Viking-age leather shoes excavated at Coppergate, York.
Remarkably well-preserved for more than a 1000 years, they wouldn’t look too out of place if worn today! 🤩
Yorkshire Museum and Jorvik Viking Museum, York.
📷 my own
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A beautifully decorated bent #sword , part of the finds in a noble's grave at Oss (The #Netherlands ). Circa 826-600BC. Was it bent because of ritual reasons or beliefs? Or simply to make it unfit for reuse, disencouraging looters? #Archaeology #History
A couple of days ago this embossed gold foil “guldgubbe”, featuring a man and woman in typical dress, was found in Østfold, 🇳🇴.
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(📸/finder: Mikkel Killingmoe Christensen)
A nice hammered coin for today’s #findsfriday
Henry III, minted by Nicole of Canterbury some time between 1248 and 1250.
The Winfarthing Pendant - a gold composite Anglo-Saxon pendant which was discovered within a 7th century grave by a metal detectorist in December 2015 at Winfarthing, near Diss in Norfolk. Now part of the collections Norwich Castle #FindsFriday 📸 My own
This #FindsFriday , let's consider the possible standard bearer found in the principia at Niederbieber, complete with his helmet and cohort standard.
This coin, a type very rare in #RomanBritain , dates from AD145-161. It features an eagle & a winged thunderbolt & came from a site in the City of London, hinting at visitors from Italy or southern Gaul. #FindsFriday #romanempire #archaeology #numismatics #commercialarchaeology
CDAS #FindsFriday is the Oyster Helmet of #chichester . Acquired by the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1893, this first century 'coolus' actually predates the conquest. While supposedly found in Chichester Harbour area, its actual provenance is unknown. It was on display at Fishbourne Roman Palace for a while.
Sumerian lioness head sculpture made from silver, with shell and lapis lazuli inlays for eyes. Found in the tomb of Puabi at the Royal Cemetery of Ur, Iraq. Thought to be a finial on the arm of a chair. Dated to the First Dynasty of Ur (26th - 25th century BCE) #FindsFriday
Rockbourne have several surviving example of pottery candlesticks, which suggests this was the main source of light. Making candles was a household task in the countryside.
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For #FindsFriday , I present an almost identical pair of enamelled Roman trumpet brooches
Dating to the 2nd century AD
Both were found the same day, just 20mts apart, 26th Sept 2018.
12 further brooches from this field, but all Colchester derivates types.
finds.org.uk/database/artef…
For #FindsFriday this rather nice pilgrim badge from Wroclaw showing Virgin and Child. The assumption is that it is from Aachen, but is that assumption right? Could such badges be sold at other Marian shrines?
An 🚨exclusive first look at an exciting archaeological discovery found whist excavating for the new pit access building at Grime’s Graves. Unexpectedly this amazing (and presumably Neolithic) chalk plaque with chevrons was uncovered! #FindsFriday More 1/
We're going big this #FindsFriday and finishing our Suffolk celebrations by sharing 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘱 5 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘬 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 in our half-decade together… 🔥
We've got a quintet of jewellery birds, perfect pots, and Prehistoric…
I am a day early for #FindsFriday but I couldn't resist! One of my volunteers just recorded this lovely silver denarius of Galba, dating to AD 68 - 69. A lovely example with Livia on the reverse #RomanCoin finds.org.uk/database/artef…
Locks and keys are symbolic of personal property, control and exclusion, so they are interesting items to record and study. This example is a medieval rotary key dating from c. AD 1200-1500. finds.org.uk/database/artef… #FindsFriday
