Latest posts tagged with #AncientBritain on Bluesky
A grassy bank with two standing stones and a house on the right, under a grey sky
#StandingStoneSunday Two megaliths stand in the front garden of this house! Future home goals...
📍 Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland
📸 Mine
#archaeology #ancientbritain #photooftheday 🏺
Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England. buff.ly/vkhP2OB #AncientRome #AncientBritain #Archaeology #AncientHistory #AncientBluesky
These photos are from a visit back in 2018, @butserancientfarm.co.uk is such a fascinating place to visit. I must go back this year to take some more recent photos.
#HistoricEngland #AncientBritain #LivingHistory
#HeadNecklaces are gender fluid! "Kaamelott - Deuxième Volet" (2025) #AncientBritain #allegedly #KingArthur #SnarkWeek buff.ly/VFZ11pz
Finished Cornwells' Stonehenge this morning. Decent read, well researched... still total amazed how it was constructed
#stonehenge
#cornwell #ancientbritain #Britain #history
“The Watchtower of Light ~ Rising from the Mists of Avalon”
#TheWatchtowerOfLight #RisingFromTheMistsOfAvalon #GlastonburyTor #StMichaelsTower #SomersetLandscapes #UKLandscapes #LandscapePhotography #MysticalBritain #SacredPlaces #AncientBritain #SpiritualLandscape
#SacredMoments #WhispersOfAvalon
OCTOBER, 2000 years ago, in ancient Britannia.
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#October #AncientBritain #AncientCelts #Celtic #Celts #Calendar
🌿🏰 #HillfortsWednesday: Bury Ditches in Shropshire is one of England’s best-preserved Iron Age hillforts. Dating to around 500 BC, it has up to four concentric ditches & ramparts, commanding stunning views over the Shropshire Hills. A perfect mix of history & scenery!
#IronAge #AncientBritain
Large Groups Came Together for Grand Feasts at the End of the Bronze Age in Britain: After analyzing bone fragments found in millennia-old trash piles, researchers say that people may have brought livestock from far… @SmithsonianMag #BronzeAge #Archaeology #AncientBritain #Feasts #HistoricalResearch
SEPTEMBER, 2000 years ago in ancient Britannia. Learn more:
#Celtic #CelticHistory #ancientBritain #September
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4/4 a tiny doorway into the deep past. #HettyPeglarsTump #UleyLongBarrow #Neolithic #AncientBritain #bankholidayexploring
Sure to be a wonderfully fascinating and thought-provoking read. Looking forward to it.
And having been to Stonehenge and Newgrange in the past year, I'm hoping to also be ahead in the 'amazing places to visit' list!! 😀
#AncientBritain #WhiteHorse #Stonehenge #Newgrange
For #HillfortsWednesday another amazing view of some of the earthworks at the aptly named 'British Camp' hillfort in the Malverns courtesy of Stuart Herbert. #HillfortsWednesday #Celtic #IronAge #AncientBritain
Having read the Observer’s article it was interesting to see Paul’s video which tells a fascinating tale of #RomanHistory and #AncientBritain
The amount of work he puts in to his content is a joy to see, so if you’re not already a YouTube subscriber I think you should head over to his channel.
Inside an ancient tomb, with high stone walls on three sides above dark chambers at ground level
#TombTuesday Inside Quoyness Chambered Cairn on the island of Sanday in #Orkney
Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers!
📸 Mine
#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday
A path through the heather up to a grassy mound looking over the sea and a distant island, under a bright blue sky
The Knowe of Yarso Neolithic Chambered Tomb, high on a hillside on Rousay in #Orkney, has quite the magnificent view over the islands and the sea
Not a bad place to spend eternity
#TombTuesday
📸 Mine
#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday🏺
Three large standing stones in a line coming out of a bank of heather, in front of a blue cloudy sky
The Ring of Brodgar in #Orkney on a fine day last month
#StandingStoneSunday
📸 Mine
#archaeology #ancientbritain #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
A museum stand with a reconstructed dog's head with grey fur and amber eyes staring outwards, with an information sign at the bottom
I didn't know this was possible, but here's the reconstructed face of one of the 24 Neolithic #dogs found buried in Cuween chambered tomb in #Orkney, from 4500 years ago!
#FindsFriday
📸 By me
More info: www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...
#archaeology #ancientbritain #museums #scotland🏺
Two standing stones in a green field with an oystercatcher bird on the right hand one
An oystercatcher on a standing stone near the Ring of Bookan in the evening light, Orkney Isles, #Scotland
#StandingStoneSunday
🏺📸 Mine
#archaeology #ancientbritain #photooftheday #archaeobirds
A cow and calf in a wide green field eating from a green bucket looking at the camera, in the background is a large grassy mound
The guardians of Maeshowe chambered tomb. Don't mess with these guys
#TombTuesday
📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology #cows #ancientbritain #ancientbluesky #photooftheday
JUNE, 2000 years ago in ancient Britannia. Find out more:
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#ancientcelts #ancientceltichistory #ancienthistory #britishhistory #ancientbritain #Britannia #celticqueen #truthbetold #nonfiction #culturalanthropology #calendar #June #spring #learn #explore
A curving ditch filled with green grass and purple-brown heather, on the inside rises at least 6 large standing stones. In the distance are low hills and a blue sky
The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, #Scotland, built c.2500 BC
This ditch alone took at least 80,00 hours to dig, straight into the bedrock!
At 380m in circumference, that's a serious community effort!
#StandingStoneSunday
📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientbritain #photooftheday🏺
A museum stand holding three bone objects each with grooves cut into them, the one of the left has four small pockets that make it look like a die
#FindsFriday Neolithic dice??
These whalebone objects found at Skara Brae in the Orkney Isles of #Scotland have been partially grooved. very society plays games of some kind, could these have been for one played around 3000BC?
🏺📸 Mine #archaeology #museums #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain
A grassy mound with small trees on either side in a field of long grass, silhouetted against a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds above
I'll never get tired of the Bronze Age barrows scattered throughout the Wiltshire countryside #TombTuesday
📸 My own
#archaeology #ancientbritain #blueskytuesday #photooftheday 🏺
A fascinating glimpse into stone-age Britain. The everyday, the enigmatic, and the dead...
#Archaeology #AncientBritain #FolkHorror
A grassy mound behind a small wire fence flanked by two trees. On the mound are a number of tumbled stones and daffodils. In the background is the edge of a white and grey house in front of several trees
Coire na Fèinne, a Neolithic chambered tomb on the Isle of Lewis in #Scotland... now in somebody's garden 🤔
It's an unusual garden feature, but it seems to be well maintained, with flowers and cut grass etc
#TombTuesday
📸 My own 🏺
#archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain #photooftheday
A brown earthy ditch in a wood with bare trees stretching over the ditch
#HillfortsWednesday The ramparts of Hembury Hillfort in Devon. Once so prominent and imposing in the landscape, they are now reclaimed by the trees...
🏺📸 Martin Bodman #archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain #photooftheday
A field of green and purple heather with a mound in the centre, a burial mound smothered in heather, under a grey sky
A Bronze Age barrow on the Quantocks in Somerset smothered in heather, sadly forgotten.
You wonder who was buried here, what life they led, what struggles they faced, what stories they told...
#TombTuesday
🏺📸 My own #archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain #photooftheday
A stone circle in the middle of a barren moorland stretching into the distance. The grass is full of purple and yellow heather and clumps up around the stones
Boskednan Stone Circle on the Cornish moors. Such a eerie landscape. You wonder if it was the same 4000 years ago, and why this was built here...
#StandingStoneSunday
🏺📸 My own #archaeology #photooftheday #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain
THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2000 years ago, in ancient Britannia. Learn more:
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#Boudicca #ancientcelts #ancienthistory #britishhistory #ancientbritain #Britannia #celticqueen #Heroine #culturalanthropology #calendar #april #spring #learn #explore
