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The "Gallic Warrior-God statuette", helps my research on (perfect size 👌)

55cm H., dated 1st AD (style or associated finds of deposited weaponry in a Gallic sanctuary?), made of 22 sheets of cold hammered latten (zinc+copper)
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2020-11-26

Couldn't ignore this rather fine linch pin for First complete one recorded by from South Yorks. A high status object that held a wheel on an IA vehicle. Flattened edge from wear against the wheel! See the full record at https://t.co/zQ0hkqs6yi

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2020-11-13

In was the of In the she left earth and became the constellstion upon witnessing the evils of humanity when opened the box Astraea will come back one day bringing with her the return of the utopian

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2020-08-12

Writing about art it strikes me just how often the Waterloo Helmet and Battersea Shield appear in pop culture pics of the as if they were somehow in everyday use and everyone had their own copy...

...a random thread for

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2020-05-01

Had forgotten how much I like the dramatic reconstructions of the late great In this pic a Scot is chased towards a deserted by two Picts NW scotland 7th c AD

!

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2020-04-22

New almost finished!! Based on 2 finds: Lincolnshire hoard miniature bronze shields / Gallic warrior statuette (St Maur, Oise, North France) dated 1st AD and found in a - gallo-roman sanctuary. Now painting..

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2020-04-18

Just going through proof-pages of The Time Travel Diaries: Adventure in Athens and notice that I gave a nice mention! 😊 It's out in about 2 months. Pre-order here: https://t.co/qQ0H8VMFNW

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2020-03-28

Some of the extraordinary and worked from Panga ya Saidi, Thanks to Francesco d'Errico and colleagues for some excellent analyses of a key and sequence of Eastern Africa!
https://t.co/tiaCnuaWbU

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2020-03-10

An opportunity today to sketch the magnificent head on the Iron Age Marlborough bucket in before my talk today. So many wonderful things under one roof. Why I became an archaeologist.

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2020-01-11

It's (yay!) and to celebrate another form of monumental loveliness here's the slight 0.3ha enclosure emerging in very low sunlight photo: (c) NMR 15856/13

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2019-08-28

Couldn't resist going back to to see the Broighter hoard. Absolutely breath-taking

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2019-07-20

OPEN ACCESS ! - Our full report on the Late mirror burial from with specialist reports by and is now freely available to read at:

https://t.co/8gdMHTjyYt

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2019-06-11

Brent Hill, South Brent
Lots going on on this little hill.
Early

artefacts & enclosures
chapel & lynchets (NE)
~16thC beacon
~19thC 19thC & 20thC quarries.

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2019-05-29

Just under 2cm diameter, these ancient British coins, cast high-tin bronze, belong to the hoard of potins found at Eel Pie Island, Twickenham. Part of the Layton Collection, on display at the Museum of London's, "London Before London Gallery."

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2019-04-16

in the Layton Collection has to be this beautiful late design bronze chariot horn cap, known as the 'Brentford Horn Cap', named after where it was most likely found. It is now kept at the Museum of London. https://t.co/AKBXeEiETq

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2019-04-05

Favourite object from the Layton Collection has to be the "Brentford Horn Cap", a beautiful design chariot fitting, probably found in the Thames near dated between 100BC – 50AD. Now kept at the Museum of London. https://t.co/AKBXeEiETq

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2018-11-12

Zed Ridin' the lightning. Comes in four different flavours!

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2018-07-15

A cheeky little Late /Early razor for this week's which always make me smile for some reason! This beauty was found in in a cremation burial together with one fragment of a bronze in a at Basse-Wavre,

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2018-07-06