Fighting back against pretty Treasures! Celebrating mundane, mediocre, & ordinary artefacts dutifully recorded by @findsorguk (& others) Pronouns: Finds/Crap
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Brighten your #BlueMonday with this perfectly wonderful Roman Blue enamelled copper alloy finger ring, courtesy of @YORYM_FLO
AD 43-200. Henig Type II.
Found near Harrogate, North Yorks. YORYM-0B51D1
Wait, What?
Weight, That's What!
A selection of post medieval 4oz lead weights stamped with Roman numerals 'IIII'
WREX-48F49E (Flintshire)
WREX-2272DC (Chester)
LVPL-29C770 (Trafford)
LVPL-947F06 (Trafford)
(averdepois system - 1oz=28.4g - standardised late C15th)
#FindsFriday
lavatory (SUR-146F10) brush (LEIC-5DC51B)
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Henry VIII halfpenny 2nd coinage (LEIC-4C5998)
#ifyouknowyouknow
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Surely this should be in a museum - sadly no museum is interested in acquiring atm… Let’s hope that changes 🙏
Worries assuaged!
With @AndyAgate involved I should have known as would be well 🙂
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You know you're an archaeological small finds person when your see this image and just assume it's a topology of Early-Medieval pin heads!
We are looking for a postdoc who ❤️phages & is passionate about uncovering host-phage specificity determinants by generating >200K phage-bacteria interactions, 1000’s of HT genetic assays & powerful machine learning algorithms. Work will be in my lab & @AdamArkinLab plz reach out
A nice medieval thimble to ease us into Friday, c.AD1350-1500.
Recorded today!
GLO-5DE66B
#ThimbleThursday
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"which jobs provide salaries on upwards trajectories?"
Hmmm 🤔
I'm going to go out on a limb and say NOT Heritage jobs...
teapaw.org/MoneyTelegraph/status/…
🎓As the next wave of freshers take on university this week, many of them will now begin to contemplate life after education.
❓But which jobs provide salaries on upwards trajectories?
@MoneyTelegraph has broken down data from Adzuna 🧵👇
telegraph.co.uk/money/consum…
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...and so to bed💤
Good K-night!
"sinuous" [sic😏] pose suggests the figure may be St George spearing the dragon
c.AD1400-1500
#CrapTreasure [sadly disclaimed & returned🙁]
ESS-C71F62 - Essex
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Well,
Good Morning Gorgeous!
Dragonesque brooch, C.AD50-150
NLM-2FFCE1 - East Riding of Yorkshire
#FindsFriday
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Breaking Twitter break to say...
NADINE FUCKING DORRIES AT DCMS 😱
WHAT, AND I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH, THE ABSOLUTE FUCK
#ArchaeologyIsFucked
If gay marriage bill takes sex out of marriage could a sister marry a sister to avoid inheritance tax? telegraph.co.uk/news/religio…
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Although, in fairness to her...teapaw.org/NadineDorries/status/1…
My biggest regret as MP is voting against gay marriage I read @nickygumbel blog in the middle of the night before the vote when agonising-wish I’d spoken to him. I will regret it all of my life but truly hope that all same sex marriages live happily ever after #Pride #Love #LGBT
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Say what you like about Roman Imperialism & expansion, but they NEVER gained air superiority teapaw.org/TerribleMaps/status/13…
All of it.
Everyday.
All the time.
teapaw.org/GGFutureReady/status/1…
It’s #AskAnArchaeologistDay
The obvious question is…
How much is your job like Indiana Jones?
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