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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2h

The Iron Age hillfort of Spettisbury Rings (Crawford Castle / Castle Ring) #Dorset

This mighty 2ha univallate enclosure is today largely hidden behind the old railway and modern village of Spetisbury. Most people driving on the A350 are unaware of it

📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

#HillfortsWednesday

The scrub and partially tree covered ramparts of an oval Iron Age hillfort from the air, its centre covered in green grass and surrounded by ploughed fields with a tree lined railway and a modern road flanked by houses at the bottom of the picture

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1h

This goes past poor reporting into being wilfully misleading. Despite identifying exploitation, no mention of it as an issue, or the human trafficking often involved. Instead just uncritically repeating the misleading claim that "illegal working is a pull factor". 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Crime network behind UK mini-marts is enabling migrants to work illegally

Undercover reporters were told how easy it was to make big profits selling illegal vapes and cigarettes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 16h

This gold spray of myrtle was found in a tomb, inside a bronze vessel, resting atop the cremains of the tomb's occupant. Gold myrtle wreaths were buried with the dead to signify the deceased’s importance or as an offering to the gods for safe passage into the next world. 🏺 1/

Greek, 400-350 BCE

A small spray of myrtle, made in gold. It has several leaves and two flowerlets.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

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🏺 #archaeology

Small blue glass bottle with a round base and a long narrow neck, decorated with white swirling patterns. The bottle rests on a textured dark surface, reflecting light across its glossy finish

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17h

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’

“Be glad that you are here”

Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷

📷 Corning Museum of Glass

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

The Corning Museum image shows a small, rounded cup made of deep blue glass. The vessel has smooth horizontal ridges around the body, a short cycindrical neck with outsplayed rim, and a concave base. Around the middle, there is a Greek inscription in a band around the circumference (EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI) It translates as ‘be glad that you are here’. Height 7 cm, diameter (max): 8.8 cm. The cup is displayed on a flat surface against a dark background.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

Fragment of 4th century mosaic from the #Roman bathhouse of Lydney #Gloucestershire

Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩

Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social

#MosaicMonday

Detail of a Roman mosaic floor with blue-grey, cream and red tesserae arranged in geometric designs

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 20h

It's stabled in the field next door to their house, handily, and they offered lessons :)

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"The Sanders/Mamdani style of democratic socialism is, whatever its merits, at least compatible with America’s tradition of liberal democracy. The Trump style of national socialism is not."

Donald Trump Is a Commie

Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

www.thebulwark.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.

That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.

As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 1d

Aww! How lovely. My six yr-old granddaughter rides this one every week and loves her so much 💖

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Cholmondley Warner 🇪🇺🔶 @chumleyprelude.bsky.social · 1d

Understandable that people may be scared - it was a horrific incident. But also: perspective.

Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 2d

In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations.
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...

Chart from Office of Rail and Road (HMG) showing annual and quarterly passenger rail journeys for Great Britain from April 2015 to March 2025.

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 1d

A friend's pony living her unicorn dream at Halloween. She's the most docile, sweet natured animal. I'm not normally a horsey person but she could convert me 🦄💖

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday
The central emblem of a floor #mosaic inspired by the #myth of Perseus that depicts the head of the Medusa

Late 2nd – 3rdC AD 1.92 x 4.67, Marble, limestone, glass paste and sigillata pottery / Opus vermiculatum.
Museum Tarragona. #Archaeology #Roman #Spain

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 2d

Nailed it, sadly.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Norwich Castle, c.13th Century graffiti of woman wearing a wimple.
Standing in front of this, you almost feel that nothing more than a blink separates you from the moment it was scored into the rock.
#StoneHeadSunday

A naive carving of a medieval woman scratched into the grey rock of a building stone.

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 3d

Wow! Extraordinary.

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 3d

I was fascinated by this, marvelled at the amazing costume & makeup but also at the amount of money she must have blown on it...

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Halloween 👻
Dark hawthorns, Anglesey, 2017
#photography

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.

Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone on a LNER train today from Scotland to Newcastle - my mum took the wrong suitcase off the train. Her case is somewhere heading southbound. #Newcastle #LNER

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.

Use the Quick Vote option.

Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them

Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand

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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.

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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · Feb 13

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation”

George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 5d

Cor 😍

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5d

BBC Question Time has come under fire after describing a Reform UK campaigner on its panel as an 'academic' – while labelling a left-wing academic an 'activist'

'Blatant bias': BBC under fire over double standards for Question Time panel

www.thenational.scot

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 5d

This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/

Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
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Bronze head of a woman or goddess, torn from a full-sized statue. She wears a lunette diadem with inlaid silver patterns, with a star in the middle. Her wavy hair is center parted and pulled back into a bun. She looks directly into the camera with inlaid silver eyes, set beneath shadowed brows. With her mottled brown and green patina, the effect is frightening!

British Museum (1928,0416.1)

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