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Just visible in the long grass, the remains of Great Witcombe Roman Villa #RomanSiteSaturday Once a large and wealthy villa, it's nestled into a lovely little valley of the Cotswold hills in Gloucestershire, UK Not a bad view to wake up to! 🏺📸 By me #archaeology #ancientbluesky #photooftheday

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Look at these little guys rowing! For #FindsFriday here's an Ancient Egyptian model boat from about 1800 BC, found in the 'Tomb of the Officials' at Beni Hasan in 1902 It's now in the Ure Museum of the University of Reading 📸 By me #archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientegypt #egypt #photooftheday🏺

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The reconstructed North Gate of the Roman Fort at Castlefield in Manchester (Mamucium). The reconstruction depicts how the gateway would have looked in around AD 200. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Manchester

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The Roman fort of Lussonium near modern Paks in Hungary will be turned into an archaeological park. The fort lies on the Pannonian Limes, a section of Danubian Limes. It was built as a castra in the first century AD during the reign of Claudius or Nero. #RomanFortThursday

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#archaeologynews "We think this gladiator was fighting in some sort of spectacle and was incapacitated, and that the lion bit him and dragged him away by his hip" Come to York they said... It'll be fine they said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A 1776 illustration of Rutupiae Roman Fort (Richborough in Kent) by William Stukeley I shows the huge 3rd-4th century fort walls (which still survive), and the cross that marks the surviving paths through a now-lost monumental arch #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #AncientBluesky 🏺

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The Norman doorway of St. Denys at Walmgate in York. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Medieval #York

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AncientBlueSky🏺 Rhyton - The upper section of the #luxury vessel used for drinking #wines is wrought from silver plate with gilded edge with embossed ivy branch. The lower part goes in the cast Protoma #horse. 4th Century BC. Kinský Palace (NM-HM10 1407). #ancient #artwork #History #art

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Free-access #archaeology articles from #Cambridge for #SAA2025Denver out now! 📚➡️ cup.org/4jlFIh5 @antiquityj.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @saa-aap.bsky.social

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Dragon Hill, where St George dispatched the dragon, strangely flat-topped and still scarred with the creature’s toxic blood. Also in view is a bit of the White Horse, including its wish-granting eye. A truly legendary landscape! #stgeorgesday

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#tombtuesday Before the Avebury stones there was this place … the mound of West Kennet long barrow stretches for an incredible 100 metres, way beyond the stone burial chambers. This place was used for 1,000 years and then its entrance was closed up by megaliths. Some crazy beautiful lark song here!

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A lovely painting of Wandlebury Hillfort near #Cambridge by local apothecarist & artist Richard Relhan, 1801 It captures the site in his day - a wealthy manor with bridges over the Iron Age ditch #HillfortsWednesday Now in the Cambridge University Library #archaeology #arthistory #ancientbluesky🏺

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Coire na Fèinne, a Neolithic chambered tomb on the Isle of Lewis in #Scotland... now in somebody's garden 🤔 It's an unusual garden feature, but it seems to be well maintained, with flowers and cut grass etc #TombTuesday 📸 My own 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain #photooftheday

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Part of a beautiful #Roman geometric corridor mosaic at Paphos (Cyrpus) - always amazing to see these intricate artworks in their original setting #MosaicMonday #Archaeology AncientBlueSky

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Whoever did this had clearly never seen a wolf before Nonetheless happy birthday #Rome! #SPQR

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A tigress and her cubs for #MosaicMonday www.clevelandart.org/art/1987.65

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#MosaicMonday - Mosaic depicting the She-Wolf looking after Romulus and Remus. From Aldborough (Britain), about 300-400 AD. Leeds City Museum. Happy 2,778th birthday, Rome! #NatalediRoma 🐺

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A bunny for this Easter #MosaicMonday, in the House of Dionysos, Paphos. Compare with the Cirencester hare posted by @doccrom.bsky.social - the RB workmanship is really rather accomplished!

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Another mosaic from the palace at Piazza Amerina for #MosaicMonday This time it is the mosaic in the Vestibule of Eros and Pan. As a coin nerd my eyes were drawn to the folles (bags of coins) under the table.

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For #MosaicMonday and #Easter Monday a lovely image of a #rabbit, a detail from a mosaic showing Orpheus surrounded by enchanted #animals. Found in Antioch, modern-day Antakya, #Turkey. Dating 4th c. AD. On display at Museum Kestner Hannover. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

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#MosaicMonday A scene from East Coker, Somerset, showing two hunters returning home after a successful day with a doe slung on a pole. Below them is their hunting dog. A favourite of mine for the flowing lines of the doe. C4th Now in the @museumofsomerset.bsky.social #RomanBritain #AncientBluesky

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#MosaicMonday Happy 2,778th birthday Rome founded this day 753 BCE. Roman mosaic flooring showing the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus which is central to the founding myth of the city. From the cubicle in the Domus della Fortuna Annonaria in Ostia. 📷 Ostia Antica Park #ancientbluesky

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#MosaicMonday Mosaic from House of the Laberii in Uthina, #Tunisia, depicting Rural Life and Hunting Scenes It is open to the elements (the brown patch is rainwater & mud) but thankfully it is just a copy. The original is in the Bardo Museum in Tunis 📸By me #archaeology #arthistory #photooftheday🏺

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Sir Richard Colt Hoare's observations on #Dorset Grey Mare and her Colts a megalithic chambered long barrow. "This Temple, though little now remains except the mere bases of the upright stones, was of greater extent than any hitherto noticed in the county." #StandingStoneSunday

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#StandingStoneSunday I'm rather fond of this standing stone on Gardom's Edge, even if it's said to have the face of a demon on one side. 👹

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#SouthHill Standing Stone, #Cornwall 5th - 7th Century AD At top is a “Chi Rho” monogram, an early #medieval symbol for Christ. Below are two curved lines, perhaps symbolic of the “Resurrection”. An inscription reads CVMREGN-FILI MAVC - translating as Cumregnus son of Maucus #StandingStoneSunday

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Faux #StandingStoneSunday offering from the Mawddach woodlands. Tall erratic with a dusting of celtic rainforest.

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#StandingStoneSunday Popped into see the stones at Trellech on the way home from the Wye valley. With @vogonlaundromat.bsky.social

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Kettins #standingstoneSunday .. the Pictish carvings almost gone

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Pentre Ifan, Preseli Hills, Wales. A favourite place. #StandingStoneSunday

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On Midsummer's Eve it is said that Maen Llia comes to life and walks down to the river in the valley beyond to drink! #StandingStoneSunday

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📍 Devil’s Quoit standing stone in Stackpole Warren, Pembrokeshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 It looks so cute in the middle of this empty field! It’s wild to think this now remote-feeling place used to be such a hive of activity throughout prehistory. I feel like the lively spirit still lingers 💕 #StandingStoneSunday

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Of course, standing alone as it does on the open hillside, Maen Llia has long been an attraction for tourists #StandingStoneSunday

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Happy birthday Rome! The Eternal City celebrates 2,778 years today.

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The Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis in the early morning light An absolute forest of stones, erected ~2800 BCE, they are surely some of the best in the world #StandingStoneSunday 📸 My own, April 2025 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky #photooftheday

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Supposedly the hole in the centre is from a bullet fired by one of Cook's men The #Museum of Arch and Anth in #Cambridge held several spears taken in this encounter, until they were formally returned to the Gweagal community in Sydney last year #UncomfortableCambridge @maacambridge.bsky.social

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The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

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The Collegia Juvenum in Mactaris, #Tunisia. Here young men were trained in the art of politics, law, commerce and war It became so powerful that it participated in the revolt that brought Emperor Gordian I to power in 238AD! #RomanSiteSaturday 🏺📸 My own #archaeology #ancientbluesky #photooftheday

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#FrescoFriday - Fourth style of Pompeian wall painting depicting a rabbit sniffing greedily at four figs. Naples National Archaeological Museum.

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The remains of a rather fine marble fountain from Ostia Antica, near Rome. The fountain dates to the 3rd century AD, and is located along the Decumanus - the main street in the eastern part of the town. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Ostia

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'What medieval women read' Fascinating article by @medievalists.bsky.social "...numerous women—especially in the aristocracy—were not only readers but also curators of substantial private libraries" www.medievalists.net/2025/04/what... #medievalsky #history #library

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Some of the oldest art ever made and part of a collection of the only prehistoric art found on #Wirral. Introducing the #Neolithic Mother Goddess and the Grey Wolf... 🧑‍🍼🐺🪨 www.prehistoricwirral.com/prehistoric-... #Art #Sculpture #Prehistoric

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#WorldArtDay Celebrating more art and the legacy that the original ancient artists left us. The Cave Lion an artwork from the Palaeolithic. 🦁👑🪨 www.prehistoricwirral.com/the-cave-lio... #Art #Sculpture #Prehistoric #Palaeolithic #Lion

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#WorldArtDay The Grey Wolf painted sculpture, possibly made by a child. From a collection of some of the earliest art made on #Wirral www.prehistoricwirral.com/the-grey-wol... #Art #Sculpture #Prehistoric #Neolithic

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#FindsFriday A bird beak found in a shell midden in Mealasta on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland Possibly Mesolithic-Neolithic, it was maybe used as an awl for punching holes in leather or cloth Now in the lovely little Uig Museum 🏺📸 My own #archaeology #archaeobirds #birdsinarch #ancientbluesky

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The front of a #Roman brooch in the shape of a tortoise, still with traces of the enamel decoration which once covered its shell. Animal brooches were very popular in the Roman world - this is a very cute example! 🐢 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Thursday #RomanFortThursday #HelmetThursday #HistoryThursday #GlassObjectThursday #BridgesThursday #Thursgate #AdoorableThursday #ThatchThursday #IronworkThursday #PubSignThursday #ThirtiesThursday 1 of 3 #ThursdayHashtags

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Built on a crossing of the river Wharfe W #Yorkshire the #Roman fort of VERBEIA (or OLICANA) is today largely covered by #Ilkley The fort's 3rd c west wall runs under the Medieval and now wonderful museum (which you must all visit) of @ilkleymanorhouse.bsky.social 📷 Aug 2022 #RomanFortThursday

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