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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 23h

This #FindsFriday we have a medieval copper alloy and enamel Limoges hollow cast figurine from a crucifix, dating to AD 1150-1250. The figurine depicts Christ, moulded in relief, upon the cross.

A copper alloy and enamel Limoges hollow cast figurine with its arms stretched out in the crucifix position

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sandwiched between a 'fine trout' and the North Wraxall bus, perhaps the first press reference to the name of Stonehenge's timber neighbour #OTD 100 years ago: "where—as an aerial photograph has revealed—once stood a many-circled 'temple' of wood…to which the name 'Woodhenge' seems likely to cling"

Cutting from The Wiltshire News, 8 October 1926 (via British Newspaper Archive):
"Admiral Sir Richard Poore, of Winsley, is the owner of the land at Tollerdown, near Amesbury, where—as an aerial photograph has revealed—once stood a many-circled 'temple' of wood, the only one of its kind known to archaeologists. A number of curious 'dots' on the aerial photograph attracted attention, and investigation showed that each dot represented a circular pit dug into the solid chalk. The pits are arranged in seven concentrie rings, and there is reason to believe that they originally held wooden posts or tree trunks. Over 75 pits were discovered in the half of the circle that has been excavated (which is 200 feet in diameter). It is suggested that this circle, to which the name 'Woodhenge' seems likely to cling, may be the site of a construction made on somewhat similar lines to Stonehenge, which is about a mile and a half distant, but with tree trunks used instead of stone."

Aerial photograph of "the so-called 'Woodhenge'", reproduced in the Illustrated London News, 19 March 1927

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Imagemakers are working with us on our Assizes for Devizes project. Lots of creative ideas on their way. Coming soon in 2030!

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Chippenham Museum @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

NEW EXHIBITION - What's in Store Explore objects from the prehistoric period to the present day, including archaeological finds, toys, costume, photographs and new acquisitions to our Modern and Contemporary Art Collection. 📅 Sat 3 Oct-Sat 21 Nov 🕒 Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm 🎟️ Free entry

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week's #FindsFriday is a Medieval floor tile from Bradenstoke Priory, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire. Eames design 6, a cock standing facing left, with two annulets. Find out more about our collections here: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...

An orange tile with a beige/ white image of a cock standing facing left, with two annulets.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Garry Gibbons and I are giving a talk on Wiltshire's White Horses to Devizes Café Scientifique at the Raven, Poulshot near Devizes, on Tuesday 6th October, bar open at 7.00 talk starts 7.30. Do come along.

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The Salisbury Museum @salisburymuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last chance to see our 'Bloomsbury in Wiltshire' exhibition. Ends Sunday 27 September.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Littlecote villa is in Wiltshire - and we have finds from the site on display!

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This #FindsFriday is a beautiful long stemmed clay pipe once belonging to Arthur Ernest Underwood. It was given to him at an event at the Corn Exchange / Bear Hotel, in Devizes. See more about this item & our collection here: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/item-record/...

White long stemmed clay pipe with pattern on the bowl

A close up of the bowl of the pipe with its detailed design including lined V shaped lines and dotted patterns

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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Deceptively simple: Stonehenge as blocks on the real contoured surface — orbit on your phone, tap for coords, sun & moon for today or c. 2500 BC. A lot of work so it feels easy. timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-b...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Clandon Barrow lozenge, a diamond-shaped sheet of beaten gold incised with a geometric design over 3,800 years ago 🤩 Found in 1882 during the excavation of an Early Bronze Age burial mound to the SW of Dorchester Now on display at Dorset Museum 📷 Sept 2026 #FindsFriday

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#FindsFriday this week is a section of a beam from the barn at Northgate Nurseries, Devizes (demolished in the late 1970s), with a bas relief carving of a threshing scene and the date 1788 carved into the beam, from Devizes, Wiltshire.

A section of beam with two figures working with tools in their hands

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The Salisbury Museum @salisburymuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join our director Adrian Green this Saturday for an 8-mile walk across the Wiltshire downlands that inspired the Bloomsbury Group at Ham Spray House. Explore prehistoric earthworks and the routes Carrington walked. Sat 19 Sept, 10am Members £15, Non-members £20 salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/wal...

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WALK: The Landscape of Ham Spray - The Salisbury Museum

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today’s #FindsFriday is a 19th century large metal key to the main gate of Roundway Psychiatric Hospital, Devizes. Otherwise known as Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum, which opened in 1851.

A large 19th century metal key of dark brown colouring

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Walking talking Stonehenge sarsen stones... @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social parading at Devizes Carnival in Wiltshire 5 September 2026, photo by Devizes Town Council. @clonehenge.bsky.social

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This #FindsFriday we have an amazing embroidered map of Wiltshire which was made by a nurse at Roundway Hospital, in Devizes in the 1920’s. What a wonderful piece! Find more on our collections here: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/item-record/...

A close up of an embriodered map of Wiltshire

An embriodered map of Wiltshire using the colours of brown, blue and green

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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Stonehenge nerdy goodness, surprisingly hard to create, maybe that is why I had to make it myself. A georeferenced plan of Stonehenge. timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-p...

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A georeferenced plan of Stonehenge

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Chippenham Museum @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Join us for Heritage Open Days and discover the stories of the people who lived and worked at 9-10 Market Place before it became the home of Chippenham Museum. 📅 Saturday 19 September 🕘 10.30am - 3.30pm 🎟️ Free, drop-in This event has been researched and organised by our Young Curators Group.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ending our work experience #FindsFriday for August is the Ichthyosaur’s Head. This one was Holly's favourite because: 'Dinosaurs have always been my favourite area of history. The skull is well preserved so you can see just how large its snout was and how sharp the teeth were.

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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A 3000 yr old Bronze Age gold torc that wouldn’t look out of place at the Met Gala. Interestingly, a dispute over who owned this find from a Monkton Deverill burial mound led to the 1996 Treasure Act, whereby all treasure belongs to the Crown. Salisbury Museum #FindsFriday

A twisted gold torc made from a single strand twisted back on itself then twisted again to form a loose rope with bar end fastenings, displayed in a black museum case. Blurry photo, sorry

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New book alert! Historic England have published a book version of a report I commissioned back in c2012 to help inform the Stonehenge visitor centre reconstructions and other parts of the interpretation scheme. 1/2

Front cover of a hardback book featuring an aerial photo of Stonehenge and its avenue. The title is The Stonehenge World: Living, landscape, food and design at the time of our greatest monument. Edited by Matthew Canti

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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It was such a delight to feature last week on radio talking about John Aubrey & this fabulous exhibition. I have now listened to myself and surprisingly I was not terrible.

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The Salisbury Museum @salisburymuseum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hidden details in famous paintings are the best. Florence Nightingale and Dr Arnold are tucked into the background of this portrait of Lytton Strachey. Artist Henry Lamb added them after Strachey's book was published. Bloomsbury in Wiltshire, until 27 Sept 🖼️Lytton Strachey by Henry Lamb,1914 ©Tate

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Second only in Europe to the Gundesrup Cauldron" - bit long though ...

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BTW - more info and an amazing talk by Dr Reb Ellis-Haken (a fair chunk of her thesis research) online at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Suggestions for alternatives to 'bucket' welcome!!

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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The wonderful (even if I say so myself) @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social exhibition on John Aubrey is in the @thetls.bsky.social this week!!!! The exhibition runs to 19/09.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Another one of our #FindsFriday work experience favourites: Ammonite, picked by Elliot! 'The name is derived from the Egyptian God, Amun who wielded ram horns on his head, therefore with similarities between the horns of goats and the curling features ammonite was named.

White beige coloured unbroken coiled ammonite

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We recognise this! Features the Wiltshire Thatcher photo by Ernest Farmer in our collection. Find out more at www.facebook.com/share/p/19aG...

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This Friday we are continuing our #FindsFriday work experience selection. In July we asked work experience students to pick their favourite item from the museums display, so today's Finds Friday is The Marlborough Bucket.

The smaller fragments of the Marlborough bucket. It shows the top part of a face with the bottom half missing. There is the back end of a horse and the last section shows parts of two figures coming together

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It is still there at www.facebook.com/share/g/1BgW...

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Management now by MoD Defence Infrastructure Organisation is exemplary. Salisbury Plain has seen little ploughing so preservation is fantastic.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There was a Maud Cunnington Appreciation Society on Facebook...

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"…those monuments from being dug into or levelled or destroyed… he was sorry to say that the Army were among the worst offenders. For example, it was not so very long ago that they cut out the whole of the interior of a long barrow with the exception of one end to make a miniature rifle range."

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Cunningtons, Ben and Maud, were prime movers in the resolution. Capt. Ben said that "during the past 4 or 5 years Mrs Cunnington and himself had scheduled a very large number of prehistoric remains" but "their powers were simply those granted by Act of Parliament and they could not prevent…

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

William Stukeley stood on Haradon Hill (now Beacon Hill) and watched the solar eclipse of 1724. 'I stood upon this hill May 11. 1724. during the total eclipse of the sun, of which I gave an account in my Itinerarium. Here is a most noble view of the work and country about Stonehenge.'

Two men stand on top of a hill, each holding a horse. They are watching a dark cloud with streaming rays of sunlight. Etching with blue wash.

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

How should Iron Age studies best make amends for its erasing of Maud Cunnington - the woman who developed our first scientific chronology.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

On #internationalcatday - two ceramic floor tiles; one with the paw print of a cat, the other with a paw print of a dog, from Atworth Roman Villa, Atworth, Wiltshire. Excavated by A. Shaw-Mellor and R. Goodchild, 1937-39.

Two square light orange-coloured ceramic floor tiles with traces of white mortar with paw prints of a cat and a dog.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Back in July we had students come for work experience at Wiltshire Museum. We got them to pick their favourite item from the museums display, so today's Finds Friday is Esme's favourite - The Jadeite Axe. Here's why Esme liked it:

A smokey green jade colour jadiete axe head with a chipped ridge on the wider right end

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How about the Bush Barrow lozenge? www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

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Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

More parchmarks. By the car park at Silbury Hill you can see some of the wall foundations of the house & tea rooms that were beside a petrol station that closed in the mid 1970s. Black & white Wiltshire Museum photos, some interesting memories of the site here www.facebook.com/groups/deviz...

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Including this fabulous Beaker - placed in one of the chambers. Part of the closing down of the tomb 1,000 years after it was built. www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

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