Peaceful Roman Villa with on-site museum. Within @CranborneChase and near @NewForestNPA. Part of the Hampshire Cultural Trust @HantsCulture 🏛️
Rockbourne, England
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The most superb bowl of them all imo 😌
Now that it’s been declared treasure, I’m excited to finally share this incredible hoard that I was so lucky to help excavate. The c.1st century AD Llantrisant Fawr vessel hoard found near Usk, Monmouthshire 🏴
We named the ox, Bovril 🥰
#FindsFriday
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ALT A copper alloy bowl with an adorable, cartoon-like decorative ox head escutcheon on the rim. The ox has curving horns with round caps on the ends, little ears that poke out the side of its head, large round hollow eyes and matching nostrils, with the handle protruding from its mount and curving back down to the bowl’s body. The bowl is still covered in mud and packed with cling film and blue tissue.
ALT Another shot of the ox head escutcheon from a different angle. You can see the tilted nostrils and upturned snout more clearly.
ALT Side view of the ox head escutcheon. You can clearly see the curvature of the face and the round cheeks of the ox and the handle that protrudes from its mouth and chin forming a perfect loop. You can also see the twisting detail of the horns.
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A rare example of a painted mosaic from Sparsholt #Roman villa #Hampshire, now in @WinchCityMuseum
This section of plaster may originally have continued a floor mosaic guilloche design up onto the surrounding walls
A #MosaicMonday / #FrescoFriday crossover
📷 April 2022
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Looking over the south wall of the #Roman coastal fort of Portchester (PORTVS ADVRNI), guarding Portsmouth Harbour #Hampshire, in around AD 345
A dramatic, if sadly rather speculative, recreation © Peter Dunn for the 1990 English Heritage guidebook
#RomanFortThursday
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It is with great sadness that we share news of our dear friend Tim Darvill, professor of archaeology at Bournemouth University who passed away this morning
Our thoughts are with his wife, family, friends and all those he inspired
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An iron legionary dagger (pugio) recovered in 1963 during excavations the mid 1st c AD #Roman fort at Waddon Hill #Dorset
Hopefully not used on any of the Durotriges 😬
Now on display in the excellent @DorsetMuseum
#RomanFortThursday
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This papyrus signed by Cleopatra grants tax exemption from sales of imported wine to the Roman businessman Publius Canidius, a friend of Mark Antony. At the bottom, in a rare example of her handwriting, Cleopatra herself added the Greek word "ginesthoi," "make it happen."
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Hymn to Calliope and Apollo, 2nd c AD, by Emperor Hadrian’s court musician, Mesomedes of Crete.
A windy beautiful morning in Sitia, Crete! Καλημέρα! 😃☀️😊Bettina Joy de Guzman. A morning practice from the Villa.
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A carved Portland Stone column base, taken from a Late #Roman longhouse and reused in the flue of a 5th century kiln
📷 2011 Winterborne Kingston #Dorset
#StandingStoneSunday #MakeDoAndMend #Archaeology
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Today 306AD Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops. He was also the first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity & is thus a significant figure in the history of Christianity. Constantine was hailed emperor in the Roman city of York, known as Eboracum.
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The Festival of Archaeology is in full swing. The Chedworth conservation team has been cleaning the Grand Dining Room mosaic (one of the finest in Britain) and chatting to visitors about the tools and techniques involved.
#Mosaic #MosaicMonday #FestivalofArchaeology
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The roof replacement work is well underway and volunteers have moved over 200 roman snails to a safe place. – at East End, England
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Lovely day at the reopening of @SalisburyMuseum galleries! Managed to find two giants of Salisbury (Phil Harding and the Salisbury Giant along with Hob-Nob). Great to see @wessexarch Larkhill finds alongside museum director Adrian Green!
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The Grand Opening of our New Galleries is TODAY! 10-5, free for everyone! Do come and see the #extraordinaryeveryday objects we have on display!
Made possible with @HeritageFundUK
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It's stratigraphy time at #Durotriges24
A v-shaped Late Iron Age ditch (on the left) cuts a u-shaped, charcoal filled Middle Iron Age ditch (on right) which itself cuts into the top of an Early Iron Age pit (with lots of luverly layers)
Yummy 😋
#Archaeology #Dorset
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The #Durotriges24 team are out setting up for tomorrow's Open Day
We're open 10-4 at North West Farm Winterborne Kingston DT11 9AT
Refreshments (including the legendary Dig Brewhouse) will be open at the farm car park
See you there?
#Archaeology #Dorset
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Everyone say hello to the newest addition to the Butser herd!
This lovely little girl was born at 2pm today, and she's already up and interested in the world around her. We're so delighted that both she and mum Sorrel are happy and healthy 💚 Now just to think of a name...
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For this #MosaicMonday, David Neal at the ASPROM symposium held @AshmoleanMuseum on Saturday, with his painting of the amazing Boxford mosaic. He and Stephen Cosh spoke about the recently published 'Roman Mosaics of Britain V'.
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And just to confirm that #Roman influence (and wine) did reach the land of the Durotriges, Martin's found a big slab of amphora in an Iron Age pit 🍷
#Durotriges24
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Fresh from the from the ground for #FindsFriday, a jolly little Later Iron Age Black Burnished Ware cup
Only slightly damaged 😍
#Durotriges24
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⚠️🚨 SAVE THE DATE ALERT 🚨⚠️
We are having a Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY on:
SUNDAY 30 JUNE
Free entry - Everyone welcome!!! 🎉🤹💃🕺🎉
Details to follow - watch this space
#Durotriges24 #Dorset #Archaeology
