A beautiful start for our first DLL ponds of the season.
Helping the Great Created Newts at Woodhouse Washlands, #Sheffield
@wildsheffield.bsky.social @wildscapescic.bsky.social
@naturalengland.bsky.social

A wasp spider hanging in its web.

Dark Peak Wasp

A wise and fruitful mission; worthy of the investment of time and adventure.

A 3 light window sits within a few walled recess. Each window is decorated with the same recurring geometric pattern.

An altar sits below a 3 light window. The walls are tiled to half height with blue tiles that contrast with the stained glass window and the altar cloth.

Llanbadrig, Ynys Môn
Kind of Blue.
Simple.
#StainedGlassSunday

A large standing stone emerges from a grassy meadow. There are areas of green around the stone where the grass has been cut. The rest is tall and brown, over ripening in the bright sunlight. The bright blue sky trails into the distance.

Tŷ Mawr, Ynys Môn
Likely Bronze Age, now amidst a strange encroaching hinterland of development and dead bales of silage.
#StandingStoneSunday

It’s proper chonky!

A large and chunky grey limestone block - capstone, sits atop a row of shorter vertical stones. These and darkness obscure the chamber within. This burial chamber sits in a green field.

Lligwy Burial Chamber, Ynys Môn
Late Neo with a rather chunky 25 ton capstone. #tombtuesday

This image shows an item entry on a bank statement. The amount spent has been rendered illegible. The purchase was made from a fantastic company called All Things Analogue. Sadly, the bank statement has removed the last four letters!!

Super service and the best packaging I’ve had in years from @allthingsanalogue.co.uk
I just hope my mum doesn’t see my bank statement 😳😂

That’s pretty hilarious 🤣

I certainly don’t envy you.
Maize is a mare!

How entry fees took over Britain’s countryside Growing stretches of the English countryside are “falling behind a paywall,” campaigners warn as national parks grapple with drastic funding cuts.

Growing stretches of the countryside are falling behind a paywall.

Lewis Winks, of @righttoroam.bsky.social “From entry fees for historically open parks, to pay-for-permission wild camping and river swimming, the paywalling of the countryside is quietly shutting the public out."

Sunlight cascades through a three light perpendicular stained glass window. The colourful religious scene backlights a large teddy bear that sits upon a display table positioned beneath the window.

What a perp‽
St Nicholas, High Bradfield, Sth York’s.
#StainedGlassSunday

Conservationists call for Lake District to lose Unesco world heritage status Campaigners say designation promotes unsustainable sheep farming at expense of nature recovery and local communities

1. It’s good to see this scandal being called out at last. My thanks and congratulations go to Lee Schofield, Karen Lloyd and Ian Convery. But it’s also absolutely infuriating that it has come to this point, as I explain in this thread.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A tall standing stone rises from a crop field. A small track leads towards the stone, cutting through the lush green crop. In the distance is a small wood, with a couple of modern houses. All beneath a a grey and gloomy sky.

Devils Arrow, Boroughbridge, N. Yorks.
#StandingStoneSunday

A narrow path leads through a crop-field towards a tall standing stone. A second lower standing stone nestles further back and to its right.

Devils Arrows, Boroughbridge, N. Yorks.
#StandingStoneSunday

Corker

‘Like a face’: discovery reinforces idea Neanderthals created art, say experts Pebble found in central Spain features what is thought to be world’s oldest fingerprint, and represents a nose One day around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man in what is now central Spain came across a large granite pebble whose pleasing contours and indentations snagged his eye. Something in the shape of that quartz-rich stone – perhaps its odd resemblance to an elongated face – may have compelled him to pick it up, study it and, eventually, to dip one of his fingers in red pigment and press it against the pebble’s edge, exactly where the nose on that face would have been. Continue reading...

‘Like a face’: discovery reinforces idea Neanderthals created art, say experts

Twitter is Kaput.

Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …

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A green grassy field now sits where a Roman Fort once stood. Amidst the grass is a hole - dug by a metal detectorist.

Sh*tehawks at Navio

My hand holding a copy of my book, the Road to Mons Graupius

To celebrate reaching 6000 followers, I am going to give away a free copy of my book The Road to Mons Graupius, which charts my journey along a Roman road through Scotland! To enter, follow me, then like and repost this post. I will choose a winner at random on Friday 16th May... #RomanSiteSaturday

Thanks 🙏

A fine Norman arch surrounds an old wooden church door, with large C shaped hinge

Captain Beaky and his band.
St Mary’s, Riccall #adoorablethursday

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Parking chaos and poo: The price of Mam Tor's popularity Mam Tor in the Peak District has become strangely popular, but what effect is this having?

The madness of Mam Tor (and Castleton too)! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

That’s amazing

That’s some record.