A naive carving of a medieval woman scratched into the grey rock of a building stone.
Norwich Castle, c.13th Century graffiti of woman wearing a wimple.
Standing in front of this, you almost feel that nothing more than a blink separates you from the moment it was scored into the rock.
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Realistic carved head of a Roman woman in white limestone.
Roman woman carved in limestone, found in Fishergate, York, in 1882. Possibly from a funerary monument, c.3rd century AD.
Yorkshire Museum.
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Grinning stone head of gargoyle with bulging eyes built into a church wall.
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St Andrew’s, Trowse.
Stone head of emperor Constantine in white stone.
Head of emperor Constantine found during the digging of a drain in Stonegate, York in 1823. Adapted from an earlier statue.
Yorkshire Museum.
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Carved stone head of a Roman wind god.
An ancient breeze.
A ‘wind god’ corner piece from atop a Roman mausoleum, Castlegate, York.
Yorkshire Museum.
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Caerwent head
A few years ago I had the good fortunate to l handle this Caerwent find, usually displayed at Newport Museum, when it returned 'home' on a day trip for a S4C TV programme. Celtic? British? Romano-British?
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Celtic stone head carved in sandstone.
Hendy Head, Llanfairpwll, Anglesey. Tricky to date but plausibly Iron Age.
Did this stare down on the Menai Strait in AD60 when the Romans attacked & witness “..women in black like Furies wave torches & Druids pour forth dreadful curses..”? (Tacitus)
Oriel Môn.
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#StoneHeadSunday does the Medusa stone in the basilica cistern count? A Greek remnant spoila from the city of Byzantion before it became Constantinople? Or a later origin recycling?
Sculpture of head with broken off feline paws attached to its top, ca 11- 12000 years old from Karahan Tepe, Turkey
#StoneHeadSunday Karahan Tepe site, Turkey, ca. 11- 12000 years old
For #StoneHeadSunday a couple of foliate heads, St Mary and All Saints, Broomfield, Somerset. One in the church, one on the churchyard gates.
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With these couple from Pre-Pottery Neolithic (10th-8th mill. BCE #GöbekliTepe in SE #Türkiye - one of many such life-size sculptured heads, thought to have been broken from their stone bodies and apparently deposited at one point.
www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...
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Here is the boxer Fastigiadu from Mont'e Prama in Sardinia. 8th-9th C. BCE.
More info here: monteprama.it/en/the-giant...
Human head carved from sandstone.
#StoneHeadSunday, anyone? This the Bryn y Môr head on display at the wonderful Oriel Môn, Anglesey. Found on the farm of the same name near Valley in the 1950s. As with many heads, it is difficult to date, & suggestions range from prehistoric to medieval. Coarse sandstone 32kg.
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