Durotriges Dig

I’ve never enjoyed a mosaïc of a snaïke this much

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This circular section is from the Hemsworth Villa, Witchampton
c4 AD depicting the god neptune

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Invidia rumpuntur aves, neque noctua curat. The birds are bursting with envy, and the owl does not care. The mosaic is said to symbolise victory over envy.

For #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉 and #MosaicMonday, here's the Owl Mosaic from Thysdrus, depicting an owl wearing a toga and surrounded by dead birds with an inscription that says "the birds are bursting with envy, and the owl does not care".

El Jem Museum, Tunisia.

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I, CLAVDIVS snake with a cute red hat.

Fixed it for you.😁

Totally 👍

Having been back to the Dorset Museum & given its #MosaicMonday - figured a short 🧵👇 of its mosaics was in order

This, of course - the vast Fordington High Street Mosaic c2-4 AD

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Part of a Roman mosaic showing an apse with a radial design in the form of a shell, with the segments coloured in dark grey, red and white/cream. The shell's hinge is at the top of photograph and takes the form of a small cat-like mask. There is a border of stepped triangles and a wider plain outer border. In the immediate foreground are the remains of the wall around the apse.

The main apse of the Littlecote Orpheus mosaic, filled with a beautiful shell design. Note the small feline mask on the shell's hinge. The mosaic can be visited in the grounds of Littlecote House, now a Warner Hotel; well signposted when I last visited in 2023.
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Overheat photo of the edge of an archaeological trench. At the bottom of the trench is part of a mosaic depicing a stylized flower. It is being carefully cleaned by two people. You can only see the backs of their heads and their hands.

Thought we'd post one of ours for a change. Our Floral Mosaic was the first to be discovered on the site, and here it is, being excavated in 1960.

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Say what you like about the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party but they are constantly coming out with fresh, new policies

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Uncanny 🤣

Someone ought to write a song about it

See what you did there 😉

Hmmmmm, sounds weirdly familiar 🤔

Indeed yes

Depiction, from a Roman mosaic, of a red crested snake sticking out its tongue

Apparently wearing a raspberry beret (the kind you find in a second hand store), this cheeky red-crested, tiny-tongued tessellated serpent features on a mid 4th century #Roman mosaic from Dorchester

Found in Durngate Street in 1905, it's now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

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Brilliant 😆

They don't seem to have been great traders with the Roman Empire (!) - Hengistbury Head and Poole Harbour focus around areas of their coinage, lots of which appear along the river systems of Dorset and Somerset

Ah yes, forgot it was all Getafix's fault 🤣

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It's a brilliant isn't it. Would have been great to know who it was buried with. The whole wine decanting / straining / pouring thing was probably ritualised (like tea drinking when it was introduced to Britain). If anyone knows about possible residue analysis it'll be Sophia Adams at the BM 👍

Roman bronze coin of Constantine

Roman dragonesque brooch

Archaeologists excavating in a trench

A Bronze Age enclosure, Iron Age hillfort and Roman / post Roman cemetery with "incredible finds"

What's not to like?

The @wtm.uk #WorthingArchaeologicalSociety and @nationaltrust.org.uk dig at Highdown Hill in West #Sussex

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brilliant, is this for *Matriarcha* ?

Yes, the Portesham strainer is more pan-shaped than the brilliant bowl strainer from Chettle 👍

Reconstruction of an Iron Age burial showing a woman set down in a crouches position in an oval grave with a decorated mirror, a wine strainer and other finds

They're found in burials a lot. This reconstruction of one from Portesham (by Craig Williams) has a woman of the Durotriges with a strainer as well as a bronze mirror, tweezers, brooches, iron knife, two pots an ear scoop and joints of
pork and mutton

A good assemblage for the Iron Age afterlife

The Durotriges liked their wine (judging by the cups, flagons and strainers found), one of the only things from the Mediterranean that they seemed to take to 🍷

If they didnt water their wine down (like the Romans did) and drank it neat, there may have been a lot of sediment needing removal !

Photo of copper alloy shallow bowl with lid and spout fitting, with red enamel deocration. The spout looks vaguely anthropomorphic.

Photo showing the strainer inside the objects; it's a large plate covering the spout area, decorated with pierced geometric-floral design.

🏺 Obsessed with this little thing from British SW very late Iron Age/early Roman (Chettle); it's described as a strainer for wine but does anyone have evidence for actual uses for these, and other comparisons from British IA?

Image:https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_2009-8006-2

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