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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 18h

@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @joanavaldez.bsky.social Some of the brilliant World Heritage Site prehistoric rock-art in Alta from last month's Arctic Norway trip. Images of reindeer, hunting, boats, bears, bear-dens, fish, all in great profusion. The earliest panels are from around 5000 BCE.

wide shot showing a rock panel with inscribed prehistoric images painted red, overlooking Alta Fjord

Hunting scene with reindeer, armed stick-like people, and bears mixed in towards the middle.

Hunting scene with people on boats using bow and arrow, plus someone holding up what look a bit like snow-shoes, but may be large skin or cloth shapes to distract the animals.

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@richardosgood.bsky.social @martynjb.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social @mikegill.bsky.social @artefactual.eurosky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social SPTA: all quiet on my Robin Hood's Ball, Knighton Long Barrow cycle ride yesterday 'til 4 of these show up! They do appreciate you getting out the way🙂

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 23/09/2026

The Port of London Authority says that a pod of approximately 25 long-finned pilot whales has been reported within the River Thames east of Gravesend. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is monitoring them and keeping boats away.

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Jaq - Art &c @jaqarts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The opening of the International Surrealist Exhibition 11 June 1936; Dali in diving suit. With over 400 exhibits – paintings, sculptures and ‘surrealist objects’ and around 60 artists were represented, inc. 11 women (see alt), and names like Max Ernst, de Chirico, Picasso, Magritte, Miro and Klee.

* Women artists included in the exhibition were Eileen Agar, Jacqueline B., Leonor Fini, Dora Maar, Maruja Mallo, Meret Oppenheim, Grace Pailthorpe (hailed by Breton as ‘the best and most truly surrealist’ of British artists), Toyen, Sophie Taueber-Arp, Margaret Nash, Gala Dali, Sheila Legge
image is a group of artists, a smaller group seated on the floor, others on chairs, the rest standing, Dali in diving suit and all around them are sculptures and paintings.

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday Lunatronix - part of the 'The Sun and the Moon' exhib at the Saatchi Gallery. Music, video and putting up standing stones as performance.

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@amandachadburn.bsky.social @reblambert.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social 'The Sun and the Moon' exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery is tasty (if rather large at 9 galleries) with some archaeology thrown in.👍 Closes 8th Sep.

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Unfortunately, the land it is on is no longer a National Nature Reserve, so we must only hope that one of our longest running archaeological 'experiments' will be protected.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The BBC have gone too far employing Sith weather presenters.

A bbc weather presenter Chris Fawkes stands in front of the forecast screen which is showing a photo of lightning over a field. His hands are outstretched and it looks like the lightning is coming out of his fingers

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#art #ackroyd #SkelligMichael If you're a Norman Ackroyd fan, get thee to the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath by 6th Sep. Stunning show.

Norman Ackroyd's etching of the Skellig islands off SW Ireland in black and white looking very moody≥

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Tim Hughes @gotimmy.net · 14/08/2026

Anyone want to buy some eclipse glasses and disposable barbecues?

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Stuart @stuartmanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Ich bin ein Binliner..."

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#Eclipse #Wiltshire Oh gawd, not another one.... and tracking a bit jumpy at that. Netheravon Airfield. 2.5 hours elapsed in 15 seconds. DWARF mini scope.

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#StandingStoneSunday #urban @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social Charity-hawled bluestone in Amesbury car park. I'm hoping the Welsh word 'Ithfaen' can mean 'granular rock' as well as Granite (as translated here).

a bluestone on the edge of car park - hawled from Pembrokeshire to Amesbury as part of fun-raiser.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

that's a heck of a nyff poster

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Been a while since I posted anything for #StandingStoneSunday, bit remiss of me. To make amends here a slice of Boscawen-un

The large central stone is in the foreground frame by the outer stones in the background

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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

@drtobydriver.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Hard to believe the steepness in the reconstruction image until you look at the contours! Quite a landscape feature - used to pass it en route to X-country skiing in the late '90s.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

County Kerry, Ireland, 1952, photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The moment Mars peeked out from behind our moon

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

@suegreaney.bsky.social @martynjb.bsky.social @artefactual.eurosky.social any West Woods fans out there - the bluebells are very early this year, and the Long Barrow is being cleared of trees! 🙂

Neolithic barrow covered in bluebells with tree-stump following recent felling

well advanced bluebells in a stand of mature beech

Sign announcing the clearance of trees from the Neolithic long barrow.

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#stonehenge #experimentalARCH #volunteers Great progress by the volunteers building the Neolithic Hall at the Visitor Centre. Wooden skeleton looking great before the daub and thatch conceal it. 👍

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Wanders on the Dingle Peninsula #Ireland #Dingle #Kerry www.damianshields.com

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Chipped into the crowdfunder for this and delighted it is in my hands in time for the sunnier days. The map captures all the green & blue spaces in Bristol. On the reverse is a whole bunch of inspiration for getting outside in nature. Get yours here: www.urbangood.org/products/bri...

Photo of the front cover of the Bristol Urban Nature Map

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Henriette Baron @henriettebaron.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

#Museum #Inklusion Hands On Waldi im Haus der Geschichte Bonn. #Kindheitserinnerung 💙💜💚🧡🩵💛💚💚💜💙

Ein leicht verblasster Stoffdackel, der als Maskottchen der Olympischen Spiele 1972 in Deutschland fungierte, als tastbares Hands On Exponat in der Dauerausstellung des Hauses der Geschichte in Bonn. Er ist befestigt mit einem Band und kann in die Hände genommen werden.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"A state banquet? While he's bombing the hell out of Iran and people are dying all over the Middle East...?" David Dimbleby, journalist and presenter, argues against King Charles' planned state visit to the US in April. #Newsnight

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Well now this is interesting. The forced march always seemed a bit far fetched, and it's unlike the Victorians to get stuff wrong. Hold your nose a bit for the academic involved though www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

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English history’s biggest march is a myth -King Harold sailed to the Battle of Hastings

New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) reveals that King Harold’s legendary 200 mile march to the Battle of Hastings in 1066 never happened.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Beckford’s Folly: Fonthill Abbey, watercolour 1799 by JMW Turner for William Beckford, ‘England’s richest commoner’ (1760-1844), whose art collection included Bellini's Doge Loredan 1501, & Raphael's St Catherine c.1507. Turner, Bolton Libraries & Museums Bellini & Raphael, National Gallery London

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