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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does this count for #MosaicMonday? The turquoise mask of the turquoise god Xiuhtecuhtli possibly given to the Conquistador Cortes by the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma ii and thus associating Cortes with this god.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 02/09/2026

Haughey's Fort, Co. Armagh is part of a much wider prehistoric landscape #HillfortsWednesday Discovery of over 200 possible structures and an avenue leading to a ritual pool nearby suggests it was a site of social, economic and ritual importance. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Topographic map of the archaeological features in the landscape, including Haughey's Fort, many smaller enclosures and several earthworks.

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Who else is climbing a hillfort to watch the solar eclipse this evening? A perfect place to connect great views, awesome celestial events and the continuous fabric of humankind, surely? #HillfortsWednesday

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Behind a row of shops, a good 15 feet below modern ground level, hidden in a car park,covered by a metal grate, I give you the beautiful but hard to photograph Punishment Of Dirce mosiac. Rediscovered after a WW2 bombing raid #MosiacMonday #Pula

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SpoilaSunday Older Roman spoila lives on at the base of the Venetian Town walls in Pula themselves built over the original Roman wall

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SpoilaSunday The outline of the original Roman temple of Diana pokes out in the rear wall of the later medieval town hall

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SpoilaSunday The Roman columns built into the base of Pula Cathedral. A remnant of the earlier Temple of Jupiter Conservator perhaps?

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

1/ Stone labyrinth gate, one of three entrances to the triple walled bronze age hillfort of Gradina rediscovered at the start of the last century. The gate turns and narrows to funnel any approach into a bottleneck. #HillfortsWednesday

A view of one of the stone gates to the hillfort excavated by archaeologist Anton Gnirs

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Fragments of 2nd Century mosaic, hippocamp and vase, Monastery of St Francis, #Pula #Croatia #MosaicMonday

A mosiac in Pula Croatia featuring a hippocamp, a mythical horse with the tail of a fish and a vase with a guilloche border

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Pula Kastell, a Venetian star fort built over the remains of a Roman garrison fort built over the original Histri hillfort. #hillfortswednesday showing the back of the Little Theatre, a Roman theatre and the view of Amphitheatre #Pula

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Breakfast coffee and croissant under the shade of olives with this as my view. Doesn't get much better #Pula #Roman

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What else could I be thinking of while having a local beer in the forum? Tempio di Augusto, Pola, Croatia

A photograph of the Temple Of Augustus dominating the view from the Forum of Pula, Croatia.

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

1/5 "The profile of whole stupendous ruin, as seen at a distance of a mile eastward, is cleanly cut as that of a marble inlay. It is varied with protuberances, which from hereabouts have the animal aspect of warts, wens, knuckles, and hips. #HillfortsWednesday #Dorset #MaidenCastle

An early photolithographic plate of Maiden Castle Dorchester take by local photography pioneer John Pouncy approx 1885

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Those were the Durotriges- described as living on milk and flesh, and it might be supposed that they covered in the tops of their pits with wattled roofs and there passed their time. ... but used these places in times of war as camps of refuge for their cattle #Dorset #HillfortsWednesday

A 1926 photogravure picture of the ramparts at Maiden Castle, taken by German photographer Emil Otto Hoppe

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A difficult day at the coalface...

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A special #MosaicMonday announcement – Save the Date - Free ASPROM Symposium, Saturday 7 March 2026, 13.50-17.30 (UK time) to be held on Zoom. Speakers on mosaics in Aquileia and Tunisia, plus Coralie Turpin and Jeremy Deller on the Roman-inspired mosaic on Marine Drive in Scarborough. 1/2

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Couldn't agree more. Can't think of any other time in my lifetime when freedom of speech has been so supressed in this country. A truly bizarre few years

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 13/02/2026

This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws. Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money suppressing civil liberties. Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Ring Of Brodgar Stone circle and henge 4500 years old and still a thing of breathtaking beauty Photo my own Open for the panorama #StandingStoneSunday

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Seriously fxxk America right now Time to begin the most difficult process of boycotting anything American

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

@loudribs.bsky.social ah you've turned up here! Missed you on twitter but left too because of the Idiot Owner Just placed an order with you for your wonderful Bournemouth slander. Look forward to receiving it!

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney a candidate for the oldest in the UK at 3100-2900BC. My own #standingstonesunday

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The sale keeps going. I'm going to be adding more original art at LOW PRICES during the weekend, all prints are on sale!! Also $20 prints!

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A brand new UK TV #archaeology series starts TONIGHT Tues 4 November 9pm on More4 With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social HUZZAH !! 🥳 Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I am always in a weird situation. I make comics, but I don't feel I have any place in the comics world or publishing. My audience is almost completely OUTSIDE comics. People in comedy, film, writing, other disciplines, they're the ones who like my work.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I have been making changes on my patreon. I am determined to make good and funny work & it's pretty clear I can only do that working for myself... so I'm starting a monthly zine & a monthly print. Putting together the first zine now!

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#HillfortsWednesday Between 1795-1816 the hillforts of #Dorset were part of a chain of visual shutter relay telegraph stations for the Admiralty connecting Plymouth to London. The chain included the high Hillforts of Lewesdon, Bulbarrow and Hambledon and at the racetrack by Badbury Rings 1/14

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A little #HillfortsWednesday quiz for you? Can you name each of the hillforts depicted in these antiquarian illustrations? Some far easier than others Bonus points if you can name the artist or book. Thousands of (non-redeemable) internet points to be won!! Clue: they are all in #Dorset

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Our next Autism-Friendly opening will take place from 9-10am on Saturday 18 October, offering the opportunity for families with members on the Autism spectrum to explore Pitt Rivers & @morethanadodo.bsky.social in a quiet environment. Booking is essential. More info at bit.ly/4pJlscQ.

View into a large high-ceilinged gallery space with densely packed glass display cases in rows and spotlights shining down from the ceiling.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 16/09/2025

A limestone anchor, found being used as a headrest in a burial at the post-Roman cemetery of Worth Matravers, Dorset #TombTuesday An extremely rare find, it suggests the individual had connections to the sea, perhaps through fishing or trade. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Oblong stone with a hole bored in its top. It is made from local limestone, indicating the individual's local ties (credit: Lilian Ladle).

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

John Constable's watercolour of Old Sarum: an Iron Age hill fort, taken over by the Romans, before becoming the early medieval Salisbury. The site was abandoned when the city grew too big for the enclosure. #HillfortsWednesday #Constable #landscape #watercolour #medieval #Wiltshire

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Neare adjoineing this Badbury is a faire Plaine, nowe ſtored with Conies, haveing on the farther ſide a mounted Hill, environed at the toppe with a treble Trench, and a Rampier, the Worke, #hillfortswednesday #Dorset #Coker 1/

A small section of the ordanace Survey map.of Dorsetshire, 1811 by Mudge, engraved at the drawing room in the Tower showing Badbury Rings

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I am the lucky recipient of Radiohead tickets. I can not tell you how happy this makes me

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

On this day 19th August 1642, Hugh Green was put to death in #MaumsburyRings #Dorchester. Green was a Roman Catholic chaplain practicing in Chideock Castle when in March 1942, Charles I issued the order to ban all Roman Catholic priests from the kingdom. #Dorset 1/

A painting of the short lived gallows on the outskirts of Maumsbury Rings Roman Amphitheatre

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Imagine Excel but 5000 years ago… Early tablets like this one were used for administrative purposes to record the storage and distribution of goods, animals and people. This tablet comes from Jemdet Nasr, the remains of an ancient site in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). 📝 AN1926.583

A stone tablet carved with ancient calculations

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Bluesky: Bluesky needs to verify your age please use your phone's camera to let us estimate your age Me:

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Although the tarmac in the centre is truly jarring

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

First #Chough chick fledglings of the 2025 season arrived in my garden this morning. Here's Mr & Mrs Pen-las Rock South with their 3 noisy chicks constantly begging for food. @cofnod.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Not farre offe," [from Lambert's Castle] "but on the farthest Angle of this Shire, stands Pilles-den, well knowen by reason of a verie high Hill ariseing there with a Lodge on the toppe, which serveth for a Marke by sea and Lande" -Coker's survey of #Dorset shire #Hillfortswednesday

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Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A fragment of banking at Penbury knoll camp, Pentridge #Dorset for #Hillfortswednesday. A small univallate enclosure partially destroyed by a quarry. The climb to the top is more than rewarded by some of the best views in Dorset

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