A closer view here; the dragon standard is top-right :) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grande_Ludovisi_Altemps_Inv8574_n8.jpg …pic.twitter.com/a89yBZMGMP
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(pic, btw, is of the famous Silchester eagle, tho' this not now thought to be a standard: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silchester_eagle_on_display_at_Reading_Museum.jpg … & https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_7mGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false …)
@caitlinrgreen aww but... its the eagle of the ninth!
@caitlinrgreen that story, and 'the road to miklagard', got me started on prehistory :) #rippingyarns
@caitlinrgreen mind you, i never saw the original. Its a chicken! Far too heavy to be a standard?
@littlerobbergrl Hah! I like the idea of the Chicken of the Ninth :D
Was found at junction of Bargate+Welholme Road (nr Wheatsheaf Inn) shortly before 1893, where a Mill marked in 1819pic.twitter.com/PT2tOxrqHO
@caitlinrgreen Great map :D
@caitlinrgreen In Europe it seems they had almost standardized mapping. #Slovenia #Povir #Karst 1818-1828 cadastre.pic.twitter.com/Xj9J0uigKW
@jost_hobic Oh, very nice!
A. Gates, A Gossip About Old Grimsby (Grimsby, 1893), p. 24, on the discovery of a Roman eagle standard at Grimsbypic.twitter.com/3ugY9W479t
Another poss piece of Grimsby's lost Roman past is the earthen fortress at Cun Hu Hill: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/08/toote-hill-and-cun-hu-hill-grimsby.html …pic.twitter.com/5V4JnmcMUW
A lovely falcon standard from Norman Sicily/S. Italy :)https://twitter.com/AlexiBaker/status/713777245203128320 …
Two early medieval dracos: 9thC Carolingian + the Bayeux Tapestry: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karolingische-reiterei-st-gallen-stiftsbibliothek_1-330x400.jpg … & http://www.fectio.org.uk/articles/draco.htm …pic.twitter.com/drlEGTEUuT
@caitlinrgreen you know, when William left France to conquer England, his ships were anchored in front of my parents home !
@fredericlecut Sounds like a nice bit of local history! :)
@caitlinrgreen yes, Johan of Arc also rode by there as a prisoner on her way to Rouen. The old continent...
@caitlinrgreen where is it?
@morangles That is the question! Pic is the Silchester eagle; no info that I can find on where the Grimsby one ended up though :(
@caitlinrgreen maybe looking at auctions, it must have been auctioned. Nothing in our attic.
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