A painting of a tarot card featuring a sun with face and the words 'le soleil' written below.
To celebrate the arrival of spring, I have put some new works in my Etsy shop, including this Tarot-inspired painting in watercolour and gold ink entitled 'Le Soleil'. Check it out here: www.etsy.com/shop/MySearc...
#Tarot #Magic #Sun #Folklore
Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work
View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
We are looking at a large roman roof tile with a central stamp. It is an orangey brown in colour.
Would you like to see the oldest item in our museum collection?
This might surprise you...
Yes it's a Roman tile!
It is stamped, 'Leg VI vi', stamp of Legio VI Victrix. We think it's quite a fancy one and is likely to be from York in the 2nd Century.
Memsie Cairn - the sole survivor of three Bronze Age round cairns at Memsie, near Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Aberdeenshire
The ruins of a castle with a lake in front and trees behind. The castle consists of two tall towers, one in ruins, the other with a roof.
The picturesque Château de Largoët (aka the Towers of Elven) is a medieval fortress in Brittany built between the 13th and 15th centuries. Its 45-m tall octagonal keep is one of the highest in France. #MedievalMonday
Five shells. Big and small. Bright and dark. Smooth and rough. Simple and not. Painted in 1696 by Adriaen Coorte, whose day is today.
Soutra Aisle in the Scottish Borders - all that remains of the medieval hospital and Augustinian friary of the House of the Holy Trinity. Probably founded in the 12th century, it was one of the most important medieval hospitals in Scotland. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #Soutra
The ruins of a castle with a lake in front and trees behind. The castle consists of two tall towers, one in ruins, the other with a roof.
The picturesque Château de Largoët (aka the Towers of Elven) is a medieval fortress in Brittany built between the 13th and 15th centuries. Its 45-m tall octagonal keep is one of the highest in France. #MedievalMonday
Merci!
A standing stone carved with a stylised face. The ground around it is covered in fallen leaves and there are trees behind.
I am off to Brittany on Tuesday, and I hope to visit one of my favourite ancient (or probably ancient) monuments. Known as 'Babouin' (the Baboon), this enigmatic carved stone of indeterminate age can be found in the woods near Trédion. #StandingStoneSunday
A large quartz streaked menhir dominates the foreground, it is wide and roughly tapered on the top. On the mowed grass in the background a shorter, similarly quartz’s, but shorter and more tapered stone stands. Behind this a tree lined horizon under pinkish blue skies.
Two quartz freckled giants from the Duloe stone circle #Cornwall taken near sunset last year in summer. Will be back to see how they look under a full moon. #StandingStoneSunday
A very ancient monolithic stands in bright sunlight in a field. The surface is pitted with crevices and holes, some of them pass right through the stone.
A close-up of a pinecone and a beech leaf, left in one of the crevices of the Longstone, to honour the ancient monolith
#StandingstoneSunday
The Longstone of Minchinhampton is one of the nicest monoliths you could hope to meet. It also attracts many deposits and offerings from visitors. All of them very tasteful and respectful.
Thank you :)
It is very cool!
A standing stone carved with a stylised face. The ground around it is covered in fallen leaves and there are trees behind.
I am off to Brittany on Tuesday, and I hope to visit one of my favourite ancient (or probably ancient) monuments. Known as 'Babouin' (the Baboon), this enigmatic carved stone of indeterminate age can be found in the woods near Trédion. #StandingStoneSunday
A tall fragment of an octagonal shaped building, with grass in front and a tree to the left.
Known as the 'Temple of Mars' (although there is no evidence it was dedicated to that god), this Roman sanctuary at Corseul in Brittany was constructed in the first century and in use for two hundred years. Parts of its sacred cella still stand 10 metres tall. #RomanSiteSaturday
Wow, I have not seen that one - it looks amazing!
A tall fragment of an octagonal shaped building, with grass in front and a tree to the left.
Known as the 'Temple of Mars' (although there is no evidence it was dedicated to that god), this Roman sanctuary at Corseul in Brittany was constructed in the first century and in use for two hundred years. Parts of its sacred cella still stand 10 metres tall. #RomanSiteSaturday
Various fragments of glass in shades of blue, green and brown.
An array of colourful Roman glass fragments excavated at Balmuildy fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. Now on display at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social. #FindsFriday.
A stack of The Tattooed Hills on a table
A stack of The Tattooed Hills on a table in a Waterstones.
4 bottles of Cerne Abbas Brewery beer. Yum.
A copy of The Tattooed Hills on the counter of an indie bookshop.
My book (did I mention my book?) The Tattooed Hills is published today! In bookshops in many places. The tour begins next week, kicking off at The White Horse Bookshop, Marlborough, on 16th April. Tickets via my bio or here
www.whitehorsebooks.co.uk/event-ticket...
Out now in hardback,audio,ebook.
Various fragments of glass in shades of blue, green and brown.
An array of colourful Roman glass fragments excavated at Balmuildy fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. Now on display at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social. #FindsFriday.
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You'll have to buy the book to find out my favourite option!
A poster for my talk at the Boswell Book Festival on 10 May, which features a photo of me and the cover of my book The Road to Mons Graupius
I am excited to announce that I will be talking about my adventures in search of Roman Scotland at the Boswell Book Festival @bozzybookfest.bsky.social at Dumfries House on Sunday 10th May. In person or online tickets available here:
shorturl.at/qjcGm
#RomanFortThursday
A poster for the Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold exhibition
I am off to Battersea tomorrow to see this...very excited!
A Latin inscription carved on a gritstone tablet and painted with red text. The translation reads “To the holy god Serapis, Claudius Hieronymianus, legate of the Sixth Legion, Victorious, built this temple from the ground".
An inscription from a temple to Serapis in York, possibly built during the stay of the emperor Septimius Severus and family c.208-211 CE. The northern-most attested temple to an Egyptian god, the York temple may have also housed shrines to Isis, Harpocrates and Anubis. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
If you want to know more about torcs, you can find all sorts on my (free to access!) website at www.bigbookoftorcs.com
#Archaeology 🏺
These city walls of Chichester are Roman, still standing and still impressive. They were built or completed in this form at the end of the C3rd AD. Whilst they’ve been maintained since, they’re essentially the same as the year they were finished. A wonderful survival.
📷 mine
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
A poster for my talk at the Boswell Book Festival on 10 May, which features a photo of me and the cover of my book The Road to Mons Graupius
I am excited to announce that I will be talking about my adventures in search of Roman Scotland at the Boswell Book Festival @bozzybookfest.bsky.social at Dumfries House on Sunday 10th May. In person or online tickets available here:
shorturl.at/qjcGm
#RomanFortThursday
