For : found a nice clean used copy of _Edward Lear’s Nonsense Birds_ published by Bodleian Libraries at Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Happy to add it to the collection! 🤗

#findsfriday #bookrecommendation #birdsinart

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OddOpinions5 · @failedLyndonLaRouchite
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: a -shaped nutcracker (ha!) & -shaped chocolate mold, found behind hiding doors in little cubby-holes of the “ on the Loose: A Mercer Menagerie” children’s room at the Mercer Museum castle. Cute! Late 19th-early 20th c.?

#findsfriday #squirrel #rabbit #animals

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MikeK · @mkarliner
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We just had a grand day out at the fantastic gcrailway.co.uk/

The full English breakfast on board is pretty fab too.

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Valerie Burkhart · @ValBHart
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RT @SPTomos@twitter.com

One of the most significant Late Medieval finds from Wales, the Oxwich Brooch dates to 1320-1340 and is decorated with three chalcedony cameos and two cabochon rubies, possibly of Parisian manufacture it was found in Oxwich Castle, Swansea. museum.wales/collections/onlin

🐦🔗: twitter.com/SPTomos/status/160

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Valerie Burkhart · @ValBHart
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RT @AlisonFisk@twitter.com

Viking-age leather shoes, 10th century AD. Excavated at Coppergate, York. Remarkably well-preserved for more than a thousand years thanks to wet, oxygen-free soil. Jorvik Viking Centre. 📷: my own.


🐦🔗: twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/

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Alison Fisk · @AlisonFisk
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Viking-age leather shoes, 10th century AD. Excavated at Coppergate, York. Remarkably well-preserved for more than a thousand years, thanks to wet, oxygen-free soil. Jorvik Viking Centre. 📷: my own.

Read more: jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/about


#findsfriday #archaeology

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Opal Katz · @OpalKatz
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Found this end-of-year message today on a walk, seemed meant for me. 😄 Looks great on my bookshelf.

#found #foundtext #findsfriday #finds

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Opal Katz · @OpalKatz
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Found this end-of-year message today on a walk, seemed meant for me. 😄 Looks great on my bookshelf.

#found #foundtext #findsfriday #finds

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Alison Fisk · @AlisonFisk
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A gorgeous 1,200 year-old glass boardgame ‘King’ piece. Thought to belong to a ‘tafl’ gaming set. This rare glass gaming piece was discovered during a dig on the Northumbrian island of Lindisfarne in 2019. 📷: DigVentures and Durham University.
Read more: digventures.com/2020/02/stunni


#findsfriday #archaeology

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Fred Heller · @keltos
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RT @jens2go@twitter.com

: Hollow crane bone from the burial (c. 9,000 years ago) of the so-called from - a container for (tiny precise stone blades), put in & taken out through a small opening.

Yes, that’s your prehistoric @xacto@twitter.com knife. 😉

🐦🔗: twitter.com/jens2go/status/159

#microliths #baddurrenberg #shamaness #mesolithic #findsfriday

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Dr Pat Witts · @PatWitts
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RT @ULASarchaeology@twitter.com

Continuing our bumper . A fragment of patterned mosaic from a corridor next to the 's Trojan War mosaic.
@HistoricEngland@twitter.com @ArchAncHistLeic@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ULASarchaeology/st

#findsfriday #rutlandromanvilla #roman #archaeology #rutland #romanbritain #mosaic

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Philip K. · @philip
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RT @DrNWillburger@twitter.com

Moments in time captured in fired clay: Some 1,900 years ago a trod on a tile that was laid out in the open air ahead of firing.

Found in Nijmegen, on display at Museum Het Valkhof.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/DrNWillburger/stat

#child #roman #findsfriday #romanarchaeology

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Alison Fisk · @AlisonFisk
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Also excavated in 1953 from the same Roman well as the leather bikini briefs, a mid-1st century oak ladder. It survives to about 5.6 m. Its original length is unknown. Read more about the Roman ladder in this article: hobleysheroes.co.uk/images/Lam


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Alison Fisk · @AlisonFisk
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Rare Roman leather bikini bottoms, tied on each side of the hips with leather laces, AD 43-100. Found during excavations of a well in London’s Queen Street in 1953. Preserved in waterlogged conditions for almost 2,000 years. Museum of London.

#roman #findsfriday #archaeology

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