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***Student special offer***
Saturday 2nd August
Join CBA London's Festival of Archaeology event exploring Fulham Palace - half price ticket includes a year's free membership! Details⬇️
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Just one ticket left for our next @cbalondon event on Saturday 12th July:
A terrific tour of the Secrets of the Thames exhibition on mudlarking with Curator Kate Sumnall. Booking:
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An view of Bartmann jugs worldwide, latest on the Greenwich dig now on site, and a surprise Iron Age discovery on the Thames. Come along to the spring LAF Monday 19th May at UCL. And it's free!
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#RomanSiteSaturday #MarchArch
Salona
Founded in Greek area C3 BC, the city grew to c.60,000 with usual walls, forum, theatre, baths and this amphitheatre.
Became capital of Dalmatian Roman province under Julius Caesar. Birthplace of Diocletian.
Quiet site in hills above Split.
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Possibly my all time favourite #ReliefWednesday: lion and unicorn w lovely feet licking cross, plus doves.
C8-9 pluteus (dividing structure made of large slabs). Originally in church of San Concordia, Lucca, now in Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi.
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#FrescoFriday
A female figure swathed in pink gracefully flying away.
From atrium of Villa Arianna, Campania, 1st C.
In the Museo Arqueológico de Stabiae Libero D'Orsi, Castellamare.
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#StoneworkSunday
Cloister of Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence (built over the #Roman forum) just has the most glorious array of 12th C #SundayStonework.
All time favourite has to be twisty one at the corner topped with #lion of St Mark the Evangelist though....
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I love the earrings from the recently excavated Pompeian bathhouse. Pliny the Elder talks about "crotala", i.e. earrings with pearls that click together when the wearer walks. The sound was #apotropaic, designed to distract (& thus disable) evil spirits! 🧿bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15z…
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A dusting of snow on Vesuvius this morning. #Pompeii
ALT View up a road in Pompeii with a white capped Vesuvius in the background
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This is the brilliant @JEBooksHull in Hull’s Hepworths Arcade.
Julie, its lovely proprietor, fights a valiant battle every day against the forces of the internet and supermarkets.
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#FrescoFriday #FindsFriday
One of those unforgettable days in the #finds room at MOLA, in (yikes!) March 2007....
Heaps of fantastic #frescos like these came in from Lime St site in the City, just to east of #Roman forum basilica.
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#SaxonSunday #SundayStonework
History of Frith Stool @HexhamAbbey is a bit foggy but probably made for founder St Wilfrid c 674, perhaps used as his Bishop's Throne.
Made of sandstone block possibly from Corbridge #Roman ruins + may later have denoted site of sanctuary/refuge.
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For St Thomas Becket's feast day, an alabaster relief sculpture rescued from a church in the Midlands, perhaps Beauchief Abbey in Derbyshire dedicated to Thomas.
Commissioned to celebrate marriage c. 1350-75 of Sir Godfrey Foljambe and Avena Ireland whose arms are below.
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A very strange tide this morning due to surge activity meant that recorded high water’s at Southend and Richmond were almost at the same time
Normally more than two hours apart
There was 1.3m surge on the flood tide that eased near to high water’s, creating an unusual profile
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"The situation in Gaza is an apocalyptic nightmare... it's unconscionable"
Bushra Khalidi from Oxfam explains how Israel has been preventing aid from entering northern Gaza and has been attacking the places where people are taking shelter.
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✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸
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#StaircaseSaturday
Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House, housing Courtauld Institute of art/art history since 1989.
Glorious Monet exhibition is now sold out, but the Institute's collection is always something to stop you in your tracks - as is the classic Georgian-era staircase.
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#SteepleSaturday
Snapshot of London history:
Now within the City of London, just north of #Roman/#medieval wall seen here, St Giles Cripplegate has Saxon, Norman + later roots.
Restored after several fires, until after WWII bombing plans from a 1545 restoration were used again.
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#GlassObjectThursday #Archaeology
Complete + v beautiful early 2nd C #RomanGlass funerary urn.
Full of cremated remains + in fragments when excavated at Botchergate Carlisle in 1999.
In Carlisle Cathedral Treasury, created underground at west end following 1988 excavation.
