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Linda
@lindalee.bsky.social
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Lover of life... 🥰
... and everything interesting!
Autistic? Naturellement! ✨️
And believe me... it's a trip! Love it!

#Archaeology #Prehistory #History #Bronzeage #Ironage #Medieval
#Accessability #Actuallyautistic
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Is it #StandingStoneSunday already?! 😮🥳

Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire

In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it.

Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8
February 8, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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#FindsFriday Slightly rarer than hen's teeth, the magical Nesscliffe Iron Age spoons on display in the brilliant Shrewsbury Museum 🥰

Thought to have been used for divination - perhaps by Druids - fewer than 30 pairs have been discovered since 1829....😮

🎥 My own, last week
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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A Roman bronze statuette of a 3 horned bull carrying portrait busts, possibily deities, on its head and tail

A curious offering recovered in Tessa Verney Wheeler's 1934 excavation of a Romano British temple on Maiden Castle hillfort

Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

📷 Sept 2025

#FindsFriday
A bronze statuette of a bull in profile, facing left, with two human figures on its tail and head
February 6, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Callanish #StandingStoneSunday
February 8, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Timeline cleanse!

A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉

The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.

On display at Antikensammlung München

📷me

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A red-figure lekythos featuring a stylized owl perched on olive branches on a glossy black body, with reserved red-orange clay for the figure and fine painted details; narrow shouldered form with flaring mouth and footed base, shown on a white stand against a plain background.
February 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD.

This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.

Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!

The Met. 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows two Roman gold-band mosaic glass bottles on display at the Met Museum. Made of mosaic patterned translucent cobalt blue, turquoise green, and opaque white glass, together with gold leaf encased in colourless glass. Both bottles have round bodies, flat bases, and cyclindrical necks with horizontal everted rims. The larger bottle on the left is 10.5 cm tall, the smaller bottle on the right is 4.8 cm tall. They are displayed on a clear glass shelf against a light beige background. According to the museum label: “Gold-band cast glass was a particularly opulent type of early Roman glassware. It combines canes of brightly colored translucent and opaque glass with strips of gold leaf encased between layers of colorless glass. Only a limited number of vessel shapes were made in this way, and some of the most common are small globular or carinated bottles such as these. They were presumably used to store expensive cosmetics and perfumes”.
February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Looking up at the nave roof and don't cover within Southwold, St Edmund, Suffolk #southwold #churches #heritage #suffolk #history #medieval #architecture
February 5, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Photograph of Mên-an-Tol, formation of standing stones, in Cornwall by John Piper
Men an tol. One holed stone with two upright stones
February 5, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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The south transept doorway of St. Magnus Cathedral at Kirkwall in Orkney, with its alternating sandstone stonework. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Kirkwall #Orkney
February 5, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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4th century silver spoon with swan or duck handle from Roman Canterbury. The spoon was part of a hoard buried beside the London Gate in the city walls. Now part of the collections at Canterbury Roman Museum. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #Canterbury
February 5, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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#AdoorableThursday & we've got lots of amazing doors from Shropshire beginning with this beautiful romanesque doorway from the round chapel at Ludlow Castle

See more of Shropshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...
February 5, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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An iron dagger (with wooden handle) and iron scabbard (with gold and silver inlay) found in the 1960s excavation of the mid 1st c AD #Roman fort at Waddon Hill #Dorset

Hopefully not used on any of the Durotriges ! 😬

Now in the fantastic Bridport Museum

📷 Feb 2023

#RomanFortThursday
A museum display case with iron dagger, parts of a wooden handle and an iron scabbard with gold and silver / niello inlay
February 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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An early medieval copper-alloy hanging bowl was discovered by detectorist Chris Ulliott in a field at Ryedale, North Yorkshire, #OTD in 2023. Skeletal fragments which appeared to be from a sheep were found within. 📸York Museums Trust #medievalsky
The early medieval copper-alloy hanging bowl from Ryedale, North Yorkshire.
February 5, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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Feb 5: Feast of Dubthach mac Dubáin (†938), abbot of Iona. It is possible the headship of the Columban familia was moved from Iona to Kells, Ireland, during his tenure. He took part in a crosier-throwing contest with Columba’s ghost. Feast possibly 7 Oct. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky
Iona Abbey between hills in the background and the sea in the foreground.
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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The #OnlineArtExchange today is all about winter sports ⛷️🛷

We've selected: Skating Scene by Eric Hesketh Hubbard from Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

#WinterOlympics #art #BlueskyArt #skating #sports
People ice skate on a frozen pond surrounded by snow, with leafless trees and a house in the background under a cloudy winter sky.
February 5, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Loher Stone Fort is beautifully situated on Kerry's Iveragh Peninsula, with wonderful views over Ballinskelligs Bay.

It was once the home of an important family during the early medieval period and likely to have been constructed sometime around c700–1100 AD.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #WildAtlanticWay
An aerial view of a small circular drystone fort, with the backdrop of the Kerry coast, overlooking the bay and Atlantic
February 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Helvig Kinch (Denmark, 1872-1956)
Påfugle ( #Peacocks ), n.d. (exhibited 1929)
Tempera on canvas, 102 x 128 cm
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#BirdsInArt #WomenArtists
Impressionistic painting of 3 male peacocks vying for the attention of a peahen “Kinch is best known as an animal painter and as a participant in the archaeological excavations on the island of Rhodes under the leadership of, among others, her husband, the archaeologist K. F. Kinch. She is also known for her illustrations of the archaeological finds for the scientific publications made about the excavations. Here her distinct talent for the decorative aspect is expressed. In the present work, both her talent as an animal painter and for the decorative can also clearly be seen.”
February 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Trepanned skull from Wandlebury in Cambridgeshire excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit and featured on #diggingforbritain this evening. An early medieval offering for #drawingdiggingforbritain
Drawing of a human skull facing left with a circular hole on the left side. Elements of the skull held in place by tape
February 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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A beautiful Byzantine necklace (dated C6-7th AD), made of amethyst, glass, & gold beads linked by delicate gold thread. A lovely piece of ancient jewellery! (📷 NY Met Museum) #AncientBlueSky
February 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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#ReliefWednesday
Tuscan labours of the month differ from many others: much attention to fruitful wine harvest year round, but in February you might as well just go fishing.

13th C relief, Lucca's #Romanesque Cattedrale di San Martino, w zodiac signs of Aries + appropriately Pisces along the top.
A panel in the Labours of the Month series either side of main west doors of Lucca's cathedral. For February a bearded man wearing a cap is shown stepping into wavy water. He's holding a fishing rod and has caught a fish. Over his shoulder is a basket - perhaps with earlier catches? The scene is shown between green marble columns with corinthian capitals supporting an arch above. In space between this and arches to left and right are zodiac symbols for Aries (a ram) and Pisces (a fish). Below the row of monthly labours the months are named, here 'Februarius'.
February 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Trepanned skull of Viking-era man found in mass grave.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wandlebury's Viking-era mass grave finds include trepanned skull
The skull belonged to a young man whose remains were flung into the burial pit, say archaeologists.
www.bbc.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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#IronAgeWednesday: #Brochs - Stone structures found particularly in NW #Scotland, built throughout the Iron Age. #Archaeologists have long debates about their purpose & use. Were they purely defensive or similar to stately homes, or perhaps a mix of defence & living quarters with symbolic functions?
Different images of Mousa Brooch, from different angles, interior and in the distance on the shore Different images of Mousa Brooch, from different angles, interior and in the distance on the shore Different images of Mousa Brooch, from different angles, interior and in the distance on the shore Different images of Mousa Brooch, from different angles, interior and in the distance on the shore
February 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Which Govan Stone are YOU missing?

📼 Tom Horne
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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#BeautifulThings
February 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Storm swell 🌊🌞 & high tide on Aber prom this morning #Ceredigion
Aberystwyth prom and pier with a wave crashing
February 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM