CrapFinds

Fighting back against pretty Treasures!
Celebrating mundane, mediocre, & ordinary artefacts dutifully recorded by @findsorguk (& others)
Pronouns: Finds/Crap

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Stud.

That is all.

Revel in it's post medieval glory.

SUR-DA9B45 - Hampshire

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Stud.

That is all.

Revel in it's post medieval glory.

SUR-DA9B45 - Hampshire

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Brighten your #BlueMonday with this perfectly wonderful Roman Blue enamelled copper alloy finger ring, courtesy of @YORYM_FLO
AD 43-200. Henig Type II.
Found near Harrogate, North Yorks. YORYM-0B51D1

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Wait, What?
Weight, That's What!
A selection of post medieval 4oz lead weights stamped with Roman numerals 'IIII'
WREX-48F49E (Flintshire)
WREX-2272DC (Chester)
LVPL-29C770 (Trafford)
LVPL-947F06 (Trafford)
(averdepois system - 1oz=28.4g - standardised late C15th)
#FindsFriday

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

lavatory (SUR-146F10) brush (LEIC-5DC51B)
🤝
Henry VIII halfpenny 2nd coinage (LEIC-4C5998)

#ifyouknowyouknow

[Prof Michael Lewis FSA MCIfA @Tostig1066]

Surely this should be in a museum - sadly no museum is interested in acquiring atm… Let’s hope that changes 🙏

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Worries assuaged!
With @AndyAgate involved I should have known as would be well 🙂

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Digging. For. Treasure.

[Rebecca Griffiths @YORYM_FLO]

You know you're an archaeological small finds person when your see this image and just assume it's a topology of Early-Medieval pin heads!

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

A nice medieval thimble to ease us into Friday, c.AD1350-1500.
Recorded today!
GLO-5DE66B
#ThimbleThursday

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

"which jobs provide salaries on upwards trajectories?"

Hmmm 🤔
I'm going to go out on a limb and say NOT Heritage jobs...
https://t.co/OKTsN7BsO3

[Telegraph Money @MoneyTelegraph]

🎓As the next wave of freshers take on university this week, many of them will now begin to contemplate life after education.

❓But which jobs provide salaries on upwards trajectories?

@MoneyTelegraph has broken down data from Adzuna 🧵👇

https://t.co/2YWbDoDJfd

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

...and so to bed💤
Good K-night!

"sinuous" [sic😏] pose suggests the figure may be St George spearing the dragon
c.AD1400-1500
#CrapTreasure [sadly disclaimed & returned🙁]
ESS-C71F62 - Essex

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Well,
Good Morning Gorgeous!

Dragonesque brooch, C.AD50-150
NLM-2FFCE1 - East Riding of Yorkshire
#FindsFriday

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Although, in fairness to her...https://t.co/PfqkrJngUj

[Rt Hon Nadine Dorries @NadineDorries]

My biggest regret as MP is voting against gay marriage I read @nickygumbel blog in the middle of the night before the vote when agonising-wish I’d spoken to him. I will regret it all of my life but truly hope that all same sex marriages live happily ever after #Pride #Love #LGBT

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Breaking Twitter break to say...

NADINE FUCKING DORRIES AT DCMS 😱

WHAT, AND I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH, THE ABSOLUTE FUCK

#ArchaeologyIsFucked

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

https://t.co/rCkSVPSxNL

[Rt Hon Nadine Dorries @NadineDorries]

If gay marriage bill takes sex out of marriage could a sister marry a sister to avoid inheritance tax? http://t.co/ejRndQYW1I

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

@AndyAgate

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

Say what you like about Roman Imperialism & expansion, but they NEVER gained air superiority https://t.co/DZPFzM1aDT

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Map of Roman Air Bases in 2nd Century AD

[CrapFinds @CrapFinds]

All of it.
Everyday.
All the time.
https://t.co/nhtlQtItfq

[Galloway Glens : Future Ready @GGFutureReady]

It’s #AskAnArchaeologistDay

The obvious question is…

How much is your job like Indiana Jones?