For #Thursdaychairs here’s not just a chair but a commode - and not just any commode but one for the use of King Edward VII when visiting Rufford Abbey. My 📷 object in care of EH

For #WindowsWednesday here’s a window frame from Hardwick Old Hall. My 📷 object in care of EH

For #TombTuesday I offer the wonderful West Kennet. My 📷 taken this last weekend

It’s lovely, but I’m thinking tortoise rather than turtle (my tortoise for comparison)

For #CeilingsonSunday here’s the interior of St Matthias church, Stoke Newington. Great acoustics too. My 📷 taken this week

For #SculptureSaturday here’s To Mary Wollstonecraft by Maggi Hambling on Newington Green, London. Can’t say that I like it, but a good thing that it’s there! My 📷

For #TilesonTuesday here are four Delft tiles from Rufford Abbey, cared for by EH. My 📷

No, it’s just my poor photo - they are wrapped with some care though!

I agree, it was very good

Thanks! Yes, I think it was from the BM

Hi Alison! Do you think it’s the same type of fish as this one? (Fitzwilliam Made in Egypt exhibition)

Bone hairpin from 2024 excavations at Wroxeter. My 📷 object in care of EH
#FindsFriday

Very like this one from Wroxeter, now in the EH stores

For #Woodensday here’s some fine pieces from Gainsborough Old Hall, in the care of EH. My 📷

I believe #TolkeinTuesday is a thing? In which case, cheers with a beer all the way from The Green Dragon, Hobbiton (NZ)

For #MosaicMonday here’s a modern mosaic representation on the site of the Folly Lane temple in Verulamium (St. Albans), a Romano British temple built respecting the earlier burial of a Celtic chieftain. Photo by my co-curator Sara
#StAlbansmuseums
#ReligioninVerulamium

A Verulamian Museum poster advertising their temporary exhibition ‘Religion in Verulamium’ with three images: a close up of the mosaic face of the Roman god Oceanus (perhaps with a nod to the antlered Celtic god Cernunnos!), bronze statue of the goddess Venus, and a close-up of a small bronze reclining figure. All against a dark blue background.

I had a super time at Verulamium Museum yesterday! I recommend it!

Thanks @tonydivey.bsky.social for showing me around the ‘Religion in Verulamium’ exhibition which you co-curated. Well done to you and Sara!

Amazing mosaics in permanent galleries too! @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social

#Archaeology

It was a pleasure - glad you could come and see it

Spotted: the Alban Pilgrimage puppets from St Albans Cathedral taking a detour through Verulamium Museum 👋
They’re here for our 'Religion in Verulamium: Tolerance and Fusion?' exhibition. Come see them on display this half term and discover how they connect to the story.

Included with admission.

For #FindsFriday here’s a knife from Roman Wroxeter. My 📷 object in care of EH

I’ve posted a tile from Haughmond Abbey before for #TilesonTuesday but here’s a selection I snapped yesterday at the EH stores

For #MuseumMonday I can’t help mentioning our exhibition again

I’m very happy with what we’ve put together here - thanks to all at the museum for allowing us to co-curate

For #FindsFriday here’s a Roman stylus, a pen for writing on wax tablets, from Wroxeter. My 📷 object in care of EH

Ah, yes, but between the flint are rows of red Roman tiles

For #SundayStonework here’s St. Michael’s church in St. Albans, built on the site of the Roman basilica, featuring in our Religion in Verulamium exhibition and associated walk. Look at those Roman tiles!

Religion in Verulamium: Tolerance and Fusion? What were the religious beliefs and practices of the Celtic peoples living in Verulamium at the time of the Roman conquest? How were they changed by the Roman occupation and a different pantheon of go...

Time to remind everone.. opening next Friday
www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/rel...

For #FindsFriday here’s a Roman razor from Wroxeter (some nice alliteration there). My 📷 object in care of EH

For #AdoorableThursday I offer St. Peters Cambridge. My 📷

For #TowerTuesday here’s the tower from St Albans Cathedral. For a bonus #TilesonTuesday there’s also plenty of reused Roman tiles