Richard Osgood

Makes me want to slap Mozart on the Spotify!

That exhibition was So good wasn’t it ?

A bookshop window with a series of purple books on stands (the book is called Domination)

A figure in Roman costume with a chi-Rho symbol behind them and fruit either side. This is the central piece of the Hinton St Mary mosaic from Dorset found in 1963

copies of Alice Roberts book ‘Domination’ with purple cover and a sun-like image with a face in the centre. Sitting on a wooden bookshelf behind a glass window

The @profaliceroberts.bsky.social world domination by book tour reaches Winchester Waterstones (with a couple of sneaky ‘Crypts’ joining Domination’). The cover of the book includes part of the wonderful Hinton St Mary Mosaic from Dorset (photo BBC) #books #archaeology

Watercolour of section of pale yellow bone on left, wtih two holes drilled in the centre. To the right is a copper alloy (pale blue/green) brooch with a central curved pin and thinner sharp wire that would have pierced the cloth, attached to a cross bar of wire twisted around and covered by more slightly-decorated copper alloy.

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Roman brooch & Roman/early med(?) whistle.

For #drawingdiggingforbritain and #diggingforbritain, I eschewed the bone box & went for these finds from Broadway.

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This is beautiful

Votive lakes are where it’s at!

You’ve caught the texture on this one so well.

I definitely didn’t do this lovely little bone box justice this evening, at least in part because I could barely take my eyes off the screen when it was opened. I hope there will be analysis of the ‘mud’ inside to see if an ointment can be identified. #DrawingDiggingforBritain

#drawing 4827 bone box #DrawingDiggingForBritain #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

Very cool - like the ‘technical’ style of this illustration Jean

Love seeing you going for all these. That scabbard was super cool wasn’t it? Just imagine all the revelry at Trinity College too 😂 great illustrations Wendy!!

Artefacts including sword and bone box

#DrawingDiggingForBritain I gasped when they slid the Roman bone box lid open. I could imagine the Roman lady or her servant using the ointment that was thought to be inside.

Envy over that and the flipping carnyx is gonna keep our team busy at Llyn Cerrig!! 😂

I really REALLY wanted to see details of that decoration….

Ooh good luck! I think I spotted Imber church on my estate of the Plain too!!! I really wanted to see more of a decorated Iron Age sword scabbard they had too

A drawing of a Roman box found in a cemetery near Worcester with circular decorations all over it

This charming box excavated at Broadway by Worcester Archaeology - @explorethepast from a Roman cemetery featured in #diggingforbritain tonight - my offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology #roman

Ooooohh !!!

Detail of a Roman mosaic from Boxford with a knotted guilloche border and chariot with single wheel visible and chariot figures.

Must admit I’m becoming a little chariot obsessed these days. Mainly Iron Age… but for #mosaicmonday how about this rather magnificent example from Boxford excavated by my friend Matt with @cotswoldarch.bsky.social & volunteers in 2019 - before we’d even heard of Covid. #roman #archaeology #chariot

Love these! We find them on the airfield at RAF Valley when there has been a storm in Anglesey

And the next exhibition at the museum in terms of art and archaeology….. that of JOHN PIPER !!! Omg!

There were lots more and many were wonderful. Sadly these are my only pics though!

Some highlights below Lorraine hope this ok

Ah you WERE there! Sorry to have missed you! Went to see a few old favourites- love this museum

Haha were you there today too??!

A collage by Rose Ferraby with prehistoric. Items including stone axe heads (lower left) and the bones and tusks of the Upton Lovell shaman top left

An early Bronze Age beaker pot in the Wiltshire museum. Highly decorated with rejoined sherds visible through white line repairs at the top

A Rose Ferraby collage of green hills and trees in the background and beaker pots in the foreground

A Rose Ferraby collage of Early Bronze Age artefacts with a beaker pots in the centre being the most prominent . Stratigraphy of layers shown either side

Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire

Boar standards carved among the captured arms on the Arc de triomphe d’Orange, shown raised on poles above shields and armour as part of Roman representations of Gallic warfare. Photograph: Arc antique d’Orange (detail) by EmDee, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). Source: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arc_antique_d%27Orange_-_02.jpg

Today’s #FindsFriday is the head of the Norfolk boar standard! Its fierce face was the first sign, on site, of the Iron Age hoard featured this week on Digging for Britain.

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#IronAge #Archaeology #NorfolkCarnyx