Dr Rachel E Swallow FSA

Sunrise behind a tree. Tree silhouetted against a deep red sky with a hint at the yellow of the rising sun. York in England.

#Sunrise, #Solstice - and a Return to the #Light!

Echolands by Duncan Mackay on Christmas wrapping and decorations.

Stop!
I know what you’re thinking!
You need that final stocking filler for a history-loving loved one! Something under £15, small, perfectly shaped for wrapping, easily & quickly available from (all good) high street shops or online!
I’ve got your back…
#Echolands - A Journey in Search of Boudica

Castel Nuovo, also known as Maschio Angioino, stands proudly in front of Piazza Municipio and Naples’ city hall. Built 1279, I took this photo this October.

#Naples #Napoli #CastelNuovo #Italy #MedievalArchitecture #TravelPhotography #MedievalSky #QueenOfLostCastles

#Beautiful #winter #sky this #evening!

#Castlerigg

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I’ll be running the Walk & Talk again soon under Swallowtail Archaeology – watch this space!
swallowtailarchaeology.co.uk

#CaergwrleCastle #MedievalSky #QueenOfLostCastles

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Huge thanks to everyone who joined in. Your ideas & questions are already feeding into my current research on new contextual interpretations of the castle and its landscape. 🙌

#ArchaeologyWalk #CommunityResearch #QueenOfLostCastles

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Huge thanks to everyone who joined in. Your ideas & questions are already feeding into my current research on new contextual interpretations of the castle and its landscape. 🙌

#ArchaeologyWalk #CommunityResearch #QueenOfLostCastles

Just led a brilliant Walk & Talk at #CaergwrleCastle with the Cambrian Archaeological Association! 🏰✨
We explored what’s known – and still debated – about this rare hybrid of Welsh siting & Edwardian-strength masonry, perched above the River Alyn. 1/3

#MedievalCastles #WelshHistory #MedievalSky

To book your place, contact me on rachel@swallowtailarchaeology.co.uk

I’d have loved to have heard this paper - particularly as it was in honour of Björn. Is it recorded/online, do you know?

Computer screen showing lecture slide with maps of England and Northern France.

Enjoying attending the Thirteenth Century Conference online today. Currently following the first Bjorn Weiler Memorial Lecture,by Daniel Power on Eleanor of Castile's inheritance in Ponthieu and Aumale. #medieval #medievalsky

Thanks for the reposts!

🏰✨ Free Walk & Talk! ✨🏰

📅 Sat 13 Sept 2025 | ⏰ 2–4 pm
📍 Caergwrle Castle, Flintshire

📩 Reserve your spot: rachel@swallowtailarchaeology.co.uk

#SwallowtailArchaeology #QueenOfLostCastles #ResearchWritingReviewReach #CaergwrleCastle #WelshHistory #CastlesOfWales #LegendLadyLandscape #medievalsky

Acorns on sun-burnt August grass 🌱☀️
In medieval Britain, the oak was power itself — boundary marker, court tree, symbol of endurance and lordship. 🌳👑

#Oak #Acorns #BritishCountryside #MedievalHistory #Folklore #queenoflostcastles #medievalsky

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Oh, you’re so right! ‘Beauty’ is most definitely in the eye of the beholder!

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St. Mary’s, #Beverley, #Yorkshire - founded AD 1120.

Though the #Lincoln #Imp is famous, the Beverley Imp is arguably more frightening—yet perhaps also endearing?! Its grotesque face vividly shows how #medieval carvers mixed #myth and #morality into #sacred spaces.

#medievalsky

Oh, that’s so beautiful! I went to briefly Anchorage a few years ago - and it’s so lovely!

The melting of late #summer #skies

#Nature in the #Wild #Garden

One of two stones discovered on the moors around Whitby and given to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society by antiquarian Canon Raines in 1895.

One disappeared, but this fantastic bit of #rockart can still be seen at York Museum Gardens. 📸 my own, yesterday.

A short, wide staircase in some slightly overgrown parkland, relict from a former country house, now demolished.

An aerial view (black and white) of Marbury Hall. From: https://foam.merseyforest.uk/?cat=20

One of the staircases leading from the front lawns up to Marbury Hall, #Cheshire (pic my own), & an aerial image from before the hall was demolished in 1969 (pic via the Friends of Anderton & Marbury). The site has been a country park since the late 1970s - a local treasure. #StaircaseSaturday

Some very lovely people very kindly made my #dream come true a year ago today!

Another Big One off my Big #Birthday #BucketList!

Just loved it! 😊

#tractor

Alltwen Moon.

Glastonbury Tor this evening.

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