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Chart showing number of butterfly counts in 2026.

Chart showing number of butterfly counts in 2026.

First sightings of green-veined white and red admiral today at Flatford; numerous female orange tips; this year's count just went over the 200 mark @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Denver Art Museum Returns Roman Portrait to Türkiye Source: Denver Art Museum A fifth century CE Roman portrait excavated in the agora at Izmir in the early 1930s has been returned to Türkiye ...

Late Roman portrait excavated in the agora at Izmir in the early 1930s has been returned to Türkiye from the Denver Art Museum @denverartmuseum.bsky.social
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First 100 observations this year: Peacock (65), sm white (21), brimstone, orange tip, sm tortoiseshell, comma, sp wood @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Memorial stone dedicated to Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith A memorial stone to Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith was dedicated at Choral Evensong on Sunday 22 March.

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The life and legacy of Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith was celebrated at Choral Evensong on Sunday 22 March.

Bishop Timothy served as Archdeacon of Norwich from 1973 to 1981, and as Bishop of Thetford until 1991, and during his lifetime he wrote more than 450 hymns.

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Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord!
A great joy to preach at Evensong at @norwichcathedral.bsky.social with Pam Rhodes reading a lesson, and then to dedicate a stunning plaque in memory of Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith (Bishop of Thetford).
Lord of our lives, to live for Christ alone.

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Memorial stone for Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith to be dedicated at Evensong A memorial stone for Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith is to be dedicated at Norwich Cathedral on Sunday 22 March.

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All are welcome to join us for Evensong at 3.30pm on Sunday 22 March, when we will dedicate a memorial stone for Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith, Archdeacon of Norwich from 1973 to 1981.

This service will also be live streamed on our YouTube channel.

Read more at cathedral.org.uk/news/bishop-...

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Artwashing the Cyclades: The Leonard N. Stern Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

For attributions and the Stern collection:
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Take the so-called Berlin painter. Only 17% of the corpus comes from relatively secure archaeological contexts. It is worth reflecting on the scale of lost knowledge.

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Archaeological contexts help us to interpret and date the objects. 'Ungrounded' pots (to use @lizmarlowe.bsky.social phrase) have lost part of the information that they could have conveyed.

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Is it appropriate for figures carved in the southern Aegean in the third millennium BCE? Some of the Cycladic 'sculptors' are insecure as they do not contain any figures from a secure archaeological context.

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It would have been helpful if the curatorial team had taken the issue of authenticity more seriously. If the figures are modern there is no contribution to our knowledge of the past.

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Renfrew's classification is rooted in the archaeological record of the Cyclades unlike the attributions to anonymous "sculptors"

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Drawing attention to "provenance" at the Met Courtesy of Christos Tsirogiannis One of largest group of repatriated material from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was dervied from P...

Association with Becchina overlooked at the Cycladic conference @metmuseum.org discussing the Stern collection of Cycladicising material #provenance
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11 species in the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch
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Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam County Park.

Roman villa identified at Margam @swanseauni.bsky.social #archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wildlife increasingly wandering into cities | eKathimerini.com Police trying to capture a wild boar near a school in Evosmos, Thessaloniki, recently drew online attention and renewed debate over the growing presence of wildlife in Greek cities.

#wildlife #Athens #urban #fox
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Polar Corona|Paperback Polar Corona by Caroline Gill is a prize-winning crown of seven interlinked sonnets about Antarctic exploration and penguins. While some of Caroline's sonnet patterns differ from those in John Donne's...

For the US:
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sima Décor : cavalier (barbe, tunique, à manche, chlamyde, ?, anaxyrides, bottine, chevauchant, cheval, galopant, suivant) ; griffon (de profil, aigrette, marchant) Etat de l'oeuvre : incomplet : il manqu...

This has implications for other collections:
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Well, well, well. While I've been off trying to fight the advance of authoritarianism, there's been a development in this complex story.
VMFA nobly "does the right thing," US authorities celebrate the step, but no one realizes that these aren't what they seem...
cc @davidwjgill.bsky.social

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Huge thanks to @hedgehogpress.co.uk for sending advance copies of my POLAR CORONA, my #poetry pamphlet. The 🐧 popped out of the package about an hour ago.
www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/2025/12/06/p...

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PRE-ORDERS OPEN: “Polar Corona” – Caroline Gill I am so verily chuffed to say that Pre-orders are NOW OPEN, which means that Caroline Gill's gorgeous wee collection, Polar Corona can be Signed and yours in time for Christmas if you get in touch with Caroline today 🙂 Here is all that you need to know.. Order Signed Copies Direct From Caroline Gill by contacting her via her website 

PRE-ORDERS OPEN: “Polar Corona” – Caroline Gill

I am so verily chuffed to say that Pre-orders are NOW OPEN, which means that Caroline Gill's gorgeous wee collection, Polar Corona can be Signed and yours in time for Christmas if you get in touch with Caroline today 🙂 Here is all that you need to…

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An Analysis of the Stern Collection of Cycladicising Art The loan exhibition of the Leonard N. Stern collection of Cycladicising art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has been drawing much a...

More thoughts on the Stern Collection of Cycladicising Art on loan to @metmuseum.org #Cycladic
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Hecht fragment returns to Italy Source: MMA In January 2024 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art deaccessioned the foot of an Attic black-figured band cup related to the L...

Why has an Attic bf cup fragment been returned to Italy when it was known in 1957? Is Italy changing its approach to cultural property? #Hecht lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/hech...

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‘Tom Bones’ unveiled as the winning name for National Museum Cardiff’s Mammoth It’s not unusual to visit a museum and find yourself standing in the middle of the main hall wanti...

What name would you have suggested? #mammoth museum.wales/news/1423/To...

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Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans Two men have been charged with burglary, but

Bronze Age objects stolen from St Fagans #Cymru #culturalproperty
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Man wins 'substantial damages' over portrayal in Steve Coogan Richard III film Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.

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A crown of sonnets

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A crown of sonnets from @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social to be published by @hedgehogpress.co.uk

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