Andy Whiting

A lovely Sunday evening walk to finish off a week of annual leave #Dorset

Sherborne Abbey swims in blue

A quite perfect morning for a walk at Hengistbury Head - lovely views of the Isle of Wight & the Needles, as well as west toward Bournemouth, Poole & Purbeck, the Iron Age defensive earthworks “the Double Dykes” and the reconstructed roundhouse #Dorset

Good Morning from the Old Gunpowder House, east of Poole Quay, at Baiter #Dorset

A beautiful afternoon over at Studland #Dorset

Good morning from a chilly but sunny Poole Quay

Rare 2,000-year-old brooch unearthed by detectorist in Puddletown Martin Turner made the discovery when searching the fields near his home in Puddletown.

Rare 2,000-year-old brooch unearthed by detectorist in Puddletown, Dorset
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A pleasant evening walk around Poole Quay & old town to finish off the weekend.
📷 Custom House [1813] (with the Town Cellars and Poole Museum in the background)
📷 Old Lifeboat Station [1882]
📷 St James Church [1819]
📷 The Almshouses [C16th] & the view up Market St towards the Guildhall [1761]

This evening felt like the last throes of Summer in Poole #Dorset

Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset

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DNA reveals surprise African ancestry of 6th century Worth Matravers man Advances in DNA technology have found that a man buried 1,500 years ago in Worth Matravers in Dorset was of West African descent, challenging assumptions that communities in Britain after the fall of ...

DNA reveals surprise African ancestry of 6th century Worth Matravers man

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'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered at Finlaggan on Islay Archaeologists say the fortress was owned by ancestors of Scotland's medieval Lord of the Isles.

'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered on Scottish isle www.bbc.com/news/article...

The country seems angry and full of hatred, the sky is dark and full of rain, so I think I’ll pop on some jazz, have an ale and read about the fascinating archaeology of Cranborne Chase this evening.

The view of the wonderful Priory from Christchurch Castle’s keep (built c.1300)

London medieval tower preserved during 36-storey skyscraper build A medieval tower is suspended on stilts as work continues around it to build a new skyscraper.

London's 700-year-old tower on stilts - “In the heart of the City of London, the medieval Tower of All Hallows Staining is now propped up on stilts as work continues beneath it on the 36-storey Fifty Fenchurch development”

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St Mary’s church at Almer - a typical unassuming parish church sat peacefully just off the A31 but worth a visit. The church has a C13th Purbeck font and some nice Norman features including the south doorway and the three rounded mid-C12th arches of the north arcade #Dorset

The grey bleakness of British motorway service stations is somehow admirable

Friday lunchtime walk at Corfe Castle

Sherborne Abbey, nave vault

Ancient cathedral unearthed beneath French market after 1,500 years The discovery has been described by experts as of 'exceptional' importance for understanding the spread of Catholicism in France

#archaeology #history #ancientbluesky #France

If anyone has lost a cathedral in France, they found it!

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Enjoying the nice view over Poole Park and the harbour from Sea View viewpoint #Poole #Dorset

Good morning from a warm, sunny, and extremely quiet Poole Harbour shoreline #Dorset

Lord Nelson: Slipway where HMS Agamemnon built revealed Archaeologists from the University of Southampton uncover a slipway from the 18th Century.

Dig at Buckler’s Hard in the New Forest reveals slipway where Nelson's ships were made

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Steamship Shieldhall departing Poole this morning - always nice to see historic ships in the harbour. Shieldhall was built in the 1950s in the style of a 1920s steamer.

Wonderful views of Corfe Castle and the village from up on East Hill this lunchtime #Dorset

Cerne Abbey: Archaeologists unearth secrets of medieval hall Archaeologists return to Cerne Abbas to unearth the medieval abbey and its Anglo Saxon predecessor.

Cerne Abbey: Archaeologists unearth secrets of medieval abbey

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Photo of copper alloy shallow bowl with lid and spout fitting, with red enamel deocration. The spout looks vaguely anthropomorphic.

Photo showing the strainer inside the objects; it's a large plate covering the spout area, decorated with pierced geometric-floral design.

🏺 Obsessed with this little thing from British SW very late Iron Age/early Roman (Chettle); it's described as a strainer for wine but does anyone have evidence for actual uses for these, and other comparisons from British IA?

Image:https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_2009-8006-2

Nice charity shop find today 🥰

A lovely sky over Poole this evening #Dorset