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Tony Divey

@tonydivey.bsky.social

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Collection volunteer for English Heritage and St.Albans museums. Co-curator of upcoming ‘Religion in Verulamium’ exhibition. Retired archaeology and Latin teacher with recent MA in Classical Archaeology. Posts will largely be about archaeology (or beer)

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 20h

Here are two Romano British triskele brooches from Verulamium (left) and Wroxeter (right) that I have recently been comparing for an EH article. The design was as old when they were made as the brooches are now. #FindsFriday

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s what’s left of Weybourne Priory, Norfolk, for #SundayRuin. My 📷 taken last week

Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 9d

For #WindmillWednesday here’s an old favourite of mine from Thorpeness in Suffolk. My 📷

Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve just seen that #StuartSaturday exists, so here’s a recently arrived coat of arms at the EH stores. My 📷

Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 15d

For #HelmetThursday here’s the Roman legionary helmet featured in the Legion exhibition at the BM a couple of years back. My 📷

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 18d

Labels on objects in museum stores are obviously necessary and helpful. This one less so… on an object in a collection of artisans’ tools in St Albans Museum. #MuseumMonday

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 19d

It’s #CeilingsonSunday so here’s the ceiling of the Crypt at St Martins in the Fields, just off Trafalgar Square. My 📷

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 20d

For #CastleSaturday I offer Gravensteen, Castle of the Counts, in Ghent. My 📷 taken during recent trip

Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 21d

For #FindsFriday I offer the gold plaques from the hoard from Ashwell, Hertfordshire. Deposited in the Roman period they bear the name Senuna, a local deity previously unknown. My 📷 objects in the British Museum

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 22d

For #Thursgate here’s one I spotted in Bruges recently

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 23d

For #WindowsWednesday here’s a fine set from the Bluecoats School, Liverpool, now an arts centre. My 📷 taken a couple of weeks ago

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 24d

For #TowerTuesday have a small piece of Bruges. My 📷

Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 25d

For #MuralMonday what could be more wonderful than the walls and ceiling of Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station? Built for the 1913 International Exposition. My 📷

Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 26d

For #CeilingsonSunday here’s St Bavo’s cathedral in Gent. My 📷 taken last week

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 27d

My offering for #StreetArtSaturday are these amazing painted shutters on a house in Gent, Belgium. My 📷 taken this week

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 28d

For #PharosFriday here’s a less ancient lighthouse, at Whiteford Point on the Gower in South Wales. Built in 1865 it’s made entirely of cast iron. My 📷

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 29d

For #PubSignThursday here’s a pub with two names - known as both The Low House and the King’s Head in Laxfield, Suffolk, where I stayed a couple of weeks ago. My 📷

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 25

For #MedievalMonday here’s the ceiling of the nave of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds. My 📷 taken during the excellent Beer Festival last Thursday

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 17

For #CeilingsonSunday here’s the interesting ceiling of The Brewery Tap pub in Chester, once a Jacobean hall. My 📷 taken in March this year. Great pub too!

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 16

For #CastleSaturday my offering is Weobley Castle on the Gower peninsula, in the care of CADW. My 📷 taken in June

Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 15

For #FindsFriday here’s a flint arrowhead found during Webster’s excavations at Wroxeter. My 📷 object in care of EH

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 14

My offering for #AdoorableThursday is this one I spotted in Cambridge last weekend

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 12

For #TorcTuesday here’s a Mercury statuette from Verulamium, apparently found wearing a torc (although not this one!). My 📷, object in the care of #StAlbansMuseums

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 10

For #ShieldSunday it’s always worth revisiting this Roman scutum from Dura-Europos as featured in last year’s Legion exhibition at the British Museum. My 📷

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Aug 9

For #CastleSaturday here’s Montgomery Castle, photo taken by me in June