Durotriges Dig

The main gate of Tre'r Ceiri hillfort courtesy of Eric Jones. #Cymru #HillfortsWednesday

It is indeed a VERY silly place 🤣

More on the promontory fort at Helsby, #Cheshire - as mapped by the OS at the turn of the C19-20, and on a recent satellite view. The massive sandstone ridge is obvious even from above, & the earthworks visible to varying degrees, depending on land-use. #HillfortsWednesday

That's always a glorious earthwork to see on the horizon 😍

Hambledon Hill from Gold Hill farm kitchen

Took a trip for lunch at Gold Hill Farm Kitchen at Child Okeford. Excellent lunch, the more so with the backdrop of Hambledon Hill
#HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday & back in 2020 there was a fire at Woolsbarrow which did at least have the side effect of clearing much of the under brush to reveal the fort a little more clearly

See more of Dorset in the new episode >>>
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Aerial photo of Castle Ditches Hillfort

The remains of a partial contour fort, believed to originate from the Iron Age period (c. 800 BC – AD 74).

Black and white drawing of a large wooden gate with a happy Iron Age man standing to one side

And here's an excellent recreation of the Iron Age SW gate of South Cadbury hillfort © John Swogger from the 2020 article:

Hillfort gate-mechanisms by Pope, Mason, Hamilton, Rule and Swogger @royalarchinst.bsky.social

which is OPEN ACCESS 👇

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The approach to Dunadd Fort at the southern end of Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. Occupied since the Iron Age, the fort was a major centre for the Gaelic kings of Dál Riata from around AD 500 to AD 800. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Dunadd #Argyll

Hillfort, Knocknashee, Co. Sligo This roughly oval-shaped fortification, stretching about 700 metres from north-northeast to south-southwest and 350 metres from east to west, was enclosed by tw

#HillfortsWednesday Knocknashee, Co Sligo

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Two people walking through a large grassy gateway with mountains beyond

Hooray it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 Heading home after a day of digging, through the enormous collapsed gateway passage of Dinas Dinlle hillfort, in Gwynedd

Quite a view of the stunning mountains of central Eryri/Snowdonia for those leaving the fort - & the great Nantlle ridge😮⛰️

📷 My own, Aug 21

Päijälä hillfort in Kuhmoinen, Finland, lies on an isthmus between Lakes Linnajärvi and Saaresjärvi in a forest wilderness. The hill rises 40 m higher than its environs and the top is c. 100 m in diameter on two levels. The defenses are in the west. The C14 dating is 1026–1281 CE #HillfortsWednesday

Painting of two cloak wearing men with horses approaching a timber gate, with observation tower above, being opened by two shield carrying men whilst two men, a boy and a dog watch from the ramparts above

The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset

Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation

Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩

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Methinks it's time to call professional pest control

Argghhh, just spotted a new #PlaymobilInfestation on my office bookshelf!!

They're already forming into a testudo 😱

#Playmobil #Roman #SendHelp

And simultaneously terrifying 😳 🤣

New website alert #Sussex #Military #Industrial #Archaeology 👇👇

Roman mosaic depicting a grey dolphin with red beak, tail and whiskers, swimming up and out of shot

A sassy dolphin with flamboyant red feather costume vibe for #MosaicMonday

Detail from a 2nd century #Roman floor found in Fordington High Street #Dorchester 1927

Conserved by Cliveden Conservation, the cheeky chappie can today be admired in the excellent @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

📷 Sept 2023

Image shows a floor mosaic at #FishbourneRomanPalace near to #Chichester UK, where the occupants of what is a huge villa had decided to have a new floor covering (another floor mosaic) at some point, which automatically was added on top! A large surrounding margin in red-terracotta coloured tessellae, with partial upper mosaic showing an image of Medusa in a centrepiece, and mostly black and white pattern of tiles across the remainder of the floor. In the centre, the flooring shows a second layer of mosaic tiles approximately 1 inch (2.5 cm) below the other, partially-exposed with a black and white graphical design. Below this layer appears to be the earth layer.

#MosaicMonday has come around again. Always impressed with the Romans way of doing things… this photo is showing a floor within @romanpalace.bsky.social where the first mosaic was covered over with another floor mosaic… just when you think you’ve found one, you come across its predecessor too!

#mosaicmonday
Bath

Book cover with painting of a mosaic showing Orpheus in the centre surrounded by animals.

Bonus post no. 2 for this #MosaicMonday: a new book on mosaics is always exciting, and this one by Steve Cosh - which is about to be published - should be illustrated with lots of lovely pictures. Looking forward to getting my copy soon! 1/2

Bonus post no. 1 for this #MosaicMonday: FREE online symposium on mosaics, this Saturday 7 March, 13.50-17.30 UK time:
Aquileia!
Hammam-Lif!!
Scarborough!!!
ALL WELCOME
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Construction on a Supermarket screeches to a halt after workers uncovered an #ancient #Roman Villa With Mosaic-Tile Floors. Archaeologists excavated the site on Warrington Road in Olney, Buckinghamshire. #Archaeology #RomanBritain #History
📸 Oxford Archaeology.

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#Roman mosaic from a villa in East Coker (southwest England). The object dates to the 4th century CE. On the mosaic, we see two hunters carrying a hunted deer and a hunting dog.
#History #artwork
#Archaeology #RomanBritain

FLOOR MOSAIC WITH TRITON AND NEREID, C. 150 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM Between 1857 and 1860 a novice archæologist, Nathan Davis, undertook excavations in the ruins of ancient Carthage on behalf of the British Foreign Office, receiving £1000 per annum for his discoveries, which the local Bey permitted to be exported. This was part of an imperialist competition with the equally marauding French for collecting antiquities in a strange race which would make a smashing movie. Here we see a floor mosaic from a Roman domus, perhaps itself a border for a larger mosaic, showing a triton reaching back toward a Nereid riding on his serpentine back. She seems to be having second thoughts. A shawl billows over her head, the "velificatio" that indicates her divine nature. Above their heads is a yellow border between two black lines, and then a wide frame with a guilloche between two dentillated strips. The same frame can be seen below, with a complex braid instead of the guilloche.

This #MosaicMonday we're at the #BritishMuseum to see a #mosaic from #Roman #Carthage, c. 150 CE, where the usual flirtation between a #triton and a #Nereid doesn't seem to be going well, but the complex #frame takes equal attention: #guilloches, #braids, #dentils. Fancy. #AncientBluesky 🏺

For #MosaicMonday here’s a modern mosaic representation on the site of the Folly Lane temple in Verulamium (St. Albans), a Romano British temple built respecting the earlier burial of a Celtic chieftain. Photo by my co-curator Sara
#StAlbansmuseums
#ReligioninVerulamium

#MosaicMonday
2019 in Newport #Archaeologists discovered a #Roman settlement, made up of three stone buildings, thought to date back to somewhere between the 2nd and 4thC AD.
It's thought that a well-made road and complex water culvert system were also on the site.
#Archaeology

Part of a hand-coloured engraving of a Roman mosaic showing a boar in profile running to the right, flanked by trees.

For this #MosaicMonday, the adorably perky boar from the Withington Orpheus mosaic. The original can now be seen in
@coriniummuseum.bsky.social. 🐗😍

Absolutely sassy (and totally not grumpy) 🐬

#FridayFeeling already...🥂 🤣