#SpoliaSunday & enjoying these saxon crosses built into the walls of churches in North Yorkshire: pics 1&2 two large crosses in the walls of St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale pics 3&4 two fragments in the All Saints Church Sinnington

#StandingStoneSunday & the 12 apostles circle, just north of Dumfries 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A huge diameter circle, such that you can't get them all in frame without all the stones being tiny

#FrescoFriday with this beautiful fragment from the house of the small fountain, Pompeii See (a lot) more from Pompeii in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

#RuinedPrioryFriday & having long intended to, finally got a chance to explore Dumfries & Galloway Lincluden Abbey, later Lincluden Collegiate Church, just on the edge of Dumfries

Since its #AdoorableThursday & we've just landed back from a big loop of the North, i guess its a good day for a: Around the North in [10 ish] doors

#AncientTheatreThursday with the amphitheatre of Pompeii See more of Pompeii in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

#RomanFortThursday & this week ticking off the smaller Hadrians Wall fragments along West Road as it leaves Newcastle: the Denton Burn fragment, Denton Hall Turret & Denton West Fragment

#Bluesky I have missed thee 😢 Mad weekend, 8 hour drive from Bournemouth to Newcastle, some messing around in Scotland, zigzaging around Cumbria, Co. Durham & Yorkshire before a car breakdown meant an emergency nights stay in York I will make up for my lack of posting in the next few days

#RomanRoadsFriday & the iconic flagstones that line the streets of Pompeii See more of Pompeii from our first visit, here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

#RuinedPrioryFriday & was lucky to catch this when we were in London last week, Just a short walk from the end of the Elizabeth Line: Lesnes Abbey

#FrescoFriday & some of the wonderful frescoes on the Tomb of the Diver from Paestum 🇮🇹, some time between 500 to 475 BC See more of Paestum in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

#AdoorableThursday with this wonderful romanesque portal at St Mary's Church, Barton Bendish, Norfolk

#AncientTheatreThursday & while it might surprise you there is a small roman theatre at Troy, in layer IX, built after 85BC, there is a modest Odeon We made a review of the Odyssey as well as some bronze age chat, you can catch it here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Qa...

#HillfortsWednesday & while heavily altered by the Normans, Thetford Castle was built within what had previously been an iron age enclosure

#WallsonWednesday & exploring the outer wall of Paestum was a real treat, dating as far back as c4 BC its away from the main site, and its dotted with small openings, known as postierle that are mostly overgrown or partially collapsed See more of Paestum >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

thanks to everyone who's seen this so far bit of a film review plus bronze age chat on Christopher Nolans #Odyssey www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Qa...

The Odyssey, Troy & what did it really look like ?

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Its #TombTuesday & since its a good week for #Odyssey chat, figured we should talk about some of the graves & Tholos's (pluralised anyone? Tholos-i ?) at Mycenae 🧵👇

Well, have spent about 36hrs frenetically putting together a review of Christopher Nolans Odyssey, the news cycle for major releases like this is so tight but you can catch our thoughts & general bronze age chit chat here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Qa... 📷 Ithaca

#MedievalMonday & in amongst all the incredible ancient ruins in Paestum that we were looking at over the weekend, there's also an early Basilica the Basilica dell'Annunziata, originally built in c5 AD with later updates See it in the new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

#MosaicMonday & this one took me a moment to catch up, was exploring Pompeii & in the House of the Faun, I saw the mosaic pavements & ...wait, thats the Alexander Mosaic! (Though the original is now in the Naples museum) See more of Pompeii in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

Ok we need a Paestum thread - thats just a thing we need to do 🧵👇 #AncientSiteSunday

Well, went to the cinema last night & caught the big-hellenic-cultural-event-of-the-summer™ film Couldn't stop cracking up when in the 3rd act Matt Damon has this line like: 'Oh boy, this bronze age sure do be collapsing yo' 😆 Otherwise, it was aight 📷 Ithaca #Odyssey

#SteepleSaturday with the ever-wonderful Norwich Cathedral

Its #RomanSiteSaturday & there are perhaps few roman sites as world-renowned as Pompeii So a bit of a 🧵👇 of our experience of the town

#CastleSaturday with the quite unbelievable Castle rising, always a pleasure to see this again Though its name continues to imply it should be floating on the wind, carried by a million balloons like the house from UP

#RomanRoadsFriday & few are quite as pretty as the world famous streets of Pompeii, think this will be a thread tomorrow, but in the meantime you can see our trip there, here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

Think i have next to no chance of catching much of a tradewind from the current cultural moment of Hellenophilia triggered by the Odyssey release 🏛 but ...well we've got an episode on Paestum (and Pompeii as well) Here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=M238...

The best Ancient Greek temples …are not in Greece

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#RuinedPrioryFriday & Beeston Regis Priory in Sheringham, Norfolk

#FrescoFriday & as we were exploring churches from Essex, through Suffolk & into Norfolk with a lot of round towers there were near constantly the ghostly traces of wall frescoes, recovered from beneath post-reformation whitewash seemed a 🧵👇 was in order

#FontsOnFriday & never not exciting to catch a tournai font! & this one i've been needing to catch since forever The font at St Peter's by the Waterfront, Ipswich