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It was a fun part of my morning :) hope you enjoyed the walk!

That's one reason why I thought it might be waste. Depending on date, even if a wall-builder couldn't read they could probably recognize how text would look. If it were a reused gravestone there might have been more respect for the dead v. 'here's some debris we bought from Bob the mason'

I'm thinking somehow broken or spoiled in process rather than the (visible) carving, which looks good

Depending on context, it could also be waste from a masonry workshop.

Oh how interesting!

'Pitied my sighs &'

...but I didn't show him the picture, only told him about the text.

The resident nonmedievalist thinks it could be a from lintel or similar as they tended to move gravestones in the 19c rather than break them up and reuse. I'd also suggest memorial plaque. But also, same as above. If pitied my sighs is the text, is it poetry rather than gravestone?

[Something] my sighs? Could you see the first word better than I can?

I just read the same thing - really interesting!

Toussaint Louverture!!!!!

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Ooo haven't seen those yet!

A man and a woman in the Mongolian Olympic uniforms standing in snow under a grey-blue sky, one looking to the distance and the other straight at the camera. They are wearing flowing robes in white and navy with rose-pink accents, and cone-shaped hats in white and blue.

Him: what are you thinking about?

Me: the Mongolian Winter Olympics uniform

Me on a filming screen, wearing n oatmeal brown shorts sleeved jumper, pink glasses on my head, curly hair a bit of everywhere, looking at my phone which is taking a picture of the screen

On the train back home selfie...Pink glasses on and hair bloody everywhere, signifying a job well done and a good day

Had such fun today up in that London doing some filming for a thing, pink glasses and big hair and all. The bigger the hair, the closer to the top of the motte, as my people definitely don't say.

Oh dear

Thanks! They're just inexpensive reading glasses, and I love them 😊

Me on a filming screen, wearing n oatmeal brown shorts sleeved jumper, pink glasses on my head, curly hair a bit of everywhere, looking at my phone which is taking a picture of the screen

On the train back home selfie...Pink glasses on and hair bloody everywhere, signifying a job well done and a good day

Had such fun today up in that London doing some filming for a thing, pink glasses and big hair and all. The bigger the hair, the closer to the top of the motte, as my people definitely don't say.

Much manor, very moatly

I like how sometimes my phone autocorrects 'mostly' to 'moatly'

I edited a thing! Because everything is better if it links back to the medieval Lincoln Jewry, I edited an entire volume on the topic. Coming from Arc Humanities Press in May!