The Royal Pier in Aberystwyth with the National Library of Wales on the hill in the background.

Senhouse Museum And the absolute cherry on the cake, that paragon of Romano-British religious weirdness the SERPENT STONE

Not a bad evening over mid Wales 🌞 #lambs #Ceredigion #Cymru / #Wales

Our fantastic stone finial in the museum is one of our largest objects on display. In architecture, a finial is a decorative ornament to empathize the roof. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #RomanVilla

Runner ducks at Llanerchaeron NT/YG today 🦆 - you're welcome!

A Late Iron Age copper alloy hinged neck ring inlaid with coloured glass

Found in 1889 on the Isle of Portland #Dorset

Although its original context is unknown, it remains an exceptional piece of Durotrigian bling 🤩

© Trustees of the British Museum: 1889,0715.1

#FindsFriday

This #roman inscribed lead ingot was processed to remove the silver before being cast. It is believed to refer to M. Trebellius Maximus, Governor of Britain AD 63–69. Wow!
#RomanEmpire
#FindsFriday

#FindsFriday So - did the Romans invade Ynys Môn/Anglesey because of Druids 🧙 or....

..the immense copper wealth of Parys Mountain? 🤔 Probably both..

Hefty Roman copper ingot from coastal Aberffraw, on display in the excellent Oriel Ynys Môn.

📷 My own, last week

#ReconstructionIllustration of an #IronAge #farmstead excavated by Wessex Archaeology near the Leam River in #Warwickshire . #Frog bones were found in the #roundhouse deposit layers. © Wessex Archaeology
#archaeology #childhood #play #reconstructionart #archaeologicalillustration

Dr Toby Driver Recreations of the Iron Age do mostly depict spikey haired moustachioed men with swords and tartan wearing women weaving ☹️

The only one we can think of that inverts that (a bit) is this by Richard Hook for the 1987 Blandford Press book *Warriors of Arthur*

Good mullet too...

Dr Toby Driver HAT models do a set of 'Gallic' chariots featuring a warrior queen in 1:72 scale. You'll be pleased to know it includes a particularly fine figure of a woman brandishing a severed head.

Even in the Iron Age people got about on two wheels.

They had chariots!

At Hull and East Riding Museum we have the remains of several Iron Age chariot burials from Garton Slack and Wetwang Slack. The replica on display shows what they would have looked like.
#BikeWeekUK

The Anglesey Barracks are the best-surviving of a number of barracks at Dinorwic Quarry
They were likely built between 1869-1873, inhabited until 1937.
Part of the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, a UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 World Heritage Site since 2021
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#HeritageDay

The remains of the bathhouse complex at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain

For #HillfortsWednesday we have dramatic Dunsinane Hillfort in #Perthshire #Scotland with impressive #IronAge ramparts. It features in #Shakespeare 's Macbeth: ' #Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.'

📢 People of Twitter..

I'll be cycling #Mull & the Outer #Hebrides in late May & I'm wondering which archaeological treasures I really shouldn't miss?

Callanish & Dun Carloway are on the bucket list - of course. Any other must-see monuments on Uist & Lewis? 🤔 Thanks! 😊👌

A link to a short blog on Aerial Archaeology in Jordan

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One of the best historic views of #Aberystwyth that I've seen in years - a Sunderland off Aberystwyth Castle, courtesy of The Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre 👏👏