Dr. Adelle Bricking ☃️

A golden mask of a face of a man with a moustache

#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold

A fragment of terracotta tile with the footprint of a dog towards the lower edge and another to the right.

A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday

Yep!

I certainly don’t see why not! Shields aren’t my area of specialism but I would think that’s a strong possibility. The handle is quite small, so could be used to secure to the side of a chariot or something, while still being deployable 🛡️

The handle is indeed bronze, integral to the boss I think.The shield part of this replica is made of thick leather.

I do often wonder if certain things were props in performances or ceremonies rather than actually used in combat. But as my fav professor used to say, “I don’t know, I wasn’t there!”

Allegedly it’s just over 8 kg but it feels a lot heavier when holding it with one hand by a tiny little handle at the back!! I swear! 🤪😂

Iron Age copper alloy shield boss (electrotype) - Collections Online | Museum Wales Thin, sheet, copper alloy ornamental covering for a spindle shaped shield boss. The central expanded...

The replica is based on a shield boss and plate fittings / mounts from Moel Hiraddug, Denbighshire - link to an electrotype: museum.wales/collections/...

The Iron Age folks 🛖

Shields like this would apparently be used with a long spear-headed weapon and the shield would even double as a weapon itself. I can’t imagine how strong people would have to be to wield this beast in battle because idk if I mentioned this but it is HEAVY!

Me holding a pill-shaped hide shield with bronze plate decoration and a lenticular central boss. I am looking down at the shield.

Me standing behind the shield looking at the camera. It is about 4 feet long.

I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩

Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!

A stylised copper alloy image of a sad looking bull with elongated horns

For #FindsFriday

A copper alloy late Iron Age 15cm high bulls head *fitting* with elongated horns and horn-caps

Looking mournfully at us, wanting to be understood

Findspot unknown, function sadly unknown

Donated to the BM by Salisbury Museum in 1946

© Trustees of the British Museum 1946,1010.1

Io, Saturnalia everybody!

The 15th century ‘Angel Roof’ of St Helen’s Church at Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. While restored in the later 19th century, the colours are based on extensive traces of the original paintwork. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #BrantBroughton #Lincolnshire #AdventAngels

Beth and I sat at a long skinny table with paperwork and artefacts on a black tablecloth. Three adults and a child sit at the table opposite, two kids play in the back, their faces covered by emojis.

Me posing with a replica gold torc.

A stone spindle whorl and a cream-colored flint arrowhead in my hand.

Another successful PAS Cymru Finds Day in Aberystwyth yesterday, this time hosted at the @librarywales.bsky.social! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The history of Ceredigion is enriched with every Finds Day and it’s such a privilege to play a part 🥰

Big thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social for his help on the day!

Yayyy it’s not often we get to record stone tools!!

For #FindsWednesday A nice surface find of a pebble tool - with percussion damage at both ends - typical of prehistoric finds from other hillforts & promontory forts.

One to document through #PAS on Saturday with @archaedelle.bsky.social & then properly record for this scheduled site

Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath.

Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath.

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me.

This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.

Timeless beauty!

📷 Corning Museums of Glass

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A pile of archaeological books about the Iron Age, Druids, hillforts and Boudicca. On the right is the. Ok on the finds from Llyn Cerrig Bach by Sir Cyril Fox.

Really looking forward to giving the Cambrian Archaeological Association Christmas lecture tonight. There may be Druids! Am doing some last minute cramming with the help of some of the usual suspects. Thus I can blame them for any errors! #celts #ironage #veterans #archaeology #wellbeing

Sussex Ice Age Map - Google My Maps Mapping Pleistocene Sites and Neanderthal Artefacts in Sussex

Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺

For me, Ancient Music Ireland playing the Loughnashade horns were the highlight of my night.

Theyre so loud!!! Keep Romans off your lawn with these baddies!

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A bronze bulls head with curved horns and protruding tongue that forms a ring - the handle of an Iron Age bronze vessel.

An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts

A group of archaeologists peer down into a display cabinet full of objects

#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌

A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters

📷 Dr Adelle

Fibula (leg) is the only fibula for me

@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.

Awww omg thank you so much Kim, that’s so nice to say 🥹 it was a good question!

All I want for Christmas is the abolition of the term ‘fibula’ (brooch), or worse: ‘fibula brooch’

No better way to spend a day than at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales St Fagans in excellent company with @archaedelle.bsky.social, @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team. Thanks to all the museum staff for a memorable day 👌🍻

Next Portable Antiquities day in Aberystwyth will be happening on 13th December in the National Library of Wales.

I'll be there along with the super knowledgeable @archaedelle.bsky.social 🥳

@findsorguk.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing what's been discovered in the region! 🧐