#TilesOnTuesday #TerracottaTuesday
Lively #Roman box flue tile w roller-applied hunting scene+random letters.
Curious, as flue tiles embedded in walls to distribute heat and never seen again, but texture = better keying for mortar.
British Museum from ?villa, Ashtead Surrey

#FairyTaleTuesday
In Estonian Folklore
'you lose your voice when a wolf secretly gazes at you – if you get a sore throat or other throat disease, the voice is requested back from the wolf'
(Mare Kõiva, 2019)
🖼️-Made Balbat madebalbat.com

Daily Picture Theme My favourite #dahlia photo from last year, hopefully with plenty of 'Captured Colour'.

Brilliant.

Masterpiece from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's #MetTwinning campaign where they encouraged followers to recreate their favourite works from the museum's collection and share them on social media.
theartnewspaper.com/2020/05/26/the…

Nusch Éluard also posed for #Picasso many times
theguardian.com/books/2010/mar…

Did you know bees have two pairs of wings?

To mark the opening of our new exhibition Bees: A Story of Survival, here are 10 brilliant bee facts to marvel at these amazing creatures. 🐝

📸 Pete Carr

liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ten-br…

#Denbigh
#NorthWales

#NoMowMay alive and kicking on coastal country road in #Pembrokeshire Just imagine what we could achieve for nature if more of the 56,000 km of roads in #Wales looked like this! It's so doable! Huw Irranca-Davies Carolyn Thomas MS / AS Delyth Jewell AS / MS Wildlife Trusts Wales Plantlife #wildflowers

#MosaicMonday
Floor Fragment 350 AD - 375 AD
from a #Roman villa in Medbourne, Leicestershire - known to antiquarians in 1793 & 1801 it was fully exposed in 1877. This design formed the frame & extended along the entire length of the room
World Museum 🌎
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#MapMonday

Love this illustration by Starfish Design
Highlighting some of the attractions and the beautiful railway routes in #NorthWales

#AllMetalMonday
Mailboxes in the foyer of Harlaxton Manor in #Lincolnshire
📸My photo

#MythologyMonday
In De materia medica -
Theophrastus’ (371-587 BCE) enquiry into plants,
it is noted that when the skin of the mandrake is scraped and mixed with vinegar or wine it makes a love potion
kew.org/read-and-watch…

#SundayStonework
#AncientSiteSunday #StandingStoneSunday
Replica carved Pictish stone on the Brough of Birsay, Orkney
📸Charles Tait

1 week to go - prehistoric rock art tour of #YnysMon / #Anglesey with Associate Professor George Nash - Archaeologist & specialist in Prehistoric & Contemporary art & Convener of the Welsh Rock art Organisation
cbawales.org cbawales.org/cba-wales-visi…
#NorthWales

Unpath'd Waters on Tour
The exhibition programme will include a tour by the Maritime Archaeology Trust’s Discovery Bus & a series of static displays organised by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
#unpathdwaters #TaNC #MaritimeArchaeology
unpathdwaters.org.uk/unpathd-waters…

#PubFrontFriday
The Queen's Arms, Grade 2 listed
Built c. 1870
thequeensarmsbirmingham.co.uk/index

In #Birmingham , UK
📸My photo

#FindsFriday
also known as The Calf Bearer - estimated to have originally measured 1.65 meters in height
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#AncientGreece #Archaeology

The 𝘾𝑩𝘼 𝙒𝒂𝙡𝒆𝙨/𝘾𝒚𝙢𝒓𝙪 𝑺𝙥𝒓𝙞𝒏𝙜 𝙁𝒊𝙚𝒍𝙙 𝙏𝒓𝙞𝒑 18-19 May 2024 #Anglesey
includes a chance to visit Barclodiad-y-Gawres - a unique and important passage tomb which is not generally open to the public
More information here: cbawales.org
#Archaeology

The Council for British Archaeology - Cymru / Wales
𝑺𝙥𝒓𝙞𝒏𝙜 𝙁𝒊𝙚𝒍𝙙 𝙏𝒓𝙞𝒑 18-19 May 2024
All information here: cbawales.org
#Archaeology #Anglesey #RockArt

#ManuscriptMonday