This remarkable Mycenaean owl appliqué was found in a tomb at Peristeria, dating to 1630 to 1510 BC. 🦉 Measuring only 3.8 cm in height, it was made of gold sheet and was likely sewn onto a garment of the deceased. Currently on display at the special exhibition ...🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

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For #FindsFriday, and possibly #FrescoFriday, here’s some Roman painted wall plaster from Wroxeter. My 📷 objects in the care of EH

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November is the time for fattening up the animals. #MedievalCalendar BL Add MS 60629; Psalter; 13th century; Germany, W; f.6r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Oct 30: Feast of Talorcan, Pictish holy man whose main cult seems to have been at Fordyce, Aberdeenshire. It is possible the Tolarggan Maphan (†726), mentioned in the Annals of Ulster, relates to him. 📸Christopher Gillan

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A 14th century priory seal, used to seal official documents of St Michael's Mount monastery in Cornwall This is the seal of Richard Auncell, prior from 1385-1410 and the first English prior of the monastery (rather than French) Discovered in the 1840s 📸 Me 🏺 #FindsFriday #history #archaeology

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