A 2nd century Roman enameled bronze brooch disc fibula found at a distillery in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The plate brooch is of a type usually found in eastern Gaul, Switzerland or the Rhineland and is a very rare find for Scotland. They were popular with Roman soldiers in the 2nd century, so it likely hitched … Read the full post →"Roman enameled brooch found under palisade in Scotland"
Archaeologists excavating the remains of Sheffield castle have discovered four wooden stakes used to defend the castle when it was attacked in 1644 by Parliamentarian forces. These are the first surviving wooden stake defenses from the Civil War era found in the UK. The stakes were discovered in the former moat that defended the southern … Read the full post →"Civil war defensive stakes found at Sheffield Castle site"
A farmer in the village of Bartosze in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of northern Poland has discovered a 2,500-year-old bronze necklace. The necklace is made of a single bronze rod with a circular cross-section. It is open at one end like a torc and decorated down its entire length with a double groove pattern in rings … Read the full post →"Farmer finds Bronze Age necklace in Poland"
An engraved symbol found on a 1st century B.C. spindle whorl is one of the earliest examples of alphabetic writing in the northern Iberian peninsula. The spindle whorl, a donut-shaped counterweight for a spinning spindle, was discovered during the 2017 excavation at the Iron Age La Peña del Castro site near La Ercina in northwestern … Read the full post →"Celtiberian letter found on spindle whorl"
A landscape of a castle on a lake painted by Flemish Old Master Abel Grimmer (ca. 1570-1618/19) has been rediscovered in a private collection by auctioneers Woolley and Wallis. Landscape with Peasants Near a Lakeside Castle, an oil on canvas painting, has been in the present owners’ family since 1935 when it was purchased from … Read the full post →"Lost castle landscape by Flemish Old Master rediscovered"