Edmund Simons

Easy LB description to AI any guesses?

Enjoying putting listed building descriptions into AI. It’s not bad, but can’t get phasing or weathering, everything looks 19th c (too much American data?).

Easy one, what building is this?

New Book Launched in the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Hosted North Atlantic World Series The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is pleased to announce the launch of another book in The North Atlantic World Series. ‘Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c900-1300…

Pleased to announce the launch of another book in The North Atlantic World Series. ‘Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c900-1300’
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I used to live there (it’s not a village!) it will be all of the above … and worse

Beautiful, early 16thc linenfold doors, falling apart and being eaten by beasties! I won’t say where to save the blushes of the parishioners…. But really! #AdoorableThursday

Oh yes! Somewhere we have a copy, I must try and read it one day

Nordy Bank hillfort, Clee Hill, Shropshire, you can see about a billion other hillforts from here

#HillfortsWednesday

....it a truly unique object.

On display at Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz.

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Wise words from behind the organ

Ahhhh… Bonzos

You are doing the archaeology of Dan! That’s wonderful… and terrifying at the same time

12th?

Two worn paths parallel each other through a grass field nibbled short by sheep.

Covid in the landscape. This double path never existed until Covid and we were asked to walk a metre apart. People switch between paths now. How long will it take for those two paths to fade back into the landscape.

This is maybe a timely reminder that not everyone working in heritage has the same levels of access to academic resources & archives. As much as we'd want it to be - the heritage sector is NOT a level playing field.

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He’s been there since the 80s, I presume he had been ditched long ago! Not one item of the interpretation is, in any way, accurate, it’s just 80s fantasy. But, oddly, he’s become historically interesting because of that

Emily Edwards said she can, drop her a line

I’m slightly obsessed with decaying medieval churches, but sometimes the scale and rate of loss becomes all too apparent.

Feeling immensely reassured that AI won't take all our jobs.

You are being unfair, you can imagine Henry bumbling about wondering which sofa to sit on in his micro-hall

That’s where you are! I have an old postcard of this building and I can never work out where it is… but there you are!

Recs? Is this a typo for relics? I suspect so

Indeed!

I’m being dim, they are on foot! I’ve asked some armour/ medieval martial arts types for thoughts

This is wonderful! I’ve never seen it before, 1240s? Judging by the armour. I presume they were mounted, but they are using narrow lances with both hands and without shields, very very archaic! Do you mind if I ask others about it?

This is a VERY exciting photo! Beavers! After a gap of 800 years

Now a Wetherspoons, so still providing bizarre entertainments

Saint Non’s Bay, next to the birthplace of David, monastic pioneer and a link between the Christian Roman world and the Middle Ages. Happy Saint David’s Day

A site I haven’t been to in ages, but which retains its appeal. Bit modern, (18thc) but with some amazing literary associations (not the one you would think).

Ahhh! Worked? And in rows?

Ohh, there’s a question!
When I gave my commercial hat on, not at all, academic and professional heritage are a million miles apart. With my academic hat on I try to resolve this a little