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#FindsFriday A little gem from the British Iron Age 🥰: a divination spoon - one of a pair unearthed near Crosby Ravensworth in 1869
There are only 17 pairs of these incredibly rare magical tools from Britain, Ireland & France 🧙
📷My own, on display in the British Museum
There are only 17 pairs of these incredibly rare magical tools from Britain, Ireland & France 🧙
📷My own, on display in the British Museum
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Heatwave reveals lost archaeological sites across Wales bbc.in/3RfCN0C
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Heatwave reveals lost archaeological sites across Wales bbc.in/4gRwR8p
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#FindsFriday A little gem from the British Iron Age 🥰: a divination spoon - one of a pair unearthed near Crosby Ravensworth in 1869
There are only 17 pairs of these incredibly rare magical tools from Britain, Ireland & France 🧙
📷My own, on display in the British Museum
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This fine example of an Iron Age fluted stele stands by the west gable of the chapel of Ste-Tréphine in Ste-Tréphine (Côtes-d’Armor). It is 2.5m tall and has a flattened top. This card by Hamonic in St-Brieuc c.1903.
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Dry weather exposes archaeological secrets at National Trust monasteries independent.co.uk/news/science/a…
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Incredible Chepstow Castle today, clinging to the precipitous edge of the Wye Gorge with the original hall begun a year or two after the Battle of Hastings 😮 Always an incredible visit.
Oh..and the oldest castle door in Europe 🤯
Oh..and the oldest castle door in Europe 🤯
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FRENS. THIS IS IT. IT'S HAPPENING.
But we need your help for the #BigBrochBuild!
We are set to purchase this site to build our broch.
We have launched a CrowdFunder where YOU can help us achieve this:
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Please help us if you can - and RT too!
But we need your help for the #BigBrochBuild!
We are set to purchase this site to build our broch.
We have launched a CrowdFunder where YOU can help us achieve this:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-broc…
Please help us if you can - and RT too!
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The restorative powers of a Bank Holiday by the sea (1958)
Father in particular seems to have … blossomed
John Bull Magazine
Artist: G Critchlow
Father in particular seems to have … blossomed
John Bull Magazine
Artist: G Critchlow
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#HillfortsWednesday Making an entrance in the Irish Iron Age 😮
The impressive reconstructed gateway into the Crannóg at Craggaunowen, Co. Clare, gives a very good impression of what many small hillforts in the Iron Age west may have looked like 🤔🛖
📷 My own, 2023
The impressive reconstructed gateway into the Crannóg at Craggaunowen, Co. Clare, gives a very good impression of what many small hillforts in the Iron Age west may have looked like 🤔🛖
📷 My own, 2023
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Carl Spitweg's 1848 painting of The First Railway. Just 8 years before the discovery of the Neanderthal human, this image of human progress, subterranean worlds and mythic beings resonates. 🏺🦣
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The Lion Gate at the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece. Dated to 13th century BCE. 📷 me
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HMV started earlier than I thought
For #InternationalDogDay 🐶 this incredible mosaic floor from Alexandria with the depiction of a dog seated next to a gilded vessel. This Ptolemaic mosaic was made using the opus vermiculatum technique (small, closely set tesserae).
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum.
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Hawarden, Flintshire recorded nearly 30°C today making it the warmest August bank holiday Monday on record in Wales. Although the bank holiday in August only started in 1971. Previous highest 26.5°C at Crossway, Monmouthshire on 26/08/1991.
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#TombTuesday A bucket-list visit yesterday to the incredible atmospheric long barrow at Stoney Littleton in Somerset 😮🥰
Here one can enter the sacred underground space of the #Neolithic farmers 5,500 years ago...
🎥 Enjoy the journey!
@EnglishHeritage @somerset
Here one can enter the sacred underground space of the #Neolithic farmers 5,500 years ago...
🎥 Enjoy the journey!
@EnglishHeritage @somerset
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Beautiful day for filming the remains of an iron age hill fort with @Toby_Driver1 near Llangybi, Ceredigion. Wonderful views of the Teifi Valley.
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