Caroline G.

Just caught up with the second episode of Aillte on the TG4 Player, a wonderful exploration of the Cliffs of Moher - beautiful photography, geology, wildlife, legends… highly recommended! See link below.

Bracken fern reflection in bog pool

It's dark and moody out in the bog now with all of this rain...but there is still beauty @peatlandecr.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social

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.

A farmhouse nestled in rocks at the edge of moorland

The glorious, remote Nant Pasgan Fawr farmhouse in the hills above Talsarnau, Eryri/Snowdonia, approached by a slate slab bridge across a stream

The house has been dated by dendrochronology to the late C16th 😮

👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/405144

📷 My own, yesterday

Pencil drawing of old stone buildings seen through a group of trees. The buildings include a former gateway in a group repurposed as university offices and seminar rooms. A staircase leads to a building hidden by the trees in the right foreground.

A corner of King's Manor, York. A 17th century gateway & steps to a 19th century school building replaced in the 1960s with a college building, both over a much older cellar. Layers of history in one spot...

#pencil #drawing

See www.cultureanddemocracypress.co.uk/shop/p/theho... anthology celebrating 200th anniversary of his death

And there I thought you’d be the expert with your horizontally drying washing! 🤣

@redskies.bsky.social

Give me a wooden peg every time!

Photo of a plate showing Boyle's air pump and other apparatus from New experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air (London, 1682)

#otd in 1627, chemist Robert Boyle was born in Lismore, Waterford in Ireland. His experiments with the air pump in the 1660s proved the existence of a vacuum. Boyle's Law describes the relationship between the pressure & volume of a gas.

We are looking at a stone mullioned window with an ogee arch. Some of the stone is new, some is worn and is hundreds of years old. On either side of that are narrow bricks.

Check out the window on that. 😘

✨From my latest Digest: 🤔 Looking for Alfred - “ What is it with the veneration of old bones? Perhaps we’re not seeking proof at all, but orientation – a way of touching the values Alfred’s story seemed to hold.” www.digest.andymarsh...

Images of Ynys Llanddwyn and Lighthouses of Wales book cover.

Images of Ynys Llanddwyn and Lighthouses of Wales book cover.

Jan 25 is Dydd Santes Dwynwen, Wales’ day of love. 💕 Ynys Llanddwyn Lighthouse, photographed by Douglas Hague, is linked to the Welsh patron saint of lovers. His eBook, Lighthouses of Wales, is free until 14 Feb: zurl.co/2t7H8

#DyddSantesDwynwen #YnysLlanddwyn #yagym

In the current issue of Archaeology Ireland (Winter 2025):

Roisin O’Droma and Niamh Millward explore early modern Dublin through cesspit evidence from Capel Street—using plant and insect remains to reconstruct diet and daily life.

Here’s the beginning of our film about Raeburn’s rediscovered portrait of Robert Burns. Watch the whole film at blackiehouse.org

The Fire's Story | Heaney and the Element of Fire

🔥 The Fire's Story | Heaney & the Element of Fire

Take a journey with us from the intimate warmth of the fire at the heart of Mossbawn, through the forge of craft and creativity, and to the wider store of cultural memory.

📅 Sat, 24 Jan at 2pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

I was reminded of the original purpose of the C14th Barker Tower in York when sunlight cast a chain like shadow across its facade. It's original purpose was defensive and it held a chain that stretched across the Ouse. There is a reference in 1380 of a 'Keeper of the Chain'.

One hour for birds: The power of Big Garden Birdwatch One hour in a local green space during the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch helps build vital data that safeguards birds and habitats across the UK

Long-term datasets, postcode-scale mapping and real-time population trends...the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch – running 23-25 January – is basically a giant natural history lab. Get the family involved!

How to contribute in the article ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

📍Loci: The Volute and the Cobbled Floor www.digest.andymarsh...

Excerpt from John Speed's map of Cork city in 1610 showing the line of rivers, walls, houses, bridges, churches etc from a birds eye view on a green background

Hello and welcome to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas BlueSky page! The IHTA is a long-term research programme housed by @ria.ie with the aim to record the topographical development and history of towns across the island of Ireland. To date, 32 atlases have been produced with many more in the works.

These atlases are excellent. I have them for Belfast, Derry & Downpatrick. Meticulously researched, with high quality reproductions of historic maps, they are fascinating.
Delighted to see you here on BlueSky.

Apologies- should be @ainedonnghaile.bsky.social

📍Loci: Voices From The Past At Hillesden. www.digest.andymarsh...

Revisiting old research paid off yesterday for me too helped by the ever generous @aine.ni.donneghaile.bsky.social - 2 marriages that confirmed possibles as definites after 10 years!
A talk by William Roulston on researching farming ancestors is also here:

www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4Gi_fU...

Rooted in stone, our foundations are strong. From that strength, our practice has grown – drawing in the many disciplines needed to keep historic buildings alive. More about our multi-disciplinary work here: rmbconservation.co.uk/news-posts/f... #buildingconservation #heritage

The C13th chapel (with roots reaching back to the C6th) sits cockled onto the rocks of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire in Wales - a beacon of continuity amidst centuries of shifting tides.

A new dating technique for historic buildings - Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Wiltshire Buildings Record experimented with a new technique to date a building and found a surprising result.

New to the @heritagewshc.bsky.social Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre blog: A new dating technique for historic buildings.

When dendrochronology failed and carbon-14 dating didn't match what was known about certain roof truss features, another technique was tried...

#OnePlaceWednesday

Sean Mooney on finding Ireland's oldest wheel in a Co Roscommon bog In 1969 two brothers, Richard and John Mooney, uncovered a wooden wheel preserved in a bog, when they were out turf cutting in Co Roscommon. The brothers had found…

Ireland's oldest wheel technology - carbon dated 400 BC - is on display in @nmireland.bsky.social but do you know it was found in 1969 by two brothers cutting turf in a Co Roscommon bog? Here's the story #LoveBogs #Spéirghorm #Ireland

vimeo.com/1153674121?s....

📍Loci: Carlisle Cats www.digest.andymarsh...

We are looking at the Great Hall which is dominated by its huge oak framed roof. The sun is coming through a series of Georgian sash windows casting bright sunshine on the pine and pitch pine floor.

Hello new friends (courtesy of the ever magnanimous @themerl.bsky.social)

We are the Merchant Adventurers' Hall - a medieval guild hall in York.

What we lack in serious museum content we make up for in big roof energy. 👇