CLOUT [klout] (1) sb. A blow with the palm of the hand. 'Mind what ye'r 'bout or I will gie ye a clout on the head.' (2) A clod, or lump of earth, in a ploughed field.

A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Hillfort vs Agriculture, you can see who won... Stockland Great Castle: An Iron Age hillfort in Devon which originally had 3 rings of ditches and ramparts. Its earthworks enclose an area of 4 ha. 📷 Bladup #Hillfortswednesday More: http://www.megalithi...

There are three ways of showing a hidden detail of an object in a museum; 1: Drawings

This is seriously cool! A 1500-year old mass reindeer trapping facility found in the Norwegian ice. www.vestlandfylke.no/nyheitsarkiv...

Remembrance is an active reflection. My son, Will, sounds the last post at the side of a Commonwealth grave in St Leonards Churchyard, #Ludlow #Shropshire #LestWeForget #ArmistaceDay

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. #LestWeForget

@tomsbrown.bsky.social She falls into her bog bed. Peat-pillowed. Moss-blanketed. Cradled by its brown waters. A protection of humic acids, tannins. Heather honey on the tongue of her bitter dreams.

Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation. Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...

Everything that is good is here, brighten your Monday with a game of Place Name vs Name Name One that @gregjenner.bsky.social needs on his podcast

The beautiful Bohun swans at the feet of Margaret, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377), south transept, Exeter Cathedral. His feet rest on a lion. #MonumentsMonday #exetercathedral

The collapse in Martock churchyard gives us a chance to plug the *absolutely superb* @swheritagetrust.bsky.social Somerset Historic Environment Record which is an essential starting point for researching any physical element of Somerset's historic environment. It's one of the best there is. 🗃️

“Remember him, then, for he, too, is a winner of wars, Enduring like a tree under the curious stars.” ‘A Peasant’ - #RSThomas (The Stones of the Field, Druid Press) #Remembrance

Here is summat I have sin So where in Shropshire have I bin? Ps it’s jest fer fun so dunna go ringing up, Shroppieoomon is a bit tired and she dunna let me answer the telephone

Remembrance Day... A copper bowl (displayed in St Laurence's Church) made by a resident of St. Dunstan's - now Blind Veterans UK. Church Stretton was their main training and rehabilitation centre for blind service personal during the Second World War... #Shropshire #Remembrance #helios-44

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance

Fat toast for jam. Thin toast for marmalade. Those are the rules.

Like many bands today, Ludlow Concert Band is on Remembrance parade remembering the muscianship of those that served and those who have marked this date across the years. #ViewFromTheBackOfTheBand #Ludlow #Shropshire

In reading & seeing Andy's work I always struggle to know which is more impactful - his writing or photos. In truth, the two combined are greater than their parts, he allows you to explore the importance of place and time from the comfort of home. Join his journey & make time in yours to enjoy it

I wrote about my visit to Rudston this week — this ground is pregnant with the record of how we’ve tried to interpret our own spirituality: the ethereal, the in-between, the ghosts and the thin places. 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

'The Line of the Plough.' (1919) John Arnesby Brown's painting was the first picture he made in the spring following the end of WW1. It suggests the start of the cycle of life and new beginnings after the shattered landscapes he witnessed in France and Belgium during the war.

Eynsford, the Kingdom of Kent - Rowland Hilder The village & the artist are both special to me. For twenty years I lived 30 yards from this scene. I met my wife in a pub 20 yards away, and my eldest son was christened in the church immediately behind where he sat to paint this

One feels that the once in a generation opportunity for creating a seige castle has been somewhat overlooked in these plans .... English Heritage reveals play area plan for one of Shropshire's historic gems | Shropshire Star share.google/5Ria7rb9dg2X...

At the crossing in Canterbury Cathedral looking up into Bell Harry Tower.

Anna Ancher,  Evening sun in the artist’s studio, c.1913 Danish painter #WomensArt

November Poppies

The first episode of The Goodies was originally broadcast on this day in 1970.

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales. Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊 #Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

Spring in the Weald of Kent by the Kentish artist Rowland Hilder I love everything about it. The blossom on the trees, the long gone Elm trees, the horse and cart slowly moving through a hedgerow lined lane, the Oasts

'Hop Alleys.' In the 1950s, William Townsend began a series of paintings based on the different methods of stringing Kentish hop alleys - a pretext for complicated geometric abstraction without the need to paint abstract pictures.

THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland

Did #Torchwood teach us nothing Geothermal energy from heat pumps could heat all Cardiff homes - BBC News share.google/ChP7myIpFuA8...

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘November Farm Work’ Farm Crops in Britain - Puffin Picture Book, 1955 Artist: SR Badmin

Who says entomology is tricky

JUNE-BUG [jeu•n-bug] sb. A green beetle, smaller than the July-bug, which is generally to be found in June.

5/11/25 - nocturn

Remember, Remember, The 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and… ARSE BISCUITS! Ever had a burning (or fizzling) desire to know what Guy Fawkes said in his moment of failure? Wonder no more. #PlaymobilInfestation #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight

The Beacon, Shingle Street Suffolk. Olympus OM1n. Ilford Delta100 in DD-x. #believeinfilm #blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography

"A spokesperson said funds had to be raised by April 2026 and they needed the public's help to secure it." AKA You give us your hard earned cash & we'll give it to two people. BTW £3.5 million is c.100 curator salaries. #Archaeology #Detecting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

This is what autumn looks like on the Long Mynd in South Shropshire, going to be taking another trip up there over the weekend to try and find (and photograph) the Golden Plovers which are around currently.

I shamt name them,but this was the conclusion of one of my students about Ireland and Irish heritage. That's the future thank god.

If like @rakshadigs.bsky.social you like a flanged pot, who ya gonna call potted-history.co.uk/products/rom.... #AncientBluesky 🏺Watch Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders and you'll understand what I mean. @channel4tv.bsky.social

This charming view of a Worcestershire house is from a map of 1744. Its the earliest archival evidence for the property... but we know from dendrochronology that the building is c 300 years older. Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

In other caveat emptor news a spurious guff piece from a auctioneer press release that screams that this story has more flaws in it than a very gullible American could believe Gunpowder Plot 'leader's ring' found in Lapworth to go to auction - BBC News share.google/WE3SJiETTXCh...

❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/annelouiseav...) & write Christmas in the message & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

Chasing the money trail on legally processed treasure cases in England & Wales reveals the eye watering public expense of owning / buying heritage that belongs to the nation from the people who found it. As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions