#FindsFriday #Celtic: `To date, fifteen types of inscriptions have been found on the Celtic coins in Bratislava. The most frequent one is BIATEC, which was also adopted as a generic name for the entire family of local coins - "biatecs". Linguistic analyses and analogies from the neighbouring province of Noricum indicate that the inscriptions were names of persons – the oppidum leaders. Like in Gaul, these chieftains were elected by a council of elders and held a one-year government office in pairs, with divided powers: the official known as vergobret exercised general powers, while the other - arcontodan, was responsible for finances, including coin mintage.`
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Clear evidence of the minting efforts of the Celts in south-western Slovakia is, in particular, their coinage discovered in Bratislava. The concentration of finds of such coins in Bratislava and its close neighbourhood suggests that their origin was probably associated with the operation of a local mint. Typical examples of coins minted in Bratislava were golden staters with the inscription BIATEC, weighing 6 grams, and their fractional denominations, often with the text abbreviated to BIAT, as well as large silver tetradrachmae (17 g) and their subunits: didrachmae weighing 6 grams, and drachmae of the so called Simmering type (2.5 g).`
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `The cockleshell staters were not the first produced by the Celts in the region. Back in the 3rd century BC, prior to the foundation of the Bratislava oppidum, silver tetradrachmae and small nominals had already been minted by inhabitants of earlier Celtic settlements in the south-west of Slovakia. The obverse side of these coins displayed the head of Apollo, while the reverse bore the image of a lyre (the main attribute of this god) and a horse rider, or in some cases, only a horse. At that time the cockleshell staters began to be struck by the Boii living in the fortified oppidum in neighbouring lands of today's Moravia and Bohemia. With their circulation promoted by the Boii, the convex gold coins eventually spread across the entire Middle Danube region.`
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava

Volunteering again at the university. Classifying glass from Bradgate House. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday: `What partly makes the #Celtic oppida of Bratislava stand out in the history of the lands at the confluence of the rivers Morava and Danube is their role as a centre of coin minting. As early as in the 2nd century BC the local mints produced gold coins called cockleshell staters, weighing up to 7 grams. The nickname of these coins was derived from the resemblance of their cupped shape to sea shells rather than from their imagery which consisted of lunisolar symbols depicting the Sun, the Moon, and stars.`
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava

The gold and enamel shoulder clasps which were discovered in 1939 as part of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in Suffolk. Dating to the early 7th century, the clasps are now part of the collections at the British Museum. #FindsFriday #SuttonHoo

#FindsFriday: `Besides local Czech coinage, we also encounter imported coins from various parts of #Celtic Europe. In the Stradonice location, coins from the regions of South Bavaria, Gaul, Central Danube and Noricum were discovered. Similarly, coins from our territory were discovered abroad, in locations in Bavaria, Austria, Serbia, Hungary and Italy.`
Source: Museum of Nové Strašecí, Czech Republic, Exposition (muzeumtgm.cz)

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `In addition to gold staters and silver quinars, which were still prestigious coins, their smaller nominal values were minted -thirds, eighths and twenty-fourths.
The existence of mints from the early La Tene period in our territory is known in the locations of Stradonice, Závist and Třísov and Tuchlovice (mint plate discovery).`
Source: Museum of Nové Strašecí, Czech Republic, Exposition (muzeumtgm.cz)

The label says “smiling boy,” but that’s not a smile… he's somewhat terrifying....

#Roman terracotta figurine, late 2nd/ early 3rd century AD.

From Intercisa (modern Dunaújváros, Hungary).
On display at the Neues Museum Berlin.

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#FindsFriday: `From the first half of the 2nd century BC when oppida were established and there was a great development in trade, a large increase in the production of coins was noted. There were gold coins coined as well as silver and potin ones and the purity of gold deteriorated. #Celtic motifs started appearing on coins: shells, a horse (sometimes with a rider), a boar, a spoked wheel etc.`
Source: Museum of Nové Strašecí, Czech Republic, Exposition (muzeumtgm.cz)

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Minting is one of the novelties that the Celts introduced in our country at the turn of the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. The coinage system was based on the gold stater. This denomination was borrowed from the Macedonian coinage system. The weight of the gold stater was about 8,5 g, but it gradually reduced to 6,5 g. Originally, Pallas Athena or Athena Alkis was depicted on the frontside of the coin of the Macedonian rulers and the standing goddess Niké on the reverse. These coins were not yet used as a regular currency, but they were rather used as prestigious gifts.`
Source: Museum of Nové Strašecí, Czech Republic, Exposition (muzeumtgm.cz)

#FindsFriday! In 2021, we carried out an exciting excavation in Großmugl, where we documented settlement remains from the #BronzeAge and #IronAge. The #EarlyBronzeAge #pottery included several highlights: vessels decorated with rows of impressions, incised lines, and punctuated dots, some filled with white inlay, like the fragments shown here! #Archaeology #Ceramics #ArchaeologicalFinds #Excavation #EuropeanPrehistory #MaterialCulture #Austria #History #Österreich

The Moel Hebog Shield - a late Bronze Age shield which was found in a bog near Moel Hebog Mountain (Eryri National Park) in 1784. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #BronzeAge

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Finds from the production of sapropelite ornaments from the field prospection in Srbeč
Source: Museum of Nové Strašecí, Czech Republic, Exposition (muzeumtgm.cz)

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `An artefact of unknown function and iconography unique to Ireland. The convex circular disc is made of sheet bronze engraved with a basket-weave pattern. The circular scoop has been placed off-centre and surrounded by a repeated scroll motif in high relief.`
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `This sculpture of a dog, a bronze pendant, was found together with other objects near five skeletons. Two skeletons were children, and by non-pious position can be assumed their tragic death - either ritual execution or killing in hostile invasion.`
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava

#FindsFriday: `A unique discovery at the #Celtic hillfort has been a hoard of 70 silver coins found buried in a small clay pot in the middle-bailey courtyard of Devin Castle. The coins imitate the design of the denarii and quinarii of the Roman Republic. Thirty-six of them are inscribed "RAVIS" or "IRAVISCI", one reads "ANSALI" and 33 coins are without inscription.`
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava

Copper alloy buckle with garnet inlay - one of the finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in 1858 at Faversham in Kent during the construction of the Chatham to Dover railway line. Now part of the collections at Salisbury Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #SalisburyMuseum

Orientalising pottery from Tomb 19 (XXXIV) from the cemetery area of Montarano Nord Nordest at Falerii Veteres (modern Civita Castellana). Now in the National Archaeological Museum for the Faliscan Area in Civita Castellana. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Gemma from a ring, found in present-day Bratislava
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava