Goodnight. #Gothtober

Things that jump into my mind instead of thinking about the things I’m meant to be thinking about: If someone 👀 was crazy enough🙄 to build an exact replica of Hadrian’s Wall in Playmobil scale, it would be over 3 MILES LONG!!!😏 #PlaymobilInfestation #GoingToNeedABiggerGarden

#inktober2025 1) mustache (sic) I’m not feeling the sketching mojo this year so will just dip in/out. This is the rather splendid Celtic head on the Marlborough bucket in Devizes. Our dig team is returning to Anglesey - will the site yield something similar??? #ironage #celts #inktober #archaeology

For this #MosaicMonday, a pleasing plethora of peltae in the House of Achilles at Kourion. #AncientBlueSky 🏺

An early/late entry for #MosaicMonday. This is spectacular.

Ghost bus

Maiden Castle. Once seen never forgotten

At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times! Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

When the lads are arguing over whose fault it was the stag eluded the hunt and you have an actual arrow sprouting from your chest.

#Viking-Age tafl board game pieces from Birka grave Bj 523. Made from glass, the 'king' piece is the most prominent, and features prominent black eyes on its head. My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet

#RomanFortThursday with Brecon-y-Gaer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 the lengthy shadows in the morning not doing us any favours, but a good chance to get a look at the gates & the overall square shape

Pal of the Stanes, Archie Henderson, talks about the early medieval sculpture of Refrewshire within the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons in this fascinating video! youtu.be/MBIRrJhba7M?...

Like walking into a fairy tale. Taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor.

This is my drawing of a spooky sculpture of Ankou, the Breton personification of death, from the church of Lannédern in Brittany. His name possibly derives from the Celtic 'nek', meaning 'to perish'. The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI #FolkloreThursday

Few London #ArtDeco cinemas survive as remarkably as former 1930-31 Tooting Granada: UK's only Grade I listed cinema. Eye-popping sort of medieval style features vast grandiose exit portals for #AdoorableThursday, w murals of damsels + minstrels, arcades, stained glass. ALT for more details.

#Romanfortthursday 👇👇

The Hall has been filled with the sound of people for seven centuries but it is still possible to find a quiet corner. This one is also sunlit for added atmosphere. ☺️

#adoorablethursday 🚪 Entrance door to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 🚗 We're going back on the road! Looking forward to filming again for our upcoming Travel & Art series! 🧳 🎨 🪜 We'll share details soon on Ideas Roadshow's substack here: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #photography #art

Afternoon sunlight on the reconstructed #Roman villa at the incredible @butserancientfarm.co.uk 🏛️ It's particularly potent that one can compare roundhouse living from the Iron age with the formal decor & rooms of a villa - side by side. What a strange culture shock for the Romano-British! 😮 📷 TD

Richborough Roman Fort located on the East Kent Marshes. It was the key connection between the northernmost Roman province and the rest of the Roman Empire. The site of Emperor Claudius's successful Roman invasion AD 43 was settled until around 410. #RomanFortThursday

The early 14th century west doorway of the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe in Bristol. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StMaryRedcliffe #Bristol

Gorgeous photo! They’re like two different worlds in so many ways! We feel it even more when we light our hypocaust and you leave a smoky roundhouse and arrive in a room with a warm mosaic floor and invisible heat! #hypocaust

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a #Roman bracelet made of turquoise and dark blue glass beads. They are imitating beads made of the lapis lazuli and turquoise, semi-precious stones mined in Afghanistan and Egypt. Found in a burial in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland, 4th c. AD 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Ah…#RIP Jane Goodall news.sky.com/story/primat...

A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire

Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...

An Australian King Parrot feeding low. I moved here over 20 years ago and to see such exotic birds hanging out in the local park is still as captivating as the first time. #birds #wildoz #brisbane

Late afternoon sunlight shimmering on the waters of Shoal Bay at Port Stephens on the mid north coast of #NewSouthWales #Australia #nature #wildoz #traveloz #travel #stormhour

A blog about my family and goldsmithing... it's certainly in the blood! 🤣 bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/02/w... #GoldsmithsCompany #Gold

And I swear I have never noticed these pitchers in my 20-something times visits to the museum before🫣

Top of the Pops (2nd October 1980). Madness are at number four in the hit parade with 'Baggy Trousers'.

Sometimes the box is better than its contents. (Nicked from another platform)

Just came out of two hours of teaching early humans and primates to hear that Jane Goodall has sadly died. The legacy and impact of this human is beyond measure. She brought us closer to each other, closer to primates and face to face with our evolutionary inheritance.

RIP Jane Goodall. Tu as été une brillante scientifique, qui a pu montrer que les sciences c'était aussi pour les femmes!

#ClassicsTober25 Day 1 - Hypnos 🏺 "Yet in the cavern’s core an ebony couch resides, raised on high, Deep-feathered, black-bedecked, draped in cloudy counterpane: Sleep – the god himself – lies there, limbs loose in languor." - Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.610-612 Image: British Museum: 1868,0606.9.

Jane Goodall was a visionary who transformed our understanding of animals and inspired generations to care for our planet. Her legacy of compassion, courage, and hope will endure. Sit tibi terra levis

One of my childhood hero's 🥲

#Paris #Reflections - Bassin de la Villette & Canal de l’Ourcq • MK2 Quai de Seine • Holiday Inn Express - Paris Canal de la Villette • Canal de l’Ourcq • Pont Levant, rue de Crimée

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 464 Kalendis Octobris mures nuces iuglandes colligunt (On October 1st, the mice are gathering walnuts). Silvius plostellum implet, et Minimus putamina prasinea ā nucibus detrahit (Silvius fills his little cart, and Minimus takes the green husks from the nuts).

Morning autum

L'hygiène dans le Paris du Moyen Âge. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Words to remember from a great person

The River Thames at Days Lock, with Wittenham Clumps behind . www.HedleyThorne.com

RIP Jane Goodall, thank you for all you helped us see and understand, and for your big heart. You will be missed. ❤️

Thank you! ♥️ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

On the south aisle wall at St Mary de Castro Church are four pieces of carving, which might be 16th century Flemish or from Germany. I wonder how they came to be here? #woodcarvingwednesday #woodcarving

The view from the Pfänder, a mountain located near Bregenz, offers a beautiful sight of Lake Constance. ♥️ Am I not incredibly lucky to live one of the most stunning lakes in Europe? 😊

Titanic : le navire qui cache la flotte d’épaves en danger. theconversation.com/titanic-le-n...

I’ve started doing some work with the incredible Ronald Morris archive with a small team of @uofglasgow.bsky.social archaeology students. I’ll share some gems in the coming months. Here’s Ronald himself! 📸 HES

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