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June 7: Feast of Colmán (C6th) of Droim Mór (Dromore, County Down). He founded the monastery of Droim Mór, where he was also bishop. There he reputedly taught Finnian of Moville, also of Ninian’s Whithorn monastery. Colmán was venerated in both Scotland and Ireland. 📸Steven Law #medievalsky

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Marching north on a campaign against the Scots, Æthelstan, king of the English, granted Amounderness to the Church of York #OTD in 934. The hinterland of modern Blackpool, it may have been a bribe to win the support of Wulfstan I, archbishop of York. 📸Athelstan Museum #medievalsky

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Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. Beautiful examples of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago! The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

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#RomanSiteSaturday These 'tunnels' underneath Colchester Castle are actually the foundations of the Roman Temple of Claudius, built ~49 AD They still hold up the Castle today and you can take a tour underground to see them! 📸 My own 🏺 #archaeology #romanbritain #photooftheday

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A #Roman glass flask, made of cobalt blue with white stripe decoration layer on top. It was made about 2000 years ago, & is a lovely example of early Imperial glassware (📷 Getty Museum) #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology AncientBlueSky

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A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks. Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD. From the collections at the Museum of London. 📸 me 🏺 #archaeology

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#RomanSiteSaturday and a short thread on a few fragments of Roman Mediolanum, better known to you & i as Milan 🇮🇹 Beginning with the Colonne di San Lorenzo, a colonnade of 16 Corinthian columns moved here in c4 from either a c2 temple or bath house 🧵👇

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A new exhibition revealing fascinating information on some of Edinburgh’s earliest citizens has just opened at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. The exhibition is part of the 900th anniversary celebrations of both Edinburgh and the Cathedral. #Edinburgh900 #Archaeology

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The remains of a semi-circular tower that formed part of the east gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum). It was one of two which flanked two arched gateways. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln

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The Church of St. Lawrence at Warkworth in Northumberland. The church is mostly C12th and C15th in date, with the west tower built in around 1200. The belfry and spire were added in the C14th or C15th. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Medieval #Warkworth #Northumberland

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“I’m not worried, YOU’RE worried.” My favourite angsty face pot. From Roman Carlisle, in the collections at Tullie. #FindsFriday

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Ring of Brodgar #Orkney #Scotland #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #Nikon #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #monochrome #bnw

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A lot of good open access articles here - well worth a look 👇

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7 June 1641: Charles I orders 'false charges' against Archibald Adair deprived Church of #Ireland bishop of Killala found guilty of uttering seditious words, appearing to favour the Covenanters to be expunged from the record #otd (John Armagh)

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#OnThisDay - 7 June - in AD 421 the Emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia. A significant political figure in her own right, she was also an accomplished poet and scholar. #History 🏺 Image: RIC X Theodosius II (East) 229; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200541). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology Pristine beautiful Early Bronze Age Conygar Hill type barbed & tanged flint arrowhead c 2100-1500 BCE, field-walking at Kirk Hammerton nr York, England. Submitted to PAS findsorguk & HER | thornboroughag.org Pic credit: Tony Hunt

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‘Aw, I don’t know, it just feels like you’ve raised some kind of wall between us…’ Larger than life bronze head of the emperor Hadrian, found in the Thames at London Bridge in 1834. British Museum. #FindsFriday #Mudlarking

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#FindsFriday The 'Peedie Pict' - a tiny Pictish warrior in a long tunic carved into a cattle bone! Found at Bu Sands in Orkney, it is thought to have been a gaming piece for something similar to the Viking game Hnefatafl 📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientbluesky #museums #history #scotland 🏺

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A #FindsFriday from Welsh prehistory which should be far more famous than it is.. The remarkable Caergwrle 'bowl', a unique shale representation of a Bronze Age ship unearthed in 1823, with gold waves, oars & shields applied. Just incredible 🤩 📷 1939 Amgueddfa Cymru catalogue 📷 My own, St Fagans

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I found myself feeling rather bored last night, so I decided to interact with ChatGPT 🖖🏺 #StarTrek #archaeology

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King Edwin’s daughter, Eanflæd, became the first Northumbrian to be baptised #OTD in 626. She later wed King Oswiu, championed the Roman dating of Easter and became abbess of Streanæshalch (Whitby) with her daughter Ælfflæd. 📸Chris Kirk #medievalsky

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Day 5 of #Durotriges25 and the Romans have made an appearance Typical 🤣 #Samian Ware (terra sigillata) #Roman #pottery #Archaeology Fresh from the ground this #Findsfriday

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Standing Stone Circle of Brodgar, Orkney, June 6, 2025

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Bronze pin - clothes fastener Archbishop Wulfstan Archbishop of York. AD 1002 - 1023 Found in the Archbishop’s tomb in @elycathedral.bsky.social Displayed Faith Museum, #BishopAuckland #CountyDurham #FindsFriday

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#FindsFriday Stone head from Mšecké Žehrovice, Czech Republic, wearing a torc, late La Tène culture (cc. 450–50 B.C.) The sculpture is now in the Prague National Museum as inventory No. 111938. (See Alt for find details) #History #Archaeology #Art

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#Archaeology #England #History www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The Wandsworth Shield - an Iron Age shield dating to the 2nd century BC. It was found while dredging the River Thames at Wandsworth in South London during the first half of the 19th century. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #IronAge

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The Norman font of St Mary’s Parish Church at Acton in Cheshire. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Medieval #Acton #Cheshire

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Fragmentary wall painting from Ostia Antica depicting a court scene. Dating to the first half of the 3rd century AD, the fresco is part of the collections at the Ostia Antica site museum. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #OstiaAntica #Roman

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Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk was founded as a fort for a unit of the Roman army and navy In around AD 200. It lost importance after Burgh Castle was built in the 3rd century. The site was abandoned in the 5th century, but has revealed 150 Anglo-Saxon burial. #RomanFortThursday

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Quintus Julius Severus - #Veteran Julius Severus retired with the privileges and status of veteran (veteranus), and settled close to the fortress. His original home was Dinia in Gaul, now #Digne in south-east #France. #RomanBritain #RomanFortThursday #Isca #Caerleon #Roman #Archaeology #History

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Reconstruction of the lakeside Roman fort of Galava near modern-day Ambleside in the Lakes. #RomanFortThursday Lake Windermere must have provided a wealth of fish 🐟 & wildfowl for the soldiers stationed here 📷 Artist unknown: reproduced on the @nattrustarch.bsky.social interpretation panel

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A charming seventeenth-century door at Coton Manor in Northamptonshire for #AdoorableThursday.

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Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

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Cistercians preferred seals! A high proportion (63%) of the C12/13th manuscripts from the monastery at Clairvaux were bound in sealskin, mostly harbor & harp seals from Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland & Greenland, perhaps chosen to match their white habits. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/medieva...

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I think the final proofs of my book on Tacfarinas have finally been signed off & so it will shortly be heading for the printing press. A book about anti-#Roman rebellion in northwest Africa in the early reign of Tiberius. Now available for pre-order www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tacfarinas-A...

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The remains and outline of the granary building at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields on South Tyneside. The fort was probably built in around AD 128 to guard the mouth of the River Tyne. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #SouthShields

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The tower door of St. Mary’s Church at Acton (near Nantwich) in Cheshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Medieval #Acton #Cheshire

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The splendid nave roof at Rotherham Minster, South Yorkshire, c1500. Wooden panels and bosses, the bosses gilded, for #WoodensDay. Restoration in the 1870s revealed musket ball holes, as elsewhere presumably an attempt to get rid of jackdaw nests, probablyin the 17th Century.

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It’s #ReliefWednesday & this is the Ludovisi Sarcophagus. Its dense, fraught, non-classical style shows a writhing & emotive battle between Romans & Goths in high relief. Mayhem whirls around the sole calm figure of the general (possibly the tenant of the coffin?) 🕰️c230AD 🏛️Museo Nazionale, Rome 📷me

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#ReliefWednesday For you do not share The Pierian roses, but unseen in the house of Hades You will stray, breathed out, among the ghostly dead Sappho, Fragment 65 Exaltation of the flower. Grave stele, Farsala. Thessaly, Greece. 470 - 460 BCE. Louvre Museum #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

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#ReliefWednesday - The superb 'Felix Gem' (ΦΗΛΙΞ ΕΠΟΙΕΙ) - a stunning engraved sardonyx intaglio, ca. Early 1st Century AD, showing Odysseus and Diomedes executing the theft of the Palladion from Troy. #Myth #Art 🏺 Image: Ashmolean Museum (AN1966.1808). Link - ashmolean.org/collections-...

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This #ReliefWednesday we honour the fallen murmillo gladiator: Quintus Sossius Albius. This funerary stele commemorates his life with the dedication made by the freedwoman Sossia Iusta. Whether Albius died on the job is not clear… #AncientBluesky🏺

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Traveling in #Roman times: For #ReliefWednesday a relief depicting a carruca, a four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses. Using a carruca was a rather comfortable way of travelling: the carriage body was suspended on leather straps - a kind of shock absorber. 🧵1/2 🏺#archaeology

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Limestone plaque with the face of an owl. From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

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Ealdwulf, archbishop of York from 995, died #OTD in 1002. Wulfstan II succeeded him. 📸Paul Lakin #medievalsky

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The sign of the Holy Cross appeared on the moon at dawn #OTD in 806, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 📸Nick Bramhall #medievalsky

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June 4: Feast of Eadfrith (†721), monk and bishop of Lindisfarne. The artist and scribe of the Lindisfarne Gospels, a masterpiece of insular illumination. He also commissioned the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and restored Cuthbert’s Inner Farne oratory. Æthilwald succeeded him. #medievalsky

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Kidwelly Castle, Wales. Built in 1106 by the Bishop of Salisbury in order to pacify the Welsh. It was unsuccessfully besieged by forces of Owain Glyndŵr in Aug 1403 with help from French soldiers who captured Kidwelly town. The castle was relieved by a Norman army in Sept 1403.

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Created c.1150 -1200, this manuscript from one of our Greek Gospel Lectionaries features some lovely borders, known as pylai, around the headings for the first lection of weeks for Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. [Sion L40.2/G1 f117] #EarlyGreekManuscript #SionCollege #LambethPalaceLibrary

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