The Great Dish from the Mildenhall Treasure, a hoard of #Roman #silver tableware. 4th C, Suffolk. It features a celebration for #Bacchus with dancing, singing & drinking, Pan, satyrs, maenads. The centre shows Oceanus surrounded by mythical marine creatures. British Museum

From all corners, Neolithic axes hold their own stories in stone across hundreds of miles & many of hours flaking then grinding. These tools, and the quarrying to make them had one of the first major impacts on the landscape in Britain just under 6000 years ago.

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Digging into henges and henging…
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#Orkney #Neolithic #RingOfBrodgar #StonesOfStenness #Archaeology

Upper (south) gallery mosaics of Hagia Sophia

Komnenian Mosaic, Zoe Mosaic, the Deesis Mosaic

Frescoes of Archangel Michael with Saints Cosmas and Damian and more
Atik Mustafa Paşa Camii/Cabir Camii, a former Byzantine church of unknown dedication after restoration
Photos from visit earlier this week

The west doorway of the monastic church at Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The Cistercian abbey was established on its present site in 1152 by monks from Fountains Abbey. #AdoorableThursday 📸 My own.

Delighted to have featured on an episode of the Govan Early Medieval podcast with Dr. Tom 𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊 to discuss the Elderslie Cross Paisley Museum and its fascinating relationship with the The Govan Stones ⚔🛡👑 #HLFsupported Paisley is OneRen RenCouncil

All Saints church, East Meon
#adoorableThursday

The Alexander Panel in the upper North Gallery of the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. The mosaic depicts Byzantine Emperor Alexander and is dated c 912. 📷 My own. medievalmosaics.com/mosaics/10

The central panel of the 15thC alabaster altarpiece at Nottingham Castle showing the trinity is absolutely stunning. The top two angels are definitely censing with some menace though, you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of them!
#ThuribleThursday

First visit to the stunning Hereford Mappa Mundi on Monday, drawn in the late 1290s in Norman French

Wales stands out clearly with Snowdon, Caernarvon, Conway & St David's depicted - an incredible medieval vision of the world

📷 Original map & modern translated version

#AdoorableThursday
Main doorway, strange beast in the left spandrel, maybe a Harpy (human head and bird body) with foliage in its mouth,
Keevil, church St Leonard, #Wiltshire

Milecastle 39 on #hadrianswall #nationaltrail in the N'land National Park

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (9th May) was at 5.24pm, sunset is at 8.43pm 🌤️

'So the beautiful bird ventured into flight.
Now he sought the home of the angels above,
that glorious country, bold and strong in power.'

An Anglo-Saxon poem on the Ascension: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/06/christ…

May 9: Feast of Brénainn (Brendan) (†573) of Birra (Birr, Ireland), abbot. Friend and disciple of Columba. He intervened at a synod in Meath which ended Columba’s excommunication, and advised him to build his celebrated monastery on Iona. Usually Nov 29. ©August Schwerdfeger

#Roman FortThursday
Housesteads was a #Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland. It is dramatically positioned on the end of the mile-long crag of the Whin Sill over which the Wall runs, overlooking sparsely populated hills.
#Archaeology #History

3,000-year-old Egyptian flip-flops.
The pair of sandals was made from woven reeds and palm leaves, dating to around 1000 BC. They have been remarkably preserved due to the arid desert climate.

On display at the National Museum of Copenhagen.

The medieval priest’s doorway at the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch at Crick in Northamptonshire. #AdoorableThursday 📸 My own.

The remains of the east gate defences of Piercebridge Roman Fort at Piercebridge in County Durham. The fort lies at a strategic point where Dere Street crossed the River Tees. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.