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YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective Is it worth heading to the Peak District in Winter?

great 😩
easily on track to be our worst performing ...anything, ever thanks to

...vague, entirely unspecified Youtube BS 😔😔😔

so, if you need an easy watch for a saturday morning, that'd be a big help

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...

i mean - my first glance was '[something]-wine', but can't imagine Hadrians wall was prime wine country, even in a climatic event like the medieval warm period

yes - white fields or similar
Otherwise, don't know

#RomanSiteSaturday with the view over Vindolanda
It was only this Autumn that we got there for the first time

See more of what we've been up to over Autumn/Winter, and a nice relaxing watch for Saturday morning with the Grey Days playlist >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#SteepleSaturday with St Mary's Wirksworth, Derbyshire

See more of the Peak District in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...

#CastleSaturday with Peveril Castle, Castleton in the Peak Distrcit

See more of the Peak District in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...

#RuinedPrioryFriday with Dale Abbey in Derbyshire

its a short way north, but see more of Derbyshire & the Peak District in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...

yh the Hereford School is pretty wild
there's all sorts in there that seems pretty out-there to a c21 audience
Undoubtedly all the influences you mentioned are in the mix,

but its still a journey from the text of the bible to the beasts: griffins, dragons, serpents
its a lot to take in at once!

It really is pretty special

Can only imagine its impact on its original c12 audience 😳😳

#RomanRoadsFriday & there are some of the most beautiful examples in Merida 🇪🇸

see more of Roman Merida in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFz5...

i was nervous about it all day! esp since i was only going to be there mid-afternoon,
but think this was about 3.15pm on a sunday

(think last time it was more like 4pm on a weekday, but it was also much sooner after covid so, fair)

i'd lost where this church was entirely on my map of pins, but managed to make it in this winter

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#FontsonFriday & was particularly satisfying to catch the font at St Cassians at Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire, as i'd been here years ago to see the font except the church was locked
as you'd expect from the Hereford school it has very striking imagery 😳

images of the church below 👇

#FrescoFriday and it is of course the rather famous & remarkably preserved lion fresco from Merida 🇪🇸

see more of Roman Merida in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFz5...

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So thats the Square & Compass, already an incredible place to catch a local Dorset pint, but also with some impressive & surprisingly extensive local archaeology on display

& See more of Dorsets cozy pubs in the episode further up the thread

#FindsFriday

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Some New Forest Ware, & the rather lovely detail on this belt buckle

#FindsFriday

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Some coins, of course
including a Durotrigian stater

#FindsFriday

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Nearly missed these as they're somewhat tucked in a corner but Roman roof tiles!

and ...noteably not that different to the same roofs you'll see in the village today, presumably of the local Purbeck stone
(assuming thats not too heavy for tiles)

#FindsFriday

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Some Great pieces of stamped pottery showing the makers marks

#FindsFriday

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Some Roman brooches, it is very fortunate that the Romans seemed to barely be able to keep hold of these

I wonder if they complained to each other how they never seemed to have a brooch to hand ...a bit like modern day hair-ties

#FindsFriday

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But the selection from antiquity is particularly impressive, especially considering there's no extant Roman sites in the area
here's some highlights beginning with some bootleg luxury dinnerware

#FindsFriday

The Grey Days - YouTube

yh we're getting a lot of that 😔

In december our hillforts episodes were hitting ~5k views,

but winter '26... you can see the moment YT turns off the taps
...and its at about the 36 hours mark & 200 views 😫
so, sucks to be us

More here if you're interested >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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But as well as serving pints and pasties, the Square and Compass also has a museum on site

Because its a museum in Dorset it does of course boast some great fossils

#FindsFriday

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Worth Matravers is great place itself on a sunny day, not that remote from nearby Swanage, but feels removed from the rest of the country by at least 100 miles and 200 years

On most days the Square and Compas is the only business open in the village

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So while many of you already know the answer to this, this is the Square & Compass, Worth Matravers Dorset

Originally built as 2 cottages in around c18 before being merged into a single pub

#FindsFriday

YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective Exploring Dorsets Cosiest Pubs

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You'll see why this is relevant in just a moment but - we have an episode out on some cracking pubs around Dorset & you can see more here >>>

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kav...

#FindsFriday & today its some fantastic Roman & Iron Age finds from a museum-where-you-would-not-expect-a-museum

its going to need a 🧵👇

A painting of a Roman masonry walled fort with projecting towers from the air, reused as a base by Norman soldiers arriving in dragon boats from the sea

28th September 1066

An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings

A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard

#RomanFortThursday

yeah its remarkable they're (still) here in such quantity!

recall a small photo in the Novium of a tiny section of the facing stones of the Chichester walls that have survived in a garden somewhere along Market Ave
i want to knock on their door & ask nicely but, don't think they'd appreciate that 😬

think 2 things can be true at the same time 😁

#AdoorableThursday with the doorway to St Aldhems Chapel at golden hour, ostesibly c12 though i've seen suggestions the chapel may be much older

See more of Worth Matravers & Dorset in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kav...