Not all coarse wares are dull - look at this lovely micaceous fabric, a #Roman example made in Britain, which sparkles beautifully in the light 🏺 A small joy on a grey, rainy day. @sgrp.bsky.social #pottery
10.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Not all coarse wares are dull - look at this lovely micaceous fabric, a #Roman example made in Britain, which sparkles beautifully in the light 🏺 A small joy on a grey, rainy day. @sgrp.bsky.social #pottery
10.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Laid out against a dark grey background are ten biscuits that resemble aged, chipped mudlarking finds. An oval biscuit in a rich, dark green looks like the seal of a glass bottle, and features a raised characterful face at its centre. Next to it is an unevenly shaped black biscuit with grey chips and the raised shape of a hare’s face, ears, and upper legs. There are two large biscuits with jagged edges, each decorated in blue and white to look like broken pieces of delftware plates. One features the shape of a small bird surrounded by swirling lines, the other has a series of concentric circles and curved shapes. A small biscuit with a multifaceted texture replicates a knapped flint arrowhead. Next to it are a tiny hammer-shaped biscuit in pewter with delicate cross markings, and a very small gold biscuit button etched with lines, circles, and a rough star shape. The smallest biscuit is made to look like a yellow glass cufflink with decorative circles in blue, white, and red. Another small biscuit has the appearance of an aged metal button edged with decorative white and turquoise dots. Finally, there is a small angular biscuit in a terracotta colour with raised lines roughly in the shape of two intwined figures.
Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪
This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition.
The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!
The 21st volume of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies will be making its way out of the kiln very soon. This latest issue focuses on production, presenting new evidence for the adoption of the potter's wheel in the Nene Valley 🧵⬇️
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Four unique pottery vessels with varied shapes, colours and designs.
This highly-decorated pottery was produced in medieval England. The creative designs required complex commercial networks but also innovation on part of the potters, highlighting the role of individual entrepreneurship in shaping commercialisation.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Poster for new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon Saxon finds. Image of gold brooch
New exhibition opening tomorrow curated by @uonclassarch.bsky.social Prof. Chris Loveluck and Ann Inscker from Nottingham Museums and Galleries. Free entry www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t... 🖼🏺🧪 #archaeology #history #Nottingham
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Enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape, featuring intricate geometric patterns in turquoise, red, and gold against a green patinated surface, with visible cracks.
This beautiful #Roman enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape was found in Welzheim.
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
A dark fragment of pottery, with the name Sabina scratched into it.
I’ve been doing some research into the Roman graffiti in @colmuseums.bsky.social and came across this lovely example. Sabina was probably either the person that wrote this or who owned the vessel (or both).
Either way, a rare example of a Roman woman’s name written on an object.
Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳.
The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two photos. On the left, a pair of students, viewed from behind, looking at a screen in a lab. On the right, a close up of the screen, where you can see a fingerprint on a piece of orange-coloured pottery.
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Students from @uoearchhist.bsky.social have been using fancypants digital microscopes to record fingerprints on Roman pottery from the Palace. We hope this will enable individual potters to be identified.
If you don't think this is cool, you're dead inside.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biocul...
Iron Age Copper alloy war trumpet being excavated c Norfolk Museum Service
Iron Age shield bosses and wild boar standard
Iron Age Copper alloy boar standard being cleaned c Norfolk Museum service
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
A reproduction of the bronze boar-headed Deskford carnyx held in the air.
The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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CT scan of the hoard
We’re incredibly proud of the PCA team behind the discovery of a remarkable Iron Age hoard in West Norfolk, including a near-complete carnyx and parts of another.
Working with Historic England and museum partners as conservation and research continue.
🔗 www.pre-construct.com/news/interna...
Our team has been busy uncovering fascinating remains at the archaeological site in West Winch, Norfolk, revealing evidence of occupation spanning from the Middle Bronze Age through to the Roman period.
#archaeology #archaeologylovers #bronzeage #ironage #romanbritain #romans
AI is helping reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
#FrescoFriday - Fresco from Herculaneum showing a wine advertisement with four jars (cucumae) of various colours and prices, ranging from cheap wine to premium quality. The advertisement was painted at the entrance of a wine shop called "Ad Cucumas" ('At the Jugs').
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Broken orange tile in a display case stamped with the letters TPF in the bottom left hand corner
An orange tile stamped with the letters TPF
A Roman roof tile from Minety #Wiltshire stamped with TPF
Possibly TEGVLARIA PVBLICA FECERVNT (made by the public tile works)
This in turn could suggest civic production for the nearby town of CORINIVM (Cirencester)
📷 Dec 2025 in the excellent @athelstanmuseum.bsky.social Malmesbury
#FindsFriday
Three archaeologists in hard hats smile at the camera, their faces are framed by the kiln walls
A gloved hand holds a small fragment of pottery which has been decorated with a crimped design
Three archaeologists on site excavating the preserved remains of a kiln structure
This Roman kiln is one of many incredible finds the #OCAArchTeam are discovering on site @sizewellc.bsky.social that build up the story of Suffolk's past - want to learn more? Dig in here: oxfordcotswoldarchaeology.org.uk/project/sizewell/
@cotswoldarch.bsky.social #suffolk #heritage #archaeology
Left: four green-coloured bronze coins, two gold coins and a silver bracelet in situ. Right: three gold coins with embossed designs on both sides.
NEW Local bronze coins and imitations of Roman aurei (gold coins) from Tell Abraq, UAE. Occupied for over three millennia, recent discoveries at the site indicate widespread trade and connections over both land and sea as early as the Bronze Age.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
A fragment of #Roman pottery, into which a sketch of a rowing ship has been incised - I love the little details, like the oars coming down into the water, & the ram at the front of the ship. A lovely piece of everyday art, made nearly 2000 years ago 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
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Britannia, 274 AD. A rogue general has defied Rome to form a splinter state and, somewhere in Wiltshire, 55,000 coins are buried in the dirt.
Now, analysis of their alloys is letting archaeologist @kmurphster.bsky.social track an empire's rise & fall
Read our blog 🔗 rdg.ac/4notWE9
#AncientSky
Bars of clay that have been fired at various temperatures and under different atmospheric conditions. Ranging in colour from red terracotta to very dark chocolate brown. Along with some Munsell soil colour charts used to record the test results.
Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky
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Poster for a free webinar - the Joan Pye annual lecture to be presented by Alex Mullen. November 26th, 7pm. Hosted by Cotswold archaeology and the Roman Research Trust. The image is of lots of people in togas in a market place.
Don’t miss Prof Alex Mullen’s free webinar on November 26th at 7pm!
She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’.
#archaeology #classics #roman 🏺
Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices
Announcement from the Journal of Roman Archaeology stating that from 2026, all research content will be open access.
📢 Did you know the the Journal of Roman Archaeology is flipping to #OpenAccess?
All research content published in the journal from January 2026 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌏. Find out more: https://cup.org/4oaKGzq
In 2014 CFA excavated a farmstead near Maryport Roman Fort which showed signs of influence from the fort through an unusual pottery collection and evidence of intensified agricultural practices.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue61/7/full-text.html
A fragment of orangey red pottery depicting two very happy naked dancers
Two ecstatic dancers party like it's AD 99 across a small sherd of #Roman samian ware pottery
Spotted in the excellent Llangollen museum #Denbighshire / #SirDdinbych
📷 Aug 2023
On loan from Denbighshire Archaeological Service
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling #ItsNearlyTheWeekend
#RomanFortThursday
#Roman fort of Ain Umm el-Dabadib was built near the el-Kharga Oasis in #Egypt on an #ancient route to the Dakhla #Oasis. Four massive rectangular towers marked the corners of the fort, making it architecturally different. (3rd C AD.)
#Archaeology #History
Exciting new research sheds light on ancient ritual practices in Roman Britain! Excavations in Ewell, Surrey revealed one of the largest dog assemblages ever found in Romano-British contexts! Check out the link below!!🐕
phys.org/news/2025-03...
#Archaeology #RomanBritain #AncientRituals #Zooarch
We are looking at three ceramic jugs. Two of which have bearded faces on the necks and look very cheery indeed.
Things in our collections with a smile, for #worldsmileday
A thread. 🧵😃
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 🏺
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A light-brown pottery vessel decorated with a stylized face that resembles Shaun the Sheep, with a braided pattern around the rim.
The week just started, and we already need a timeline cleanse....
A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep). Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD.
📷 Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum #archaeology 🏺