Image shows part of a stone circle, a cist made from slabs of granite and a stone row
Bronze Age cist tomb and stone row on Bellever Tor, near Postbridge, Dartmoor
#TombTuesday
#Dartmoor
#TombTuesday with the Barbrook Cairns, Peak District - including barbrook II (pics 1&4)
caught inbetween bursts of rain
see more of the Peak District in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...
For #TombTuesday... The scant remains of Dunteige Court Tomb, Antrim, Ireland
Image: 2026
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #Landscape #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Antrim
A photograph of Pentre Ifan burial chamber with daffodils in the foreground and blue sky and white clouds in the background. A
A seasonally-based scene at Pentre Ifan Chambered Tomb last week.
📷 06.03.26
#TombTuesday #Scape
#RockinTuesday #photography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
A burial pit surrounded by a cairn mound on Dartmoor
#TombTuesday
The cairn burial along one of the stone rows at Merrivale #Dartmoor
#EpigraphyTuesday with the Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Dating to the Republican period, it mentions the prohibition of the Bacchanalia, the cult acts for the god Dionysus / Bacchus.
It was discovered in Tiriolo in Calabira.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
The cippus, which seems to have been a border stone, appears to display a text dedicating a legal contract between the Etruscan families of Velthina (from Perugia) and Afuna (from Chiusi), regarding the sharing or use, including water rights, of a property upon which there was a tomb belonging to the noble Velthinas.
#EpigraphyTuesday
The Cippus Perusinus is a stone tablet (cippus) discovered on the hill of San Marco, near Perugia, #Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of incised #Etruscan text, about 130 words - 3rd or 2nd century BC.
(See Alt. For more)
#Archaeology #History #writing
Medieval tile at Ramsbury. #TilesOnTuesday
Rhynie Man carries an axe over his shoulder, has a large nose and sharp teeth bared in a grimace.
A 6ft Pictish stone engraved with an axe-wielding figure was ploughed up by farmer Kevin Alston at Barflat, near Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, #OTD in 1978. ‘Rhynie Man’ is believed to date from the 5/6thC. #medievalsky
Pages from the Book of Deer.
Diarist John Evelyn writes of a manuscript #OTD in 1695 which was probably the Book of Deer. Antiquarian Thomas Gale had shown him a book with passages from the New Testament ‘that had belonged to a monastery in the north of Scotland, which he esteemed to be above 800 years old’. #medievalsky
Chapel and tomb of St Mungo (Kentigern), Glasgow Cathedral.
William Lauder, bishop of Glasgow, drew up a papal supplication #OTD in 1420 to have the relics of Kentigern (c.†614) translated into a ‘chest of gold or silver so that they may be the more devoutly honoured’. Sadly Kentigern’s uncanonised status proved a stumbling block. #medievalsky
At least this records that folks were appalled by the sale...
#Archaeology #Treasurw #Detecting 🏺
metro.co.uk/2026/03/06/s...
Magdalen Laver, Essex, St Mary Magdalen. Norman church with a huge variety of building materials including Roman brick and tufa.
A circular necklace made of alternating dark and light cylindrical beads, with three larger flat, L‑shaped pendants hanging from the lower half, displayed against a black background.
This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany.
Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design. 🧵1/2
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Cup-marked kerb stone of the north-east burial cairn at the Clava Cairns - a wonderful Bronze Age cemetery near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #ClavaCairns #Archaeology #Highlands
The Great West Door at Rochester Cathedral with its Romanesque tympanum. 📸 My own. #TympanumTuesday #RochesterCathedral #Kent
A tall cairn under excavation with a chapel against a blue sky
#TombTuesday Another year older for me today 😮🥳 so a good opportunity to look back at one of my early digs
Second season of excavation at La Hougue Bie Neolithic passage tomb, Jersey, digging the great cairn below the summit chapel
Great days - beer, beaches & camping under the stars
📷 My own
For #MosaicMonday an Agricultural Worker mosaic from Chedworth Roman Villa courtesy of Cross Duck. #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #RomanArt #Art
A view across York.
Mar 9: Feast of Bosa, bishop of York 678-86 and 691-706. He ruled the diocese until his death except for the years of Wilfrid I’s restoration. Bede calls both of them ‘men of outstanding merit and holiness’. John – later known as John of Beverley – succeeded Bosa. 📸Paul Lakin #medievalsky
Three fragments of Roman mosaic. At top left, a leopard between two trees. At top right, a hound and a boar separated by a tree, with part of a rectangular compartment below; this shows a rosette with three birds to the right. At bottom, a small fragment with a bear.
On #MosaicMonday over the last few weeks, I've been paying tribute to the wonderful animals from the Withington Orpheus mosaic as depicted in Lysons's engravings. It was a great thrill to see the originals again last week, now displayed in the excellent Corinium Museum. 1/2
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#MosaicMonday
Floor #mosaic with guard #Dog with collar tied to door knob with labrys of the House of Paquius Proculus on the Via dell'Abbondanza, (I.7.1) - 1st century AD -
Archaeological Park of #Pompeii
#MosaicMonday
#Roman floor mosaic from the Grotte Celoni area of the via Casilina, Rome. End of 1st - 2nd century AD.
(National Roman Museum, #Rome, #Italy)
#Art #History
A lovely Roman mosaic showing floral motifs surrounded by a twisted guilloche border. Oh! And there's a fish! The colour scheme is white, black, grey and red.
This is where it started everyone!
Our "Floral Mosaic" was discovered in 1960 (don't ask how 😬😱). This led to 8 years of excavation during which the Palace was gradually revealed.
#MosaicMonday
My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.
Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
2017 image of 'Shetland Village Kame of Isbister' and mock-up suggestion. #KameOfIsbister
Wow - nice to start the working week with the discovery of a previously unrecorded Roman marching camp in Ceredigion, only our 4th on Cardigan Bay 🤩
Potential campaign routes now start to fall into place..🤔
Spotted by a clever colleague in England who has eagle eyes👏
📷 (C) Angus McBride, Osprey
Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.
Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱
This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’)
1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺
A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
Detail from the 4th century ‘Charioteer Mosaic’ featuring a victorious charioteer and quadriga (4 horse chariot). The mosaic decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire; now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own #MosaicMonday
The early 14th century Pele Tower at Corbridge in Northumberland. Built of stone from the Roman fort of Coria (Corbridge), it served as a fortified residence for the vicars of the nearby Parish Church of St. Andrews. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #Corbridge #Northumberland
