Dr Alan Montgomery
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
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I am having a pre-Christmas sale on my Etsy shop, so you can pick up original artworks at 20% off for the next two weeks - including these two paintings of dolmens on recycled cotton rag paper. Click here to check it out: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
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Romanesque lion tympanum on display at Norwich Castle Museum
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Romanesque lion tympanum on display at Norwich Castle Museum
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For #HillfortsWednesday a magnificent aerial view of Foel Drygarn Hillfort courtesy of superdove #Cymru
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
For #HillfortsWednesday a magnificent aerial view of Foel Drygarn Hillfort courtesy of superdove #Cymru
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To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
Someone needs to produce a range of 'I🔥Londinium' T-shirts to sell at this stall.
I saw this and I thought of you @theduncanmackay.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Someone needs to produce a range of 'I🔥Londinium' T-shirts to sell at this stall.
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#ReliefWednesday this week focuses on this lovely little #terracotta roundel with an #Eros emerging from the centre of a flower, his hair braided in the centre. He holds a folding mirror in his surviving hand and shows traces of #polychromy. From #Centuripe in #Sicily, C2 BCE.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
#ReliefWednesday this week focuses on this lovely little #terracotta roundel with an #Eros emerging from the centre of a flower, his hair braided in the centre. He holds a folding mirror in his surviving hand and shows traces of #polychromy. From #Centuripe in #Sicily, C2 BCE.
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Some lovely carving (and some rather grumpy faces) on the font canopy in the sixteenth-century church of Saint-Melanie in Morlaix, Brittany. #ReliefWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Some lovely carving (and some rather grumpy faces) on the font canopy in the sixteenth-century church of Saint-Melanie in Morlaix, Brittany. #ReliefWednesday
Some lovely carving (and some rather grumpy faces) on the font canopy in the sixteenth-century church of Saint-Melanie in Morlaix, Brittany. #ReliefWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Some lovely carving (and some rather grumpy faces) on the font canopy in the sixteenth-century church of Saint-Melanie in Morlaix, Brittany. #ReliefWednesday
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I am having a pre-Christmas sale on my Etsy shop, so you can pick up original artworks at 20% off for the next two weeks - including these two paintings of dolmens on recycled cotton rag paper. Click here to check it out: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am having a pre-Christmas sale on my Etsy shop, so you can pick up original artworks at 20% off for the next two weeks - including these two paintings of dolmens on recycled cotton rag paper. Click here to check it out: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
These new Roman-inspired works of art in Cumbernauld look amazing!
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
These new Roman-inspired works of art in Cumbernauld look amazing!
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
I am having a pre-Christmas sale on my Etsy shop, so you can pick up original artworks at 20% off for the next two weeks - including these two paintings of dolmens on recycled cotton rag paper. Click here to check it out: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am having a pre-Christmas sale on my Etsy shop, so you can pick up original artworks at 20% off for the next two weeks - including these two paintings of dolmens on recycled cotton rag paper. Click here to check it out: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
I visited Morlaix in Finistere for the first time last week. Lots of charming windy alleys and ancient timbered houses - right up my street! #Brittany
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I visited Morlaix in Finistere for the first time last week. Lots of charming windy alleys and ancient timbered houses - right up my street! #Brittany
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This week I made a visit to fairyland (actually it is Huelgoat in Brittany, a place famous for its strange rock formations and wild forest).
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This week I made a visit to fairyland (actually it is Huelgoat in Brittany, a place famous for its strange rock formations and wild forest).
This week I made a visit to fairyland (actually it is Huelgoat in Brittany, a place famous for its strange rock formations and wild forest).
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This week I made a visit to fairyland (actually it is Huelgoat in Brittany, a place famous for its strange rock formations and wild forest).
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We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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This is one of monumental entrances to the Iron Age oppidum near Huelgoat in Brittany that is known as the Camp d'Artus, the 'Camp of Arthur'. The defences make use of natural rock formations, but also consisted of a man-made ramparts. #HillfortsWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This is one of monumental entrances to the Iron Age oppidum near Huelgoat in Brittany that is known as the Camp d'Artus, the 'Camp of Arthur'. The defences make use of natural rock formations, but also consisted of a man-made ramparts. #HillfortsWednesday
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I have two sketches in @getsmart2025.bsky.social’s online charity auction, should you be interested in bidding. It’s for a very worthy cause that’s close to my heart.
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I have two sketches in @getsmart2025.bsky.social’s online charity auction, should you be interested in bidding. It’s for a very worthy cause that’s close to my heart.
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Two 10th century hogback tombs - Part of the wonderful collection of early medieval sculpture at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Hogbacks are generally considered as grave markers or stylised 'houses' for the dead. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #TheGovanStones #GovanHeritageTrust
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Two 10th century hogback tombs - Part of the wonderful collection of early medieval sculpture at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Hogbacks are generally considered as grave markers or stylised 'houses' for the dead. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #TheGovanStones #GovanHeritageTrust
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A doorway to, or from, the Iron Age…?
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A doorway to, or from, the Iron Age…?
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
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Following last week's monochrome elephant, this is another common type of depiction in Roman mosaics. From the Great Pavement at Woodchester, moving around Orpheus. 1/2
#MosaicMonday
@classicalalan.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
@classicalalan.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Following last week's monochrome elephant, this is another common type of depiction in Roman mosaics. From the Great Pavement at Woodchester, moving around Orpheus. 1/2
#MosaicMonday
@classicalalan.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
@classicalalan.bsky.social
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German edition of STONE LANDS coming April 2026! The subtitle just seems so cool in German: Eine Reise durch Dunkelheit und Licht ❤️🪨❤️
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
German edition of STONE LANDS coming April 2026! The subtitle just seems so cool in German: Eine Reise durch Dunkelheit und Licht ❤️🪨❤️
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One of my Hares is hopping away to a new home today 🌙
There's now just one of these left in my shop, so if you've been thinking about it, you might be wise to get it while you can as I'm not sure when I'm going to find time to print more!
#handmadegift
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There's now just one of these left in my shop, so if you've been thinking about it, you might be wise to get it while you can as I'm not sure when I'm going to find time to print more!
#handmadegift
sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/5760...
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
One of my Hares is hopping away to a new home today 🌙
There's now just one of these left in my shop, so if you've been thinking about it, you might be wise to get it while you can as I'm not sure when I'm going to find time to print more!
#handmadegift
sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/5760...
There's now just one of these left in my shop, so if you've been thinking about it, you might be wise to get it while you can as I'm not sure when I'm going to find time to print more!
#handmadegift
sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/5760...
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I enjoyed a visit to the small, but interesting, Norris Museum in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, at the weekend. A few items caught my eye, but particularly this very beautiful and poignant medieval brooch and these fabulous Roman faces 😀
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I enjoyed a visit to the small, but interesting, Norris Museum in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, at the weekend. A few items caught my eye, but particularly this very beautiful and poignant medieval brooch and these fabulous Roman faces 😀
Does anyone know where this is? It looks like London to me...
And the good news is it is not completely a 'monde oublié' ('lost world')- I have just been in to my local herbalist, the marvellous Baldwins on Walworth Road!
And the good news is it is not completely a 'monde oublié' ('lost world')- I have just been in to my local herbalist, the marvellous Baldwins on Walworth Road!
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Does anyone know where this is? It looks like London to me...
And the good news is it is not completely a 'monde oublié' ('lost world')- I have just been in to my local herbalist, the marvellous Baldwins on Walworth Road!
And the good news is it is not completely a 'monde oublié' ('lost world')- I have just been in to my local herbalist, the marvellous Baldwins on Walworth Road!
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Ballowall barrow one wild and windy October evening. No sign of strange lights or partying sprites, but a definite spooky vibe ... #TombTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ballowall barrow one wild and windy October evening. No sign of strange lights or partying sprites, but a definite spooky vibe ... #TombTuesday
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round