A white painted cottage in twilight
The delightful C18th Grade II listed cottage on Skokholm at twilight last night.
This was where Ronald Lockley set up the first bird observatory in the 1920s. It has since been immaculately restored by volunteers 👌
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An evening view of a lighthouse across rocky cliffs
Good evening from beautiful Skokholm island 🥰. Lots of archaeological potential here which we are just beginning to uncover 👌
I will post regular updates 😊
Will do 😊
Nope. Just the sea 🌊
Heading off to survey the archaeology of beautiful Skokholm Island this morning 🌊☀️ for @rcahmwales.bsky.social
Stone circle
Good morning from the Merry Maidens
Central panel from a Roman mosaic featuring two naked male characters, one seated playing a lyre, the dancing with pan pipes
Here's one of our favourite #Dorset #Roman floors for #MosaicMonday
The lively depiction of a music battle between Apollo (with lyre) and Marsyas (pipes)
[Spoiler alert: things end badly for Marsyas]
Found 1834 and moved to Sherborne Castle
Painting by David Neal for @antiquaries.bsky.social
Thanks 😊
Incredible!
A mountain bike next to an upland ford and footbridge
Making the most of the incredible spring weather on the mountain biking trails this morning ☀️👌
📷 Syfydrin, Ceredigion
A view of some of the standing stones which form part of one of the three Hurlers stone circles. Set on moorland, the photo is taken facing west as the sun is setting creating a golden coloured sky.
The Hurlers northern circle for #StandingStoneSunday taken last weekend while on an early evening walk at the end of a day spent up on the moors and alternately battered by hail, and bathed in sunshine. #BodminMoor
Aikey Brae Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire. Located on Parkhouse Hill near Old Deer, the recumbent stone circle was constructed in the early Bronze Age. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Aberdeenshire
The #Melsonby Hoards - nearly 950 Iron Age objects buried c. 40 BC–AD 40 - reveal Britain’s first evidence for four‑wheeled wagons, as well as other types of vehicle. 🚗👀 Read the #blog and #openaccess article!
🔗 https://cup.org/4bf3b1F
#melsonbyhoards #ironage #archaeology @antiquity.ac.uk
Two tall standing stones in level pasture with a blue sky behind
#StandingStoneSunday the magical Neolithic or Early Bronze Age stone pair at Penrhos feilw, nr Trearddur, Ynys Môn/Anglesey 🥰
Remarkable that they have survived so long 😮
📷 My own 2025
The forest floor is flooded with spring colour, a massive of bluebells with oak standards. I love the spring time on the edge of the Weald. Here just north of Steyning.
#Spring
#Bluebells
#Forest
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Offerings placed in the late Neolithic Bryn Celli Ddu burial chamber on Anglesey
My new book 'The Matter of Architecture' will be launched at the AA Bookshop on 3 June. Do come if you're able - free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isrf-book-...
Great pub - The Ship - in Dunwich 🍻
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I need to visit....
A small black dog looks towards the ruined east tower at Helmsley
A small black dog looks towards the ruined church at Riveaulx from the steps to the abbot’s lodgings
A small black dog looks away from the ruined abbey church at Riveaulx
A small black dog contemplates the setting at Byland Abbey
Tizzy inspecting abbeys and castles in Yorkshire #TerrierTuesday
Go Tizzy! A very well travelled hound
Hey dog 👋👋
Looking down an ancient paved road with people, Roman ruins and mountains in the distance
Looking down the Via di Mercurio from the Roman city wall of #Pompeii towards the forum, early one Saturday morning
📷 Sept 2023
#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #Archeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
A surviving stretch of Hadrian’s Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall in Northumberland - the first major stretch of the Roman wall west of Newcastle. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Heddon #HadriansWall #Northumberland
Great stuff! Have a good trip
A great flint archway at sunset with a blue sky behind
Glorious C13th decorative flintwork capping a dressed stone archway at Dunwich Greyfriars monastery, Suffolk, established by Franciscan monks
Much of the original port city has now been lost to coastal erosion
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📷 My own, last week
The Hammer Fighters would never have stood for that...🫣