Sarah Mint

A large moth with open wings and tints of blues in iridescent patterns

#WyrdWednesday
The Black Witch moth, is so large it can be mistaken for a bat (wingspan of >7")
In some cultures they are a good omen, but not everywhere, in Mexico they are called Mariposa de la Muerte / the Butterfly of Death

Ceiling by Stephen Dykes Bower in Hambledon church, Hampshire

#AdoorableThursday

At Nefyn, North Wales.

Bangor History Festival Held at the Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre, Bangor University’s Main Arts Building, Storiel and Bangor Cathedral, the two-day festival promises a rich programme of workshops, discussions, interacti...

www.bangor.ac.uk/events/bango...
#History #Hanes #Bangor

A loo with a very fine view!
at the wonderful Nant Gwrtheryn
nantgwrtheyrn.org
#NorthWales

#Archaeology
#NorthWales

Mouse always on the lookout for #HistoricGraffiti and other glyphs but has drawn a big blank on her scamper down the river Axe in Somerset unlike her Wiltshire scampers. But #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset has come up trumps for her #GraffitiTuesday #MouseJustStaringAtWalls

aha that looks a lot like what caught my eye at Pensychnant last week...Snap 🃏

Shared for #StandingStoneSunday

The Hurlers #BodminMoor #Cornwall

Avebury stone circle

The stones they go a-strolling in their Sunday best. Avebury from a couple of years back. #Wiltshire #StandingStoneSunday

23 May 1430: Joan of Arc captured #otd by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the siege of Compiègne (BNF)

#Caturday

Bees on an ancient seal, looking strangely like pharaohs from the torso up with angelic wings.

Bees are sacred to Apollo, and honey has been offered to the gods for three thousand years, since the days of Mycenae. The Oracle at Delphi was offered honey and said to be a Bee, bringing prophecy down from Apollo; apiaries were connected to the god as well. #FairyTaleTuesday

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY

Bangor University are looking to make more cuts & the University Archive Service, which is accessible to all, is in the firing line. It may not affect you directly, but it will have a huge impact on Welsh & Global history research. #history #heritage #University #archives #Wales #saveyourarchive

Here are some musicians playing music in the margins of a manuscript containing music.
I can hear them.
Can you?

#marginaliamonday #medievalsky

engraving of a woman sitting at a loom from a 1725 edition of In praise of folly

Back to hard work after the bank holiday!

Aerial photo with long rocky headland in foreground & an island in the blue sea beyond

The view over St David's Head & Ramsey Island, west Pembrokeshire, this afternoon during @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial survey ☀️🛩️

Glorious clear air but a bumpy north wind & freezing 🥶 with the window open for photography

📷 Mobile phone pic from 2000ft

#AerialArchaeology

A picture of me stood next to the early medieval stone high cross known as Muiredach’s Cross at Monasterboice on a bright sunny day

What a beautiful bright sunny day! It was perfect to see the detail on the magnificent Muiredach’s Cross at Monasterboice.

The cross is the finest example in the country (in my subjective opinion!). A masterpiece of 10th century Irish art.

#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm

Photo of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, featuring a horse figure pulling a large, gilded bronze disk on a wheeled frame. The disk is partially covered in gold leaf with intricate circular patterns, symbolizing the sun. The sculpture is mounted on six spoked wheels and displayed against a dark background.

The Trondheim Sun Chariot is dated to the Early Bronze Age, approximately 1400 BC. The spiral decorations on its golden sun disc indicates its Nordic origin. The Sun Chariot represents the sun's eternal journey, drawn by a divine horse. The sun and horse....🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

#GlassObjectThursday
Glorious multi-coloured glass bowl found somewhere in Vesuvian area in the 19th C.
Late 1st C BC - early 1st C AD.
Possibly favourite ever everyday #Roman object, which is saying a lot.
In MANN National Archaeological Museum Naples.

Llys Llywelyn is a recreation of a Royal Court of the Princes of Gwynedd used during the 13th century
At St Fagans National Museum of History #Wales #Cymru

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Did you know?....that because the 1939 register is not a census record you don't have to wait 100 years to read it AND it is free to search on 'Find My Past' until 8th May
search.findmypast.co.uk/search.../19...

#StainedGlassSunday - St Mary, Lyminster
Angels of day and night flank images of the demise of the Water Dragon of Knucker Hole who had been fed a poisoned pie by a bloke called Jim
oldechronicles.org.uk/the-dragon-o...
#Dragon #Folklore #DragonLore
📷: Poliphilo WikiCommons

The view is through 2 doorways the rooms are full of drifted sand, this is an abandoned building - there is a door off its hinges in the centre of the second doorway. The walls are a powder blue almost looking like the colour of the sky against the sandy floors

Photo: James Kerwin Photographic
Abandoned building, Kolmannskuppe, Namibia
#adoorablethursday #nocontextdoors #dailydoor

⭐️Tales of the night sky from Welsh folklore⭐️
This Wednesday 2nd April in #Llanrwst with renowned storyteller & author Fiona Collins⭐️

#mosaicmonday
Detail from a mosaic depicting King William II the last Norman king of Sicily
This 12-13th century mosaic is within Monreale Cathedral

#adoorablethursday #nocontextdoors

Photo taken earlier this year in the Kasbah neighbourhood of #Marrakesh #Morocco

#Folklore

Excellent introduction to this tremendous find. I'm especially intrigued by the face or mask at 1.27. Look forward to learning more as the research progresses.