A late Roman jug - part of the Hockwold Hoard which was discovered in 2001 on a temple site at Hockwold-cum-Wilton in Norfolk. Now part of the collections are Lynne Museum in Kings Lynne. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Hockwold #LynneMuseum
Roman glass bottle with two “#dolphin shaped” handles. The bottle was broken, but has been reconstructed.
👀 Bottle with two “#dolphin shaped” handles
#Hockwold Hoard #Norfolk
Late #Roman temple site
Raw glass likely to have been imported from Egypt & then worked locally - evidence of trade routes & “local” industry
Displayed Kings Lynn Museum, #KingsLynn, #Norfolk
#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBluesky
Benzoin Bracket (Ischnoderma benzoinum)?, Dung-loving Psilocybe (Deconica subcoprophilia)?, Mountain Moss Psilocybe (Deconica montana)?? & what is this green bracket? And this conical dung fungus?
#Hockwold #Norfolk #Fungi #TwitterNatureCommunity #FungiID #MushroomIDPlease
4/4
Glorious, still afternoon in the winter sun at Hockwold Heath, the Saxon Fossditch providing a fine border for the sculptural Breckland Scots Pines.
Lilac-tinted Sordid Blewit (Lepista sordida) nestled in the sward.
#Hockwold #WestNorfolk #Norfolk #Brecks #Breckland #Fungi 3/4
Thrilling to find abundant Nail Fungus (Poronia punctate) on #DartmoorPony dung at Hockwold Heath (despite daughters declining to come with us - looking at dung not their idea of a good way to spend a sunny winter afternoon).
#MyWalk #Hockwold #WestNorfolk #Brecks #Fungi 1/4
...and snails on the silty riverbed: Lymnaea auricularia, Ramshorn Snail (Planorbis spp), Bladder Snails Physa fontinalis, Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis) & strange ?egg case? (bottom left).
Not even any crayfish to be seen.
#Hockwold #Norfolk #Chalkstreams #Breckland
2/3
Winter Reeds: tawny-maned mounts of the galloping Fenland wind.
Skylarks cheering from on high. (Though the wind drowns out their song in this vid!)
Loved @MarkCocker2's recent paean to #Norfolk reeds (see 3/5: if give link deletes vid!)
#Fenland #OurWorldIsWorthSaving #Hockwold
Blackthorn and Ash flowers, willow and Alder catkins decorating the bank of the Cut-off Channel.
Surprising number of bumblebees out and about braving the wind (despite it being that irritating sort that keeps blowing hair in your eyes!).
#Norfolk #Hockwold 4/5
www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/05/...
#Fenland #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving #Hockwold 3/5
On the Cut-Off Channel, the blood red stumps of freshly brutalised Alders.
Elder leaves well on their way.
As ever, in the Fens, Roes keeping an eye...
#Hockwold #Norfolk #Fens #TheFens #Fenland 2/5
Glad, even though Redpolls aren't much in our garden this winter, no shortage of them twittering from the tree tops on the forest/heath edge, & treecreeper, marsh tit etc.
Meanwhile, the #DartmoorPonies busily carry on the task of grazing #Hockwold Heath. #Brecks #Norfolk 3/4
Specially for @_robsheldon, Lapwings displaying on #Hockwold Heath despite chill wind. (Sorry, not actually in photo!)
Near the defensive, early Saxon Fossditch, this hare took a while to remember the rules of the game: human is supposed to stalk hare, not hare human. #MyWalk 1/4
#ThatMoment when you reach the car one second before the deluge and pitch darkness fall. Having come out of Hockwold Heath and adjacent Gravelpit Wood where #DartmoorPony, #FlyAgaric & Beeches radiated out of the dusk in various autumn shades. #Hockwold #Brecks #Norfolk #MyWalk
The Dartmoor Ponies are making a good job of grazing Hockwold Heath (with help from some bunnies). Small Scabious still in bloom. #Hockwold #WestNorfolk #Norfolk #Brecks #MyWalk #thewinter10 #SmallScabious #DartmoorPonies
