Who knew? Farty gas light by the Savoy. We do have a stink pipe round the corner here in Balham though.

#StainedGlassSunday This window is one of 3 memorials in St Aidan's Bamburgh to heroine Grace Darling, pictured w her pink oar. At 22, the lighthouse keeper's daughter rowed out w her father to rescue survivors of SS Forfarshire, shipwrecked in fierce storms off the Farne Islands in 1838.

#SteepleSaturday From Papal Palace of Avignon, the steeple of Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon. Built 12th C, tower collapsed and reconstructed in 15th. Gilded Virgin Mary added on top in 19th. @drrjwarren.bsky.social posted her lovely painting on other side, but I can't find it! Pls repost.

#AllMetalMonday 🏺 Quack! A bronze duck w flat body decorated in relief, long neck, open beak and sturdy legs. Plus second duck w 2 little ones on its back. From C6 BC hoard found in Ortanova near Foggia in Puglia, representing material culture of indigenous Daunian people. MArTA Taranto

Nothing like the martyrdom of Becket to brighten up a Friday. From Canterbury Cathedral windows in BM's 2021 Becket exhibition

#AllMetalMonday 🏺 Quack! A bronze duck w flat body decorated in relief, long neck, open beak and sturdy legs. Plus second duck w 2 little ones on its back. From C6 BC hoard found in Ortanova near Foggia in Puglia, representing material culture of indigenous Daunian people. MArTA Taranto

The BBC news right now is about the increase in metal detecting finds, especially in Norfolk, thanks to ‘how easy’ finding treasure is. The message is, loud & clear, to buy a detector, get out & dig for surprises, cash to be made etc. Not a thing about reporting it FFS

#AdoorableThursday Doors/not doors in frescos all round the atrium of luxurious #Roman Villa A / Oplontis near Pompeii. Also called Villa Poppea as it may have belonged to Poppea, second wife of Emperor Nero or her family. 🏺 #archaeology

Ah hah. Prittlewell Prince Saxon burial (early med c.580) had these whalebone gaming pieces, found in close group so believed to have been hanging in a cloth bag. Also near a wooden gaming board, but 9 rather than your 10. Antler dice thought to indicate a game of chance. Southend Museum. 🏺

#TympanumTuesday Chapelle St Gabriel de Tarascon in Provence now fully restored and a treasure: C12 #Romanesque with superb nested portals and reliefs. Lower #Tympanum: Daniel and lions plus Adam and Eve; middle pediment: Annunciation; top gable oculus: four Evangelists.

Double dip #StMartin from Lucca as it's his feast day. Cattedrale di San Martino's 13th C original is inside now, and a replica still represents the dedication on the facade, between two large arches of the portico.

Hmmm. I seem to have missed news of the archaeological discovery of a body under the new deep fat fryer at Lambeth Palace.... Awaiting carbon dating to assign period. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/11/i...

Time for a LAF CBA London's autumn London Archaeological Forum, coming up 6pm, 18th Nov, Inst of Arch, free! Super range of speakers + topics *Jess Bryan MOLA: 50 Fenchurch St *Ellen Green AOC: osteoarch of City burials *Ian Hogg ASE: lost med manor info/book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autumn-lon... 🏺

Double dip #StMartin from Lucca as it's his feast day. Cattedrale di San Martino's 13th C original is inside now, and a replica still represents the dedication on the facade, between two large arches of the portico.

#TympanumTuesday Chapelle St Gabriel de Tarascon in Provence now fully restored and a treasure: C12 #Romanesque with superb nested portals and reliefs. Lower #Tympanum: Daniel and lions plus Adam and Eve; middle pediment: Annunciation; top gable oculus: four Evangelists.

#MosaicMonday 🏺 A fit, colourful triton with a dolphin bearing a trident and two fish - from large c. 200 AD #Roman mosaic pavement in the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, probably adorning floor of an auxiliary landing. Site was discovered/excavated 1872 by John Turtle Wood working on behalf of BM.

Bizarrely, this H1-B visa is how Melania T got into the US. Only .2% of these now £100,000 visas are for arts/entertainment, but impact is far greater than for tech, which accounts for 73%. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/10/h...

#MosaicMonday 🏺 A fit, colourful triton with a dolphin bearing a trident and two fish - from large c. 200 AD #Roman mosaic pavement in the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, probably adorning floor of an auxiliary landing. Site was discovered/excavated 1872 by John Turtle Wood working on behalf of BM.

#SaxonSunday London Museum has some fantastic bone/antler combs, but you'll have to wait to see whether they'll feature in the new museum in Smithfield Market opening next year. Hope so - remember handling one for finds recording and it seemed so evocatively personal. 🏺

#SaxonSunday London Museum has some fantastic bone/antler combs, but you'll have to wait to see whether they'll feature in the new museum in Smithfield Market opening next year. Hope so - remember handling one for finds recording and it seemed so evocatively personal. 🏺

Julia Child has been my rock for so many decades even the bookmarks are historic. Never, ever fails to please - both me and those who get to eat the results. Cheers 🍷

Almost as bit as their egos.....

Tarragona, Spain. #Roman Tarraco, established by early 2nd C BC, had a good variety of entertainment venues, eg *325m long circus for chariot racing w cement vaults to support stands above + for circulation; *amphitheatre nr beach + Via Augusta, handy for bringing animals in. 🏺

It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse! A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely #weekend! 📷 me 🏺

#FindsFriday 🏺 Huge askos from 300BC tomb of a high ranking man in ancient Forentum (now Lavello). Decorated w figures + polychrome, for purification rites: on body is woman's head between 2 prancing horses; topped w 3 women, central one w blue wings holds a dove and the reins. Nat Arch Museum Melfi

#FindsFriday 🏺 Huge askos from 300BC tomb of a high ranking man in ancient Forentum (now Lavello). Decorated w figures + polychrome, for purification rites: on body is woman's head between 2 prancing horses; topped w 3 women, central one w blue wings holds a dove and the reins. Nat Arch Museum Melfi

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

#AdoorableThursday A remnant of industrial heritage of Southwark's Borough area: beside railway, hoist still in place to shift goods through 1st floor doors. Shiny windows reveal evolution of HQ of WH Willcox & Co, engineering supplier est 1876, to a Portuguese restaurant in popular market area.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #churches

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"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." The Sky Data and Forensics team with important research demonstrating how Elon Musk uses X-Twitter to promote the Far Right in Britain.

#AdoorableThursday A remnant of industrial heritage of Southwark's Borough area: beside railway, hoist still in place to shift goods through 1st floor doors. Shiny windows reveal evolution of HQ of WH Willcox & Co, engineering supplier est 1876, to a Portuguese restaurant in popular market area.

#climateheritage 🏺

One from the actual Shire. A demonic elon musk about to be burned in effigy. #Lewes #Bonfire #Sussex 🔥

#WindowsOnWednesday 12th C Brinkburn Priory in Northumberland Post-dissolution of monasteries, part of south cloister + monks' undercroft converted to manor house for new owner Cuthbert Carnaby c.1538. In 19th C Cadogans transformed decaying house in a Georgian/Tudor Gothic style + restored church.

Birthday Fireworks: ink and watercolour on vintage paper

#WindowsOnWednesday 12th C Brinkburn Priory in Northumberland Post-dissolution of monasteries, part of south cloister + monks' undercroft converted to manor house for new owner Cuthbert Carnaby c.1538. In 19th C Cadogans transformed decaying house in a Georgian/Tudor Gothic style + restored church.

#TombTuesday Victorian Gothic in overdrive at Kensal Green Cemetery, N London: tomb of Charles Spencer Ricketts (d.1867), naval officer ret'd at 26 on marrying well. Pevsner called it "atrociously rich", unaware designer Wm Burgess. 15 pedestals, 8 gabled canopy, each w crockets + 8 gargoyle spouts