York by night tonight 🥰🤩 📷 The Micklegate

Initial 'V'(isio Esaie filii Amos), in blue and gold, at the beginning of Isaiah St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 82; 'Grosse Hartmut-Bibel' ((Isa, Jer, Ezek, XII min. proph., Dan); third quarter of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.8 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

#CurrentMood Face pot, found in the #Roman settlement of Nida (Frankfurt-Heddernheim), dating 2nd century AD.

Forgot to add 📷 site visit April 2024 👍

For this #MosaicMonday, a strip of guilloche looking like mosaic but actually painted. This is the piece I mentioned in the recent post about mosaicists/painters. In Winchester City Museum. #AncientBlueSky🏺

✨Cave Canem✨ We’re not saying this excellent doggo is particularly dangerous, but they are guarding the Casa di Paquius Proculus in Pompeii, so best be careful! Also this doggo comes with a labrys (double axe) and a shield and spear! #MosaicMonday #AncientRome

A controversial revival of the *did Roman legionaries have helmet flaps* debate

Roman Military Equipment@equipmentroman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Remember when cereal packets came with accurate, handy, cut-out depictions of Roman soldiers? Me neither ...

#MosaicMonday The temporary (long time) exhibition in Vienne that we saw a week ago is of The Four Seasons. Here are a few of the many panels.

Oct 12: Feast of Edwin (584-633), first Christian king of the Northumbrians. He came to power with the aid of Rædwald, king of the East Angles. He died at the Battle of Hæthfelth against Penda, pagan king of the Mercians, and British king Catguollaun. 📸DaveWebster14

Oct 12: Feast of Wilfrid (c.633-709), Northumbrian bishop. One of the most colourful prelates of the time. He championed the Roman dating of Easter at the Synod of Whitby. Frequent thorn in kings’ sides but acted as foster-father to boy-king Osred (†716). 📸Ripon Cathedral

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For St Wilfrid's saint's day today, here's his crypt at Hexham, #Northumberland, one of two remarkable surviving crypts from his churches at Hexham and Ripon. Stones were reused from nearby Roman Corbridge. It feels astonishing to be in the space he would've used 1300 years ago.

Lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl! 🦉❤️ The solemn gaze from across the centuries gives an air of ancient wisdom! From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

Part of a 4th century mosaic floor depicting the head of the Roman sea god Neptune. Originally from Hemsworth Villa at Witchampton in Dorset, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

The Early EnglishGothic splendour of Peterborough Cathedral’s west front. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #PeterboroughCathedral

Watching a documentary about the emperor Hadrian's visit to Britain in AD 122 There's a lot of AI If you're going to use AI (which you shouldn't) at least get an expert to check it Hadrian's Wall has been studied for 100s of years We don't know what this Wall is 😱 #AI #archaeologyhorror

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

A foggy spring morning at Fernworthy, no one there but us and a couple of rather hairy locals #StandingStoneSunday

Neolithic standing stones, Kilmartin Glen, Scotland, courtesy of Diego Cue. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology

Arbor Low, Derbyshire. This photo was taken on a beautifully still day in May this year. Only skylarks and bees for company during the visit to this stunning place. 📷 needs a click. #StandingStoneSunday #ArborLow #PeakDistrict

🧵Rievaulx Abbey, nestled in a secluded valley within the North York Moors, stands as one of England’s most powerful symbols of monastic architectural grandeur. Founded in 1131 by Cistercian monks, it quickly grew into one of the wealthiest and most influential monasteries in Europe,

One of the stone rows at Ballymeanoch - part of the remarkable prehistoric landscape at Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Kilmartin #Argyll

Medieval Madonna and Child - a possible survival from Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, a former Augustinian priory which was converted into a Jacobean-style house following the Reformation. Now under the care of the National Trust. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #AngleseyAbbey

Delving into earth-houses – a subterranean prehistoric enigma "In the course of the last hundred years a score or more of these have been discovered in Orkney, varying greatly in size and design." Hugh Marwick. Ancient Monuments in Orkney. (1952) "Orkney has many prehistoric structures of another…

Delving into earth-houses – a subterranean prehistoric enigma

"In the course of the last hundred years a score or more of these have been discovered in Orkney, varying greatly in size and design." Hugh Marwick. Ancient Monuments in Orkney. (1952) "Orkney has many prehistoric structures of another type which are still more puzzling. These are commonly called earth-houses..." J. Gunn. Orkney: The Magnetic North. (1932)

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Watership Down, viewed across the northern rampart of Beacon Hill in Hampshire.

I didn’t want to show off 😏 They were clearly meant to sound dreadful!

🧵Bishops' House, at the southern tip of Meersbrook Park in Sheffield, is a wonderful architectural treasure. Built around 1500–1554, this Grade II* listed building is one of only three surviving timber-framed structures in the city. Originally a remote yeoman's farmhouse in

Animals on parade! BL Cotton MS Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; ff.49r-49v @blmedieval.bsky.social

The Loupin Stanes, Eskdalemuir. A small oval of stones on a constructed platform. #Scotland #AncientHistory #StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography #SouthernScotland

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