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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 8h

Woodensday
Very fine Nonsuch Chest probably given to St Saviour's Church (now Southwark Cathedral) by the Sheriff of London 1588.
Likely work of Flemish refugees who had settled in Borough:
oak w walnut, pear, cherry, box, rosewood, ash, yew, holly + ebony inlay. Used to hold parish records.

Very large oak chest decorated with multiple panels of fine inlay in walnut, pear, cherry, box, rosewood, ash, yew, holly + ebony. Panel themes include exotic townscapes, coat of arms, geometric and floral ones. It rests on ball shaped feet, six of which are visible from the front.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 1h

Definitely olive - Puglia is olive central, and has been for centuries.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 8h

Woodensday
Very fine Nonsuch Chest probably given to St Saviour's Church (now Southwark Cathedral) by the Sheriff of London 1588.
Likely work of Flemish refugees who had settled in Borough:
oak w walnut, pear, cherry, box, rosewood, ash, yew, holly + ebony inlay. Used to hold parish records.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 1d

#ThickTrunkTuesday
May have lost a bit of its middle, but an undeniably thickly trunked, several hundred year old olive tree by the #Roman city/archaeological park of Egnazia, Puglia.
Still thriving, and one amongst many.

Gnarly old olive tree with hollowed out trunk in late summer leaf.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 1d

#ThickTrunkTuesday
May have lost a bit of its middle, but an undeniably thickly trunked, several hundred year old olive tree by the #Roman city/archaeological park of Egnazia, Puglia.
Still thriving, and one amongst many.

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Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

One moon, two seagulls.
#Withernsea
#Harvestmoon

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday 🏺
One of the many superb floors of #Roman Taranto - a triclinium floor from late 2C high status home.
Scenes of Dionysian satyr abducting nymph in a cave, w panther + tiger at sides, plus lion attacking horse, but also gorgeous little birds and fruits.
MArTA - Nat Arch Museum Taranto

Large elaborate mosaic. Within two black lines on white background, a guilloche border surrounds the large floor, and each of the panels within.
Large panel in centre has Dionysian satyr abducting nymph in a cave, and another large one nearest viewer shows lion attacking horse. Rectangular panels either side of centre have tiger and panther facing sides, and 4 square panels either side of lion/horse panel have birds and fruit. At top are 12 further panels, all facing viewer: 4 with birds/fruit and 4 at the top with intertwining geometric designs.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 2d

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/03/f...

From dangerous erotica to secret smoking canteens: ten things you didn't know about The British Museum

Behind its ordered, Neo-Classical façade, the London institution has been home to plenty of intrigue and eccentricity

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 2d

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/06/v...

Victoria & Albert Museum to expand Gilbert Galleries to explore looting and provenance

Opening next March, the revamp will increase the number of galleries from four to seven as part of the museum's Future Plan development programme

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday 🏺
One of the many superb floors of #Roman Taranto - a triclinium floor from late 2C high status home.
Scenes of Dionysian satyr abducting nymph in a cave, w panther + tiger at sides, plus lion attacking horse, but also gorgeous little birds and fruits.
MArTA - Nat Arch Museum Taranto

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 3d

#StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
Remnants of 4 storey high Great Cross in Cheap, 1 of 2 erected in London by Edward I along 1290 route of wife Eleanor of Castile's coffin from Lincoln to Westminster.
One in Cheap featured these arms of England and Castile. Dismantled in 1643.
ex London Museum

A large fragment of the memorial cross set up along Cheapside in the City of London in 13th C by Edward I to mark funeral route of his wife Eleanor of Castile.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm. Shall ask again. She was saying that it was ticket only and they just couldn't get any. It must have been earlier in the summer though, so perhaps it's settled down now. They have a river/canal boat that they sail around, so also possible that mooring availability was a limiting issue.

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 3d

"They created a desolation and called it peace". Tacitus

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

The frantic race to protect historic treasures from Israeli bombs - BBC News

As Israel continues its bombardment, Palestinians are trying to protect what remains of Gaza’s ancient artefacts

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d

This is an astonishingly good news story, it will bring enormous health benefits, it will be noted by historians of london in centuries to come. But it will change no one’s vote, he will get no credit. More people will be talking about trans toilet habits at the next election.
It’s a conundrum.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 3d

So you got in!! Was talking with an Australian friend last night who'd been in Paris for 3 weeks, trying for entry tickets every day and nothing every available.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 3d

#StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
Remnants of 4 storey high Great Cross in Cheap, 1 of 2 erected in London by Edward I along 1290 route of wife Eleanor of Castile's coffin from Lincoln to Westminster.
One in Cheap featured these arms of England and Castile. Dismantled in 1643.
ex London Museum

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, absolutely - quite a few times. There's also a fantastic bookshop just nearby, so when I'm visiting friends in Wylam, we inevitably get to Corbridge....

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 4d

Read this, especially if you've ever been ever so slightly suspicious of a pub's claim to be medieval, or a tunnel to be secret passageway, or how a newspaper can publish such rubbish about Templars, or.....

James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 4d

The latest edition of the Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog is a look at concerns about Myths, Media & Money - the dangers of what can happen when cash gets involved in stories about ancient buildings...

triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2025/09/07/m...

📸 Sinai Park by Historic Houses

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 4d

The latest edition of the Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog is a look at concerns about Myths, Media & Money - the dangers of what can happen when cash gets involved in stories about ancient buildings...

triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2025/09/07/m...

📸 Sinai Park by Historic Houses

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 4d

Lovely netsuke, but big pity about back. Horrid - hope it can be relieved a bit at least.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 4d

If only. Really don't know what the issue is.....

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 4d

#SteepleSaturday
St Andrew's Church, Corbridge in Northumberland.
At west end frontage was original entrance to porch of c. 674 AD #Saxon church.
Tower added above c. 11th C.
Nearby #RomanSiteSaturday of Corstopitum supplied heaps of rubble/spolia.

West end of St Andrew Corbridge where original entrance to porch was built in 7th C Saxon church. The arch of this original entrance is visible, infilled with a 3 light window inserted later.
Tower added on top of it in 12th C. Spolia from Roman sites main source of rubble/stonework. Aisles extended and flush with tower frontage.

Another view from the southwest corner shows the west side of the tower with its clock, and an entrance in the southwest corner of the extended structure.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 5d

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/03/l...

London's Royal Academy announces plans to close Collection Gallery until 2027

The gallery will be redeveloped by David Chipperfield Architects, who will add a 12-metre-high space with a mezzanine

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 5d

Well there's a surprise. It seems he fired his own female appointees as well as those of Obama and Biden. A sexist cretin. Who knew?
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/02/t...

Trump fires members of group that advises National Endowment for the Humanities

All but four members of the National Council on the Humanities were informed via email that their positions had been terminated

www.theartnewspaper.com

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