I'm heading off to Brittany tomorrow for four weeks of writing, painting and stone hunting! I plan to visit some old favourites and hopefully take in some new megalithic sites too... #StandingStoneSunday
Dr Alan Montgomery
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
A beautiful standing stone in a stunning setting in the Arthog hills, one of several shown to me by local expert @philolithia.bsky.social who is studying the area for her PhD. What a fantastic day out that was! #StandingStoneSunday
I'm heading off to Brittany tomorrow for four weeks of writing, painting and stone hunting! I plan to visit some old favourites and hopefully take in some new megalithic sites too... #StandingStoneSunday
The Buck moon over Ely Cathedral last night in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Benwell Vallum crossing in 1985. I'm currently scanning all my old slides; I've got hundreds to go, but once I've finished I'll be posting the #hadrianswall pix to my Flickr account (www.flickr.com/photos/thear...) at full resolution with a CC BY-SA licence.
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
I’m currently very much enjoying ‘The Road to Mons Graupius’ by @classicalalan.bsky.social My only problem is having left Scotland a couple of weeks ago I now need to plan another trip
There is a petition to ban disposable barbecues in the UK, and I support this move. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs
We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...
petition.parliament.uk
A really lovely mid-12th century north doorway, with quite an unusual design on the tympanum, at the charming little Church of St. Helen, Folksworth, Cambridgeshire 😍
A few days before Christmas 2016, a grey Land Rover paused in front of a bank of mirrored windows at this checkpoint on the border between France and Switzerland. What happened next revealed just how looted art worms its way into museums. A 🧵 about my article: hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...
#AntoninusPius began his reign #OTD 11 July AD138. He expanded access to drinking water, supported rights for formerly enslaved people, & founded a charity for destitute girls in honour of Faustina. His rule saw the construction of the #Antonine Wall across Scotland’s central belt.
To cool us down a little, here is a half-frosted Liddington Castle hillfort. (Not taken today...)
The massive ruinous walls of Corfe Castle, which was slighted on Parliament's orders in 1645. #WallsonWednesday
The massive ruinous walls of Corfe Castle, which was slighted on Parliament's orders in 1645. #WallsonWednesday
Recently the island of Mousa became home to Shetland ponies once again again. It is a joy to see the next generation of these beautiful horses standing by the iconic Mousa broch #Shetland
The 'Whispering Knights' of Rollright in Oxfordshire are the remains of a 'portal dolmen' burial chamber consisting of four upright stones and a fallen capstone. Its name refers to a legend that the Rollright Stones were a king and his army who were turned to stone by a witch. #TombTuesday
As shown in the bottom right of this 1645 drawing of the Rollright Stones.
The 'Whispering Knights' of Rollright in Oxfordshire are the remains of a 'portal dolmen' burial chamber consisting of four upright stones and a fallen capstone. Its name refers to a legend that the Rollright Stones were a king and his army who were turned to stone by a witch. #TombTuesday
Delighted to spot this shy juvenile grey partridge this morning in a sweep of mayweed in #Clackmannanshire . It is one of our most threatened farmland birds and is on the Red List of Birds of Conservation concern, the UK population having fallen by around 90% since the late 1960s
This the tiny but tall-spired church of St Peter's in Cambridge. Although some claim it has Saxon origins, it was probably founded in the twelfth century and it was definitely rebuilt in the late 1700s. #MedievalMonday
This the tiny but tall-spired church of St Peter's in Cambridge. Although some claim it has Saxon origins, it was probably founded in the twelfth century and it was definitely rebuilt in the late 1700s. #MedievalMonday
The Stane o’ Quoybune (Orkney), surrounded by not one but TWO rings of barbed wire. To protect it from cows and megalith enthusiasts? Or perhaps it’s to save us from the stone … this is the one that goes down to the loch at Hogmanay and if you try to watch, it will kill you… #StandingStoneSunday
