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Amy Tryphena @realkernow.bsky.social · 14h

A spectacular example of a quoit came looming out of the mist - Chun Quoit #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 16h

For #StandingStoneSunday, remembering a wonderfully atmospheric visit to the incomparable Castlerigg stone circle recently. The wisps of cloud in the valley added to the mystique.

Part of a stone circle curving from right foreground to left centre. The stones are mostly upright with a few lying down. They are in a grassy setting with mountains and clouds in the distance. Some of the clouds are dipping into a valley just above left of centre.

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 19h

Lanyon Quoit in Penwith, Cornwall, is the remains of a prehistoric chamber tomb with a mound some 30m long. The monument consists of a huge capstone, 5.3m long, supported on four upright stones, standing about 3m high. It collapsed in 1815 and was re-erected. #StandingStoneSunday

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 15h

Stones in the mist – Tregeseal circle entirely cut off from Kenidjack common and the carn on the skyline invisible. At times like these, the danger of beguilement by unnatural lights and shifting paths grows, and stumbling pixie-led into the otherworld feels entirely possible … #StandingStoneSunday

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Tony O @tony-o.bsky.social · 16h

#StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Killadangan Stone Row, Mayo, Ireland
In the background, Croagh Patrick - Ireland’s Holy Mountain
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Photography #Infrared #Black&White #Monochrome #PhotographersOfBluesky #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Mayo

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12h

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17h

A Roman fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back, crafted in bronze with colorful enamel inlay.
Panthers were linked to the god Dionysus/Bacchus, often depicted as his favored mounts, suggesting a symbolic or protective function for fibulae ...🧵1/2

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Roman bronze fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back. The panther’s body features small enamel inlays, and the piece rests on display in a museum case.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 16h

Oct 12: Feast of Wilfrid (c.633-709), Northumbrian bishop. One of the most colourful prelates of the time. 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 #medievalsky

The early medieval crypt beneath Ripon Cathedral.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 16h

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 #medievalsky

A stained-glass depiction of a crowned Edwin bearing a sword in one hand and a model of a church in the other.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 16h

Some well worn medieval faces from Durham Cathedral. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #DurhamCathedral

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 16h

Tingwall Standing Stone on Shetland. The stone is also known as the ‘Murder Stone’, and is connected with the death of Lord Skaldale by his cousin the Earl of Orkney in the late 14th century. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Shetland

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 16h

Medieval stained glass from the Church of St. Denys in York. The kneeling figure is Robert de Skelton who donated a window to the church in around 1340. 📸 My own. #StainedGlassSunday #StDenys #York

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

Current mood....

An Egyptian shabti (a figurine who acted as servant for a deceased to perform the manual labour in the afterlife), on display at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

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A display of ancient Egyptian shabti figurines, small human-shaped burial statues made of different materials and colors, including brown, beige, and turquoise blue. The figures are arranged in rows, with carved facial features and crossed arms, some inscribed with hieroglyphs.
In the center a whimsical shabti figurine, made of light brown material with black painted hieroglyphs on its body. The figure has a rounded head, large dark eyes, and an unevenly painted large mouth, giving it a quirky and slightly unusual appearance.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

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From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 11: Feast of Cainnech (†c.600), of Achad Bó (Aghaboe, Ireland). Abbot and frequent hermit who joined Columba on his visit to Pictish king Bridei near Inverness. In Scotland, his principal church was at Inch Kenneth, Mull. 📸Andy Waddington #medievalsky

Inch Kenneth, a small, grassy island off the west coast of Mull.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 11: Feast of James the Deacon (C7th) companion of Paulinus of York. He remained in the north when Paulinus withdrew to Kent in 633, and as an old man championed the Roman dating of Easter at the Synod of Whitby. 📸Paul Lakin #medievalsky

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 1d

This is Watling Lodge in Falkirk, the best preserved section of the Roman frontier known today as the Antonine Wall. Consisting of a huge ditch and a (now lost) turf rampart, it stretched between the Firths of Forth and Clyde, a distance of around 38 miles. #RomanSiteSaturday

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 1d

#RomanSiteSaturday - The Porta Nigra of the Roman city of Augusta Treverorum in Gallia Belgica (Trier, Germany). The monument is the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps. Constructed in grey sandstone around AD 170, it guarded the northern entry to the Roman town of Augusta Treverorum.

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 1d

#SteepleSaturday #StThomas #Bristol

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 1d

#SteepleSaturday #MaryRedcliffe

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Ragged Robin @carolineirwin3.bsky.social · 1d

#SteepleSaturday St Peter's, Market Bosworth.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

St Nicholas’ Chapel, #KingsLynn #Norfolk

The tower of c. 1220 & a steeple in 1500. However, this was down down in a gale of 1741 & the present replacement spire (by George Gilbert Scott) was completed in 1870.
There is beautiful carved decorative detail on the 15th Century porch.

#SteepleSaturday

A view of the south porch, square tower & spire against a blue sky.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

The dome of the Pantheon in Rome - still one of the largest domes in the world. Originally built by Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14), it was rebuilt during the reign of Hadrian (117 to 138 AD) following a fire. 📸 My own #RomanSiteSatutday #Pantheon #Rome

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

Some carved detail of a bird from the 15th century rood screen from St. James’ Church at Great Ellingham in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #ScreenSaturday #StJames #GreatEllingham #Norfolk

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

St. Wilfrid’s Church at Ribchester in Lancashire. The main body of the church is mostly 13th century in date, while the tower dates to the late 15th century. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StWilfrids #Ribchester #Lancashire

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