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Abrasax is one of the most frequently recorded deities in magic.
He was revered as the supreme creator ofthe physical universe.
The numerical value of the letters of his name is 365:
A = 1, B = 2, R = 100, A = 1, S = 200, A = 1, X = 60.

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2023-03-24

We hope you’re all having a happy ! This week we wanted to share this decorative Roman mount (COTT 88/22). It was found by a detectorist near Cargill in Perth and Kinross, and was allocated to

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2023-03-03

Leicester Wall-painting from 2ndC house close to the basilica, depicting fantasy architecture with decorative motifs.
Finds like this are exceptional in Britain but were probably typical of well-to-do town houses in major towns in

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2023-02-10

A revisit to our Archaeologist's Blog for - explore the discovery & meaning of a found in 1970 in the moat in this article by Colin Torode:
https://t.co/qqeQyyt0KK

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2022-09-30

A Romano-British copper alloy toggle dating to 50-100CE and inlayed with red enamel in a La Tène style found at Felin Fach, Powys. Image NMW. https://t.co/Yd3TPsGqO2

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2022-09-09

A 6cm Iron Age bronze boar found at Gaer Fawr hillfort, Guilsfield before 1833 & published by Barnwell in Arch.Camb. 1871, displaying'..a wonderful amount of fidelity and spirit'

Probably mounted as a helmet emblem.

Gaer Fawr survey by &

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2022-08-05

This week's is a cast lead probable gaming piece https://t.co/L49vxyGwkc 800-1000. It's thought that hollow examples were gaming pieces as it allowed them to be stacked and it may have been used in the board game of Hnefatafl LIN-C587F9

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2022-08-05

For - in 2014 we uncovered the post-hole remains of an aisled building, but what was more exciting is that one post had been padded with (what turned out to be) some of the only examples of moulded architectural timber known from 1/2

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2022-05-27

Smaller than a fingernail, intaglios were a popular form of identification and fashion. This example, set in a silver ring, was discovered at Balkerne Gate and shows a man with a laurel wreath around his head. Who it's meant to represent remains a mystery...

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2022-04-08


Made a little doodle of my favorite artefact, the Dunaverney Flesh-hook😍

Here’s a great open-access paper that captured my imagination when I first read it years ago and really made me appreciate this beautiful object:
https://t.co/ui3uEnMY3v

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2022-03-18

A very recent Treasure acquisition by for It is most likely a gold Roman earring rather than a pendant, which would have been applied with wire and has a setting for a gem.

https://t.co/M5EGAgT2lw

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2022-02-11

Found in 1889 (context unknown) on the Isle of Portland this hinged Late Iron Age copper alloy neck ring (an *un-torc*?) was originally inlaid with coloured glass 😍

© Trustees of the British Museum: 1889,0715.1

An exceptional piece of Durotrigian bling for

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2021-12-03

are sharing some pottery fragments for

⚱Pottery helps find past societies and here is a quirky mix of fragments from Ribchester [Bremetennacum Veteranorum].

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2021-11-12

Found near before 1970, this life-size bronze arm came from a statue of a god or emperor and can be seen in the excellent

The level of anatomical realism is simply 🤩🤩

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2021-10-15

Objects made in Britain from Kimmeridge shale don't always survive that well, so this hand-carved 3rd / 4th century tray (or furniture panel) found in Askerswell, now in , is simply 🤩🤩

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2021-10-08

Furniture mounting in the form of a Gryphon from . Dating to 1st-2nd century AD, there’s a possibility it could actually come from a helmet.

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2021-10-01

special edition! Rare three-dimensional bucket escutcheon in the form of a human figure, a bull's and an avian's head, Late to period. Possibly Europa and the Bull motif seen in Roman mosaics (LIN-B96982)

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2021-10-01

Same energy

Roman mouse figurine from Loughor, Swansea
https://t.co/jIHtAvFsBI

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2021-09-03