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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 14h

Karasu Bridge over the Karasu River, built under Septimius Severus on the military road that led from Samosata to Doliche and Zeugma, Turkey; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 18h

Great Witcombe villa in Gloucestershire was built c. AD 250, and lived in until the 5th century. The remains include a bathhouse complex and perhaps the shrine of a water spirit. Mosaic pavemen hint that the symmetrical U-shape villa was opulent in Roman times. #RomanSiteSaturday

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 17h

This is Watling Lodge in Falkirk, the best preserved section of the Roman frontier known today as the Antonine Wall. Consisting of a huge ditch and a (now lost) turf rampart, it stretched between the Firths of Forth and Clyde, a distance of around 38 miles. #RomanSiteSaturday

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 1d

@threeravenspod.bsky.social The Fiestas del Pilar celebrated each October in Zaragoza, Aragon, in honour of the Virgen del Pilar include candlelight parades and the offering of fruits. pics: Turol Jones & Kosturika #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 1d

We're off to the fair for #FolkyFriday today! 🖤

Our theme this week is "Autumnals Fairs, Festivals, and Animals Brought to Market!"

From Samhain to Goose Fairs to Pack Fairs and beyond, it's a very folky season!

Tag related posts, art, songs and customs #FolkyFriday for shares until 6pm UK time!

a painting of people with the word frolic on the top

ALT: a painting of people with the word frolic on the top

media.tenor.com

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 2d

🕯️💛🕯️'Twilight Dreams' - by Arthur Rackham
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 1d

October folklore includes traditions surrounding the thinning of the veil between the worlds during Halloween and the Celtic festival of Samhain, the importance of the Hunter's Moon, and the symbolism of harvest. Hares are associated with the moon and liminality.
Art my own.
#FolkyFriday #Folkore

An original mixed media artwork of a hare and full moon. Created using acrylic paints on mulberry paper with copper leaf.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 1d

Goose Fairs dotted the British calendar. Nottingham’s still survives, but once they filled market greens across the country, where farmers brought flocks for sale and townsfolk feasted on roast goose and ale. #FolkyFriday

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 1d

1st century CE Roman Flower Fresco from the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta courtesy of Mary Harrsch. #FrescoFriday #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #FlowersOnFriday

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

#FrescoFriday. The lovely, lovely Palazzo Altemps.
(And why did I make all this way if I weren't to capture selfies everywhere🤪).

Ceiling frescoes painted as three adjacent concentric scaffoldings onto which grapevines climb, there are birds and cherubs around

Same ceiling, different segment, with flowerpots

Wall lunettes adjacent to the ceiling, with a horse and angels

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Brittunculus @brittunculus.bsky.social · 2d

#FrescoFriday
Reconstructed ceiling painting found under Trier Cathedral, Germany. One of 15 figured panels, it may depict a personification of Wealth or a lady of the imperial family. When seen in person, the skill & patience of the restorers is staggering!
Early C.4, now in the Museum am Dom.
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The female figure is shown taking a string of pearls from a jewellery box, with her pinkie raised, as if showing it to the viewer. She wears a small golden crown, a laurel wreath, a chunky bejewelled necklace and a halo (nimbus) appears behind her head. The blue background was painted with expensive 'Egyptian blue' pigment, and the image is framed by bold red and green borders. It is made up of 100s of fragments of plaster.
(c) R. Scheider from the Museum am Dom website.
[Photography is forbidden in the museum.]

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 1d

#FrescoFriday - Currently on a bit of an ancient instrument kick, so here's Polyphemus seated on a rock as a dolphin-borne Cupid delivers a letter from Galatea, the object of our cithara-sporting Cyclops' affections. #Archaeology #Art 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8984)

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#FrescoFriday

Two frescos from a wealthy town house in Herculaneum, portraying images of fruit.

📸 My own.

#Archaeology #History #Art
#AncientBlueSky🏺

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 2d

For #RomanFortThursday the Praetorium or commanding officer's residence at Gonio Fortress, Apsarus, Adjara, Georgia; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 2d

Perhaps not quite #RomanFortThursday, but a fitting #ThrowbackThursday to great research from 2023!

Michael Fradley @mfradley.bsky.social · 2d

Not quite a #RomanFortThursday. Ground photographs from a recent survey of three temporary Roman army camps ESE of Bayir #Jordan @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social See the original report paper: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @antiquity.ac.uk

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d

The remains of a courtyard house at Piercebridge Roman Fort in County Durham. The fort lies at a strategic point where Dere Street crossed the River Tees. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Piercebridge

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Carrawburgh Mithraeum, Hadrian’s Wall; the shyest member of the contu-baaa-nium
#RomanFortThursday

A sheep pokes its head out around a Roman altar in the ruins of a Roman temple.

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 3d

For this week's #HillfortsWednesday the Northern Extension to British Camp in the Malverns courtesy of Bob Embleton #HillfortsWednesday #Archaeology #IronAge

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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · 3d

Kororipo pā, commanding #Kerikeri basin. It is effectively a promontory fort, w. the inlet on three sides. From here Ngāpuhi Rangitira (chief) Hongi Hika mounted many successful campaigns, armed with muskets gained through trading w. Europeans. #Aotearoa #NewZealand #HillfortsWednesday
📷 my own.

Replica stockade and tower, at the neck entrance to the Pā.

The view across the basin, with the Stone Store - New Zealand's oldest surviving stone building - plainly visible. It was part of the second Church Missionary Society station in the country.

The main bank and ditch defences, with the interior and further defences beyond.

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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 3d

I like that #HillfortsWednesday is a thing.

Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 3d

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

📷 (Historic England Photo Library

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 3d

#HillfortsWednesday
A bank and ditch at Blackbury Camp, a defensive structure built in the 4th century BC. Tree covered and in a quiet part of Devon. Well worth a visit.

Several oak trees grow from a steep bank and ditch.

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Tony Hurley @tonyhurley.bsky.social · 3d

Looking east along the southern ramparts of Poundbury Camp Iron Age hillfort in Dorset. With a Bronze Age burial mound in the middle. #hillfortswednesday

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 3d

Hakoinen Castle dates to the medieval period in the 13th/14th century. It is on a very steep-sided rock by Lake Kernaala in the manner of the hill fort tradition. The top of the rock is 63 metres above the lake water level. Photo: Teemu Mönkkönen (CC BY 4.0). #HillfortsWednesday

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 3d

#HillfortsWednesday

Monkodonja/Moncodogno is a hill fort occupied about 1800–1200 BC during the Bronze Age,located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria.

#Archaeology #History #Croatia

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 3d

“I bet the wind will hold me up.”
No.
It won’t.

Idiot about to fall off a hillfort; Mam Tor c.1994.
#HillfortsWednesday

A foolhardy young man on the edge of a steep drop holding his bellowing white shirt open to catch the wind, and leaning dangerously far into it.

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