#iron museum

[thesilicontribesman]

The Ipswich Torcs

Gold Torcs Found Together Buried About 75 BCE, Near Ipswich, Suffolk, The British Museum, London

All were made from two twisted solid bars. Four have cast terminals ornamented in high relief: they can be paired but their patterns are not identical.

[logwire]

"Gyroscope of the Sun" by Arnaldo POMODORO

[depp-1963]

Robert Downey Jr visiting Johnny Depp’s art exhibition “A Bunch of Stuff” as well as showing his support on Instagram ♡. Love their friendship

[andy-clutterbuck]

requested by Anonymous

[barbucomedie]

Horse's Chamfron from Hexham, England dated between the 1st and 2nd Centuries on display at Roman Vindolanda Fort and Museum in Hexham, England

This almost complete chamfron (a hourse's ceremonial face mask) was found amongst the remains of the Praetorium (residence of the Prefect) of Flavius Cerialis, the prefect of the 9th Cohort of Batavians. Many of the bronze fittings were removed in antiquity, presumably so that they could be fitted onto a replacement.

Photographs taken by myself 2022

[escapismsworld]

Incense burner

Iron, gold, lining of silver

c. 19th century

MET Museum

This little praying mantis is fully articulated, meaning its body hinges to move like a real bug. The 19th-century Japanese reproduction resembles incense burners made for samurai. Samurai collected novelty incense burners ranging in whimsical shapes and fantastical forms. Thanks to the export market, reproductions such as this were popularized.

[al-luviec]

compiled whatever this is (and I run out of tag space)

meh HoT gifs (3/?)

[romegreeceart]

Splint armour

Idalion, Cyprus

6th century BCE

Iron and bronze

Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[actuallytalldumbass]

no Alex Rider merch?

fine, I'll do it myself

ALEX KEYCHAINS!!!

MY BELOVED STORMBREAKER SCENE AND PINK BLANC ALEX

(Also a bts of me trying to take pictures. Stormbreaker Alex looks like he's falling😭)

[schweizercomics]

A DREAM OF SWORDS campaign

The Kickstarter for A DREAM OF SWORDS is one week in, and has hit all of its original stretch goals!

So even though the book is an embossed 2-color hardcover now (with silver foil on the horizon) and has twenty-five more drawings in than it did when it launched, it's still going to only be $16 plus shipping for backers. The price will go up for retail after the campaign is over but one of the things that I think is really neat about kickstarter is, thanks to the stretch goals, the folks supporting it out of the gate get more for less.

Also, because I'm doing twenty-five more drawings, that means there are now plenty of original pieces left for backers at that level.

Thanks so very much to everyone who's supported this campaign, and who told others about it and shared it. I really, really appreciate it!

[smilechiales]

I just of a Night at the Museum AU where lightning strikes a comic store and despite all logic all the statues of heroes, villains, etc. just come alive and it's absolute chaos.

The Justice League is trying to crack the case why they are suddenly in a store where all their secret identities are on full display, the Avengers are running around and smashing things, somewhere Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier are playing chess and arguing.

And the person on shift is a fan but is totally not getting paid enough for this sh*t.

[thesilicontribesman]

Bronze Age Spiral Jewellery Items, The British Museum, London

[arthistoryanimalia]

TwoForTuesday :

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich (USA, born Hungary, 1884-1953) Fire Screen, Made in NY 1920-30 Wrought and sheet iron On display at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2007-62-1

[thedeafprophet]

Traveling with mum has its downsides, such as me looking at what's in an area we're staying and getting Really Excited at the prospect of a museum on the history of steam trains and the railway, and getting immediatly shot down on the prospect....

[blueiscoool]

A 2,000-Year-Old Child's Shoe Found in Austria

Deep underground, an ancient child toiled away in a salt mine.

Perhaps their job was to shovel up discarded rocks. Or perhaps they carried precious materials to the surface. Maybe they had a different job entirely.

The only clue they left behind was a 2,100-year-old shoe.

Archaeologists were excavating a tunnel of an Iron Age salt mine in Dürrnberg, Austria, when they found the child’s shoe, according to an Aug. 31 news release from the German Mining Museum.

The small shoe was incredibly well-preserved, photo show. The worn, brown material is open down the center with a series of U-shaped hooks. It almost looks like a modern-day ballet slipper.

The shoe still had remnants of flax or linen laces, the release said. Based on its lace-up pattern and design, archaeologists identified the footwear as being made in the second century B.C.

Archaeologists said the shoe roughly corresponds to a modern European size 30 shoe. In U.S. sizing, this ranges from a kid’s 11 to 12 shoe size, according to conversion charts from Kiwi Sizing and SizeGuide.net. Although these modern sizes are commonly worn by 5-year-old to 6-year-old children, archaeologists did not indicate the child miner’s age.

During previous excavations in the Dürrnberg salt mine, archaeologists found several leather shoes, the release said. Still, children’s shoes are considered special finds because they prove that Iron Age children were present underground.

Near the shoe in the Georgenberg tunnel, archaeologists found half of a wooden shovel blade and some fur with lacing. The material was likely part of a fur hood, the release said. Archaeologists did not specify if or how these artifacts were connected to the shoe.

Organic material — such as those used in the shoe and fur hood — usually decompose over time, head archaeologist Thomas Stoellner said in the release. At the Dürrnberg mine, the natural preserving effect of the salt helps save fabric artifacts that typically don’t survive in other environments.

Excavations in the Georgenberg tunnel are part of a long-term research project in Dürrnberg, the release said. Archaeologists will continue excavating the salt mine to better understand the Iron Age people who once worked there.

Dürrnberg is about 190 miles west of Vienna and along the Austria-Germany border.

By Aspen Pflughoeft.

[barbucomedie]

Bronze Head of Sulis Minerva from the Bath, England dated to the Late 1st Century on display at the Roman Baths Museum in Bath, England

This bronze head was discovered in 1727 and was an early indication that the Roman site at Bath was not a typical settlement. Gilt bronze sculptures are rare finds from Roman Britain as only two other fragments are known.

The head is probably from the cult statue of the goddess which would have stood within her Temple beside the Sacred Spring. From there she may have looked out across the Temple courtyard to the site of the great altar, the site of sacrifice, which stood at the heart of that sacred space.  The statue may well be an original object from the foundation of the site in the later first century CE, which means that it was probably well over 300 years old when it met its demise.

The head is slightly larger than life size, suggesting that the original statue was an imposing sight. Hidden in the hair line are several small holes which once held rivets that fixed her tall Corinthian helmet to her head.

Examination of the head has revealed that it has six layers of gilding.  The first two use a technique known as fire gilding whilst the four later layers are applied as gold leaf.  The head has a number of imperfections. There is corrosion which has affected it in parts where it lay in the ground for over a thousand years.  There is also a strange rectangular cut beneath the chin.  It is thought that this may result from a flaw in the original casting process in which a bubble on the surface may have been cut out and filled with an inserted plate.  When gilded over it would not have been visible.  This plate has subsequently fallen out as a result of corrosion whilst in the ground.

Photographs taken by myself 2023