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fraglast.bsky.social
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The Last Bastion

Flâneur. Photography, Archaeology, Prehistory and Outdoorsy stuff‽ Newts! Linking people and place, mostly int’ Peak
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A beautiful start for our first DLL ponds of the season.
Helping the Great Created Newts at Woodhouse Washlands, #Sheffield
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September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Dark Peak Wasp
A wasp spider hanging in its web.
August 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Llanbadrig, Ynys Môn
Kind of Blue.
Simple.
#StainedGlassSunday
A 3 light window sits within a few walled recess. Each window is decorated with the same recurring geometric pattern. An altar sits below a 3 light window. The walls are tiled to half height with blue tiles that contrast with the stained glass window and the altar cloth.
July 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Tŷ Mawr, Ynys Môn
Likely Bronze Age, now amidst a strange encroaching hinterland of development and dead bales of silage.
#StandingStoneSunday
A large standing stone emerges from a grassy meadow. There are areas of green around the stone where the grass has been cut. The rest is tall and brown, over ripening in the bright sunlight. The bright blue sky trails into the distance.
July 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Lligwy Burial Chamber, Ynys Môn
Late Neo with a rather chunky 25 ton capstone. #tombtuesday
A large and chunky grey limestone block - capstone, sits atop a row of shorter vertical stones. These and darkness obscure the chamber within. This burial chamber sits in a green field.
July 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Super service and the best packaging I’ve had in years from @allthingsanalogue.co.uk
I just hope my mum doesn’t see my bank statement 😳😂
This image shows an item entry on a bank statement. The amount spent has been rendered illegible. The purchase was made from a fantastic company called All Things Analogue. Sadly, the bank statement has removed the last four letters!!
June 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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What a perp‽
St Nicholas, High Bradfield, Sth York’s.
#StainedGlassSunday
Sunlight cascades through a three light perpendicular stained glass window. The colourful religious scene backlights a large teddy bear that sits upon a display table positioned beneath the window.
June 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Devils Arrow, Boroughbridge, N. Yorks.
#StandingStoneSunday
A tall standing stone rises from a crop field. A small track leads towards the stone, cutting through the lush green crop. In the distance is a small wood, with a couple of modern houses. All beneath a a grey and gloomy sky.
June 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Devils Arrows, Boroughbridge, N. Yorks.
#StandingStoneSunday
A narrow path leads through a crop-field towards a tall standing stone. A second lower standing stone nestles further back and to its right.
June 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Sh*tehawks at Navio
A green grassy field now sits where a Roman Fort once stood. Amidst the grass is a hole - dug by a metal detectorist.
May 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Captain Beaky and his band.
St Mary’s, Riccall #adoorablethursday
A fine Norman arch surrounds an old wooden church door, with large C shaped hinge
May 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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To be fair - the Wickerman links are quite good.
The druids aren’t real druids - just a strange cult that live in the woods.

Fave bit so far is the village shop containing a dead Norwegian Blue Parrot and Four Candles!
A horned Wickerman structure stands taller than the trees.
March 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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‘Twas proper Brrrrrr 🥶 ont’ hill today.
Ice coated soft rush sits amidst the snowy plateau of Kinder Scout. In the distance sits a craggy outcrop of rock
February 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The Gate Keeper.
Kinder Scout, Peak District - just now.
#StandingStoneSunday
A gate post stands upon moorland. The gate is open and the hook/catch is, like the post and surrounding area coated with a thick layer of ice.
February 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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One of Hordron in yesterday’s claggy Peak District.
With a bonus two pence piece.
#standingstonesunday
A small standing stone has a two pence piece placed upon it. The stone is set on the edge of a wintry and misty moorland.
February 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Cae Coch, on the South Eastern slopes of Tal y Fan.
Nestled within a very busy prehistoric landscape.
This angled hides the stones breadth.
#StandingStoneSunday #AncientSiteSunday
A stone stands upright. The winter sun casts a long shadow along the hillside upon which it sits. The distant skyline is a ragged dark mountain.
February 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Looking out to sea and the pesky new upstarts with their modern technology.

Y Meini Hirion (Druids Circle), Penmaenmawr.

#StandingStoneSunday #AncientSiteSunday
A stone stands sentinel on the edge of the mountain. Overlooking the sea and a distant headland.
January 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The Neolithic brilliance that is Maen y Bardd, Rowen, Cymru on a glorious January day.
#TombTuesday
The remains of a Neolithic burial chamber stand on a sunny hillside. A large horizontal capstone, supported by uprights that once housed the dead.
January 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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‘The Deity Stone’, Y Meini Hirion (Druids Circle), Penmaenmawr.
The finest stone circle in Wales, amidst a very busy prehistoric landscape.
#StandingStoneSunday #AncientSiteSunday
A stone stands on the edge of a circle of stones. This one is shaped like a hooded and hunched figure staring out across the mountain.
January 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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There’s been a murder!
A small patch of snow melts upon a grassy lawn. A carrot sits beside the snow indicating the passing of a person of snow.
January 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The quietest commute.
The empty blue seats line a train carriage illuminated against the dark outside.
January 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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New Year - New Pen 😊
The business end of a fountain pen sits atop some dot grid paper.
January 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This years most played track on Apple Music - apparently
Lo Boob Oscillator by Stereolab. Image taken from Apple Music.
December 9, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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This could be worthwhile at some point again in the future. #Inshallah
The Lonely Planet guide to Syria and Lebanon. Depicting an elaborately garnished camel standing beside a ruined building from antiquity, beneath a clear blue sky.
December 8, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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One of the remaining five at Duddo, Northumberland.
Embedded within a once rich and vibrant landscape that turned rather tumultuous for a time.
#StandingStoneSunday
A black and white image of a standing stone. Rising from the ground like a giant stone tooth, its surface is heavily eroded into vertical ridges and grooves.
November 24, 2024 at 9:19 AM