Dedicated to an Irish saint, the church has parts as old as 11th century. 13 pieces of early medieval sculpture are here, including a cross shaft with a ribbon animal of Scandinavian ‘Jellinge’ style, a cross head showing a curly haired naked figure grasping a snake and more! #vikingsky #medievalsky

On this face you can see a rider blowing a horn, with a small dog perched behind him. Then a warrior with his arm in the jaws of a monstrous lion or wolf. Followed by a figure astride a donkey (with exceptionally big ears), then five weathered heads at the bottom.

New research at Hilton of Cadboll, part of a rich landscape of Pictish stones in the Tarbat Peninsula blog.historicenvironment.scot/2026/09/hilt...

Hilton of Cadboll in Context: Exploring a Pictish and Medieval Landscape - Historic Environment Scotland Blog

Discover how recent excavations at Hilton of Cadboll uncovered evidence of an early settlement, medieval community and Scotland's Pictish past.

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Clare Downham@downham.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Irish Studies blogpost about a Pictish stone published today www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie... #scotland #picts #medievalsky #archaeology

Featuring the many Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian crosses (and more early medieval stone sculpture)

Esther Addley@estheraddley.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote about some stuff to see if you have #bayeuxtapestry Fomo - an entirely random selection of mine that could have been 10x as long - and have already have had plenty of submissions about things that should have been on the list... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

The twelve apostles depicted on the 10th century Moone High Cross, Kildare. The cross has a distinctive artistic style, that shares similarities with a number of high crosses along the Barrow Valley, including Castledermot and St Mullins. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #EarlyMedieval #IrishArchaeology

Congratulations to @celticist.bsky.social for getting this important project funded!

Sculpted stone study could shed new light on lost kingdoms

Some artefacts are considered "at risk" as they are in, or near, churches earmarked for closure and sale.

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Great trip to Nunburnholme church today, where they have re-formed the Viking-Age cross correctly after 150 years joined the wrong way round. #medievalsky

St Piran's Cross at Penhale Sands, near Perranporth in Cornwall. First mentioned in a charter of King Edgar in AD 906, but said to be much older. It overlooks St Piran's oratory. 📸2015

Sculptured Pictish symbol stone of granite, 6-9thC, from Strome Shunnamal, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. 📸National Museums Scotland

Late Antiquity journal and OPEN ACCESS. Thanks Liverpool University Press 🎉

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

A reminder of the wonderful Anglo-Saxon Portraits - 30 programmes by the very best (Baxter, Nelson, Webster, @pstafford.bsky.social, Carver, Wood, Heaney... to name just a few). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Anglo-Saxon Portraits

A series which rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of individuals.

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Saxon decoration- an animal head label stop from St. Mary’s Priory Church at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework #Deerhurst #Gloucestershire

#TombTuesday #Visigoth sarcophagus discovered at Los VIllaricos #Roman complex in #Spain   , 2021. The six-and-a-half-foot-long sarcophagus is intricately carved with a curving spiral motif. Ivy leaves decorate the lid.  📸 THE UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA 👀 #Archaeology #History

✝️ Kilmartin Cross, AD 800-1000 Interlace, key pattern, and even crosses within the cross as a whole decorate this early medieval masterpiece, which displays several Insular parallels, including Govan School and Manx / Irish Sea Region carved stones 🪨⛏️ My 📷 Kimartin Museum

🗣 Just one month until my History Scotland talk on the #Viking Great Army! (£) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-viking...

Part of 10th c. Anglo-Scandinavian cross from Old Malton. A secular figure with plaited hair and forked beard on a chair with snake-like chair posts. Followed by an 8th c. animal-headed chair post from Lastingham (Yorkshire Museum) #earlymedieval #yorkshire #york #carvedstone #stonesculpture

Finally got to visit the gloriously weird Ardchattan Priory cross slab. 9-10th century, maybe? I don't so much see the supposed Norse influence, but certainly lots of bonkers Pictish ideas here deep in the heart of Dál Riata www.trove.scot/place/318536...

Anglo-Saxon carvings of three saints (or apostles?), preserved at St Mary & St Hardulph's, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire. 📸2024

I was delighted to find a chafer larva whilst gardening @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

David Bentley@sussextangerine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Almost missed this massive Cockchafer (May Bug), lurking in leaf litter this morning. I used to see these as a matter of course in May. I no longer see these as a matter of course in May. #UKwildlife #insects #beetles #Sussexwildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

St Cuthbert's Church (Darlington): 10th Century walls found under this church during restoration, confirming its age. A 3D visual reconstruction will be available once the work is complete.

Left Academia dot edu a while back over their AI policy and now building momentum on Knowledge Commons. Please find free access to a range of my publications here: hcommons.org/members/clar... #medievalsky #history #archaeology #Ireland #scotland #vikings

#StandingStoneSunday Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC. 📸My own #History

Saw Viking Age carved stones in Neston #cheshire today with current and former Postgrads. Reconstruction on left, original on right - scene of couple embracing and a stag hunt. Sculptures shows influence of Chester school and reflects wealth accrued in this region through trade #medievalsky #history

The Arthurlie Cross at Barrhead in East Renfrewshire. Dating to sometime between the 9th and 11th centuries, the cross-shaft is a product of the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #ArthurlieCross #Strathclyde

🧵/5 However - these pieces are dwarfed by this ...utterly incredible frieze, discovered in 1820 under the chancel floor being used as the lid of a tomb dated to pre-692 unbelievable 😳 #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework

In a mixture of #SaxonSunday & #SundayStonework thought we could use a thread of some of the fantastic things on display in St Mary's Church, Wirksworth in the Peak District 🧵👇

Got to see the wonderful collection of carved stones at Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie today. A very special place #medievalsky big thanks to curator Aila

The South Cross at Kells is also known as the Cross of St Patrick and St Columba, as it bears a Latin inscription dedicating it to the two saints. Dating to c.900AD, it is a fine example of an early Irish high cross, intricately decorated with scenes from the Old and New Testament. #Ireland

Kells Market Cross: A late 9th/early 10thC Irish high cross standing outside the old Court House (now Tourist Information Centre) in Kells, Co. Meath. The cross is remarkable for its figural panels on all four faces of base, shaft and head - a rarity among Irish high crosses.