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Archaeology Field Surveyor. Digger of the past. Trail walker.
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oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#RomanSiteSaturday Stumps of columns in the sand, the sad forgotten remains of the Roman port city of Meninx

📍 Djerba island, Tunisia

📸 Mine

#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
A sandy beach store strewn with the rubble of Roman ruins
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

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The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩

The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!

This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long curving neck and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Eboracum was a fort founded in AD 71 and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britannia and a provincial capital. The site ultimately developed into the present-day city of York, in North Yorkshire, England. #RomanSiteSaturday
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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The remains of the north gateway of Milecastle 37, just west of Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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#FrescoFriday brings us back to #Pompeii via the #BritishMuseum, where a fragmentary #fresco roundel shows us a very vivid couple, painted rapidly and realistically with a skill that gets more striking the more one looks. 20 BCE-20 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺
FRESCO ROUNDEL FROM POMPEII, C. 20 BCE - 20 CE. BRITISH MUSEUM This is part of a genre of wall paintings in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and across the Roman world, images in roundels (part of the leafy frame survives at right) that resemble portrait busts. Sometimes they may depict actual people, perhaps the residents of the house, and sometimes they appear idealised. In this case it's hard to tell. We see here a couple, male and female, looking upward and to our right, in 3/4 view. The male bust at left may be represented as a philosopher with his torso bare, but his face is remarkably individual, his brown hair tousled, his expression verging on apprehension. Next to him, the woman, presumably his wife, has an Augustan-era hairstyle and traces of what might almost be a little hat in blue grey, but is likely a headscarf. She seems idealised. A stop-gap placeholder for a future wife?
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
Fragments of decorative wall plaster from Roman Lincoln (Lindum). The fragments came from the Greetwell villa site in Lincoln (sadly destroyed by quarrying during the C19th), and are now part of the collections at Lincoln Museum. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#FindsFriday This fabulous little figurine of a woman was found in Egypt from ~3000BC

But based on the pose she was probably carved in Mesopotamia

Buuuut she's made from Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan!

Quite a journey!

#archaeology #photooftheday

📍Seen in the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge🏺
A tiny blue stone figurine with arms crossed standing on a red museum plinth
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.

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A small, rectangular, weathered wooden pocket sundial with finely carved concentric circles and hour markings surrounding a deep circular recess in the center, where a compass once sat, all shown against a black background.
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
A bronze bulls head with curved horns and protruding tongue that forms a ring - the handle of an Iron Age bronze vessel.
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Happy #FindsFriday everyone! 🏺

This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀

On view at the Met.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A stunning late #Roman glass goblet

Probably made in Egypt around AD 400

Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk

📷 May 2024

An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂

#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
A fine, wide brimmed decorated green glass goblet held in place with a black metal stand on display in a museum case
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The Nijmegen Helmet - a #Roman 'cavalry sports' helmet with a slightly chilling face mask attached. It is about 1900-2000 years old, & was found in the Waal river near Nijmegen (Netherlands) in 1915 #AncientBlueSky
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Hypocaust remains from the Commanding Officer’s House (Praetorium) at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort #HadriansWall
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Walking east on the Trail, beside the north wall of Housesteads Roman Fort. Getting close to the Knag Burn gate in Wall mile 36. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn #RomanFortThursday
Walking east on the Trail, beside the north wall of Housesteads Roman Fort. Getting close to the Knag Burn gate in Wall mile 36.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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A relief sculpture of a blacksmith at work in his workshop. He’s surrounded by the tools of his trade. It was found in Tomb 29 at the Necropolis of Portus on the Isola Sacra. AD 160-180.

‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊

📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#ReliefWednesday this week focuses on this lovely little #terracotta roundel with an #Eros emerging from the centre of a flower, his hair braided in the centre. He holds a folding mirror in his surviving hand and shows traces of #polychromy. From #Centuripe in #Sicily, C2 BCE.
TERRACOTTA ROUNDEL, C2 BCE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM The Sicilian town of Centuripe in the province of Enna began its life as a village of the Siculi, but was thoroughly Greek by the C5 BCE and joined the Romans against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War. Cicero described it as "by far the richest city in Sicily" and it produced magnificent painted terracotta dishes and architectural elements. Here we see a gently-smiling Eros, wings outspread, turning his head to look down at the folding mirror he holds in his right hand. Traces of red and white paint remain on his hair and clothes, on his wings and on the flower roundel from which he is emerging.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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A rainbow at Foel Drygarn yesterday (25.11.25) for #HillfortWednesday #scape
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Some very sad images coming out of Hong Kong with that massive fire in the high rises.

This might be a major disaster with lots of loss of life and property.

Urgh, those poor people + pets .... I hope they got out in time.

Images by Reuters photographer Tyrone Siu.
Firefighters and a firetruck in front of several tall hirise buildings which are on fire and billowing smoke A man stands with his arms extended out towards the tall hirise buildings on fire in Hong Kong Night time image of several buildings on fire Night view of a building on fire in Hong Kong
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The images are apocalyptic

Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire

www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 36, with 279 reported missing
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Dolmen de Cal Boixadera: Burial Chamber in Cataluña #TombTuesday 📷 LaSenyussana More: http://www.megalithi...
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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#TombTuesday
John Arnold tomb stone, the owner of the nearby manor house (17th C)
St Pancras, Alton Pancras, #Dorset
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Pyramid of Djoser c.2667 – 2648 BCE

Location:  Saqqara Necropolis, Egypt (northwest of the city of Memphis) and the bent Pyramid. c.2600 BCE

Location: Dashur Necropolis, #Egypt

#TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#TilesOnTuesday #AbbeyDore
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM