Certified Neanderthal!

When is a hillfort not a hillfort? When it’s 2500 years older and a causewayed enclosure. I didn’t realise you can still see some traces of the banks at Whitehawk. 150 years ago they were really prominent. #HillfortsWednesday More 1/

Not a handaxe but a large cutting tool nonetheless.
Some symmetry despite much resharpening.
Made in Amorican sandstone & maybe carried from Brittany to La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey.
A useful tool, far from home, discarded by a Neanderthal person at the cave site
#FindsFriday

Uncanny

#AdoorableThursday St John the Baptist, Ruardean. The South doorway, a fine example of the work of the Herefordshire school of Romanesque sculpture, dating from the mid 12th century. The ogival-arched niche above the doorway is two centuries younger.

Grumpy pill box.
Don't blame it, having to stand around in a damp field, waiting for a non-existent invasion for 80 years 🙄 #shropshire

First light at York Minster.

Ceramic pot made to look like Julia Domna, probably made to commemorate her residence in the Roman fortress in York AD 208 - 11. Currently on display in the Legion exhibition in the British museum.
#FindsFriday

The Tottenham fans that wanted their team to lose and miss out on a CL place and all the riches and prestige that offers are the same fans this summer that will be screaming at Levy for not getting them the players they need to get them into the CL. You couldn’t make it up

Wow, the amazing ‘Orkney Hood’ is so well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than 1,500 years ago!

This remarkable fringed hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. It was found in a peat bog in 1867.

National Museum of Scotland. 📷 my own

Emma Barnett: Can you give us an example of inappropriate content taught in some schools... how wide spread is that issue?

Gillian Keegan: I don't know

EB: You don't know?

GK: We've listened to reports

EB: That's staggering you don't know how widespread the issue is

#r4today

No. 1 Map Corridor, Eric Ravilious, 1941. It depicts the Home Security Control Room beneath Whitehall in #London during the early years of #WW2 . The original artwork is in the collection of Leeds Art Gallery.

#FindsFriday I always wonder who last held this shield handle in prehistory?

The back of the spectacular Late Bronze Age shield from Rhos-rydd bog nr Aberystwyth c.1200 BC, a v rare Yetholm-type & one of around 30 known

On show to the world in the British Museum

📷 My own

Behold, for #BoudicaFriday , the limited edition Boudica box from Clavis & Claustra! It even contains a copy of Echolands 🤩! A little box that delivers a powerful Iceni punch! Be quick!!!

We found this long, slender flint blade - snapped and so once longer still - on a ridge overlooking the long-lost lake of Skipsea Bail Mere. It is early - Early Mesolithic, perhaps earlier - and a hunter-gatherer life is folded into it.
#Skipsea2024 #FlintFriday #FindsFriday

Two rare leaf-scroll handled Samian Ware dishes from a #Roman cremation found at #Sompting West #Sussex in 1971 in the wonderful Worthing Theatres and Museum 🤩

Made in #Rheinzabern #Deutschland in the early 3rd century, they are stamped with the makers names, FAVVO and IVVENIS

#FindsFriday

A dream realised seeing the Cave Canem mosaic at #Pompeii in person - a loyal #Roman dog still guarding the entrance to his master's home, nearly 2000 years after the town was buried around them #Archaeology

The early Norman south doorway of All Saints Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire, with Saxon arch above. #AdoorableThursday 📸 My own.

The witch inhabits a landscape crowded with genii locorum. Landmarks speak to her. Landmarks sing to her. She is in constant conversation with place. Tell me again that her magics are not natural and hear even the trees laugh at your idiocy. – #EmilyBanting , 1981 #WitchWednesday

‘Hold On Magnolia’ illustrated lyric sheet from William Schaff’s archives 🌸🖤