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No idea I am afraid. The photo is on the info board next to the site and apparently appeared in the Scotsman newspaper, but that is all I know.

A black and white painting of an ancient monument consisting of two standing stones and a circular stone in the centre.

This is my watercolour of Mên-an-Tol, a Neolithic or Bronze Age monument in Cornwall. Thought to be the remains of a stone circle or tomb, climbing through its circular stone is said to cure illness. The original work is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday

The cover of the Zine entitled Stone Club, featuring a black and white photo of a standing stone.

This image also appeared in the latest edition of Ancient Times, the brilliant zine produced by @stoneclub.bsky.social!

A black and white painting of an ancient monument consisting of two standing stones and a circular stone in the centre.

This is my watercolour of Mên-an-Tol, a Neolithic or Bronze Age monument in Cornwall. Thought to be the remains of a stone circle or tomb, climbing through its circular stone is said to cure illness. The original work is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday

Looking down on the remains of Milecastle 42 at Cawfields Quarry.

Milecastle 42 at Cawfields Quarry. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn #RomanSiteSaturday

A turf rampart, but with a stone base for drainage and stability.

A short, shallow ditch in grass surrounded by trees, with a line of houses behind.

A 1976 photo of excavations at Bantaskin which revealed the stone base of the Antonine Wall

Hiding in plain sight - a tiny stretch of the Antonine Wall ditch at Bantaskin in Falkirk. The stone base of the Roman wall was excavated here in 1976, but then destroyed to make way for a new road. #RomanSiteSaturday

A clip of the Carrickstone #Roman Altar in Cumbernauld, #Scotland. This intriguing stone is around 2,000 years old & is a scheduled ancient monument. Legend states it was used as a rallying point for Robert the Bruce & where he planted his banner before the Battle of Bannockburn.

A golden mask of a face of a man with a moustache

#findsfriday - the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. A gold funerary mask from Mycenae - probably 16th C BCE. Sadly not the face of the king though. One of those wow moments when you finally see the object that has become incredibly familiar to you from books & stories #archaeology #greekmyths #trojanwar #gold

Drawing by Fritz Schwimbeck 11–12 September 1917, pen and ink on paper. A black-and-white image of a human-looking figure crawling away from the viewer on the roof on an old castle. The figure's black cape is waving in the air, resembling the wings of a bat. Moonlight, and dark woods in the background.

The Count's out and about!

'Dracüla' by Fritz Schwimbeck 1917 #gothic #horror

A short, shallow ditch in grass surrounded by trees, with a line of houses behind.

A 1976 photo of excavations at Bantaskin which revealed the stone base of the Antonine Wall

Hiding in plain sight - a tiny stretch of the Antonine Wall ditch at Bantaskin in Falkirk. The stone base of the Roman wall was excavated here in 1976, but then destroyed to make way for a new road. #RomanSiteSaturday

A rolled up ball of brown plant fibres, sitting on a red museum stand

#FindsFriday A ball of flax fibre ready to be woven into a basket, still perfectly preserved after 3800 years!

From the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, c.1800 BC

📍 Seen in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

📸 Mine

#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

I wouldn't recommend it 🤢

A duck or hen egg held in a wire display stand with the number 17 on the wall behing it.

Discovered during excavation of a midden in the High Street of Perth, Scotland - a completely intact one thousand-year-old egg! Dating to 1000-1100 CE, it was laid by either a duck or a chicken. Now on display @perthmuseum.bsky.social.
#FindsFriday

A duck or hen egg held in a wire display stand with the number 17 on the wall behing it.

Discovered during excavation of a midden in the High Street of Perth, Scotland - a completely intact one thousand-year-old egg! Dating to 1000-1100 CE, it was laid by either a duck or a chicken. Now on display @perthmuseum.bsky.social.
#FindsFriday

Engraving of a very large standing stone

from A Voyage Round Great Britain, Rassella near Kilmartin Loch Crenan, Argyllshire
by William Daniell

A tall tombstone carved in relief, with a cavalry officer on his rearing horse, with standard in hand. Beneath is the kneeling, crouching image of a bearded barbarian with a club. Inscription below the translates: To the Venerated Departed: Here Lies Flavinus A Horse Rider of the Cavalry Regiment of Petriana Standard Bearer of the Troop of Candidus Aged 25, of 7 Years’ Service

#ReliefWednesday
#Roman tombstone of Flavinus found under Hexham Abbey
floor.
The high ranking Signifer from Gaulish cavalry regiment of Petriana carries standard w sun god + wears a #torque, possibly mark of status among his Celtic people, as he tramples a barbarian.

Just thought of another one - this fragment of Roman tile from Trimontium in Scotland has been nibbled by a mouse (although maybe not this exact mouse).

How about a tiny wee Roman mouse from Rochester in Kent?

Another one to add to the list.

I don't know this one, but it is not far from my place and looks great - I will need to check it out.

Ollie, a middle-aged, bearded white man in a straw hat, floral shirt and sunglasses, sitting on the capstone of a mossy dolmen in the woods. The angle makes him look quite small, but to be fair the stone is large and the orthostats are tall, so the capstone is a long way off the ground and his little legs are dangling. This is a passage grave, in a wooded clearing. The trees crowd around it but it's quite light, a sunny afternoon.

#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday

Dolmen de Kerherne Bodunan, aka Roh-Coh-Couët or Allée couverte de Roh Koh Koed, nr #Saint-JeanBrevelay #Morbihan #Brittany #France (2022)

🏺#Neolithic

@megalithic.bsky.social

I visit Southwark Cathedral regularly, but have never noticed this - I will search it out next time I am there!

A tall rectangular stone altar with a damaged Latin inscription on the front.

This is the tombstone of Gauis Calpurnius Receptus, a priest in charge of the temple of Sulis Minerva in Bath. Erected by his wife, it looks like an altar and is the only example of a tomb monument from Roman Britain where the job of the deceased is reflected in its shape. #TombTuesday.

A black pen in a crosshatch technique and black block printing ink applied with a roller on white paper illustration. The dark silhouetted shape of a woman in a black funeral dress stands at the foot of a bed in an Edwardian style room, she stares at a tired looking man under a heavy quilt. Moonlight shines into the room from behind the woman. Creepy and atmospheric.

I left my old job a couple of years ago. I’m getting by (just) but crikey, having done my tax return & seen how little I’m earning it was a shocker, it’s getting more & more difficult to earn money from illustration.

I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking!

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Ancient gnarled oaks in a wood. Autumn colours.

Samuel Palmer was born on this day in 1805.
Trees in Lullingstone Park

A tall rectangular stone altar with a damaged Latin inscription on the front.

This is the tombstone of Gauis Calpurnius Receptus, a priest in charge of the temple of Sulis Minerva in Bath. Erected by his wife, it looks like an altar and is the only example of a tomb monument from Roman Britain where the job of the deceased is reflected in its shape. #TombTuesday.

MOSAIC WITH THE FACE OF PHOBOS, C4 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM In 1856 the English archæologist Sir Charles Thomas Newton decided to go digging at Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum in Turkey, in search of one of the wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum. He found a late-antique "domos" built by a man called Charidemos, who helpfully left a verse in mosaic naming himself. He published copious excavation notes, a remarkably responsible thing to do at the dawn of modern archæology, and then carted off the mosaic floors he found to the BM, perhaps less responsibly. Here we see the screaming face, tongue out, of Phobos, Fear, at the centre of a floral design contained within round concentric frames including a beaded motif. Stylised vine leaves appear in black triangles to fill the corners of this square panel. Phobos has wild blond-orange hair. Walking over his face was a symbolic conquest of fear.

#MosaicMonday at the #BritishMuseum speaks for all of us with this C4 floor #mosaic from #Halicarnassus with the face of #Phobos, Fear, blossoming like an evil flower within a series of classical #frames. Fear radiates outward. The symbolism is clear: step on your fear and go on. #AncientBluesky 🏺

One of the Lewis Chessmen which are a 12th century hoard of 93, mostly walrus ivory, gaming pieces discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. They are split between the British Museum (82 pieces) and the National Museum of Scotland (11 pieces).
#MedievalMonday