Tom Singleton
@tomsingleton.bsky.social
Gay and Autistic. I’m a Playmobil Collector and a railway modeller. I also have my own private museum. History and Archaeology fan. So join me as I share my interests with the world.
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Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, king of Leinster, and, according to later writers, 'king of Ireland with opposition', died #OTD in 1072. His power was such that he was also styled rí… Índsi Gall, ‘king of the Hebrides’, in his obituary. 📸NMIreland #medievalsky
February 7, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, king of Leinster, and, according to later writers, 'king of Ireland with opposition', died #OTD in 1072. His power was such that he was also styled rí… Índsi Gall, ‘king of the Hebrides’, in his obituary. 📸NMIreland #medievalsky
Scaffolding is going up on the outside of the cathedral this week. I hope Bodgit and Scarper haven’t got the job! 🤣
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography
February 6, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Scaffolding is going up on the outside of the cathedral this week. I hope Bodgit and Scarper haven’t got the job! 🤣
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography
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St Mary Magdalene Church, Shabbington, Buckinghamshire. #adoorableThursday
February 5, 2026 at 8:42 AM
St Mary Magdalene Church, Shabbington, Buckinghamshire. #adoorableThursday
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February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other!
#FossilFriday
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#FossilFriday
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February 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM
February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other!
#FossilFriday
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#FossilFriday
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The font from Wells Cathedral in Somerset which may be Anglo-Saxon in date. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #WellsCathedral
February 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
The font from Wells Cathedral in Somerset which may be Anglo-Saxon in date. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #WellsCathedral
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February 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Roman penknife with gladiator handle found at Piddington, 3rd century AD, portraying a secutor, beside a modern reproduction. Oh, for a museum shop that sold the replica…
British Museum
#FindsFriday
British Museum
#FindsFriday
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Roman penknife with gladiator handle found at Piddington, 3rd century AD, portraying a secutor, beside a modern reproduction. Oh, for a museum shop that sold the replica…
British Museum
#FindsFriday
British Museum
#FindsFriday
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Samian ware bowl (fragment)
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
February 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Samian ware bowl (fragment)
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.
The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.
The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.
#FindsFriday #Roman
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A Roman bronze statuette of a 3 horned bull carrying portrait busts, possibily deities, on its head and tail
A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort
Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2025
#FindsFriday
A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort
Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2025
#FindsFriday
February 6, 2026 at 7:58 AM
A Roman bronze statuette of a 3 horned bull carrying portrait busts, possibily deities, on its head and tail
A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort
Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2025
#FindsFriday
A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort
Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2025
#FindsFriday
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St Michael's Lenham in Kent has a fine mid 14th century wall painting of St Michael weighing souls. I think this was painted over and then uncovered somewhat later. In between times Tassell Read was memorialised right at the spot where Mary was painted. She can just be made out if we squint.
February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
St Michael's Lenham in Kent has a fine mid 14th century wall painting of St Michael weighing souls. I think this was painted over and then uncovered somewhat later. In between times Tassell Read was memorialised right at the spot where Mary was painted. She can just be made out if we squint.
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A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Most impressive #DoorInMidAir from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. Once giving access from the stair turret to the top of a screen between quire and crossing. Probably a rood loft. And chamfered #Ogee headed too #AdoorableThursday
February 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Most impressive #DoorInMidAir from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. Once giving access from the stair turret to the top of a screen between quire and crossing. Probably a rood loft. And chamfered #Ogee headed too #AdoorableThursday
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Freightliner liveried 66416 navigates its way through Manchester Victoria with 6J34, Runcorn Folly Lane to Brindle Heath. A typically grey January day! #Class66 #Shed #Freightliner #ManchesterVictoria
February 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Freightliner liveried 66416 navigates its way through Manchester Victoria with 6J34, Runcorn Folly Lane to Brindle Heath. A typically grey January day! #Class66 #Shed #Freightliner #ManchesterVictoria
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Avanti at Garsdale. 2 January 2026. #railway #photography
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Avanti at Garsdale. 2 January 2026. #railway #photography
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its #RuinedPrioryFriday & there's this curious quartet of monastic sites in a crescent around Shrewsbury which deserves a bit of a thread
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February 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
its #RuinedPrioryFriday & there's this curious quartet of monastic sites in a crescent around Shrewsbury which deserves a bit of a thread
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#FindsFriday Slightly rarer than hen's teeth, the magical Nesscliffe Iron Age spoons on display in the brilliant Shrewsbury Museum 🥰
Thought to have been used for divination - perhaps by Druids - fewer than 30 pairs have been discovered since 1829....😮
🎥 My own, last week
Thought to have been used for divination - perhaps by Druids - fewer than 30 pairs have been discovered since 1829....😮
🎥 My own, last week
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
#FindsFriday Slightly rarer than hen's teeth, the magical Nesscliffe Iron Age spoons on display in the brilliant Shrewsbury Museum 🥰
Thought to have been used for divination - perhaps by Druids - fewer than 30 pairs have been discovered since 1829....😮
🎥 My own, last week
Thought to have been used for divination - perhaps by Druids - fewer than 30 pairs have been discovered since 1829....😮
🎥 My own, last week
St Micheal’s Cathedral has been illuminated in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
We will never forget. 🕯️
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography #HolocaustMemorialDay
We will never forget. 🕯️
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography #HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2026 at 10:00 PM
St Micheal’s Cathedral has been illuminated in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
We will never forget. 🕯️
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography #HolocaustMemorialDay
We will never forget. 🕯️
#Playmobil #ToyPhotography #HolocaustMemorialDay
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Triple Tractor Tuesday at Bolton-upon-Dearne this morning with 37219 & 37610 on a UTU & 37501 'Teesside Steelmaster ' doing another WMR new unit 730030 drag from Gascoigne Wood
January 27, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Triple Tractor Tuesday at Bolton-upon-Dearne this morning with 37219 & 37610 on a UTU & 37501 'Teesside Steelmaster ' doing another WMR new unit 730030 drag from Gascoigne Wood
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20142 and 189 at Clapham High Street heading for Ashford
January 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
20142 and 189 at Clapham High Street heading for Ashford
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As of today, there are now 3 Auroras out in daily passenger service now!
This means that the 7 car Meridians have now gone entirely ad-hoc, it won't be long until they head over to Lumo with just 003 and 004 available for passenger service currently
This means that the 7 car Meridians have now gone entirely ad-hoc, it won't be long until they head over to Lumo with just 003 and 004 available for passenger service currently
January 26, 2026 at 2:28 PM
As of today, there are now 3 Auroras out in daily passenger service now!
This means that the 7 car Meridians have now gone entirely ad-hoc, it won't be long until they head over to Lumo with just 003 and 004 available for passenger service currently
This means that the 7 car Meridians have now gone entirely ad-hoc, it won't be long until they head over to Lumo with just 003 and 004 available for passenger service currently
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1C44 1135 Sheffield to St Pancras International EMR Meridian service arriving into Leicester 222017
January 26, 2026 at 8:08 PM
1C44 1135 Sheffield to St Pancras International EMR Meridian service arriving into Leicester 222017
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Not a tiny fragment, nor a single sherd of pottery, but a full, voluminous Anglo-Saxon space from the 9th century at St Wystan’s in Repton, Derbyshire. The spiral columns - perhaps a memory of St Peter’s shrine. Holy air encased in stone. Betjeman’s words describe it perfectly.
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Not a tiny fragment, nor a single sherd of pottery, but a full, voluminous Anglo-Saxon space from the 9th century at St Wystan’s in Repton, Derbyshire. The spiral columns - perhaps a memory of St Peter’s shrine. Holy air encased in stone. Betjeman’s words describe it perfectly.
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Part of the ‘Floral Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. The mosaic dates to the 1st century, and was one of the first to be discovered at the site. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne
January 26, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Part of the ‘Floral Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. The mosaic dates to the 1st century, and was one of the first to be discovered at the site. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne
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Shared by @jestraughton.bsky.social , some fox politics next door for your #FoxOfTheDay today !
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Shared by @jestraughton.bsky.social , some fox politics next door for your #FoxOfTheDay today !