Roman potters mass produced Lamps & Deitity figurines in pottery Workshops across the Empire. 🏺#AncientBluesky #Archaeology In my next session at the Roman Army Museum I'll be giving you the chance to create your own using authentic methods and replica moulds. BOOK NOW! share.google/hSTds6ZQzpQh...

“We are peoples of the forest, we breathe the fresh air of the forest, we know the forest. It’s worth us being at the COP. We want to take the voices of our uncontacted relatives.” - Lucas Manchineri, Manchineri people, Brazil.

uncontactedpeoples.org
#AtTheEdge

This beautiful object is a Bronze Age barbed & tanged arrowhead, c.2300 - 1700 BC. Arrowheads often represent the pinnacle of flint working, requiring extensive detailed working to create the necessary shape. These Bronze Age examples are some of the finest. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

Face 2 Face with the Iron Age

Detail from the Marlborough Bucket @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

The *bucket*, originally of yew bound with iron hoops and decorated with sheet bronze, may originally have held a burial

📷 Feb 2022

#Archaeology #Prehistory

We offer an MSc, or Graduate Diploma (both on-campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, Distance Learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture programmes.

Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making

I will be launching my fourth book, 'Coppersmith', a tale of early Bronze Age Britain, at the craft market under the arches (the old Corn Exchange) in Hemel Hempstead Old Town on Sunday, 11.00-15.00. Come and say hello.

Ooh, the cover is ready. Not long now! #newbook #historicfiction

A #Roman mosaic of a cute little frog sitting on a lily pad 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Mosaics

🏺The magic of ceramic colours, I've just dipped these these replica Roman, Oxfordshire red slipware flagons in their slip (liquid clay) coating ready for decorating. "Red slipware?" I hear you say, "don't you mean yellow...1/3

A joint update from All We Can and the Methodist Church in Britain on the Gaza Justice Campaign 🔗⬇️

methodist.org.uk/about/news/gaza-justice-campaign-a-joint-update-from-all-we-can-and-the-methodist-church-in-britain/

The uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people rely on the rainforest to survive, but mass nickel mining is destroying it. It could cost people's lives.

🗣️ Tell companies not to use nickel from the Hongana Manyawa’s territories: svlint.org/IndonesiaB

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6 years ago I took part in an excellent course at Berrycroft Hub, making Copper Age axes, as research for a novel. I'm pleased to say that my next novel, 'Coppersmith', is now in pre-publication. Not too much longer! #writing #copper

We know you love the local honey in our shops and today is 🐝 World Bee Day🐝
This year's theme is 'Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all'

Here's a few simple things you can do to support and protect local bees:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day

📸 United Nations World Bee Day
#WorldBeeDay

🔥 Discover metalworking through the ages this weekend! Demos, talks, and more from some of Europe's leading historical metalworkers and experts, all included in our regular entrance price. buff.ly/OnvT9DL

See the full programme ⬇️

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