Tom Singleton

Classic 'Viking' axes from Lough Corrib, Ireland, which date to the 11th or early 12th century, and almost certainly belonged to Irish warriors.

Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, king of Leinster, and, according to later writers, 'king of Ireland with opposition', died #OTD in 1072. His power was such that he was also styled rí… Índsi Gall, ‘king of the Hebrides’, in his obituary. 📸NMIreland #medievalsky

Scaffolding is going up on the outside of the cathedral this week. I hope Bodgit and Scarper haven’t got the job! 🤣

#Playmobil #ToyPhotography

St Mary Magdalene Church, Shabbington, Buckinghamshire. #adoorableThursday

February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other!
#FossilFriday
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The font from Wells Cathedral in Somerset which may be Anglo-Saxon in date. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #WellsCathedral

Along the trail to Warrior Rock Lighthouse on Sauvie Island, Oregon #Photography #Trees #Oregon 📷

Original Roman penknife with gladiator handle and blade folded and rusted in place, with shiny modern reproduction with knife open.

Roman penknife with gladiator handle found at Piddington, 3rd century AD, portraying a secutor, beside a modern reproduction. Oh, for a museum shop that sold the replica…
British Museum
#FindsFriday

New Years Day, 2025 - 350249 arrives at Harrow & Wealdstone station in steady rain on a Milton Keynes to Euston service.

Wet Wealdstone...

A bear seems to chase a man on horseback in this scene on a fragment of a Samian ware bowl.

Samian ware bowl (fragment)
Found at site of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, Newcastle.

The bowl is decorated with a man on horseback and a bear.

The fort stood at the end of the extension to Hadrian’s Wall.

#FindsFriday #Roman

A bronze statuette of a bull in profile, facing left, with two human figures on its tail and head

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

St Michael's Lenham in Kent has a fine mid 14th century wall painting of St Michael weighing souls. I think this was painted over and then uncovered somewhat later. In between times Tassell Read was memorialised right at the spot where Mary was painted. She can just be made out if we squint.

Photo by G. Solecki/A. Piętak of a small figurine of a bear carved out of amber between 9600 and 4100 BC. The amber is a deep translucent orange. The display lighting makes it glow in places. The bear's head is carved to show ears, mouth, nostrils and eyes. A hole runs through the bear’s torso, suggesting it was threaded onto a cord. Dimensions: Length 10.2 cm, Height 4.2 It was discovered in Słupsk during peat mining in 1887. According to the museum catalogue ‘’Shortly after its discovery, the figure underwent conservation work to restore its original appearance as it was covered with a layer of dull patina from the exposure to the minerals contained in the peat. Already at that time, at the end of the 19th century, it was assumed the restoration had gone too far. The figure was stripped entirely of patina, the anatomical features of the animal were emphasised, the eyes and nostrils were sharply drawn, and the amber was carefully polished”. In 2013, a competition was organised by the Education Department of the National Museum in Szczecin, for children to choose a name for the bear. The winning name was ‘Słupcio’,

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️

A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.

Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.

📷 National Museum in Szczecin

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

Most impressive #DoorInMidAir from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. Once giving access from the stair turret to the top of a screen between quire and crossing. Probably a rood loft. And chamfered #Ogee headed too #AdoorableThursday

Freightliner liveried 66416 navigates its way through Manchester Victoria with 6J34, Runcorn Folly Lane to Brindle Heath. A typically grey January day! #Class66 #Shed #Freightliner #ManchesterVictoria

Avanti West Coast Evero 805005 passes a cleared semaphore at Garsdale as it works 1Z38 Carlisle to Wigan North Western. (805009 formed the rear of this set.)

Avanti at Garsdale. 2 January 2026. #railway #photography

its #RuinedPrioryFriday & there's this curious quartet of monastic sites in a crescent around Shrewsbury which deserves a bit of a thread

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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

St Micheal’s Cathedral has been illuminated in purple to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

We will never forget. 🕯️

#Playmobil #ToyPhotography #HolocaustMemorialDay

Triple Tractor Tuesday at Bolton-upon-Dearne this morning with 37219 & 37610 on a UTU & 37501 'Teesside Steelmaster ' doing another WMR new unit 730030 drag from Gascoigne Wood

20142 and 189 at Clapham High Street heading for Ashford

A Class 222 Meridian train with 7 carriages at Derby train station

As of today, there are now 3 Auroras out in daily passenger service now!

This means that the 7 car Meridians have now gone entirely ad-hoc, it won't be long until they head over to Lumo with just 003 and 004 available for passenger service currently

1C44 1135 Sheffield to St Pancras International EMR Meridian service arriving into Leicester 222017

Not a tiny fragment, nor a single sherd of pottery, but a full, voluminous Anglo-Saxon space from the 9th century at St Wystan’s in Repton, Derbyshire. The spiral columns - perhaps a memory of St Peter’s shrine. Holy air encased in stone. Betjeman’s words describe it perfectly.

Part of the ‘Floral Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. The mosaic dates to the 1st century, and was one of the first to be discovered at the site. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne

Shared by @jestraughton.bsky.social , some fox politics next door for your #FoxOfTheDay today !

Aryballos (perfume bottle) in terracotta Harpie shape -made in Eastern #Greece (Rhodes lonia) - h 9.8 cm wide. 13 cm unknown find - Archaic period, ca 600/550 BC -

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark

#Archaeology #artwork #Mythical #art #ancient #History

88003 approaches Crouch Hill with Saturday's 4M07 Tilbury2 Container to Daventry Drs Tescoliner. The 1Z10 special was hanging on its coat tails - so you already know what tomorrow's photo will be😅

The warm-up act...

Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar
dated 963 AH/1556 CE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 463

The magnet for memorials on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuntspillToKilve leg: #StAndrewStogursey. The south chapel #MemorialMonday

Some beautiful fungi yesterday