Crystal Hollis

Leicester cathedral- It had been absolutely chucking down rain a few minutes before I took this, but hopefully a worthy addition to #SteepleSaturday.

#LeicesterCathedral
#ChurchCrawling

Creeper of brown & green covering the tower.

Church of St Ruan, #RuanMinor #Cornwall

A 15th Century tower of serpentine, covered in creeper.

#SteepleSaturday

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We are looking at an oak post with lscarred and pitted with age including some sooty marks from candles.

Never mind if walls could talk…

…felled in 1358 we wonder what this oak post had seen?

A Roman burial chamber with stone walls and arched niches. Marble busts are placed in recessed alcoves on both sides, while a decorated sarcophagus stands in the center, carved with figures in relief. The room is dimly lit

#RomanSiteSaturday: the #Roman burial chamber of a wealthy family in Cologne-Weiden. The subterranean burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century AD. It's considered the best preserved of its kind north of the Alps. It was discovered... 🧵 1/2

#archaeology 🏺

Pedro Pascal might be in everything right now but we can confirm that he is not currently in The Museum of English Rural Life

We need your help!

The East Anglian Folklore Centre is having a fundraiser. We desperately want to keep our space open and have achieved so much this last year.

But for it to continue we need your support. As little as 50p and a share would mean the world.

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My photo shows a square Roman floor tile made of red clay. Inscribed into the clay is a drawing of what appears to be a Roman lighthouse (faros). The lighthouse has four storeys, which are stepped inwards at each level. Tile width 20 cm. Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’. On display at the British Museum.

Roman floor tile with a sketch of a lighthouse (or space rocket? 🚀😉)

The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing.

Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’.

British Museum 📷 by me

#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology

The cover of a book titled 'MAKING THE DOVECOTE PAY' by Marion Cran

peace was never an option

Third bucket list church I've gotten to this year! Chesterfield sure is an interesting gem.

#churchcrawling

A detail of a stone relief depicting a barrel on cart, on top of which a dog is lying.

The image depicts a stone relief carving showing an ox-drawn cart. The cart has large wooden wheels and carries a barrel, on top of which a dog is lying. A person sits on the cart holding the reins and guiding the ox.

A marvellous scene of daily life for #ReliefWednesday: A #Roman funerary relief depicting the transport of two (wine?) barrels on a four wheeled cart pulled by two oxen. A #dog, probably the driver's beloved companion, is sitting on the barrels. 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

We are looking at a silver tea pot with a wooden handle. There is an engraved Coat of Arms on the front. Imagine a tiger pouring himself a big cup of tea using it.

It's #internationaltigerday and we love jumping on a bandwagon.

However we are a medieval Hall so...you know...we don't have much in our collections that is tiger related. Actually we have nothing tiger related.

But we know they like tea as Judith Kerr told us. So here's a fancy silver tea pot.

nothing beats a Jet 2 holiday - but if it could, it would be The Museum of English Rural Life

#TraceryTuesday from St Wilfrid's, Old Arley, Warwickshire.

CFP: Leeds IMC 2026
The Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies invites papers on any aspect of the long 14thC across the Plantagenet estates.
📅 6–9 July 2026
📨 Title + abstract by 31 Aug 2025
✉️ Laura.Tompkins@hrp.org.uk & dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk

Part of a building dedication to the Emperor Antoninus Pius by the Sixth Legion which was found at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Now on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall

Just because you all need more archaeological sites and finds in your feed. The ship burial at Gokstad near Sandefjord, Southeastern Norway, was excavated in 1880. The ship had a length of 23 m and is dated to around 890 AD. The ship was in use for about 10 years before being used as a burial ship.

Flying visit to St. Petrox in Dartmouth. Have to say the skylights were a bit of a surprise!

#churchcrawling
#churcharchaeology

I can't believe Sandstorm has its own wiki....

For the Feast Day of St Christopher we find this 15c roundel at Denton Church, Norfolk.

Tall tower, with angle buttresses & spire above.

Church of St Wulfram’s, #Grantham #Lincolnshire

West tower, the main feature of which is the crocketed spire.
86 metres (282 feet tall in total.
Lucarnes with ballflowers at lower level, plain on the level above.

Peregrine falcons were circling.

#SteepleSaturday

The rock art panel, engraved with a depiction of a boat supporting a human figure on a palanquin-like structure (credit: Dorian Vanhulle, AKAP).

#RockArt hints at the origin of Egyptian kings 🏺

Analysis of a rock engraving near Aswan, Egypt, indicates it may depict an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the #AncientEgyptian state.

A powerful #AntiquityThread 1/16 🧵

Lichfield Cathedral

The only medieval Cathedral with three spires.

@lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social has many treasures including the Lichfield Angel, discovered in 2003, a remarkable survival of Saxon sculpture. Dated to c800 it is thought to have formed part of a tomb presumably that of St Chad.

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Glad you enjoyed the talk Fiona! Thanks for coming!

After an excellent talk about graffiti on glass by @graffitiginger.bsky.social at Leicester Guildhall last night here's my favourite teeny skull in the very same building for #MementoMoriMonday

Can't believe it's already Wednesday! Really looking forward to returning to Leicester.

Aberlemno Pictish stone
@stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
#pictishstone
#pict

Join me in just over a week's time in Leicester! We'll be talking about graffiti and glazier's marks 😎 can't wait to see you all!

#historicgraffiti #leicestermuseums #archaeology #graffiti

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Curiously, the Roman roof tiles used to build the Saxon arch were brought from Leicester, over 40km from Brixworth, despite there being the ruins of a villa about a mile from the church. Brixworth was originally a Romanesque basilica, and the Saxon arch was internal and flanked the nave.

Huge thank you to @graffitiginger.bsky.social and Tony Hack for showing me the medieval graffiti in the tower of St. Giles church, Imber today. A once in a lifetime experience.

#photography

Early morning start today.