The ‘Lichfield Angel’ which was discovered during excavations at Lichfield Cathedral in 2003. Dating to around 800 AD, the sculpture probably formed the corner of a shrine chest, possibly that of St Chad (d.672). 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LichfieldAngel #LichfieldCathedral

Restored painted walls from Lullingstone Roman Villa in Kent. Dating from the 4th century AD, the figures have been interpreted as priests at prayer. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Lullingstone #RomanBritain

The early 13th century font of St. Mary’s Church at Moulton in Norfolk. 📸 #FontsOnFriday #Moulton #Norfolk

#HillfortsFriday 🧐🤔 The enormous & majestic Treryn Dinas coastal promontory fort, West Penwith, Cornwall 🤩, seen with a dawn sun rising through cloud. Home of the magical Logan Rock, perched high on a wall of granite at the heart of the liminal outcrop 📷 Yesterday

When we think about Roman forts & fortresses we imagine them full of soldiers like these in a marble relief depicting Praetorians (imperial guard, AD 51-2). Women & children were present too as evidenced by this woman’s slipper & child’s boot, #Vindolanda, c.AD 100-105. #RomanFortThursday 📸 my own

West gate of Housesteads Roman Fort. #hadrainswall #followtheacorn #RomanFortThursday

Capidava was an important Geto-Dacian center on the right bank of the #Danube. After the #Roman conquest, it became a civil and military center, as part of the province of Moesia Inferior (later Scythia Minor), modern Dobruja. #RomanFortThursday 🗡️ #Archaeology #History

This is the Roman bathhouse at Bearsden in Glasgow, the only visible remains of the fort on the Antonine Wall that once stood there. Featuring hot and cold rooms as well as plunge pools and a latrine, it also had glazed windows and painted plaster decoration. #RomanFortThursday

A powerful earthquake struck #Constantinople on 6th #November AD447, destroying 57 towers of the famous walls. The City was threatened with disease in the aftermath. This was during the reign of #Theodosius II & in a major feat of engineering the walls were rebuilt in 60 days.

St Michael's Mount nr Penzance Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC); ‘The inhabitants of Britain who live on the promontory called Belerion [Cornwall] are friendly to strangers.. they work the tin… and convey it to an island.. called Ictis… (where) the merchants buy the tin from the natives 📷 Yesterday

At Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. A haunting and evocative place. #TombTuesday

Wilfrid I, bishop of York, attested a charter of Osric, king of the Hwicce, #OTD in 675. It was a grant to Abbess Bertana of 100 hides of land at Bath, Somerset, for a nunnery. Wilfrid may have been in the south for Earcenwald, bishop of London’s consecration. 📸PMJ Crook #medievalsky

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Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/ Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me

The late Anglo-Saxon west doorway of Holy Trinity Church at Colchester in Essex. Dating to the mid-11th century, the doorway incorporates re-used Roman bricks. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #HolyTrinityChurch #Colchester

Remains of the south west corner of Lanchester Roman Fort (Longovicium) in County Durham. The fort was originally built in around AD150 by the 20th Legion, and served as part of a chain of defensive forts along Dere Street 📸 My own #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Lanchester

Researchers led by Emil Jęczmienowski of the University of Poland's Institute of Archaeology found traces of a first-century AD Roman fort near the Romanian-Serbian border and mapped it with geophysics. It was for 1,000 auxiliary forces near the Iron Gate. #RomanFortThursday

#AdoorableThursday Looking out to the sea from the ancient doorway of St Winwaloe's, the 'Church of the Storms', on western Lizard, #Cornwall 📷 Yesterday

🌅📸 I took this at sunrise this week – the Rudston Monolith in Yorkshire, England’s largest standing stone. At the heart of a 4,000-year-old ritual landscape of four cursus monuments, it’s a sacred site that influenced the siting of the medieval All Saints Church. #thread

This is where we finished up, a glorious sunset at British Camp, rounding out a long weekend with a lot of Hillforting across Wales & Shropshire with that in mind thought today could use a 🧵 of the highlights for #HillfortsWednesday 👇

Bede wrote a letter to his former pupil Ecgberht, bishop of York, #OTD in 734. He suggested reforms, condemned those who founded pseudo-monasteries for temporal benefits and voiced fears for the military strength of Northumbria should too many youths enter said institutions. #medievalsky

Today's a perfect day to post some beautiful blue glass! A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD. On display at British Museum. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

The Iron Age hillfort of Spettisbury Rings (Crawford Castle / Castle Ring) #Dorset This mighty 2ha univallate enclosure is today largely hidden behind the old railway and modern village of Spetisbury. Most people driving on the A350 are unaware of it 📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016 #HillfortsWednesday

🧵/12 Followed by a long-awaited revisit to Old Oswestry & it couldn't have been a more perfect day for it 😊 #HillfortsWednesday

Mynydd-y-Gaer: Hillfort in Denbighshire. #HillfortsWednesday There's a quite steep side, and a gentle sloping side. The defences on the western side are the best preserved, with no really obvious entrances, but the views are terrific.

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One of the houses built into the ruined west front of the former Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #BuryStEdmunds

A mid-15th century misericord from St. Mary’s Church at Beverley depicting two wild men between two wyverns (a mythical dragon-like creature). 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Beverley #StMarysChurch #Yorkshire

Assyrian relief from the South-West Palace at Nineveh in Iraq depicting the Assyrian victory over the Elamites at the Battle of Til-Tuba. Dating to around 653 BC, the relief is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Nineveh #Assyria

Sandby borg is an Iron Age ringfort. It lies c. 2 kilometers southeast of Södra Sandby village in Sandby parish in southeastern Öland. From 2011 the excavations show that it was the scene of a massacre in the late 5th century AD. Photo: Sebastian Jakobsson. #HillfortsWednesday

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’ “Be glad that you are here” Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷 📷 Corning Museum of Glass #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana 🏺 #archaeology

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Maeshowe Chambered Cairn on Orkney with its ditch and outer bank. A remarkable Neolithic monument which also contains over 33 Norse runic inscriptions, as well as various sketches and motifs. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Orkney #Archaeology

Medieval floor tiles (still in situ) at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #MelroseAbbey #ScottishBorders

Altar dedicated to the god Huitris which was set up by Aspuanis. Found at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, the stone is now part of the collections at Chesters Roman Fort Museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain

Detail from the Thruxton Bacchus Mosaic, probably representing one of the seasons. Discovered at Thruxton in Hampshire, the mosaic probably came from a villa. Dating to around 250-350 AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday

Papyrus leaf from a codex recording the miracles of Shenoute - Abbot of the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. Dating to the 6th-7th centuries AD, the leaf is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #ManuscriptMonday

The eastern end of the Norman crypt from the Church of St. John the Baptist at Berkswell in Warwickshire. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #Berkswell #Warwickshire

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A Roman mosaic from Pompeii depicts a lion that either has defeated, or is in the process of defeating, a leopard (inv. no. 114282). #MosaicMonday

🤔 Largely unnoticed by visitors to Ripon Cathedral, Henry Wilson’s 1913 repoussé pulpit gleams with Anglo-Saxon saints and burnished light. 📸 I worked hard here to capture how his craft bridges the past and present, the material and the spiritual. A real hidden gem. #thread

When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable. The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2 🏺

Part of the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Orkney #Prehistory #Archaeology

13th century ceiling boss from the monastic church at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire depicting a Griffin, with some of the original paint is still visible. The boss is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #WhitbyAbbey