-like, four-pointed geometric shape composed of a mosaic of inlaid garnet slabs. The outer edge of the brooch is decorated with two rows of tiny inlaid polished garnets. The eight gold sections at either side of the four smaller bosses are decorated with raised gold filigree which looks like looped, braided cord. Parts of the brooch are worn, with some chipped edges, and missing garnet stones. The brooch measures approximately 7 cm in diameter. It is displayed on a clear glass surface. It was excavated from a woman's grave by AOC Archaeology in 2000 ahead of development construction works. This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy aristocratic Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. The woman's grave also contained glass beads and silver rings.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

3rd century wall plaster from the Romano-British villa at Tarrant Hinton in Dorset, possibly depicting Narcissus, a hunter from Roman mythology. Now part of the collections at East Dorset Museum in Wimborne, Dorset. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain #TarrantHinton

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ‘Malone Hoard’ - 19 polished stone axe heads from the Neolithic which were found at Danesfort House, on Malone Road in Belfast during the 19th century. Now part of the collections at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Belfast

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 12th century font from the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #WhitchurchCanonicorum #Dorset

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Universal soldier Damaged fragment of a tombstone commemorating a #Roman auxiliary cavalryman from Whitcombe #Dorset in #DorsetMuseum The full image probably showed the horse trampling on a Briton / Durotrigian 😲 📷 Sept 2026 #RomanFortThursday

Damaged sculptural relief showing a Roman cavalryman with cape and helmet, holding a spear and riding an angry horse

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p

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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#GlassObjectThursday 🏺 Delicate #Roman blown glass flask with polychrome snake-thread decoration. 3rd C AD. Made in Rhineland, Cologne area. In British Museum

Translucent glass vase with fine rounded body, and remains of small foot. An elegant narrow neck bows out slightly at the top, and is flanked by delicate handles either side, together forming a heart shape. The body is decorated with gold and light blue coloured threads of glass, in irregular swirly patterns

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of a wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's #RomanFortThursday and as the summer ends so do most excavations. This pic is of excavating at floor inside Vindolanda in 2013, when it was scorching and baked hard. You can read more about the civilians living at Vindolanda in my new book www.amberley-books.com/discover-boo...

Stones emerge from dusty dry beige dirt. Some are obviously worked, oblong shapes lying in parallel lines. Some look more like rubble.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Detail from the Neolithic rock art that survives at Achnabreck in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll. The rock art is part of an extensive and remarkable prehistoric landscape at Kilmartin. 📸 My own. #RockArt #Archaeology #Prehistory #Kilmartin #Argyll

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Scale armour from the Roman Fort at Carlisle (Luguvalium) which was found in the fort workshop. Now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Carlisle

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The 15th century priest’s door from the Church of St. John the Baptist at Bere Regis in Dorset. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #BereRegis #Dorset

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#AdoorableThursday The spectacular medieval west door of St David's Cathedral 🤩, Pembrokeshire, largely built of local purple Caerfai stone 📷 My own, last weekend

A great cathedral door with multiple Norman arches

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Viking-Age gold hoard discovered in the Hebrides in the 1860s. Local landowner and respected antiquarian Erskine Beveridge narrowed its provenance to Oronsay, off North Uist, which seems to be confirmed by local memories. 📸National Museums Scotland

The hoard comprises gold finger-rings, most of which are plaited, and gold ingots.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HillfortsWednesday Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940). #Archaeology

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Always nice to come back from a weekend & be spoiled for choice for #HillfortsWednesday Had a fantastic time seeing more in Pembrokeshire & Gower 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 📷 Caer Aber Pwll Building to the new Hillfort Series this autumn For now you can catch more Welsh Hillforts here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Enjoyed a recent visit to 'Barbury Castle', an Iron Age hillfort near Swindon. Very impressive banks and ditches! Hillforts were some of the first archaeological sites I became interested in, and I still find them fascinating.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bonus vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photograph showing the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with trees, scrub and the stone foundations of a broch or Iron Age tower

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The ramparts of Hod Hill Hillfort, near Blandford Forum in Dorset. The fort is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in the county. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #HodHill #IronAge #Archaeology #Dorset

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ruins of the bakehouse and horse mill in the south range of Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire. Additional domestic and service facilities were added to the castle in the 16th century, including a bakehouse in the south range and a pastry kitchen in the west range. The circular horse mill

The image shows the stone ruins of Middleham Castle in North Yorkshire. featuring the circular track of an old horse mill in the courtyard.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Æthelred I, king of the Northumbrians, wed Ælfflæd, daughter of Offa of Mercia, #OTD in 792, reportedly after putting away his first wife. In 796, he was slain at Et Corabrige (Corbridge) by a group of conspirators including ealdormen Ealdred and Wada. 📸North Lincolnshire Museum

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#PompeytheGreat , Born #OTD 106 BCE, was a renowned Roman general and statesman of the final decades of the Roman Republic. Protégé of the military dictator Sulla, Pompey achieved significant military and political success during his lifetime. #FirstTriumverate #roman #history

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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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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For #TilesonTuesday here’s the medieval floor tiles from Wenlock Priory, taken from the site 60 years ago and now returned to EH. My 📷. Here’s the story www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/search...

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