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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5h

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

Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

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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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s Field by Max Adams and Colm O’Brien birlinn.co.uk/product/nort...

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 1d

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 11 of #ClassicsTober25: torch. On a Greek red-figured pelike two runners in the lampadedromia (torch race). Attributed to the Kraipale painter, made in c. 430 BC. Now in the British Museum. #ClassicsTober

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 1d

Great Witcombe villa in Gloucestershire was built c. AD 250, and lived in until the 5th century. The remains include a bathhouse complex and perhaps the shrine of a water spirit. Mosaic pavemen hint that the symmetrical U-shape villa was opulent in Roman times. #RomanSiteSaturday

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

No medieval filter here! A modern recreation of a Viking ruler for Denmark’s National Museum, based on the depiction of Cnut in the New Minster Liber Vitae and on clothes found at a grave in Mammen, Denmark. #medievalsky

A man wearing a thigh-length red tunic beneath a cloak of a darker red, both richly embroidered, blue leggings and soft, tan-coloured shoes.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

The tide of the battle of Cat and Mouse begins to turn.

BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320-c.1330; England, S. E. (London); ff.72v, 74v, 75

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Jan 7

'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped.
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2d

#FindsFriday! A Roman brush found in Bregenz.

Roman brush fragments are sometimes difficult to interpret; in this case, their function may relate to textile production, as suggested for similar finds in Eschenz.The bristled surface is suitable for carding or teasing wool fibers. 🧵1/2

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A photo of a well-preserved fragment of a Roman brush in a show case. The object consists of a rectangular base with rounded and scalloped edges, formed from wood into which hundreds of stiff rushes have been densely embedded.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2d

In the footsteps of Professor Daryll Forde's 1930s excavations of Pendinas #hillfort, #Aberystwyth, this lunchtime, recceing a guided walk

This press photo from 1934 shows the dapper 32 yr old Prof (sitting, right) on the south gate excavation, looking out over the very same view of Penparcau 🛖

A 1934 photo of an excavation in the foreground, held up against the modern day view across a valley & village in the background

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 2d

Quernstones from Hunsbury in Northampton. In the front, rings, beads and a currency bar (?). Iron Age. In the Northampton museum. #FindsFriday

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