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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Fam! We were trying to be funny in our earlier post (we should know better)! Nice to know we're loved, though. Thanks. We’ll be back soon with new content – watch this space...

An image of the model of Fishbourne Roman Palace, taken from the north east. It has been photoshopped to appear as a real building with a realistic sky in the background. The architecture is highly classical in style.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

😭Sad news😭 The authorities have finally caught up with us so this will be our last post on BlueSky. It's been a blast and we love you all. Especially our BFF @merchantshallyork.org 🥰🥰 Keep up with the posting, everyone. Together you can conquer the scourge of work-based productivity...

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Jake Gyllenhaal's 'I'm Out' Goodbye

ALT: Jake Gyllenhaal's 'I'm Out' Goodbye

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This Mesolithic amber figurine from Denmark is conclusive proof that The Wombles were around long before the 70s.

A mall orange figurine carved from amber, with a long snout, facing right. Officially it is a bear, but it has the distinctive whiff of Bungo to us.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Mosaics = zero 🙄 Hypocausts = zero 🤨 Oldest formal gardens in Britain = zero 🥱 The Royal Yacht Britannia = two stars ⭐⭐😐 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Is this really the best tourist attraction in the world?

The Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh awarded the 'Best of the Best Things to Do' award by Tripadvisor.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We've decided we have too much money, so THIS SATURDAY (2nd May) you can visit for just FIVE QUID and kids go free! 🤩🤩. We're even laying on music, craft stalls, refreshments and that. Oh! Oh! And there's going to be a bouncy castle!! What's not to love??! 😍🏰

It's a poster consisting of summer colours with a stylized sun and bunting above a photographic image of a classical Roman garden. The title is "Summer Fete" and the key details include that it is the 2nd May, 10am to 4pm, there is free parking and the cost is £5 per person with kids going free. There will be assorted local stallholder, food and drink and live entertainment. Tickets can be booked via www.sussexpast.co.uk

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A brilliant afternoon spent at the always excellent Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social with #CuratorRob Symmons Although with the constant reminder of what can never (ever) be mine.... #HypocaustGate

The hand of an archaeologist stretches out toward a Roman hypocaust which remains (literally) out of reach forever

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We would like to know what was going through the mind of the person who, instead of putting a label on this box, put a label on this box saying that it needs a label... 🧐

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yesterday was International Flamingo Day, but for this little guy it may as well have been a lifetime ago. 🧑‍🍳🍴🤤 #MosaicMonday

A roman mosaic consisting of a laurel outer border, around a decorative border resembling folded lined and in the centre is a trussed flamingo who has no idea what he has coming to him.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's a little known fact that all curators are related. Indeed, #CuratorScott and #CuratorRob are cousins. Very, very distant cousins. 🤔🧬

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

@maryrosemuseum.bsky.social haven't posted for 12 days. We're worried they've sunk. Again. 😬

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We lent the Learning Team this book and for some reason when they returned it, it was wrapped in cling film. 🤔

In the background is a slightly out of focus bookshelf. In the foreground a left hand holding by the corner a book called "Roman Chichester" by Alec down, which is inexplicably wrapped in clingfilm and has an elastic band around it.

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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We're delighted to now be on the Bloomberg Connects App, allowing you to access more information on our museum, collections and history in multiple languages, as well as an audio guide of our displays. - all for free! 😀 Find out more at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/about-us/new...

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Volunteer Bethany was in yesterday and made archive boxes... a LOT of archive boxes...

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 23/04/2026

It’s St George’s Day! 🐉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Seems apt to share our most popular post on bluesky. Although we have been told that the dragon in question is actually a wyvern. 😬

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Do you want to see our impression of a dog?

The corner of a broken Roman tile on which can clearly be seen two paw prints, heading from left to right, with one superimpose on the other.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Why isn't Margate's Crab Museum on Bluesky? We need answers. 🦀

It's a snip from another platform. A man sleeps while an huge crab looms over him. Captions say "Don't worry you are not alone" and "We've hired a crab to watch over you". The comment on the post is "Crab Museum takes no responsibility for it smashing your flat to bits in search of tidbits of algae, whale flesh, or a simple good time. Frankly, we're as baffled as you are.

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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Mosaic of a winged boy riding a dolphin. From Fishbourne Roman Palace. #MosaicMonday

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Huxley's too old and stiff to get as far as the bluebell woods these days, so here's a pic of him when he wasn't. #SundayHuxley

We don't know what's more gorgeous: the bluebells in the woods, or the handsome golden retriever sitting among them with his tongue out.

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Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Yesterday's ##archive30 was #archivestorage. We're not as neat as the big guns ( @mrcwarwick.bsky.social & @romanpalace.bsky.social ) but we try our best!

Archive boxes and bound volumes on shelving

Archive boxes and small bound volumes on shelving

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Old, messy, but ours. We're incredibly jealous.

A photo of one of the archive strongrooms. Boxes sit on shelving with runners in the floor to move the rolling stacks. Exposed vents and pipes are overhead.

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Cheshire Military Museum @cheshiremilitary.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We may be tiny but we are mighty! (And it smells like old books 🥰)

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Since everyone's sharing pics of their archives ATM... We visited the mighty Archaeological Resource Centre in Northamptonshire this week and saw their amazing archives, which are overseen by Ben: a slightly underripe #CuratorRob.

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Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We need to do a new video now it's full, but for now you'll just need to marvel over this. 🤩 bsky.app/profile/roys...

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We know we're biased, but ours are better. 😎

A view down a narrow aisle between two racks of shelving. On the shelves are row upon row of near-identical perfectly labelled boxes. At the end is a red wall illuminated from the left. It's enough to bring a tear to your eye.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Conference alert! It's free and it's hybrid, so you have no excuses no to be there.

A poster for a conference about archaeometallurgy in UK Heritage. The list of speakers includes Carl Heron (British Museum), Peter Bray (Reading University), Frances Macintosh (English Heritage) and some loser called "Robert Symmons". The conference in hybrid (on line, or in-person in Reading), and there is a QR code to register.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We would like to apologize that our recent content has been so awesome that it's been causing BlueSky to glitch. We will return to posting an endless stream of utter rubbish immediately. Again: Sorry. 😳

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Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Did anyone else see this message in the clouds this morning? #LookUpAtTheSkyDay

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Those folk from @buarchanth.bsky.social are back today with their fancypants ground penetrating radar. They're trying to find out what's beneath our car par. We don't like to tell them they're wasting their time... Nothing interesting ever gets found under a car park, right? 👑😬

On the left an man in a baseball cap. On the right a woman wearing glasses. The woman is pushing a trolley-type implement. they are standing in front of a low wall and hedging.

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'll be talking about Roman Baths in Britain at the Epping Forest District Museum on the 22nd April at 7pm. Tickets £7 to raise money for the museum. www.ticketsource.com/efdmuseum/ta... @theromansoc.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We can confirm that visitors to the Palace will be able to buy "healthy cocaine" from this dealer, in our car park.

A lovely little horsebox, festooned with bunting and surrounded by blackboards listing types of cake, hot drinks etc. and their prices. Through a hatch in the side you are able to purchase any of the items listed. Also, we think people should use the word "festooned" more.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Huxley wishes everyone a fantastic Sunday. But he's still not sharing the sofa with you. 😘😘 #SundayHuxley

A beautiful old golden retriever laying on a sofa, looking at the camera with his paws flopped over the edge of the sofa. It's enough to bring a tear to your eye.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

A cute figurine of a bear made from amber. It looks like a gummy bear

A figurine of a hippo with a hole in his back and a loop of gold going through the hole. The figurine is made of a transparent glassy material. Rock crystal, perhaps. It looks not unlike a Foxe's glacier mint.

A carved bust of a bearded man in a brown material, against a red background. If you told us it was carved from chocolate, we wouldn't argue.

A figurine of a hippo in a green material (nephrite, apparently, whatever that is). It looks like it could be a wine gum, but one of the green ones that no one really likes.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

... alternatively you can have my sweets that look like artefacts! 🤣 #Archaeology

The Cirencester cockerel in white chocolate with edible paint

Mrs Getty's early medieval brooch in milk chocolate with edible paint

A selection of chocolate axes, combs, etc

A chocolate torc with chocolate fondant wires.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Do you want some Money? Of course you do. Here's a fund that will help early career archaeologists become *actual* career archaeologists... sussexpast.co.uk/research/the...

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a computer screen that says career upgrade in progress on it

ALT: a computer screen that says career upgrade in progress on it

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We've only just realized that @romanfindsgroup.bsky.social are on BlueSky. Sorry to have missed this. The guilty party has been identified and thoroughly thrashed. Still worth a follow, though. 👍✅

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We're hosting Erin and Will today (from @buarchanth.bsky.social). They're surveying our Formal Garden using ground penetrating radar. Can't wait to see what they discover. Probably a previously unknown hypocaust. 🤞

A garden scene. In the foreground are two people looking together at some kind of clipboard. To the right of them is a wheeled contraption that looks like a pram without the cot part. It's a Ground penetrating radar device.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Look what arrived in this morning's post! We have abandoned all hope of doing any Actual Work today. 🤩

A book, laying on a table. The book has a dark red cover with a picture of a mosaic. It is entitles "Mosaics in Britannia" and is by Stephen R Cosh.

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Stuart Jones @owenthesignal.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The stunning Dolphin mosaic at Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Hope you had a great weekend. Help yourself to this Easter bunny being chased by an aardvark. #MosaicMonday

A Roman mosaic, executed in a naïve style. Beneath is either a rabbit or a hare. above is what may be intended to be a dog but the frankly shocking quality of the mosaic means it could be mistaken for an aardvark or anteater.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Huxley went to the Fox and Hounds and graciously accepted strokes from strangers. #SundayHuxley

A very loved, old and baffled-looking golden retriever standing in a pub, on wooden floorboards with the bar in the background.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 04/04/2026

Spring flowers: ✅ Medieval guild hall: ✅ Grey and chilly weather because it’s a Bank Holiday weekend in the UK: ✅ Whatever your plans, we hope you have a happy Saturday!

We are looking at the Hall from the outside in the garden - it’s a grey day but the yellow plasterwork still pops against tgr cloud. Bright pink tulips shoot up in front of the building.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 03/04/2026

Today’s amazing and completely not tenuous Easter fact: The Hall is 4 years older than hot cross buns. Brother Thomas Rocliffe of St Albans Abbey began making them in 1361 and would distribute them to the poor on Good Friday.

We are looking at the Great Hall. All majestic soaring oak frame but sadly devoid of hot cross buns.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Sometimes your working day gives you more joy than you could ever have hoped for.

You're not going to believe this but it's a man wearing Roman armour, walking a black lamb on a lead. You don't need to know this but the lamb is called Emily.

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