This rather splendid caliga, a Roman hob-nailed shoe, was found in Mainz, Germany. Caligae resemble sandals, but were designed for marching and fighting.
ca. 1st Century AD.
Photo credit: RMN GP (MAN), Jean Gilles Berizzi.
musee-archeologienationale.fr/collection/obj…

I'm coming to Norwich Castle
on Friday 19 July as part of the Historic Building Mythbusting book tour. As a castles specialist it will be a proper treat to speak at a site founded during the early Norman period 🤓🏰📚

Tickets are now available here:
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Beccles
#AdoorableThursday

A conflict reimagined tinyurl.com/5x3ze9np

Throughout May, the kindle version of The Archaeology of Loss is available for £1.99. An absolute snip! Any help getting the word out would be much appreciated. Thanks.
amazon.co.uk/Archaeology-Lo…

The roaring flames of Beltanes past.
That time ⁦Butser Ancient Farm⁩ made the wicker man a Roman legionary, 2018.
#Beltane

An Iron Age hillfort reimagined

The mighty trivallate Castle-an-Dinas #Kernow / #Cornwall , looked after by Cornwall Heritage Trust 〓〓, lives again in this sumptuous recreation by the supremely talented Phoebe Herring for Penwith Landscape Partnership

See penwithlandscape.com/trails-and-anc…

#HillfortsWednesday

'Drone shot' before the invention of drones! (or PPE, or Digital photography, or H&S.....)

Well, the sun’s gone down, & they’ve told me I need to drink lovely beer whilst watching the herds being driven between two purifying bonfires.
Oh, go on then.
#Beltane #PlaymobilInfestation

DM SoftWear caligae👀??

Romanists: We've got this weird type of artefact!!

Prehistorians: Hold my pint...

🤣

#Archaeology #Prehistory #Romans #Dodecahedra #Mystery

With a ventilation grill like this, a building doesn’t breathe; it sighs contentedly.
Bethel Street, Norwich.

Excavation of the “Sunray” or shell mosaic at Verulamium, 1930, from a sheet of amateur snaps. ⁦Lexi Diggins #Dig4Arch⁩ might like this - a very similar book of snaps is on display in her super Women Doing Everything exhibition ⁦St Albans Museums⁩
#MosaicMonday

A slow pan across a favourite #Roman mosaic (featuring the last surviving dolphin Bignor Roman Villa West #Sussex ) to the tessellated pavement of the N portico / corridor, 24m of which is preserved inside the modern cover building

Glorious

#MosaicMonday #Archaeology

🎥 April 2024

Differential.
2.685m, Admiralty Road, Great Yarmouth.
#BenchMarkMonday

“I cleared the shelves in the spare room so you can tidy away some of your books.”
“Ooh, err, I, ooh, already, hmm, I see, hmmm, books, yes, hmmm, err, oooh, good idea, hmm, yes, I’ll just pop back upstairs then.”
#PlaymobilInfestation

Everything was so pleasingly right-angled until the teenager got up.

By far the best thing about yesterday’s 1974 Playmobil find has to be the rescue trampoline…and the respirators!!!!🤩 The set is ALMOST complete, just a couple of minor items to pick up.
When Playmobil Nero begins fiddling, these guys will be ready.
#PlaymobilInfestation

I’m very excited about this. It’s 10.5%. I am going to drink it, but not tonight, because I’m going out and feel that supping this first might be foolhardy. Anyone familiar with it?

After work slurp, Aug 1996. One for ⁦⁦Richard Mortimer⁩ - lovely photo of Tash, who I have to say, doesn’t seem to have aged more than a couple of days in the last 3 decades; likewise Phil. Sadly, I fear Time has been less kind to the callow, beardless youth at the end.