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Monet believed light changed every 7 minutes. To capture it, he swapped canvases constantly, chasing the fleeting moment.

Photo of women in witch costumes,black cloaks and pointed hats on paddle boards

Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)

Stronsay’s Kelp Riots By Bill Miller and first published in The Stronsay Limpet. Republished here with kind permission. Stronsay has been associated with kelp making for centuries, and in fact James Fea of Whitehall , S…

Stronsay's Kelp Riots theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/01/s...

St Digain’s Church, Llangernyw, is inhabited by the Angelystor, an ancient spirit that appears on Halloween and 31 July to announce the names of those in the parish who will die shortly after. One Halloween, a tailor scorned the idea of the Angelystor... www.peoplescollection.wales/items/202509...

A mythical beast named the Garrog preyed on the locals of Dolgarrog. Some have compared it to a wild boar, while others have claimed that it was a dragon-like creature….There is a carving of the Garrog near the water pipelines today. www.peoplescollection.wales/items/202511...

A mermaid was found stranded in Conwy at low tide and the local fisherman refused to return her to the water. She cursed the town and its people, vowing that they would forever suffer disaster. Many believe that her curse struck during a fish famine … www.peoplescollection.wales/items/202508...

Just discovered ‘Scenes of local legends in Conwy County’ www.peoplescollection.wales/collections/.... Here are some more legends..🧵

Legend has it that the palace of Helig ap Glannawg (a 6th century prince) once stood to the west of the Great Orme. It was flooded after the ghost of a murdered Scottish chieftain placed a curse on the family. www.peoplescollection.wales/items/202507...

Two halves of a bone flute, right ends snapped. Top part with holes

This #findsfriday we have a flute made from the long bone of a crane with two holes in its side.

Newcote Round Barrow, West of Warter, East Riding of Yorkshire.
#photography

Awumbuk Awumbuk: There is an emptiness after visitors depart. The walls echo. The space which felt so cramped while they were here now seems weirdly large. Sometimes everything seems a bit pointless. The indi...

Awumbuk: There is an emptiness after visitors depart. The walls echo. The space which felt so cramped while they were here now seems weirdly large. Sometimes everything seems a bit pointless. The indigenous Baining people who live in the mountains of Papua New Guinea.. gsashowcase.net/work/awumbuk/

Tolkien's Clapback To Nazi Germany — CultureSlate J.R.R Tolkien famously sent a polite but savage correspondence to the Nazis in 1938. His letters were gathered and published in collected works like The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien . This is how we kn...

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A Piro girl emerges after her First Menstruation ceremony Kigimawlo

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Our bluebell woodland

Shivelight and shadowtackle

Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood

The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888

Is this painting who we now are? The identity grapplings of mystic artist Ben Edge Vikings, miners, refugees, enslavers and good old Albion himself … Ben Edge reveals how his dynamic new understanding of Britain today was triggered by seeing a procession of druids march past a KFC

Love the art of Ben Edge, whose chronicling of the English folk revival and the weirdness of our old customs offers a different vision of Albion to the fake patriots and flag-shaggers

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

An oak tree with two trunks like legs that grow together about halfway up before branching out into outstretched arms.

Today I found an Ent

“Photography is not the preservation of a landscape, but the awakening of emotion through light and form.”

YouTube video by Moocake North Sentinel Island: The World's Worst Holiday Destination

A delightfully sweary archaeology graduate tells the fascinating story of the history of the North Sentinel Island tribe in 45 mins.

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

I have so many questions about this short film. So many. Check it out @ladyliminal.bsky.social. The aesthetic is Whovian meets Fluxus with a dose of Festival of Britain.

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

An "upside down" map showing the alignment of England and Scotland with Denmark more clearly.

I was telling someone about this map a few days ago. Scotland is the warm south of Scandinavia not the cold north of the UK.
Source: archaeology.co.uk/articles/fea...

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A lovely sunny October day. Ollie, a white man in a purple jacket and sunglasses, stands beside a very large standing stone, around 6m tall. From this angle (the side) it's wider at the bottom and tapers towards the top. Behind it is a similarly sized pine tree. The ground is sandy and covered in pine needles, with other rocks exposed.

#StandingStoneSunday #DailyMegalith

Ollie admires the menhir du Reun, aka menhir de Skividan #Treffiagat #Finistère #Brittany #France (2007)

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Horns Across the Sea: Bronze Figurines and the Metal Highways of the First Millennium BCE Sardinian bronzetti reveal a far-reaching trade network that linked the Mediterranean to northern Europe

Bronze figurines from Sardinia carry the isotopic fingerprints of Mediterranean trade 3,000 years ago—linking horned-helmeted warriors to networks stretching to Iberia and perhaps Scandinavia. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Nuragic #Anthropology

Stones of Renewal: Rebuilding Ritual and Community in Early Bronze Age Jordan Excavations at Murayghat reveal how monumentality and ceremony helped desert communities survive collapse

In the hills of southern Jordan, a 5,000-year-old landscape of dolmens and standing stones reveals how early desert communities turned ritual and stonework into tools of survival. #Archaeology #Levant #BronzeAge #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/stones-of-...

The First Beasts of the Steppe How a Siberian burial mound reshapes our understanding of early Scythian animal art

The oldest Scythian art wasn’t gold but bone and bronze. A Siberian tomb reveals how animal motifs first linked riders, spirits, and steppe life 2,800 years ago. #Archaeology #Scythians #EurasianSteppe #ArtHistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-first-...

These corner stones of the #Bronzeage wall structure around the #settlement at Santa Cristina on Sardinia are part of the #nuraghe culture and date to 1000isch BC. Here pictured for #standingstonesunday. 🏺

“This research adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the late Bronze Age was a time of unprecedented connectivity.”

A character in Dylan Horrock's Atlas says something like "all stories are maps. They are about people and the distance and spaces between them." I love that metaphor.