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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 1d

Water high at the 800-year-old R. Thames crossing at Bablock Hythe. near Oxford.

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 3d

(The collection also has a sash window from the prison block in Epsom Magistrates’ Court, but I don’t think that’s from an actual cell, for obvious reasons 🪟)

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 3d

Great post combining Christmas jumpers with one of @thebrooking.bsky.social’s several prison cell doors!

The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 4d

New year, new equipment: a larger trolley custom-built to handle our collection, with no more tipping when we move hefty doors! The trolley is already earning its keep by helping our staff to move a cell door from Guildford Police Station, which dates to 1854.

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 3d

(though I have known art history colleagues who refused to supervise PhD topics outside their decade)

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 3d

My knowledge of the first 64,000 years of the history of art is embarrassingly sketchy.

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Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

You be the judge: should my husband stop quoting song lyrics during serious conversations?

Randy thinks throwing in a line or two lightens the mood. Taylor says it’s an avoidance tactic. You decide who’s out of tune

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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 4d

New year, new equipment: a larger trolley custom-built to handle our collection, with no more tipping when we move hefty doors! The trolley is already earning its keep by helping our staff to move a cell door from Guildford Police Station, which dates to 1854.

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 10d

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The Taliban rift at the top of the leadership in Afghanistan

The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are dividing the group at the very top.

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 16d

Extraordinary. “Thomas could also be audacious - we found a poem which he managed to get published himself in Boy's Own … but was a copy of a poem already published in Boy's Own 15 years before."

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Dylan Thomas 'plagiarised other poets' repeatedly as schoolboy

He became a literary legend but as a schoolboy the young Dylan Thomas has been found to have copied poems.

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 19d

A Roman Antonine youth? No: stucco head of a Buddhist bodhisattva(?) from the Tapa Kalān site near Jalahabad, Afghanistan. Photo via the incredibly valuable Hadda Archéo Database haddaarcheodb.com/en/objet/tet...

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 28d

Sad door in Portaferry, Co. Down
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 29d

A Gandharan Buddha head from Afghanistan presented to JFK in 1963 jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/5114...

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Dec 21

And of course if you do need to cite something you haven’t seen at all, as an unverified aid to the reader, there is the perfectly respectable “non vidi”.

Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · Dec 17

The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/

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Gilded glass fragment with the image of the goddess Roma, personification of the city of Rome. Discovered during construction of the Porta Metronia station, in ancient barracks destroyed during construction of the Aurelian Walls. She’s based on a depiction of an Amazon, with her bared breast, triple-plumed helmet, baltea (studded quiver belt across her chest), and pilus (javelin).

The iconographic theme is already well-known, but it is the first and only representation found so far on gold glass.

“Golden glass is already a very rare finding, but this has no comparison” according to preliminary findings, Simona Morretta, archaeologist of the special superintendency of Rome, explained to ANSA. “No golden glass with the personification of the city of Rome had ever been found before”.

Gold glass was a glass-making technique in which a thin layer of decorated gold leaf, often a portrait, was sandwiched between two layers of transparent glass. The leaf was glued to one glass discs first, then the design created by scratching away tiny areas of gold like an etching. A second glass disc was then superimposed on top of the etched gold surface and fused to create the roundel of a vessel or a medallion.

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · Dec 14

💯 'Time is well overdue for international policy bodies to acknowledge the totality of evidence on the science of masks and masking and to show leadership in providing such messaging to policymakers, clinicians, and the public.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al
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Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews

SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—o...

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Dec 13

Cataloguing the Hampi Vijayanagara archive @britishlibrary.bsky.social - this would be an interesting part-time job for the right person www.linkedin.com/posts/malini...

Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of… |...

Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of mo...

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · Dec 11

Training Officer
Rubicon Archaeology
Salary: £39,000/ €45,000
Closing Date: January 9, 2026
Location: United Kingdom / Ireland
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Training Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources

Salary: £39,000/ €45,000Closing Date: 09/01/26Location: United Kingdom / Ireland

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Dec 11

Could be the opposite of course, but there are enough resonances with other 'Coptic' art to make Roman source more likely.

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Dec 11

This late Roman silk fragment from Egypt, in @ (L), makes me think that the contemporary woollen tunic of Yingpan Man in the Tarim Basin is really of Roman origin (which I had rather doubted) - some remarkable similarities.

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Dec 2

Late Roman box inlaid with ivory, from Egypt. @britishmuseum.bsky.social www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · Dec 1

It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981

Illustration of eighties businessmen by an urban park in Central Milton Keynes

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Nov 27

I am reposting this without the 'adult content' 🙄

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Nov 27

Satyr and maenad on a c. 4th century AD Roman textile, tapestry weave wool on linen, presumably from Egypt. Cleveland Museum www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.6?u...

The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Nov 27

This stone head with coronet was found on the site of Merton Priory, Surrey, in 1797. The diplomat and collector Sir William Hamilton FSA presented the head on behalf of the Priory’s landowner to the Society in 1802.

The Merton Head, carved stone head with coronet with traces of gilt.

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Nov 27

It's a Flavian villa with mosaics, isn't it?

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OxfordSmithSchool @smithschool.ox.ac.uk · Nov 25

"We can’s air-condition our way out the extreme heat crisis." #OxfordSmithSchool Radhika Khosla
The Global Cooling Watch 2025 report was launched during #COP30. It addresses the dual challenges of escalating extreme heat and the resultant rising global demand for cooling.

Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Nov 24

Sounds rather like Spittlefield Lady in London, including the gold-threaded textile.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Nov 24

'Truly rare': Archaeologists uncover 1,700-year-old Roman tomb in Budapest | Euronews
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Ancient Roman sarcophagus unearthed intact in Budapest

The limestone coffin, sealed for nearly two millennia, contained a young woman's skeleton surrounded by treasures meant for her eternal journey.

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · Nov 24

The Noheda mosaics give a realistically eerie impression of what performers in masks looked like.

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