Peter Metz

Fall is in the air…

#TombTuesday Small but perfectly formed 🥰 The diminutive Poulnabrone dolmen in the Burren of western Ireland, seen in summer 2023 with an Alpine carpet of wildflowers at its base💐 Did the original Neolithic builders ever think their family tomb would become world famous? 📷 My own

While surveying a site for a planned road expansion near Schæfergårde in West Jutland, archeologists discovered a long stretch of closely-spaced postholes dating to 500 BC. Photo credit Vejdirektoratet, Museum Vest. www.vejdirektoratet.dk/pressemeddel...

The remains of the 13th century Shrine of St. William - the first abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #RievaulxAbbey #Yorkshire

Terracotta floor tile - Pigeon c. 14th-15th centuries CE Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux Now Musée d'Aquitaine #TilesOnTuesday

River Great Ouse, Kings Lynn, Norfolk Last week’s low tide. #LowtideTuesday #Cloudscape

How lucky are we? It's #StuffedSoldierSaturday! Mannequins used to be a museum favourite but, sadly, are falling from favour. Here's one of the best (sadly, now gone): the pre-Flavian #RomanCavalry eques at Corinium Museum in Cirencester (GBR). Disturbingly real if you saw it in the (horse) flesh.

Today we have this absolute stunner: an engraved intaglio with a portrait of Julius Caesar. His head is laureled, and a star on the right over his shoulder (next to a lituus, a curved augural staff) is a symbol of his divinity. The gold setting is modern. 🏺 1/ 1st c. CE. #BritishMuseum 📸 me

If you decorate the outside of your house for #Halloween please don’t use this fake spider webbing. It’s fatal to bird life.

Great line-up of speakers for the @cbalondon.bsky.social Autumn London Archaeological Forum - the LAF. And the winner of the biennial publication prize will be announced too! 17th November, 6pm UCL Institute of Arch, Gordon Square All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...

😱 #Athens #Acropolis

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (26th October 1989). Joan of Arc (Jan Ravens) is subjected to an intense interrogation. Angus Deayton is asking the questions in this sketch written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.

A cool model of the theatre of Clunia Sulpicia in northern Spain, one half as it once looked and the other as it was before excavation in the early 20th century 📍 Burgos Museum, Spain 📸 Me 🏺 #RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology

This beautiful Roman cameo glass disc portrays a young man in a Phrygian cap and cloak beneath foliage. Given the stereotypical ‘Easternness’ of his outfit, it may be Paris, prince of Troy, and may depict him in his judgement of the three goddesses on Mt Ida. 🕰️C1stAD 🏛️BM 📷mine

Shared for #MosaicMonday & #FindsFriday A man’s tribute to beloved pet cat (“Emerald”) and dog (“Ocean”) found in 1,800-year-old mosaic in a Roman villa in the ancient city of Adramytteion on Turkey's Aegean coast

Engraving of a fox at Altxerri cave, Basque Country from ~39,000BP. Representions of foxes are apparantly rare in Ice Age art. The cave also includes depictions of bisons, aurochs (uro), reindeer (reno), a wolverine (glutón) and saiga antelopes, and are amongst the oldest cave paintings in Europe.

The "Queen of Gospel" Mahalia Jackson was born #OTD in 1911. "To speak of her voice is to speak of magic and mystery and majesty. Hers is not a voice. It is a force of nature. It moves with the power of a tornado and soothes with the tenderness of a spring rain." #MusicHistory #Music #MusicSky

1909 Baker Electric

The final frontier is vast, but the light of those who shaped our childhoods and inspired our dreams never truly fades. They remain a permanent part of the constellation we steer by 🚀 RIP Walter Koenig 🖖 #WalterKoenig #StarTrek #Ensign #Pavel #Chekov #RIP

Julian Biggers' 1997 hardwood metamorphic miniature table that transforms from a console into a gaming table, a modern take on 18th-century dual-use furniture designed for space efficiency. IG: @dthomasminiatures

This rather louche looking reclining satyr has been carved into an inch long agate gemstone. Given its size, the detail is extraordinary. It’s Etruscan and dates from around 550BC. 🏛️📷 BM

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a primary architect & driving force behind the organized movement that ultimately won American women the right to vote in 1920. She died on #OTD in 1902 & never got to vote in her lifetime. Because of her (and others), we can. #VOTE #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage

World's oldest shipwreck discovered off coast of Turkey. #Archaeology phys.org/news/2026-10...

Ancient Nubian temple faience workshop reveals links between craft production and royal power. #Archaeology phys.org/news/2026-10...

When did a message last stop you in your tracks? 💌 Sascha is back to decode The Love Letter by Johannes Vermeer, a painting full of symbols. 👁️ Discover more: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/The-Love-Letter--508513eb7ee162ec2f68ea3d3138d912 #rijksmuseum #amsterdam

Seascape Mosaic (detail) 3rd Century CE Roman Aquincum. c. 41 - 409 CE. At times, capital city of Roman province of Pannonia Inferior & headquarters of Emperors. The mosaic came from the central hall of the bath in the northern wing of a palace. Aquincum Museum, Budapest, Hungary #MosaicMonday

#MosaicMonday Part of the Roman mosaic found at Hinton St. Mary, Dorset 4th Century AD. Now at the British Museum. #History #artwork #Archaeology

A gorgeous quartet to celebrate #MosaicMonday, beautifully preserved in the Neptune Building at the site of ancient Itálica, Seville. Would love to know what the central image of the bottom left mosaic was! 📹 us #Sevilla #archaeology #ancientbluesky #skystorians

Seascape Mosaic (details) 3rd Century CE Aquincum - a Roman military & civilian site c. 41 - 409 CE. The mosaic contains a dolphin, fish & a duck. Aquincum Museum, Budapest, Hungary #MosaicMonday

✨Know Thyself✨ Spooky season is here and we’re getting into the Halloween vibe with this quite robust specimen of a skeleton.

Detail from the 4th century ‘Charioteer Mosaic’ featuring a victorious charioteer and quadriga (four horse chariot). The mosaic decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire; now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

Detail from a 4th century AD mosaic floor at Littlecote Roman villa in #Wiltshire showing pieces of tesserae cut from reused stamp-impressed box flue tile 📷 May 2015 #MosaicMonday

A life-size #Roman marble head found in #Sussex now in the British Museum (1961,1103.1) Our report identifying it as Agrippa Postumus, youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus, is open access thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy #StoneHeadSunday

The Milestone which sits alongside the Stanegate Roman Road at #Vindolanda fort is one of the very few stones still in its original location out of thousands which must have existed across the UK #archaeology #HadriansWall

#MosaicMonday #Roman 🏺 Marine theme in vestibule of Domus M Caesi Blandi, centurion of Praetorian Guard, #Pompeii. Two dolphins + sea serpent beside a trident, around a ship's rudder topped w bird, + fortifications on threshold panel above. Perhaps a tribute to source of family fortunes.

An early 12th century corbel from Wimborne Minster in Dorset of Moses, with the Ten Commandments in hand. 📸 My own #StoneworkSunday #WimborneMinster

Gold ring with Sitting deity and row of Minoan Genius figures bearing offerings, found in context from Mycenaean #Greece, but probably made in Minoan Crete, (National Archaeological Museum of Athens N 6208) #Archaeology #Art #jewellery

#SarcophagusSaturday and #SpoliaSunday unite on the garden façade of the Villa Medici. This C3 CE #Roman #sarcophagus front depicts the Judgement of #Paris. It looks like a continuous narrative frieze, but Renaissance restorers heavily altered it before installation. 🧵 #AncientBluesky 🏺

Do it, put chocolate in the tip 😃 IG: @coastalchillco

Happy #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The - ahem 🧐 - decorated stone pillar from Rhosmeirch, Ynys Mon/Anglesey, in private ownership but on display in Oriel Môn Thought to be Iron Age it is unusual for Wales. The central band has parallels with belts on European Iron Age statues 🤔 📷 My own