Mappa Dan
@mappadan.bsky.social
Home of my thoughts about archaic maps and mappae mundi, reconstructions and snaps people have taken of them, and my own redrawings.
Third party stuff is believed to be in public domain. Copyright applies to own work.
Third party stuff is believed to be in public domain. Copyright applies to own work.
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Lunar dappled waves
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lunar dappled waves
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A link to a new article on the Ness in the New Yorker magazine and a review of Peter Ross' "Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland"
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/new-yorker-2...
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/new-yorker-2...
Ness in ‘New Yorker’ and review of ‘Upon a White Horse’
A link to a new article on the Ness in the New Yorker magazine and a review of Peter Ross’ “Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland”
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A link to a new article on the Ness in the New Yorker magazine and a review of Peter Ross' "Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland"
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/new-yorker-2...
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/new-yorker-2...
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The last Pembrokeshire sunrise of November 2025 yesterday - the view south over St Bride's Bay from Caerfai 🌞🥰
Have a great December folks 🍻
📷 My own
Have a great December folks 🍻
📷 My own
December 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The last Pembrokeshire sunrise of November 2025 yesterday - the view south over St Bride's Bay from Caerfai 🌞🥰
Have a great December folks 🍻
📷 My own
Have a great December folks 🍻
📷 My own
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Looking across the Presbytery crossing vaults at Salisbury Cathedral from the clerestory. The scissor arches are older than those at Wells Cathedral and may well have been the inspiration for them. On the roof can be seen the 'ghosts' of the original C13 murals and their C19 update.
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Looking across the Presbytery crossing vaults at Salisbury Cathedral from the clerestory. The scissor arches are older than those at Wells Cathedral and may well have been the inspiration for them. On the roof can be seen the 'ghosts' of the original C13 murals and their C19 update.
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#WeekWForWindows
#AlphabetChallenge
St Winwaloe, Gunwalloe, Cornwall, also known as the church of the storms.
#AlphabetChallenge
St Winwaloe, Gunwalloe, Cornwall, also known as the church of the storms.
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#WeekWForWindows
#AlphabetChallenge
St Winwaloe, Gunwalloe, Cornwall, also known as the church of the storms.
#AlphabetChallenge
St Winwaloe, Gunwalloe, Cornwall, also known as the church of the storms.
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This is a fantastic reconstruction which has left many of us drooling with delight. If you'd like to know more about the original mosaic, see Jane Chick's fascinating study (to buy as a book or open access online).
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
#MosaicMonday
@archaeopress.bsky.social
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
#MosaicMonday
@archaeopress.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is a fantastic reconstruction which has left many of us drooling with delight. If you'd like to know more about the original mosaic, see Jane Chick's fascinating study (to buy as a book or open access online).
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
#MosaicMonday
@archaeopress.bsky.social
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
#MosaicMonday
@archaeopress.bsky.social
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This is my YouTube channel where all my content will be posted moving forward. My podcast will continue to be available on Spotify as well 🌀
youtube.com/@sabrinarive...
youtube.com/@sabrinarive...
Sabrina River Folk Podcast
This channel is dedicated to those people and characters that live, work, sail and fish on the River Severn all along her 220 miles.
youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is my YouTube channel where all my content will be posted moving forward. My podcast will continue to be available on Spotify as well 🌀
youtube.com/@sabrinarive...
youtube.com/@sabrinarive...
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#SarcophagusSaturday at the #BritishMuseum offers us this splendid stone #sarcophagus in #nenfro, a volcanic #tufo, with a lid like a pitched roof with a #sphinx at each end. The box itself has two figures on each side, male and female. It was once stuccoed and painted all over. #AncientBluesky 🏺
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#SarcophagusSaturday at the #BritishMuseum offers us this splendid stone #sarcophagus in #nenfro, a volcanic #tufo, with a lid like a pitched roof with a #sphinx at each end. The box itself has two figures on each side, male and female. It was once stuccoed and painted all over. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Quand des scientifiques bossent ensemble pendant plusieurs décennies, ça peut donner ça !
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Quand des scientifiques bossent ensemble pendant plusieurs décennies, ça peut donner ça !
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The color variation on this plant stopped me in my tracks this morning. Paper lanterns for a fairy party. San Jose, CA #dtsj #flower #bloomscrolling
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The color variation on this plant stopped me in my tracks this morning. Paper lanterns for a fairy party. San Jose, CA #dtsj #flower #bloomscrolling
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November 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Nov 29: Feast of Brénainn (Brendan), founder-abbot of Birra (Birr, Ireland) (†573). He intervened at a synod in Meath which ended Columba’s excommunication, and advised him to build his celebrated monastery on Iona. Also May 9. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Nov 29: Feast of Brénainn (Brendan), founder-abbot of Birra (Birr, Ireland) (†573). He intervened at a synod in Meath which ended Columba’s excommunication, and advised him to build his celebrated monastery on Iona. Also May 9. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky
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gamenian, wk.v: to play; to jest. (GA-men-i-ahn / ˈga-mɛn-ɪ-an)
Image: Book of Hours; Flanders, 14th century; Walters Art Museum, W.88, f. 115v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Book of Hours; Flanders, 14th century; Walters Art Museum, W.88, f. 115v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
gamenian, wk.v: to play; to jest. (GA-men-i-ahn / ˈga-mɛn-ɪ-an)
Image: Book of Hours; Flanders, 14th century; Walters Art Museum, W.88, f. 115v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Book of Hours; Flanders, 14th century; Walters Art Museum, W.88, f. 115v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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One of the Binham Bracteates - a decorated gold disk worn as a pendant which was discovered as part of hoard in 2004 at Binham in Norfolk. Dating to 475–525, the pendant is part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #NorwichCastle
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
One of the Binham Bracteates - a decorated gold disk worn as a pendant which was discovered as part of hoard in 2004 at Binham in Norfolk. Dating to 475–525, the pendant is part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #NorwichCastle
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Happy Chompsgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Chompsgiving!
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November 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Inside the extraordinary Llys Llywelyn medieval court, reconstructed from excavated C13th foundations nr Rhosyr on Ynys Môn/Anglesey at St Fagans National Museum of History.
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Inside the extraordinary Llys Llywelyn medieval court, reconstructed from excavated C13th foundations nr Rhosyr on Ynys Môn/Anglesey at St Fagans National Museum of History.
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
📷 My own, Tuesday
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Neolithic flint dagger blades from various sites around Lake Constance. The wooden handles have not survived. The flint material was sourced from the Southern Alpine region, highlighting early trade networks and cultural connections between the Alpine Foreland and ...🧵1/2
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Neolithic flint dagger blades from various sites around Lake Constance. The wooden handles have not survived. The flint material was sourced from the Southern Alpine region, highlighting early trade networks and cultural connections between the Alpine Foreland and ...🧵1/2
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
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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
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Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
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The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
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Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.
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Old doors are always fascinating. The ironwork on this door at Kempley, Glos, includes split curl straps (i.e. the C shape has an iron band extending from its centre) and date from the 12th Century.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Old doors are always fascinating. The ironwork on this door at Kempley, Glos, includes split curl straps (i.e. the C shape has an iron band extending from its centre) and date from the 12th Century.
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“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
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
“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
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