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The tombstone of Aelia Aeliana shows Aelia reclining on a couch, with daughter to her left, her husband's arm wrapped around her. Rarely found in iconography, this tender scene emphasises the close bond between husband and wife.
On display
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Join us online tomorrow for a free expert talk! 🪄
will draw on his expertise to situate the Ryedale Hoard in the context of wider Romano-British ritual evidence as well as ancient magical practices generally!
4:30pm start! Learn more: yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/event
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Sadly the people that found the burial tried to destroy it until a policeman came along and managed to stop them. The body was reburied, and these objects were acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in 1878.
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These are the sole of a hobnailed leather shoe, a textile insole with signs of ancient repair, and a textile fragment from a stocking. The Grewelthorpe Moor bog body is Roman in date and was found in 1850.
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Yesterday we had a visit from Dr. Melanie Giles, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at and one of her students, Isobel Harvey. 🔎 They came to look at, measure, and photograph the only three surviving objects from the discovery of the Grewelthorpe Moor bog body. 🧵👇
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This object shows us the vibrant colours used in #Medieval England!
This 13th century silver mount is decorated with coloured glass & wire in a palette of rich colours. An artist with great skill must have made it. To most people the detail would not even be noticeable!
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The YORYM PAS gang are all busy over at the getting ready for our York Finds Day! While we take in some spectacular new objects, have a look at this, recorded by us recently: a Roman headstud brooch. PAS database record here: finds.org.uk/database/artef
#FindsFriday
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We interrupt your Tuesday scrolling with some bling✨
These torcs may have belonged to an extremely wealthy, possibly royal, member of the Brigantes tribe, who ruled most of North Yorkshire during the #IronAge. One is dated to 100BC-70BC, while the other could be older still!
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The best part is you’re allowed to walk on it if you’re in socks 🧦
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A recent visit to see the Ryedale Hoard, on display at . Discovered buried in a Ryedale field in 2020, the unusual hoard contains a sceptre head bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, a horse & rider figure, a horse head (probably a key handle ) & a plumb bob.
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Happy #NationalBirdDay🐦
In our collection we have this moa skeleton, one of the most complete ever found! This moa is an extinct, flightless bird from New Zealand and measures around 2 metres tall.
Find out more about this amazing object here: yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/collections/co
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Wishing all our followers a #HappyNewYear! 🎆 Let's celebrate #medieval style!
These C14th-C15th bowls were passed around groups & the more they drank the more the animals would emerge from the wine! Swimming stags are centrepiece of the right bowl & we think a pig in the left?
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🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS you lovely lot 🎄
We're open a few days over the festive period, so please do come visit us and see some cool stuff, but please, no mince pies on gallery. Thank you.
Opening days and times here👉 yorkshiremuseum.org.uk
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❄️ It's the #wintersolstice - the shortest day of the year!
On our #Roman mosaic floor, the images represented are of the four seasons. The human figures each have a picture next to them representing an aspect of their season - for winter it is a bare branch 🌿
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It’s time for some Christmas content! 🎄✨
Check out this #medieval stone altar that depicts the story of the Nativity in our latest TikTok video.
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Join us this Thursday at 5:30pm for a free online talk with Curator Emily North to explore how objects in the Yorkshire Museum’s collections can help us understand different types of metalworking in #Roman Yorkshire.
Find out more: yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/event
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Although we can identify the owner's name, we're not sure which Sir William Mallory this refers to!
One died in 1603, was a member of Parliament & Sheriff of #Yorkshire. His Grandson with the same name died 1646, was an MP & an active royalist during the English Civil War.
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The Mallorys were an upper-class, landowning family and we may have expected them to own a number of birds of prey on their estates. Hawking was a sport, a hobby, and a symbol of wealth throughout the #medieval period.
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The exterior of the ring is inscribed with the name of its owner S WYLL MMALL (‘Sir William Mallory’)
It was found near Hutton Conyers, a manor house associated with the Mallory family from the 14th Century.
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Have you heard of a vervel before? 🤔
It's the technical name for a ring worn by a hawk when used for hunting. This example is silver, dates to AD 1550-1700, and bears a small shield-shaped panel depicting a horse’s head.
Gather round for story time!🧵👇
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To mark the 200 year anniversary of the foundation of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, we have a new display! In 1828 the society was given the site of St Mary’s Abbey & built our museum in 1830.
It showcases some of the 1st objects donated to our collection between 1822-24.
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Visitors to the Yorkshire Museum can take their shoes off and walk on this real Roman mosaic which came from one of the most luxurious Roman houses found in York, and depicts the four seasons personified as Gods!
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How many curators does it take to clean a #Roman floor? 🧽
To make sure our collections stay in excellent condition our curators have a cleaning schedule & it's the Four Seasons Mosaic’s turn! We deep cleaned the grooves around the mosaic’s edges & gave its surface a gentle wash
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📢 Calling all teachers! Help us to build an exciting new learning programme at our sites by completing this quick questionnaire 👉 forms.office.com/pages/response
You can then choose to be entered into a prize draw to win one of ten £10 gift vouchers as a thank you from us!
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The subtitles have exported a little strange here but you can head to our TikTok page to see them working properly:
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Magic in the Museum: part 4! 🪄
Adam is back in another amazing jumper to tell you about this gold touch piece and how people believed it would cure them in the 15th - 17th centuries!
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This analysis will hopefully tell us about their metal composition & how they were made. pXRF is non-destructive & works by firing X-rays at an object & measuring the fluorescent X-rays that bounce back, which differ depending on the elements that are in the surface material!
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Hanging bowls are a distinctive object, dating from the end of #Roman rule in Britain to the 7th century. They're exciting finds as they're not common & it's not known exactly how they were used. Theories including use as lamps, for containing wine, or for holding holy water.
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Want to know what we've been up to lately? ⚡
Well, last week we had some researchers on site to do some very cool pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence) of some wonderful early Anglian hanging bowls in our collection.
🔫PEW PEW
Find out more 🧵👇
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🦋Recently we acquired some lovely butterfly and moth specimens. This is the collection of Joyce Payne (1923-2020), who had a long and full life, dedicated to these animals and left an indelible legacy for biology in #Yorkshire.
Learn more in our blog: yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/blog/meet-joyc
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We're heading into our Winter opening hours next week! ❄️
You'll be able to visit us Wednesday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm.
Make sure to escape York's crowds and come see our incredible collection, including 'The Ryedale Hoard: A Roman Mystery' 👉yorkshiremuseum.org.uk
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Digital Archaeology MSc student Mc Kenna Crowe helping test out the Other Eyes mixed reality experience at the .
The Other Eyes project led by has completed its first phase with more exciting development to come!
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A museum Curator’s phone everybody… 😅
Make sure to follow us on TikTok: because you never know what’ll happen on here 🤷♀️
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This Thursday, join us for a FREE online talk with Antony Lee for 'Dead gods? Presenting Romano-British religious experiences in museums'.
We go live on YouTube at 4:30pm: youtube.com/watch?v=5EbtcC
See you then! 👋
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Thank you I am very excited for our event this Saturday back in my home county of Yorkshire at the yorkpress.co.uk/news/23128391. #AlexandersJourney #CancerRehab #ChildhoodCancer #Fundraiser #CancerSurvivor
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