Angry roof boss at Clavering Church, Essex

The fan vaulting of the ‘New Work’ at the east end of Peterborough cathedral. Completed on the eve of the Reformation

The rarely used C15 north door of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Ingoldsby. No trampled grass here. #AdoorableThursday #LincsConnect #Lincolnshire #ChurchCrawling #MedievalTwitter

La pila bautismal de la Ermita de Cabañas de La Almunia de Doña Godina (Zaragoza): preciosa la pieza en sí y no menos sugerentes las pinturas murales góticas que la circundan, restauradas hace muy pocos años #BuenosDias #JuevesDePilas

The striking ruins of Kilwinning Abbey in Ayrshire, founded by Tironensian monks from Kelso Abbey in the late 1100s on the site of a church dating back to the early 600s. Undiscovered Scotland info/image & reconstruction. #KilwinningAbbey #ScottishChurches #HistoryRebuilt

Have you ever wondered who were the last pagans in Europe? Well, there’s now an exhaustive book on the subject! Today is the official publication day for ‘Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples’ 📚 cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

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Astronomer reveals the exact minute of this year’s summer solstice independent.co.uk/space/solstice…

The east wall of the nave impinges on the #Ogee chancel priest's door (cut back to reveal to end of the label and head stop) #StPeterPortishead #Somerset This suggests that the end of the nave has been (at least) rebuilt #DoorwayThursday #AdoorNoMore A thread (Part 2 or 3)

Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll Constantinople, late 4th-early 5th century At the MET The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sombre and ruined, the remains of the once great Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire, which was founded in the 12thC and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. It was home to Augustinian canons, who were all ordained as priests and ministered to the local area. The surviving chapter house is

Shade was in short supply onsite today was the day heated up. A nice fragment of samian and brooch appeared from the trenches #Carlisle #Archaeology #HadriansWall

Historiated initial 'V'(erba) at the beginning of Ecclesiastes BnF MS Latin 16745; Bible; 12th century; f.108r Gallica BnF

June 20: Feast of Fáelán the Mute of Srath Érenn (Strathearn) and Glenn Drochta (Glen Dochart, Perthshire), pictured. Figure from Irish martyrologies. Robert the Bruce invoked a Fáelán at Bannockburn. 📸Jim Barton

The 9th century Saxon font from St. Mary’s Priory Church at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. Remarkably, the font was discarded in 1653 and rediscovered on a local farm in 1843 where it was being used as a drinking trough for livestock. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #AngloSaxon

One of the prehistoric galleries at Grime’s Graves - a Neolithic flint mine, near Thetford in Norfolk. Under the care of English Heritage, visitors can descend nine metres into one of the prehistoric mine shafts! 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #GrimesGraves #Prehistory #Norfolk

The ‘Boxer at Rest’- a wonderful bronze statue which was discovered in 1885 on the south slope of the Quirinal Hill in Rome. Dating to the 1st century BC, the statue is part of the collections at the Museo Nazionale Romano-Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome. 📸 own #FindsFriday

Patience (Paciencia) triumphs over Wrath (Ira) C12th "Virtues and Vices" font at St Peter, Southrop #Gloucestershire #FontsonFriday

#FontsOnFriday Octagonal font from the 15th century, angels, lions, emblems. St Mary, Stonham Parva, #Suffolk

A small #Roman figurine of a dog, shown with its right front paw raised and its head tilted upwards, towards an unknown figure. It was found at Kirkby Thore (England) - fitting, as dogs were very popular in #RomanBritain 🐕🐶#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #FindsFriday