Information from South Leeds Archaeology: As part of the excavations at Temple Newsam, we are having an Open day when members of the general public can join an Archaeological Dig. Sun 26July, two sessions 10am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3:30pm. booking: www.southleedsarchaeology.org.uk/openday_form/

Remains of a passage tomb at Carrowmore, Sligo, with the cairn of Listoghil in the background. 🪨 #Stunday #AncientSiteSunday #StandingStoneSunday #History #Prehistory #Archaeology #Sligo #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #ClassicMono #B&W #ECK #EastCoastKin

Got myself some summer reading.

The Whispering Knights, at the Rollright Stones complex. 📷 September 2025 #StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic #Photography #Oxfordshire #Rollrightstones

Oh, piss off. It is not 'AI' and whilst LLMs may have a modicun of use for administrative and low level personal tasks there is absolutely nothing of interest in the question posed by the article.

Another sky I liked

The Hendy Head, made from quartz-rich red sandstone, and found at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Ynys Môn, Gwynedd. Believed to be Late Iron Age. Oriel Môn / Anglesey Gallery. #FindsFriday #AncientBluesky

Ok hear me out. Norman Conquest, but instead of Normans replacing Anglo Saxons we do Socialism replacing Capitalism. Without any Harrying. Just change the Excel spreadsheet formulas.

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

The River Wharfe at Ilkley and the carving of the roman goddess associated with it, Verbeia. All Saints' Parish Church, where the carving can be found, is sited on a roman fort. #RomanFortThursday #Yorkshire #AncientBluesky

3 Pine marten kits on a slab of rock high up in the Mawddach #Celticrainforest #meirionnydd #Eryri

Wasn't sure how to take this.

More @b3ta.com comedy art

Welcome July! #PinchPunch 📷 Philip Dunn.

#OTD 1st July 1916, men of the 1st Batt Lancashire Fusiliers await Zero Hour in the Sunken Lane at Beaumont Hamel on the catastrophic first day of the battle of the Somme. July 2014, my son in the same spot. This trip, tracking down spots filmed on the day & watching the footage, was deeply moving.

"Then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like, 'I like you'."

The iconic Carnforth Station clock, which was made famous by the 1945 film Brief Encounter, has returned to its home on the station platform in Lancashire following an extensive restoration. It was manufactured in 1895 by Joyce & Co. of Whitchurch in Shropshire.

Great thread about a wonderful woman.

#RomanBritain #AncientBluesky #Roman #FindsFriday #Coin

Alert! Calling all Bluesky roman numismatists... I was shown this at the weekend. My extremely limited and ham fisted initial investigation points to it being Antoninus Pius on the obverse side. Would be interested to know who and what is depicted on this coin?! Can anyone help?

In memory of Penelope Keith now is a good time to read the best piece I’ve ever read on The Good Life. It’s by @jonnelledge.bsky.social and available on the @thequietus.com thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

'From a window at night.' (1896) Towards the end of her life, Maria Yakunchikova wrote that her work from the late 1890s attempted to convey the fleeting preoccupations of other lives - 'the flashes of another world, the perception of which is blended into the landscape.'

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A Devil's Arrow #standingstonesunday

45 years after my father, who would have been 100, proposed we visit Arbor Low, I finally made the trip, on my own. Photos don’t do justice to this stunning recumbent (and to my mind intentionally recumbent, no post holes) stone circle, one of the UK’s best. A magical place. #StandingStoneSunday

Another sky I liked, to a soundtrack of Gwenno, again. Friday night ritual this summer.

No one understands the English Midlands. It's not secretly really the north. It's not secretly actually the south. Mapping either onto it is a disaster. It's its own thing. You need to be born there and then move away to even start grasping this.

Thornborough Archaeology Group are holding two events as part of this year's @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Festival of Archaeology: Sat 18th July - talk, artefact handling and tour of the henges: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-o...

Brits, Our Friends In The North, one of the finest drama series of the past 35 years, is starting a run of repeats on BBC Four this evening from 10.20pm. (I feel old; I watched this when it was new.) www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Now it is finally cooling down, back in the (night) garden. These sweet peas smell beautiful, unlike me who does stink most profusely.

It is 2030. Co-op Funeral Care's in-house AI will automatically DM an AI-generated image of Paddington leading you to heaven to all your mutuals at the exact moment of your death. There is no way to turn this off.

Hydration Break

Hydration Break

Hah.Yes!! Hard need:

Landscape, Burghclere https://www.wikiart.org/en/stanley-spencer/landscape-burghclere-1933

I will always reject your cookies. I will reject them all.

Is it weird that I am craving Fish and chips?

Got a jolt when this photo I’d saved came up on my phone memories - Jim Broadbent and his absolutely insane nightmare fuel collection of handmade dolls

‘Andy Burnham has turned that anger and helplessness, so liable to become a poisonous and reactionary nostalgia, in another direction. His campaign has made unabashed use of the word “hope”.’ Tom Crewe on the rebirth of municipal England, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

"The length of the (summer) days is greater than in our world; the nights are light and in the points of Britain furthest north short, so that you can hardly distinguish dusk from daybreak." Tacitus 'Agricola' 12 #Solstice #SummerSolstice #RomanBritain

𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵, 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 Saturday 18th July 2026 (Pls re-post) Come and find out more about Thornborough’s remarkable Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape on Saturday 18th July 2026. West Tanfield, North Yorkshire, HG4 5JU. www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../festival....

The Cove, Avebury, May 2026 #StandingStoneSunday

Night in the garden with a soundtrack of Weyes Blood, Bjork, Dusty Springfield, Annahstasia and The Blue Nile. ❤️

One of those evenings so warm and endless that it feels like science fiction.

Another sky I liked.

This is an interesting thread. There is a huge amount wrapped up in actions to help place shaping and bind diverse communities back together after nearly 50 years of decline. And there is a huge argument for more local government funding that will enable these to happen.

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

The original Antifa.

Happy weekend wanderings to all those who celebrate. May we all have light at the end of our tunnels. 📷 the interior of Bryn Celli Ddu in May.