Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Bellerephon slaying the Chimera Lindos. His lead tipped spear melting in the throat of the fire breathing beast and suffocating it. #MosaicMonday 081
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026From Spain the treasure was split and the mask likely ended up in the hands of Italian aristocracy including the Medicis before arriving on British shores and being bequeathed to the museum by Henry Christie 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The mask was certainly from the Royal Aztec treasuries and returned to the Spanish King Charles V as part of his 5th of proceeds, quinto real, the Royal Fifth. 110
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Does 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. 161
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We got to go around during one of the brief breaks during Covid. There was nobody there but myself and the family, not even an attendant. Was a fantastic visit 110
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I great piece. I really wanted to see inside though! Perhaps on my next trip to Zadar 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Dorchester is quieter these days..even on a Friday night. 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Also the home of a gruesome game of 'football' with the head of a quartered Catholic priest and various botched executions. 110
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Hardy was witness to one of the last few public executions by hanging at Dorchester Prison as a young teen. It affected him deeply. 020
Reposted by Chris H Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 02/09/2026Haughey'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 07317
Reposted by Chris H Help and Kindness @helpandkindness.co.uk · 30/08/2026Community Voices: CONCERNS. Getting around Dorset can affect whether people can shop, reach appointments, see friends or take part in community life. Read what we have heard this week and find local transport options. #CommunityVoices #Dorset #HelpAndKindness: Getting around Dorset Community…dlvr.itCommunity Voices: CONCERNS. Getting around Dorset can affect whether people can shop, reach appointments, see friends or take part in community life. Read what we have heard this week and find local transport options. #CommunityVoices #Dorset #HelpAndKindnessGetting around Dorset Community Voices: concerns about getting around Dorset, from reaching appointments and shops to joining activities and staying connected with community life. 001
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026He could "hold their feet to the fire" by creating a large bonfire in his garden and using a specialised rig of ropes and pulleys. But YoU All DonT wANT tO HeAr THat 020
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I never thought I'd say this but cherish that rain. It's a dustbowl in Dorset 110
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026An excellent choice! Can't think of a better environment to sit and watch the movements of sun and moon We are at least guaranteed clear skies this evening! 100
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Who 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 1197
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Behind 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 010
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 010
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 011
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? 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026After his performance in the original Drunken Master thought Jackie was a shoo-in for the lead in Kramer vs Kramer. Coward Hollywood played it safe with Hoffman and robbed us of the better film. 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The uppermost rampart of Gradina hillfort was levelled in 1898 to form a hippodrome but the site had houses, terraces and areas for keeping cattle. The top plateau is covered with piles of stone from these lost dwellings. The hillfort was fed by a nearby spring. 071
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 29/07/20263/ Between the second and third rampart sits the remains of the necropolos where the dead were buried in foetal position over a base of pebbles and stone slab walls with graves ranging from adult to infant in size 120
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 29/07/20262/ Sharp blade-like rocks placed in the walls and nearby ready piled slingshot added to the gate defence. The entire fort was protected by three rings of drystone wall around a large flat plateau with rings measuring from 90m diameter to 300m 120
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 29/07/20261/ 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 1153
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Fragments of 2nd Century mosaic, hippocamp and vase, Monastery of St Francis, #Pula #Croatia #MosaicMonday 051
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It's not the most accesible from those early days but it's firmly my favourite Cure album now. You are right it's a whole album listen where possible. No wasted space at all. 110
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Pula 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 1203
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Breakfast coffee and croissant under the shade of olives with this as my view. Doesn't get much better #Pula #Roman 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What else could I be thinking of while having a local beer in the forum? Tempio di Augusto, Pola, Croatia 000
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Having two right hands is a real and serious condition and you guys shouldn't be mocking 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the Balagon. 010
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Got to thank @durotrigesdig.bsky.social in person for all the fun and interest across bluesky and twitter over the years today. Must have missed you by a few hours but would have said the same to you! Miles comes alive in that roundhouse soon as he crosses the outlined circle! 1131
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 26/05/2026If there's anything more moreish while this side of legal I can't think what it is 110
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026NP! It's lovely to watch this go up in stages. See the choices made on chalk 'plastering' etc and the various techniques they tried to see how things 'may' have been done with available tools. Like any good archaeologist he accepts the limits of knowledge. I'm amazed you two have never met. 141
Chris H @chris-bh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026If you want to see how it was made and the experimental archaeology that went into it then please see my good friend Luke's YouTube channel. H&S come into play here youtu.be/EBYpf7skc4g?...youtu.beWeek 31 Durrington 68 Neolithic HallYouTube video by Historic Concepts 1236
