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It would be worth a try. The coin is with my colleagues on Jersey and I'm going to take another look at it next month. I'll ask them if they can do this.

Some of the most interesting #coins are not necessarily the most beautiful. Here's a spectacularly defaced 0.99g of silver from the Le Câtillon hoard. I have tried very hard to see something on the reverse, but without success - frustrating because it could be important. #FindsFriday #numismatics 🏺

I suppose some licences granted in 2023 could have been for finds made in the previous year, but... yes, the maths seems to be correct, and that's an extraordinarily high number. And of course it's only the reported finds... 😞

I'm sure i can see the same hand at work across different coin dies - but perhaps easier to spot there than on your metalwork?

A tiny (14mm, 0.88g) silver #IronAge coin from western Brittany, found in the 2012 Le Câtillon hoard on Jersey. Helmeted head left/horse right with winged figure below, holding a torc. #FindsFriday #archaeology #numismatics 🏺

For #TombTuesday here's a late 19th century view of La Varde on #Guernsey, constructed c.4100 BC. The capstone at the far left is ridiculously thick and weighs an estimated 30 tonnes... #archaeology 🏺

Thanks for reminding me of this - I came to it through The Men they couldn't Hang on John Peel so that's the version I sang to my poor unsuspecting children to get them to sleep 🤭

Beautiful morning light at Pleinmont #Guernsey today #photography

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Quite possibly the most exciting thing to happen in #Guernsey this year

Essential reading on the grim reality behind all those 'we're saving treasure for the nation' stories that the media churn out...

Today's #IronAge #coin for #FindsFriday: a gold quarter stater of the Osismii, max 15mm diameter, with an eagle? gryphon? head on the horse, in place of the usual human head. From Le Câtillon, Jersey. #archaeology #numismatics

Another lovely #IronAge #coin for #FindsFriday - this is a gold stater of the Osismii (western Brittany), with a winged figure beneath the horse holding a torc. Probably early first century BC. Found in the Le Catillon II hoard in #Jersey in 2012 #archaeology #numismatics

A blast from the past - well, 2016 - for #TombTuesday, with my son admiring the face on the capstone in the Dehus dolmen, #Guernsey #archaeology

Yes, it is the same type. However the coins are almost unknown from the area occupied by the Veneti - they are from further NE, probably territory of the Redones. The Veneti attribution goes back to work in the 1940s/50s which has largely been superseded. Auction houses take a while to catch up...

Chaotic good, tending to lawful evil if I don't have something to hand for chaotic good...

Can't let #FindsFriday go past without another fine Iron Age coin. This is a base silver stater attributed (probably wrongly) to the Veneti, in southern Brittany. Diameter 22mm. Note the recumbent figure below the horse - what is he holding? #archaeology #numismatics 🏺

There's at least one published example I can think of where an IA coin seems to have inspired an Anglo-Saxon sceatta, see www.britnumsoc.org/images/PDFs/...

St Peter Port #Guernsey skyline just now #photography

For #StandingStoneSunday, a marvellous photo of Callanish, complete with (Victorian?) policeman... #archaeology #Scotland 🏺

Late in the day but struggling to upload images - for #FindsFriday & #FlintFriday, a beautiful flint axe from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, acquired by Frederick Lukis from Mr Talbot, c.1850. Watercolour of other side probably by his daughter Mary-Ann Lukis. #archaeology 🏺

Five go mad on Vazon beach, or, our French/British team sampling peat deposits #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

I don't think you should, I've only known about them for a year since our French visitors first managed to sneak them in

The rasette, the blade on a stick on the left of the photo. It's just wrong! 😄

We are digging with French colleagues here and the entente cordiale is being strained by their use of the rasette – personally I would confiscate them at the border and replace them with a WHS trowel, but what do you think? #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

Can't beat an evening swim then chips on the beach at Cobo #Guernsey

A while since I posted a nice Iron Age #coin, so for #FindsFriday here's a silver quarter stater loosely attributed to the Baiocasses in Normandy. From the Le Câtillon hoard, #Jersey. Fine example of the human-headed horse on the reverse which dominates the coinage of this region. #numismatics 🏺

Think it's only fair to say that a) this was the only typo I spotted, and more importantly b) it's another great instalment in the #SloughHouse story...

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

For #TombTuesday, here's the Sandy Hook #Guernsey cist-in-circles, at the time of its first excavation in 1912. Postcard by Thomas Bramley, renowned local photographer #archaeology 🏺