There are still a few places available to book for the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society conf on Sat 11 May 2024. See Eventbrite.

Norman Redhead will be speaking at this conference about excavations and recent discoveries at the Castleshaw Roman fort annexe #Castleshaw #Romans

For #MosaicMonday , a rarity in the Roman world: a mosaic portrait. Made of extremely small tesserae - opus vermiculatum - it depicts a staid young woman, almost matronly. She was found in the floor of a cubiculum (bedroom) of the Casa della Matrona Ignota, #Pompeii . 1/

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1/3) A Roman brick from Cherchell, Algeria with a perfect 2,000-year-old imprint of a human hand...

For #Roman SiteSaturday a section of the #Roman Eifel #aqueduct that supplied water to the city of Cologne. The vaulted underground tunnel with an inspection shaft at Mechernich-Breitenbenden was unearthed during construction work in the late 1970s. The estimated...1/2

1/2) An incredible Roman portable sundial. This ingenious device was the precision pocket watch of its day, telling the owner the time wherever they were in the Roman empire. The vertical disc sundial could function in a range of latitudes; first the user set their location by...

A beautiful #Roman glass bowl, made in a pale bluey-green grass with a ridged pattern all around it. Made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, it is a wonderful example of Roman glasswork in the early Imperial period #Archaeology #Roman Archaeology

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/ #Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD.

On display at British Museum

#FrescoFriday
This small #painting of two heads crowned with vine shoots, set against a red background. Found on the centre west wall of the oecus in the insula Occidentalis, #Pompeii (See Alt. For more details). #Art #History #artwork & #Archaeology

Year 3 have just arrived back from Castleshaw where we have spent two mornings being shown around the Roman fort by Castleshaw Archaeology who told us about many of the clues to the past they have discovered over the years! 🏺🐑🏰

Check out this stunning Roman hand shovel!

It looks just like the ones we use every day on National Highways A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet (as modelled by Archaeologist Solomon)

The Romans used these as fire shovels 🔥 We found it in an area with evidence of industry, including lots of charcoal!

Roman fortifications built on the Gask Ridge in Perthshire and Angus, Scotland - it’s a series of forts and fortlets connected by a road. Probably dates to the 1st century/earliest invasion of Scotland with some evidence of later Roman activity@

These are our Spring vibes, too, so far.

#nomorehail #herecomesthesun

The fantastic Ardoch Roman fort near Perth is considered one of the best preserved series of military earthworks in the Roman empire. For us it’s particularly interesting as a possible, Agricolan military annexe has been identified north of the fort #Castleshaw #Romans

Most Romans were not legionaries as many movies, books and pages would have us believe. Rather, they were normal people just like most of us today.🏛️

“On April 19 I baked bread”

Anonymous Roman, griffito from Pompeii,

The image shows a Roman bread from Herculaneum.

The site of a Roman temple in the middle of Greenwich Park. Not much to be seen on the ground. One of the sites covered in my new book on Roman London

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Rare #Roman enamelled brooch in the shape of a dagger.
Found in the Roman fort at Ehingen-Risstissen (South West Germany), dating 1st century AD.

Photo: LandesmuseumWürttemberg

#Roman Archaeology #Roman FortThursday

🪔 One more beautiful set of roman glass tableware dated to the 1-3rd c. AD from the Museum of Roman Glass in #Zadar , Croatia.

#glassobject #romanglass

Roman coffin unearthed at Garforth to be displayed for the first time
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