Looking forward to talking DNA & Irish ancestors!

This is another podcast I caught up with this week.

Ruth’s episode is amazing. I urge you to listen to discover exactly what SOG events have to offer. Such good value for money, I guarantee there will be something of interest to anyone researching family history.

Worn #onthisday in 1831 by Queen Adelaide at her coronation in Westminster Abbey in London. Jewellers Rundell, Bridge & Rundel of London created the silver crown set with diamonds, gemstones, and pearls from Adelaide's own collection, visible in John Simpson's portrait. #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust

The front of Orkney Library & Archive with the Bluesky logo on one of the balls and a big 20k written beside it

*drumroll* 🥁

We have just reached 20,000 followers on Bluesky! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone who follows us, likes, replies, and engages with us on here. ❤️👏

Side view of the upper half of an 1840s cream silk gown. It has a warp printed floral pattern in red and green and the edges are trimmed with cream silk fringe. It has a short matching shoulder cape

I spent a long time thinking about #1840s fashion when I was writing The Dress Diary & I miss it! It is a transitional decade but the fabric techniques were amazing. This is a warp printed silk creating blurry florals bordered by silk fringe @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

There's flowering and just plain showing off. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardens

This fab black and white mosaic is at the entrance to the House of Marcus Caesius Blandus. I love how its marine theme - with its dolphins, hippocampus, trident and rudder- and the crenellated city wall at the top, hint at life in #Pompeii overlooking the Bay of Naples 😍 #archaeology #MosaicMonday

It's a mosaic of a beetle. A stag beetle, we think, with its head at the bottom and its bum at the top.

It's a beetle mosaic and you should thank us for it.
#MosaicMonday

Part of the ‘Knot Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in East Sussex. The polychrome mosaic dates the the third century AD. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne

Mosaic image of a large tailed dolphin holding a trident in its mouth, swimming above the curling, eel-like tail of a triton

Don't diss this fish*

(*mammal actually)

A Dolphin with Attitude (and a large trident) 🐬🔱

Detail from a late 2nd century AD #Roman mosaic excavated by John Turtle Wood in the Sanctuary of Artemis #Ephesus in 1872

© The Trustees of the British Museum 1872,0803.72

#MosaicMonday #GrumpyDolphin

8 Sept: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin #otd

Birth of the Virgin c. 1635 (Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia) By Orsola Maddalena Caccia [born Theodora], c. 1635 an artist and Ursuline nun who ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo, where she was abbess.

Crocosima and everlasting pea

Today’s favourite rose - Munstead Wood - who has been poor this year, the weather hasn’t suited it, but each bloom is precious #roses #myroses #mygarden #gardening

Finally - trimmed lavender and still 2 swallows on the wire - there was a third but it flew off

Now it's haymaking!

I thought it was just me...Geroge is the most frequent

Explore more fibulae in Antiquity, with this recently discovered Aucissa-type fibula from the 1st century AD #Roman port of Berenike, Egypt.

Popular in the army, was this a soldier's reminder of home or a keepsake from a posting elsewhere?

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The swallows are gathering.....

A pottery beaker featuring a broad, rounded body with a distinct shoulder, a relatively narrow neck, and a flared rim. Decorated with swirling white patterns and letters around the shoulder. The brown surface is accented by a band of small circular motifs above the letters and painted face images on opposite sides. The vase is displayed against a dark blue background on a flat surface.

For #EpigraphyTuesday a Trier black slipped ware motto beaker bearing the Latin inscription: PARCE AQVAM ADIC MERVM - save the water, pour unmixed #wine!
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

My photo shows a square Roman floor tile made of red clay. Inscribed into the clay is a drawing of what appears to be a Roman lighthouse (faros). The lighthouse has four storeys, which are stepped inwards at each level. Tile width 20 cm. Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’. On display at the British Museum.

Roman floor tile with a sketch of a lighthouse (or space rocket? 🚀😉)

The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing.

Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’.

British Museum 📷 by me

#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology

Isle of Bute from Largs...last night's sunset

It's a hot 🔥one for #HillfortsWednesday

Ongoing excavations of conjoined roundhouses within Buckspool coastal promontory fort (📷 Monday) continue to produce a wide range of Roman finds 😮🤔

Dig by @henebtwa.bsky.social for @richardosgood.bsky.social & #OpNightingale

📷 (C) @rcahmwales.bsky.social

Looking west along the southern rampart of Poundbury Camp Iron Age hillfort on the edge of Dorchester. #HillfortsWednesday

The grass covered earthworks of an iron age hillfort to the right of photo with trees beyond A modern track and a Roman road to the left

Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

Here's the NW edge of the mighty multivallate Badbury Rings @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset

The arrow-straight #Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum to the left of the modern track photo

Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011

see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk

Iron age brooch maker, talking to herself: 'Bendy, bendy, wire here. Twisty, twisty wire there. Now I need a curly bit... annnnnd for the final flourish: stick a ducky on top! Ta dah! Done!' ❤️

#Archaeology 🏺

Bianca degli Utili Maselli, holding a dog and surrounded by six of her children by Lavinia Fontana of Bologna, 1552-1614 (Sotheby’s)

Lavinia died #otd 11 Aug 1614. She had been born on 24 Aug 1552.

11 Aug 1570: Francis Walsingham is appointed #English ambassador to #France on stipend of £2 per diem #otd (NPG) He would later witness the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre in #Paris

11 Aug: feast of Clare of Assisi d. 1253 #otd founder of the Poor Clares (Ms image from @ucdarchives.bsky.social
UCD_OFM B44/ BM )

🚶‍♀️🕵️‍♂️ Walk in your ancestors’ footsteps this Victorian London Week (8–12 Sept)! Talks, research, walks & archives—join us in-person or online. Discover the real stories of 19thC London life. 🍽️👒

🔗 Book now: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
#FamilyHistory #VictorianLondon

British Museum photo of a Romano-British brooch in the form of a crouching hare, viewed from the side with head to the right. The hare has a long ear, an incised mouth which has a slight upwards curve as if smiling, and two curved legs (one back leg and one front leg). The brooch is cast from copper-alloy (bronze), now grey in colour. The body is inlaid with green enamel and has four decorative copper-alloy dots in the green enamel along the body. The head is decorated with a large circular green enamel inlay, at the centre of which is a copper-alloy dot for the eye. The brooch is displayed on a black background.

Happy Monday!

Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare!

Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.

📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#Archaeology