We are a voluntary group promoting and researching the archaeology, history and heritage of Greater Glasgow and the Clyde Valley.
Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire
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The main road through Corbridge Roman Town in Northumberland. Originally constructed in the second century AD, the current surface dates to the fourth century AD. 📸 My own #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Corbridge
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National Museums Scotland announced it had acquired a rare, 8thC, gold sword pommel #OTD in 2022. A detectorist found it at Blair Drummond, Stirling, in 2019. Encrusted with garnets, it has eyes and a beak on each end. 📸National Museums Scotland
ALT A close-up of the sword pommel.
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One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses from the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, over 30 headdresses have been found at the site. This example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own #Mesolithic
Archaeology Scotland AGM today at Cowane’sHospital. Due to weather we didn't get to wander around Stirling Cemetery, instead we wandered around Church of the Holy Rude.
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Oct 24: Feast of Cóeti (†712), bishop of Iona. Guarantor of Adomnán’s Lex Innocentium, ‘Law of the Innocents’, which protected women, children and clergy, especially during warfare.
ALT A section of the Lex Innocentium from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 512, an Irish vellum manuscript.
As part of our Promontory site work, if any of our members are interested in carrying out desk based surveys and/or site surveys, please look out for an email.
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RESULTS: WOODEND MOTTE BALFRON AND ITS MASSIVE DITCH!
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Radiocarbon dating and new analysis of a skeleton found inside a 4th-century Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey suggest the remains actually belong to an 11th-century abbot,likely Ælfwig, who died around 1020,whose wooden coffin was placed inside the reused ancient stone tomb
ALT Photo Nils Jorgensen/Shutterstock.
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When's a door not a door? When it's a door in a blocked up arch, enclosing a once open space. This is what remains of Old St Chad's, Shrewsbury, #Shropshire, both an arch and an #AdoorableThursday door.
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The north ditch of #HadriansWall close to the site of Milecastle 54 #archaeology
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The Roman kiln is being fired again this Saturday (24th Oct) at #Vindolanda as part of a fund raising project to raise money for Breast Cancer charities, pottery will be sold and a percentage will go to this vital work #Archaeology
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A distiller in Glasgow, Scotland, instigated a furor in the 1820s when he built 12-foot walls—topped with spikes—that blocked a public path. There were protests, a yearslong legal battle … and archaeologists have found the remnants of “Harvie’s Dyke.”
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ALT Harvie's Dyke and artifacts (📸 Archaeology Scotland)
ALT Harvie's Dyke and artifacts (📸 Archaeology Scotland)
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The Bosham Roman Head was likely once part of a colossal statue at Chichester Harbour.
Once thought to be of Vespasian, a 2013 study suggested the fragment depicted the deified Trajan and may have been erected by Hadrian (Russell & Manley 2015).
The Novium Museum
📷 Tom Horne
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Archaeologists studying the skeletal remains of a man buried at Scotland’s Stirling Castle determined that he’d suffered 160 catastrophic fractures not dissimilar to the results of being hit by a train. What happened here 700 years ago?
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ALT Trebuchet (📸 Wikimedia Commons)
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The northern defences of Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium) in Dumfriesshire - an outpost fort for Hadrian’s Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Birrens
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An Anglo-Saxon hanging bowl fitting which was found at Scotch Corner in North Yorkshire. Dating to AD 500-700, the fitting is now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #YorkshireMuseum
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A small Roman altar dedicated by Maximus to the god Vitiris - a native hunter/ warrior god. Now part of the collections at Durham University’s Museum of Archaeology. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain
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In 1920, a grieving craftsman built a secret into his wife’s mausoleum that only appears once a year.
Inside a quiet Brussels cemetery stands a statue of a woman reaching out into total darkness.
But every summer solstice at exactly midday, a beam of sunlight punctures the roof and forms a perfect glowing heart.
For 15 fleeting minutes, the light lands exactly in her empty hand - proving that the strongest love can outlive death.
