Opening to the public on Friday 10 May at Laing Art Gallery. See the 'Greatest Painting in Britain', which has never been shown in northern England before.

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These are highly distinctive items. The torc had a huge diameter 126.5cm, much bigger than many.

If you know anything, please come forward... and please, please share!

#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #BronzeAge

Romanists: We've got this weird type of artefact!!

Prehistorians: Hold my pint...

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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Romans #Dodecahedra #Mystery

Working alongside Essex FLO & Team HE Heritage Crime after the following Ring was found in the Essex Police in Braintree District area.
The ring was identified as Treasure
It was failed to be declared within the relevant times
The finder has been issued a Community Resolution & educated in the Treasure act

With Tory MP’s out in force telling us how well the Government is doing watch in disbelief as I take a look at progress or rather lack of it on Rishi Sunak’s 5 pledges

I’m sure he would love you to RT this widely

💥 Lee Anderson defects from the Conservatives to Reform, a move that has the rare effect of boosting the average IQ of both parties.

madeline odent Meanwhile an exhibition on the role of women historians and archaeologists in uncovering Roman history is opening soon in my hometown, that museum is partly why I went into a heritage career stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/women…

For #FindsFriday I present a Plano Convex flint knife, from the bronze age, 2500BC-1500BC.
A relatively early addition to Portable Antiquities, recorded in 1999.

Quite an amazing experience when such a find presents itself to you 😊

finds.org.uk/database/artef…

Absolutely priceless opportunity for undergrads to get up close and personal with 12th-century manuscripts. We need a next-gen to preserve these skills! Increase, don’t cut, funding for the National Library, Amgueddfa Cymru and the Royal Commission
petitions.senedd.wales/signatures/243…

just please let’s not call this unending wrecking ball ‘austerity’ any longer.

enough

it’s time to start to value our culture, arts and heritage again

It seems that Michelle Mone is about to be rehabilitated and returned to the House of Lords.

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £223,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

We won't forget.

It's #FindsFriday !
Here's a throwback to 2021. 2021T481, an Early Medieval gold sword pommel, dating to the 7th century. One side depicts a pair of beasts facing, the other zoomorphic entwined beasts. Found in the Harborough district of Leicestershire.
finds.org.uk/database/artef…

a cat would never lose $50k to a scam artist. for one thing, they have no money. for another, if cats could talk, they'd love to say 'no' to things. they'd just say 'no' all day long. no one has ever loved anything as much as cats love refusing to do things you want them to do.

Absolutely best joke, amongst scores of other brilliant jokes, from Milton Jones last night:

If you Google 'lost medieval servant boy', it comes up with 'this page cannot be found'.

The Benefits of Brexit in one short clip…

Thus is happening today - come and say hello

And whilst you can't yet get your hands on a digital copy of the duo's Cambridgeshire/Huntingdonshire vol, their Nottinghamshire vol is online. What's the 'Barnack Quarry,' you ask? 🤔Read on, reader, read on: chacklepie.com/ascorpus/vol12…

Always worth pulling up my favourite saved tweet on the three lies of Thatcher at times like this,