Echoes of past picnics in our local park - unearthed during recent drainage works

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld
This historic, old cast-iron gatepost, shaped like a gnome, stands in the gateway of a tenement house that is currently being renovated. It most likely dates from the late 19th century.

www.bbc.co.uk/history/brit...
Disraeli and Gladstone were both politicians of extraordinary ability - but their personalities clashed and they heartily loathed each other.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOld

Old rivals - together forever (charity shop find)

Geological wonders of Big Horn Canyon.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Utah - 2023

🥾 #hiking #nature #landscapes #desert #naturephotography

Homo erectus' tools include stunning geodes and fossils, possibly as a way to connect with the cosmos, study finds Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes — possibly to serve as mediators between humans and the cosmos.

Homo erectus' tools include stunning geodes and fossils, possibly as a way to connect with the cosmos, study finds www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

An oil painting depicting the climax of Tennyson's poem. A woman with wild, swirling hair stands in a circular room, tangled in the colorful, chaotic threads of a broken tapestry. She is turning away from a large, cracked, round mirror on the wall, which reflects a knight on horseback (Sir Lancelot). The scene is full of movement and detail, featuring flying doves, a large ornate silver candlestick on the right, and a floor strewn with irises. She wears a detailed bodice and skirt, with her expression showing shock and despair as her cursed life in the tower falls apart. The painting is housed in a decorative frame featuring small circular paintings of the Virgin Mary and Hercules. (WIKI)

A cloud of hair and plenty of symbolism
The Lady of Shalott, c. 1888–1905,
William Holman Hunt, oil on canvas,
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Lovely detail to the corner of a table in Tallin, Estonia

A large moth with open wings and tints of blues in iridescent patterns

#WyrdWednesday
The Black Witch moth, is so large it can be mistaken for a bat (wingspan of >7")
In some cultures they are a good omen, but not everywhere, in Mexico they are called Mariposa de la Muerte / the Butterfly of Death

Ceiling by Stephen Dykes Bower in Hambledon church, Hampshire

#AdoorableThursday

At Nefyn, North Wales.

Bangor History Festival Held at the Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre, Bangor University’s Main Arts Building, Storiel and Bangor Cathedral, the two-day festival promises a rich programme of workshops, discussions, interacti...

www.bangor.ac.uk/events/bango...
#History #Hanes #Bangor

A loo with a very fine view!
at the wonderful Nant Gwrtheryn
nantgwrtheyrn.org
#NorthWales

#Archaeology
#NorthWales

Mouse always on the lookout for #HistoricGraffiti and other glyphs but has drawn a big blank on her scamper down the river Axe in Somerset unlike her Wiltshire scampers. But #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset has come up trumps for her #GraffitiTuesday #MouseJustStaringAtWalls

aha that looks a lot like what caught my eye at Pensychnant last week...Snap 🃏

Shared for #StandingStoneSunday

The Hurlers #BodminMoor #Cornwall

Avebury stone circle

The stones they go a-strolling in their Sunday best. Avebury from a couple of years back. #Wiltshire #StandingStoneSunday

23 May 1430: Joan of Arc captured #otd by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the siege of Compiègne (BNF)

#Caturday

Bees on an ancient seal, looking strangely like pharaohs from the torso up with angelic wings.

Bees are sacred to Apollo, and honey has been offered to the gods for three thousand years, since the days of Mycenae. The Oracle at Delphi was offered honey and said to be a Bee, bringing prophecy down from Apollo; apiaries were connected to the god as well. #FairyTaleTuesday

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY

Bangor University are looking to make more cuts & the University Archive Service, which is accessible to all, is in the firing line. It may not affect you directly, but it will have a huge impact on Welsh & Global history research. #history #heritage #University #archives #Wales #saveyourarchive

Here are some musicians playing music in the margins of a manuscript containing music.
I can hear them.
Can you?

#marginaliamonday #medievalsky

engraving of a woman sitting at a loom from a 1725 edition of In praise of folly

Back to hard work after the bank holiday!

Aerial photo with long rocky headland in foreground & an island in the blue sea beyond

The view over St David's Head & Ramsey Island, west Pembrokeshire, this afternoon during @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial survey ☀️🛩️

Glorious clear air but a bumpy north wind & freezing 🥶 with the window open for photography

📷 Mobile phone pic from 2000ft

#AerialArchaeology

A picture of me stood next to the early medieval stone high cross known as Muiredach’s Cross at Monasterboice on a bright sunny day

What a beautiful bright sunny day! It was perfect to see the detail on the magnificent Muiredach’s Cross at Monasterboice.

The cross is the finest example in the country (in my subjective opinion!). A masterpiece of 10th century Irish art.

#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm

Photo of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, featuring a horse figure pulling a large, gilded bronze disk on a wheeled frame. The disk is partially covered in gold leaf with intricate circular patterns, symbolizing the sun. The sculpture is mounted on six spoked wheels and displayed against a dark background.

The Trondheim Sun Chariot is dated to the Early Bronze Age, approximately 1400 BC. The spiral decorations on its golden sun disc indicates its Nordic origin. The Sun Chariot represents the sun's eternal journey, drawn by a divine horse. The sun and horse....🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

#GlassObjectThursday
Glorious multi-coloured glass bowl found somewhere in Vesuvian area in the 19th C.
Late 1st C BC - early 1st C AD.
Possibly favourite ever everyday #Roman object, which is saying a lot.
In MANN National Archaeological Museum Naples.

Llys Llywelyn is a recreation of a Royal Court of the Princes of Gwynedd used during the 13th century
At St Fagans National Museum of History #Wales #Cymru

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory