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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 21h

The 14th century tower of St Oswald’s Church in Grasmere, Cumbria today. Up until the 1890s the church was rendered in lime. This was removed and replaced with a cementitious pointing. In December 2017 a project was completed to restore the tower’s lime render.

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Prehistoric Wirral @prehistoricwirral.bsky.social · 1d

🥽❄️How cool is this? Hunters living in the Arctic have used snow goggles to protect their eyes from the glare of the snow for 4000 years. Made from ivory, bone or wood. Displaying great ingenuity. These are 18/19thC display
at World Museum, Liverpool
🌍 #Arctic #Prehistoric #indeginouspeople

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Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social · 1d

C14 parclose screen at Holme, Notts, for #Woodensday

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Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social · 1d

Back to Holme, Notts. Close up of a compilation image of a priest, Look closely at his fingers, we see, perhaps, a dragon. Might this originally be from an image of St John?

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 2d

And your photography is a constant delight!

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry - that might have sounded pedantic! Autumn, Keats said, is a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, i.e. the earth is still warm and humidity appears as mist! Please show us a lovely British winter fog in a month or two! My apologies!

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 2d

Fog or mist?

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 2d

'October Gold', John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1889. There was a terrific exhibition of his work on at Scarborough Art Gallery when I was there to do the Grimms talk with artist Chris Wood; they were hung well and their atmosphere travelled well, as it did with Chris' eerie art.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 2d

By autumn 1322, Robert the Bruce held the upper hand. Edward II’s failed invasion of Scotland had ended in famine and retreat, giving Bruce the chance to strike south. In October, his army swept into Yorkshire, where Edward was staying at Rievaulx Abbey. OTD 14 October, the

Memorial commemorating the Battle of Old Byland

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 2d

Aerial view: St Mary’s Church, Pakenham, Suffolk. Built c.1100 by Walter with nave, central tower & chancel. The tower’s octagonal belfry was added in the 14th century; transepts rebuilt by S.S. Teulon in 1849. One of Suffolk’s few cruciform churches. #Pakenham #church #Suffolk #aerial #image

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 3d

… that terrible moment when there was a sudden bang and we all thought the load had broken away…

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

Having a great time looking through everyone's memories of watching the Mary Rose being raised.

So much truancy!

Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 3d

Am I right in thinking there are remains of a lime render on the walls? What chance is there of this being restored?

Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 3d

#MedievalMonday Inside the 12th century church of Teampall Mholuaidh (St Moluag's church) on the Isle of Lewis, #Scotland

You can really feel the age in here!

#history #archaeology #churches #photooftheday

The inside of an old stone church with rugged grey walls and altar at the end. Modern wooden roof vaults and benches fill the interior

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday read: "And so I stand beside the latch, comforted by the collective thumbprint. Through the imperceptible hollowing of its burnished curve, it cradles an immortality defined through touch" www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 3d

The vaulted undercroft at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. The abbey was originally established by Benedictine monks from St Mary's Abbey in York in 1132 and became one of the largest Cistercian houses in England. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #FountainsAbbey #Yorkshire

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 3d

The beautiful Ayshford Chapel is one of only a handful of medieval chapels of ease that continued to be used for religious services after the Reformation.

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 3d

Wonderful story… and enlightening!

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Dec 10

Getting away with crime or getting justice?

Sometimes medieval criminal court records reveal instances in which localities and/or individuals took the punishment of crime into their own hands. The castration case of Tom, son of Leofwin, from the year 1202 is one such case. 🧵1/5

A person in a blue shirt with light orange trousers is holding a flail, which is two pieces of stick usually joined by a piece of leather. The tool is used for threshing grain. In this instance, the person is holding the flail over his head. He's about to hit the stalks of some plants, but the plants have been cropped out of the image so it appears as if the person is just about to swing a weapon.
Reference: British Library, The Luttrell Psalter

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 4d

Rows and rows of patterns and creatures and beakheads from below.
Looking up at the underside of the absolutely glorious 12thC chancel arch at St Peter's, Tickencote.
The uneven nature and wonkiness is just wonderful.
#SundayStonework

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 5d

Is that really herringbone ‘Opus Piscatum’ in the south wall around the window???

Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social · 5d

Great Elm war memorial. St. Mary Magdalene Church, Great Elm, Somerset. First World War. #LestWeForget

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 7d

A Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally internal and led to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 8d

#inktober2025 7) Starfish. Starfish sites were decoy installations built across the UK in WW2 to confuse bombers. lit at night to replicate failed street blackoutsHow effective they were is open to debate. There is a good one in the Mendips for Bristol & this one at Doncaster. #heritage #archaeology

A sketch of a brick built structure with sloping concrete central opening and lintel. a tree to the left

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 10d

Shared for #MotteMonday

Peter Dunn’s reconstruction of a motte and bailey castle near Cropton in North Yorkshire

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Andrew Burn @apburn44.bsky.social · 11d

Ive been scribbling my thoughts about the landscape around Cropton and had to share this lovely Peter Dunn reconstruction of the Motte and Bailey Castle just outside the modern village.

(Found on the Woodland Trust Interpretation Panel for the site)

Fantastic Peter Dunn reconstruction painting of the medieval village of Cropton with crofts reaching. Ack to a stone and wood motte and bailey castle on the edge of a green wooded ridge.

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 10d

How unusual to see this gem in a non-ecclesiastical setting (apparently)…

Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 10d

Stamford, Lincolnshire, is full of excellent historic buildings - but it also has this fabulous Norman arch and enticing cobbled passageway 😍

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 10d

This house once belonged to my Priestman cousins. It has been a disgracefully neglected, misused and abandoned house for a long time. The Priestman family moved to nearby Slaley Hall until the early 1980s when this lovely house was also gutted and massacred - this time to create a golfing hotel…

The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 10d

Shotley Park, a Grade II listed house in Consett, has been on fire overnight. County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service have been working to put out the blaze last night and during today. There was an application in 2024 to turn it into a hotel🧵

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

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Christopher LONG @calong.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent story!

Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 11d

At first glance, the exterior of St Helen’s, Skeffling is rustic and rather unassuming. However, the rounded glacial cobblestones from which the church is built aren’t just any local pebbles.

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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · May 28

Interior view of the Saxon window in the tower of St Andrew's, Bywell, Northumberland. #WindowsOnWednesday

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