Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺

Writer, Archaeology, Roman Empire, Ancient Greece
Winner Jericho Writers FNL24; LL Flash500 Novel Comp 2025; SL HNS First Chapters Comp 2026

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Thanks so much to the judges who have selected my novel in progress for the Historical Adventure category.

#Manumission is set in the years following the global pandemic that ancient historians call the Antonine pandemic.

#HNS2026 #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction

[Historical Novel Society @histnovsoc]

CONGRATULATIONS to the writers who have been selected for the CATEGORY SHORT LISTS in the 2026 HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY’S First Chapters Competition! Visit https://t.co/CBySmX41Wt for the full lists
#historicalfiction #hnsfirstchapterscompetition

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

There’s a big difference between the howls of outrage expressed on social media and the practical decisions made by people in real life in response to the challenges they face.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@stephenRB4 Wishing you all the success. You deserve this. I’m hoping for wonderful news for you.
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@Solar2553929894 Yes. They’re my photos.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

The buildings in photos 1 and 3 are on the Palatine Hill and overlook the Circus Maximus (photo 2, and foreground of 1), where the chariot teams raced before thousands of fans in Ancient Rome.
#Rome #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology
📷 my own, October 2025.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

My #Bookstack comes from the secondhand bookshop at Blickling Hall, which is in the care of @nationaltrust

#AmReading #AncientRome #Books

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@LizWebsterSBF @berndlange It’s such a relief to read articles like this.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

The basin fragment dates circa 480 to 470 BCE.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Fragment of a ceramic lustral basin with a beautiful painted figure, discovered in a sanctuary on the northeast slope of Rome’s Palatine Hill.
Basins like these were perhaps used for purification in religious contexts.
📷 my own, Capitoline Museum
#FindsFriday #Rome #Archaeology

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Burgh Castle is one of 3 Saxon Shore Roman forts on the Norfolk coast. 9 forts dot the South East Coast. Burgh was a harbour for sea-going ships and a town (vicus) too, as well as military base in the 3rd C AD, and beyond.
📷 my own
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #RomanBritain

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Burgh Castle is one of 3 Saxon Shore Roman forts on the Norfolk coast. 9 forts dot the South East Coast. Burgh was a harbour for sea-going ships and a town (vicus) too, as well as military base in the 3rd C AD, and beyond.
📷 my own
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #RomanBritain

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Warham Camp is the best preserved Iron Age Hill Fort in East Anglia. It has double-banked circular defences and lies within a bend in the River Stiffkey. Built more than 2000 years ago by Iceni people, pottery finds date 200 BC- 1st C AD.
📷 my own
#HillfortWednesday #Archaeology

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@mermhart Post mostly nonsense about nonsense.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

October in Wells-Next-The-Sea is holding onto #summer.
📷 my own.
#norfolk

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Warham Camp is the best preserved Iron Age Hill Fort in East Anglia. It has double-banked circular defences and lies within a bend in the River Stiffkey. Built more than 2000 years ago by Iceni people, pottery finds date 200 BC- 1st C AD.
📷 my own
#HillfortWednesday #Archaeology

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@baldeagle_x It’s a perfect writing place. Not much to see overground of the Roman fort, Branodunum, which was one of the nine Saxon shore forts built on the coastline from the 3rd Century. I never totally switch off.
And yes, this photo will shape a scene. Beach walks happen in every era 😎

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Enjoying an autumn break in Norfolk, England. The weather was very kind for an early evening Sunday walk on Brancaster Beach as the tide rolled in.
#BeachLife #SundayVibes
📷 my own

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@IainAStewart2 Yes! It would be a lovely cover.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@Lord_Sugar 1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. Yes

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

When I’m not posting regularly it’s because I’m writing.

#writinglife #amwriting #fiction #histfic

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Although Augustan in origin, the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in #OstiaAntica was enlarged, the buildings subdivided to house local and foreign shipowner’s and merchant’s collegia or guilds. The black and white mosaics are mid 2nd C AD.
My own 📷
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Rome