This is one of the reasons I live in Durrës: I love having an ancient city beneath my feet.
#Albania #archaeology

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1) An astounding survival from the Roman world. This silver bust of the emperor Galba is an incredibly rare example of an imperial imago, a reverential portrait of the reigning emperor mounted on a pole and carried into battle as a military standard...

Amazing prehistoric art! 🤩

A dynamic depiction of a running cave lion (with a hint of a smile?!)

Detail from a lion frieze engraved on a fragment of bone around 17,000-14,000 years ago.

Excavated from La Vache Cave, Ariège, France. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint

For some reason (I can't think why) it seems appropriate to retweet this today...🤔

#HillfortsWednesday

#ReliefWednesday

This diptych shows Petronius Probus, consul in the west in 406 with the emperor Honorius (a guy who didn’t really live up to the name!). Probus describes himself as the ‘famulus’ of Honorius…

#HillfortsWednesday
Grovely Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in the parish of Steeple Langford, in  #Wiltshire . The remaining ramparts stand approximately 3.2 m high, with 1.5 m deep ditches, although ploughing has damaged the earthworks.
#Archaeology #History

#ReliefWednesday
Heracles fighting with the Cretan bull, roofing tile from Quadraro, found 1812 and now in the Vatican Museum.
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#Artwork #History #Archaeology

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Dylan Thomas 1914 –1953
#Wales #Sunset #Sky #Poetry

For #EpigraphyTuesday , this #inscription in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome is a model of C1 CE letterforms, beautifully carved and spaced. It reminds us of an imperial freedman whose job was to remind the emperor of favours he'd promised.

For #HillfortsWednesday here’s a rather lovely recreation of a Late Iron Age village set within the hillfort of St Gregory's Hill #Northumberland N'land National Park 🤩

🖼 by the late great Victor Ambrus for the 2006 book *Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park*

An early 1st century terracotta relief of a Roman soldier guarding a captured Gaul. The cloak and captured weapons are trophies and symbols of victory. Originally produced in Rome, the relief is now part of the collections British Museum
#ReliefWednesday 📸 My own.

#HillfortsWednesday The huge - but rather overgrown - eastern entrance into Wapley Hill fort, #Herefordshire , now in the care of Forestry England

📷 Basking in the sunshine last week

A glorious image of a Late Iron Age roundhouse under construction at St Gregory's Hill N'land National Park

A Victor Ambrus bonus for #HillfortsWednesday

Who doesn't love a roundhouse? (apart from Romans, obvs)

From: Hillforts Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park (2006)

The stunning fortified settlement of Os Pericos (Ribeira, #Galicia ), a rocky hill over the brave Atlantic, was an incognita for 2 decades, after the finding of Bell Beaker pottery (ca 2000 BC) in some shelters. Research made things even more difficult!
#HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday
Grovely Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in the parish of Steeple Langford, in  #Wiltshire . The remaining ramparts stand approximately 3.2 m high, with 1.5 m deep ditches, although ploughing has damaged the earthworks.
#Archaeology #History

#HillfortsWednesday
Ashley's Copse is the site of an Iron Age hillfort, about 8 miles (13 km) northeast of the city of Salisbury, #England , straddling the border between the counties of #Wiltshire and #Hampshire . The site is a scheduled monument.
#Archaeology #History

Spectacular sunset over the valleys tonight. #Wales #views #sunsetphotography

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Dylan Thomas 1914 –1953
#Wales #Sunset #Sky #Poetry