Our Archaeobotanist Bronagh could barley believe her eyes with this oat-ally awesome flot! It's packed with charcoal, charred grains & seeds, as well as bread wheat, barley and oats. We're still figuring out what it represents, but it definitely ex-seeded our expectations! #FindsFriday

For #FindsFriday, a near-complete glazed red earthenware pot from Cringleford, Norfolk. It was found in a former clay quarry pit, with a kiln and pottery waste nearby. From digging the clay to firing the pots, we’re uncovering the whole process in one place! #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Norfolk

What do London's earliest known turkey bones, a metre-long medieval pike and one of the capital's largest prehistoric flint assemblages have in common? They all feature in 'This land of 50 hides', our new book exploring more than 10,000 years of archaeology beneath Fulham Palace. bit.ly/4vBgsbU

#FindsFriday 🪙 This Roman coin from the House of Constantine c.AD 347–8 depicts two winged Victories celebrating imperial victory. Alongside the Neolithic pits and Roman pottery we've already featured, it provides another snapshot into the thousands of years of human activity at Fordingbridge.

Amazing ancient Lurs from Bronze Age Denmark. Thirty-nine of these bronze horns have been found in Danish peat bogs, likely deposited as ritual offerings some 3,000 years ago! Fun fact: Lurs are the inspiration behind the name and logo of Denmark’s Lurpak® butter! 🧈 🎺 🇩🇰 #FindsFriday #Archaeology

It may not look like much, but this is part of the King's House, Charles II's unfinished palace, built on the site of Winchester Castle. We turned the excavation into a 3D model before it disappeared beneath the ground again. sketchfab.com/3d-models/wi... #FindsFriday

Winchester, Gurkha Museum 001 - 3D model by Pre-Construct Archaeology (@pre-constructarchaeology)

Winchester, Gurkha Museum 001 - 3D model by Pre-Construct Archaeology (@pre-constructarchaeology)

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This flint core dates to the end of the last Ice Age, around 12,000 years ago, when mobile hunter-gatherers travelled seasonally across the lost landscape of Doggerland, now submerged beneath the North Sea. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Palaeolithic

For #FindsFriday, a jug with painted decoration and a tall-necked beaker, both New Forest wares dating to the second half of the 4th century AD. They were found side by side within a disused grain dryer and may have been deliberately placed after the structure had gone out of use. #Archaeology

A team from PCA Newark have recently rediscovered a hidden well within the gatehouse at Newark Castle. The well was first recorded in Archaeologia in 1782, where it was described as being 'still open'. Watch the timelapse and read more here: www.pre-construct.com/news/a-redis...

🌊 World Oceans Day 🌊 New Romney, now inland, was one of England's most important medieval Cinque Ports. Explore our free interactive book The Sea and the Marsh to discover how storms and shifting coastlines reshaped the town's connection to the sea. www.pre-construct.com/product/the-...

#FindsFriday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social keep bringing it at Boulton Moor - here's a nice intact Roman pot from a well or watering hole. Let's hope that trowel doesn't slip. And a hammered silver penny (Edward I or II) just to spoil the Roman vibe!

What do you find when you dig beneath one of the Tower of London's most historic buildings? Our excavation at the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula features in this week's episode of Inside the Tower of London. 📅 Wednesday 3 June 🕗 8pm 📺 Channel 5

#FindsFriday More Roman gubbins from Boulton Moor, a lovely little pottery flask (perfume bottle?) that emerged intact last week #Derbyshire #Archaeology

This rare Roman pottery lamp, shaped like a foot wearing a sandal, was made between 50-60 CE, and was found at Borough High Street in Southwark. Archaeologists discovered the lamp in a rubbish pit, close to buildings that had been burnt down during the Boudican rebellion in 60-61 CE. #FindsFriday

If you’re going to hobnail the shoe, then bloody hobnail the shoe, that’s what I say. 1st/2nd C AD, @vindolandatrust.bsky.social #FindsFriday

For #FindsFriday, I'm gifting you this fantastic Bronze Age felled tree we’ve just excavated from #Skipsea in Holderness. The marks of the socketed bronze axe are clearly visible, and the thud of the axe is almost audible. Used - we think - as a post, perhaps for a trackway.

For #FindsFriday we're following a trail of tiny beads left behind in Victorian Islington. Hundreds were recovered at Ironmonger Row Baths alongside fasteners, pins & buttons made from glass, shell and bone, hinting at the presence of a seamstress in one of the terraced houses that once stood here.

For #FindsFriday, we have this wonderful piece of worked wood from our trench on the edge of the palaeolake at #Skipsea. Our student, Lydia, found it in an area that was once alder carr. At the moment, we don’t know its date, but it is likely prehistoric.

In 1836 some labourers found these 2,600 year-old wooden figures whilst cleaning a ditch at Roos Carr, near Withernsea, East Yorkshire. One of the men is said to have given one of the ancient ‘dolls’ to his daughter to play with! 😱 Hull and East Riding Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

This delicately decorated bone object from a medieval settlement in Essex features a lion with tendrils emerging from its mouth, a motif paralleled in Romanesque sculpture. It may have been a dagger sheath chape, and reflects the transfer of ecclesiastical imagery to everyday objects. #FindsFriday

Less then a week to go until our Sping Archaeological Forum. The talks will be delivered by Harry Platts from @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social , Alfred Hawkins from the Tower of London and Han Li from MOLA. Details and tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-lon...

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EVENT ALERT: Booking is now open for our Spring Archaeological Forum on Tuesday, 19th May, 6pm at UCL. Book a place for free! Link for booking and details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-lon...

For #FindsFriday, a tiny plaque from the City of London, with delicately incised letters: [A]EÞVL-, probably a part of a name. Below, a t suggests the presence of a second line. Although typically lead, this one has parallels in coffin plates of the 11th–12th centuries, which are often cross-shaped.

An iron sword in its iron scabbard, bent in half and buried over 2,000 years ago Ritually 'killed' so that it could not be repaired nor used by another, this Iron Age weapon was found alongside its last owner From North Bersted #Sussex 2008. Now in the Chichester Novium 📷 March 2026 #FindsFriday

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

For #FindsFriday a Roman enamelled stud from the site of a mausoleum that stood for 700 years overlooking the Medway marshes. Here, a woman in a lead-lined coffin, nearby Roman silverworking, and rare Anglo-Saxon finds point to a site that remained meaningful across changing worlds. #RomanBritain

Construction of a new road revealed something already written into the landscape. An Iron Age enclosure and a Roman villa lay 1km apart, on slightly higher ground above the floodplain. Between them ran a route, a precursor of the modern bypass. The same route, reused and redefined across centuries.

This canister was left in a ditch near a Roman temple in Southwark nearly 2,000 years ago. When it was opened, it was found to contain a white cream still holding the fingerprints of the last person to touch it. Closed and set aside, a moment caught, right down to the fingerprint. #FindsFriday

Tombstones of two #Roman auxilliary cavalrymen who both died in Britain during the 1st century AD Dannicus (from Switzerland) and Genialis (from the Netherlands) Illuminated in colour, to show how they may have originally looked, in the Corinium Museum #Cirencester 📷 Aug 2022 #RomanFortThursday

This Neolithic end scraper came from a pit packed with artefacts in the New Forest. The pit is part of a wider cluster, probably representing seasonal activity. These deposits may mark the closing of individual episodes of activity at a site revisited over generations. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday

Tomorrow is #InternationalPiDay celebrating π. Matching this Black-burnished ware triangular-rim bowl to a chart estimates its diameter. Roman pottery is full of circles, and therefore π! These were nicknamed pie dishes, though there’s no evidence Roman pies were baked in them. #FindsFriday