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Malcolm Stoneman
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Interests - Walking, Cycling, Travel, History, Nature. Retired Head of Humanities, European. 🇪🇺
“French Crabbers”
Harold Harvey (1930)

The boats were probably from the port of Douarnenez, near Brest, in Brittany, #France

@penleehousegallery.bsky.social
#Penzance #Cornwall

#NewlynSchool #HaroldHarvey

For @horatioforever.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
The Garden House #Dartmoor #Devon

Camellia 📷 22.11.2025

(#elevensestime)
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Brancaster #Norfolk

Galleon weather-vane.

#IronworkThursday
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“Through the Old Wade Bridge”,
Glen Almond, Perthshire

Samuel John 'Lamorna' Birch.

Painted on 14 July 1933, while Birch was staying at The Cairnies, Glenalmond.

Seen at “Lamorna” Birch exhibition.
@penleehousegallery.bsky.social
#Penzance #Cornwall

@jeelyeater1.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️☕️☕️🌺 -
#Brea #Cornwall

Euryops - 📷 Now

#elevensestime
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
👀 St Peter’s Church, Noss Mayo, near #Plymouth #Devon

One of eight cherubs carved on the font cover.
Harry Hems of Exeter, 1884.

#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
#HarryHems
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Today’s 🚶‍♀️ 🚶🏻‍♂️

Tregarrick Tor & Siblyback Lake, #Cornwall
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#Ely #Cambridgeshire

Pansy - 📷 18.11.2025

#elevensestime
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Wall tiles
c. 1630-50
Probably from Lahore

Seen at -
The Great Mughals:
Art, Architecture and Opulence exhibition.

V & A Museum #London

#TilesOnTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
The Garden House #Dartmoor #Devon

Hydrangeas “Then & Now”
- 📷 22.08.2025 / 📷 22.11.2025

I loved the pure white colour “then” & the sculptural qualities “now” of hydrangeas.

(#elevensestime)
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Part of #Roman floor mosaic
3rd Century CE
Found 1899 - Karl-Marx-Straße/Jüdemerstraße #Trier

A lion striking a bull as its prey.

Originally 6.5 square metres in size, the surrounding pattern indicates it once would have had nine panels.

Now Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier

#MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
#StaircaseSaturday
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
A helmet of a Thraex (Thracian) #gladiator found in the gladiatorial barracks in #Pompeii.
The different classes of gladiators can be distinguished by their armor and weapons. A Thraex was equipped with a small shield and a short, curved blade. The helmet, with...🧵1/3

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
The Garden House #Dartmoor #Devon

Snowdrops - 📷 22.11.2025
Galanthus elwesii -“Hogget's Round”

(#elevensestime)
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Church of St Mary -
Burton Bradstock, #Dorset

The simple, but beautiful stained glass designed by E S Prior in the south aisle of 1894-7.

#StainedGlassSunday #ESPrior

#BurtonBradstock
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Plymouth Hoe at night, #Plymouth #Devon

• “Smeaton’s Tower” - #JohnSmeaton - former Eddystone lighthouse. 1759
• “Plymouth Dome - former museum & visitor’s centre, now eatery. 1988
• Lights of a ship at anchor in Plymouth Sound.

Late (or early 😉) for #PharosFriday
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#DownhamMarket #Norfolk

Rose - 📷 15.11.2025

#elevensestime
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Church of St Odulph, Pillaton, Cornwall

15th Century granite west tower. Of 3 stages, with buttresses set back from the corners, an embattled parapet & pinnacles.

The Weary Friar pub perhaps dates to the 12th Century. There may be monastic links or former use as a church house.

#SteepleSaturday
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Fish plate - Southern Italy
c. 2,350 years old

Used to serve fish, with a depression to hold a dish for perhaps a sauce.

Now in @rammuseum.bsky.social

#FindsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, #Paris

The church was destroyed at the time of the French Revolution.

Restored in the 19th Century by the French architect Victor Baltard, who was also responsible for the furnishings.

The font however is not attributed to any particular artist.

#FontsOnFriday
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Stoneman
Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260.

Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked!

Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#Denver #Norfolk

Rose with Denver church as backdrop
- 📷 17.11.2025

#elevensestime
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM