Dr Sally Spong

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3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

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Two medieval stone corbels, depicting angels holding books. They've ended up tucked into a corner of the church, balanced on an old crate.

Fallen angels. #stoneworkSunday All Saints, Southill

Favourite cathedral 💕

Statue of a man dressed in the uniform of a Roman soldier, on horseback, turning to face the viewer. His leg, and both arms are missing, but his cloak (the main part of his legend) is visible to the left, draped over both Martin and his horse.

Feast day of St Martin of Tours. 15th C Laon Cathedral #medieval

This is utterly disgraceful.

Memorial to the dead of the Great War. Above the text are the emblems for India, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland. The text is in both English and French, and reads: To the glory of God and to the memory of one million dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 and of whom the greater part rest in France

Laon Cathedral

💯 recommend!

They’re brilliant, aren’t they?! Saw them live at Cambridge Folk Festival and was blown away

View of hilly grassland, some of which has been mown as it's a golf course. On the centre right is a wood, of which this section is mostly beech trees. A chalk path can be seen on the left, winding up the hill. To it's right is a round tumuli emerging from the rough grass. Another tumuli can just be seen on the top of the hill, up and to the right of the first. These are both early bronze age. At the bottom left of image is a wire-haired dachshund, snuffling about in the grass.

This image shows the next ridge along. Again, the chalk path can be seen to the left and to its right three tumuli are visible on the crest of the hill. To their right, a neolithic long barrow can just be seen on the horizon.

Walking on gorgeous Therfield Heath today, so here are some #tombsonTuesday. The Heath is an ancient chalk landscape and home to tumuli and barrows spanning several thousand years. Most of it is still common land. More info in alt text. Bonus points for spotting smol dog

Gravestone covered in lichen, moss, and shrouded by ivy. The top of the stone displays carved shrouded curtains, which are tied back to reveal a skull.

An early #mementomoriMonday for All Hallows Eve.

The wall of a building containing a large-ish fossil used as construction material. The fossil looks like an ammonite, but I could be completely wrong!

Spotted in the wall at Bath Spa Uni yesterday @pavementgeology.bsky.social #stoneworkSunday

I love things like this. It's so great to be able to compare. Thanks for sharing. 😊

@thecrimeagents.bsky.social Just as you were saying.

Wow! These are great! Thank you. 😊

A very handsome* mini wire-haired dachshund lounging on a red sofa with his head propped on a cushion. *opinions are my own

'Alexa. Show me a dog who has totally got it made.' #dogsofbsky #dachshund

Wall memorial to members of the Ringsted family, commemorating - amongst others - 'Four of their sons John, George, Charles, and Ralph, who were cut off in their bloom of life by that fatal distemper the small pox'

A reminder of life before vaccines. #memorialsMonday #earlymodern All Saints, Southill 📷 my own

I was thinking the exact same thing!

Image shows a sunken lane in north Herts. The bottom of the lane is deep is in fallen leaves, while the trees curve overhead to form a tunnel winding away down the hill.

Not much beats an autumnal Green Lane.

Beautifully carved round bowl of pale stone, sitting on a slim pedestal. This is mounted on a small octagonal base, which sits on a larger octagonal surround, all of the same stone. Around the edge of the basin is carved the name Joscelyne Whitbread. The Whitbreads were a local Bedfordshire family who made their fortune from brewing. Since 1795 the family have owned and lived in Southill Park, next to the church. My ancestors are documented as living in the village from as early as the first surviving records in the 1500s.

Designed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1937 and dedicated to Joscelyne Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Howard and Madeline Whitbread, who died in 1936, aged 29. All Saints, Southill. #fontsonFriday @poorfrankraw.co.uk any idea who did the lettering? 📷 my own More info in alt text

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Part of a wooden bench covered in vigorously growing moss and lichens.

Nature doing what nature does. Autumnal churchyard bench #woodensday 📷 my own

Set together to form a circle, each enamel is set in gold and surrounded by precious stones (including, I think, citrines and an amethyst), with floral and filigree gold decorative work surrounding them. Some of the other stones appear to be intaglios, though it's hard to make out what they show. Even though there wasn't any information on the display, my guess is that they are probably re-used Roman intaglios. The left semi-circle depicts Matthew as an angel, while the right is an eagle to represent John.

Exquisite. 2 of 4 semi-circular enamels depicting the evangelists. End of 12th beginning of 13th century. Troyes cathedral treasury. 📷 my own #medievalMonday more info in alt text

Congrats Leonie!

I love Harris & Harris. Not only do they have great new books, but their second hand selection has a great history section.

That’s fabulous! I love the carvings.

The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Norwich
1) Dragon Hall
2) depending upon what's currently in them, one of the churches looked after by www.nhct-norwich.org/our-churches/
3) Norwich Cathedral Refectory cathedral.org.uk/the-refector...

Heard it this morning. Astonishing.

Lovely people of Suffolk (and nearby bits of Cambs & Essex). Happening on Oct 11th in Suffolk's smallest town to fundraise for the school. Bar, Food, and laughs!
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