#FindsFriday: Tankard found near Brackley, Northamptonshire, AD 40- 70
`Tankards are wooden vessels with bronze handles. They were used for drinking alcohol, such as beer or mead. Archaeologists usually only find the bronze handles of tankards from this period as the wooden parts do not survive. The dimensions of the bronze bands on the Brackley tankard have allowed to reconstruct its original shape and size.` #Celtic #IronAge
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Recognisably different types of horse-harness were developed in lreland, particularly two link bridle-bits.` #Celtic
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday: An artefact of unknown function and iconography unique to Ireland. The convex circular disc is made of sheetbronze engraved with a basket-weave pattern. The circular scoop has been placed off-centre and surrounded by a repeated scroll motif in high relief.` #Celtic
Source: British Museum

For #FindsFriday, we have some finds from the #cemetery of the #Elisabethinenspital in #Vienna. These were found during our 2019 #excavations on behalf of the #Franziskusspital. They are so-called #Breverl, paper pictures of #saints that were worn on the body, for example, in a #pendant made of metal and glass, to ward off #evil. The finds here date from the 18th century, but Breverl were widespread until the 20th century.

#Archaeology #Wien #Austria @archaeodons #HistoricalArchaeology

A faiance bead from the Chalcolithic cemetery of Selvicciola in Italy. It was found from Tomb 21. Sadly it does not have a C14 dating. It is the same tomb from which an IRON scratch awl was found. Very early examples of crafts. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday: `Golden shoes where a symbolic attribute of kingship in Irish and Welsh tradition. And various #Otherwordly figures where associated with a silver sandal on the one foot and a golden one on the other.` Prof. John Waddel #Celtic
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-GlSEP8Us8
Golden shoe fittings of two beaked shoes of the so-called ‘Prince of Hochdorf’, Eberdingen-Hochdorf, Germany, around 530 BC, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
##adornment

#FindsFriday: `Golden shoes where a symbolic attribute of kingship in Irish and Welsh tradition. And various #Otherwordly figures where associated with a silver sandal on the one foot and a golden one on the other.` Prof. John Waddel #Celtic
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-GlSEP8Us8

#FindsFriday: Clay dog figurine, Offenbach-Rumpenheim, around 190-150 B.C., World of the #Celts in Glauberg
#Celtic

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: "The shape of the sword chains varies. For example, in addition to chains with classic braided intermediate links, we also know chains whose links consist of rings and square bars as well as artistically interwoven iron wires. “ #Celtic
Source: Wiederhergestellt 96 Keltische Schlachtfeldfunde aus Deutschfeistritz (bda.gv.at)

Decorative detail from the High Toynton Hanging Bowl which was found in 2000 at High Toynton, near Horncastle in Lincolnshire. The bowl is one of several Anglo-Saxon bowls found in Lincolnshire. Now part of the collections at Lincoln Museum. My own. #FindsFriday #AngloSaxon

Flawborough lead tanks are Roman and found from Nottinghamshire. They date to the late 4th century AD. They have an inscription VTERE EELIX, misspelling FELIX of a Christian frase. There are altogether 22 lead tanks from Roman Britain, mostly from East Anglia. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday: `Hollow gold torc with buffer terminals, 350-200 BC. The knot demonstrates how soft gold is to work as it was made after the torc was finished without using heat. Twelve terminals from similar torcs were found in Hoard F at Snettisham.` #Celtic #IronAge
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday: `Gold alloy torc with cast cushion terminals, buried about 75 BC, Greaves Wood, Needwood Forest, Staffordshire. The neck-ring was made in three stages. Initially 16 wires were coiled in pairs, the resulting eight components were again twisted in pairs and finally the four strands were given a single loose twist. The simple ornament on the terminals was cast, chased and engraved.` #Celtic #IronAge
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Special decorative effects used for weapons:
Sword-blade impressed with a crescent-shaped makers stamp on the blade, La Tene II 250-120 BC
Augsburg, Germany. The crescent may represent the crescent moon.
Suspension chain to attach a sword scabbard to a belt, La Tene II 300-150 BC, from an inhumation grave at Somsois, Marne, France. The front surfaces were ornamented with circular punch marks.
Dagger with stylised anthropoid hilt, 400-300 BC, from the River Avon
Iron dagger with tin antennae handle, 650-550 BC, ornamented with engraved scrolls, Spain.` #Celtic #IronAge
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday: The Chertsey Shield, Abbey Meads, Chertsey, Surrey, is the only shield from the period 400-200 BC to be made entirely of bronze. Other bronze shields had wooden backings. It was probably made for display rather than for battle. The shield was deliberately placed in the River Thames, perhaps as an offering to the gods.` #Celtic #IronAge
Source: British Museum

Today, we are presenting a beautiful #Roman #coin from the 3rd century for #findsfriday.

It is a #denarius of #Severus #Alexander, who is depicted on the obverse. On the reverse is #Mars and the inscription MARTI PACIFERO ([dedicated] to Mars, the bringer of peace).

Given what's going on in the world, this is perfect for today's #findsfriday. Those who are responsible for the current state of affairs may feel addressed.

Hand of a gilded bronze statue of an Roman emperor.
From Kempten, 1st to 3rd c. AD
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung
me
#archaeology #RomanArchaeology

A 1st century AD Roman saucepan (trulleus) - part of a hoard discovered in 2005 by a metal detectorist at Kingston Deverill in Wiltshire. Now part of the collections at Salisbury Museum. My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology

Face urns were manufactured during the Roman period in Britain. They were widely used in the western provinces of Roman Empire. Potsherds have been found at burial sites & shrines but also inside Roman forts and within domestic settings, especially at Hadrian'sWall. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday: `The Sedgeford Gold Torc, probably buried before 100-50 BC. This torc from Norfolk was found broken. The body is made from 64 wires and coiled around a former. 25 metres of wire was required. The terminal was cast in mould and is decorated with a design similar to that on the Snettisham Great Torc.
The terminal was found in 2005. It is the missing part of the Sedgeford Gold Torc found in 1965.` #Celtic #IronAge
Source: British Museum