David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is where you can see some changes from previous years 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We are continuing to see butterflies - and several Clouded Yellows on the beach at Aldeburgh yesterday. 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Here are my butterfly observations until the end of September; very slightly down on 2025. Some noticeable increases and falls @jamescbr.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 140
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026August ends with just under @savebutterflies.bsky.social 4000 observations, 600 behind the whole of 2025. Painted lady remains at no. 4. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social 022
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Butterfly observations for 2026 just passed those for 2024 @jamescbr.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 072
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We will need to compare our garden notes to see when there are gaps. I am sure much is down to the dry weather. 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Where are the large whites, commas, small coppers? Insects generally are down - though dragonfly activity has increased significantly this week. 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 15/08/20263,500 butterfly observations this year; 1,000 for sm white; 267 painted lady @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social NB 1,000 less than 2025; 300 less than 2024 241
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Over 3000 observations this year though large whites very low @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social 1500 more needed to equal 2025 @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social 042
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026While numbers for some species are up, this does not seem to be a good year for butterflies where I am ... but perhaps numbers will increase during August @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social 142
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026More objects linked to Dietrich von Bothmer and Fritz Bürki deaccessioned by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/07/two-...lootingmatters.blogspot.comTwo more Bothmer donations returned to ItalyCup attributed to near Psiax. Source: MMA. In February 2026 two fragmentary Attic cups that had been given to New York's Metropolitan Museum... 0264
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 11/07/20262100 butterfly observations this year. Painted lady numbers are striking; but overall numbers seem to be down @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social 062
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The scale of classical returns from New York's @metmuseum.org is staggering @manhattanda.bsky.social lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/07/clas...lootingmatters.blogspot.comClassical Returns from New York's Metropolitan Museum of ArtOver 900 classical items - and perhaps as many as 1,200 if the Lydian haul material is included - have been deaccessioned from New York's Me... 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026#heritagecrime #Cymru #offroading #Cadw #Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDenbigh Moors Bronze Age burial mound damaged by vehiclePolice are investigating the damage caused to the "highly protected" burial mound. 011
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Protection for the site of the battle of Granikos #AlexandertheGreat www.aa.com.tr/tr/kultur/bu...aa.com.trBüyük İskender'in ilk büyük zaferini kazandığı Granikos Savaş Alanı koruma altına alındıKültür ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, "Büyük İskender'in Perslere karşı ilk büyük zaferini kazandığı ve Asya'ya uzanan seferinin kapılarını açan Granikos Savaş Alanı artık 'tarihi sit alanı' olar... 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Heritage Crime #Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHistoric Old Inverlochy Castle damaged by vandalsVandalism at Old Inverlochy Castle near Fort William could affect ongoing conservation work. 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026But note this is not the first time that Hewett has been used as a "former owner". 020
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Over 1,000 butterfly observations this year - and especially with large numbers of Painted Lady @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social Here is my list of top 10 sightings. 141
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026We have had the same with our valerian this evening! 000
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Presumably a hawk-moth feeding on the valerian in our garden @bc-suffolk.bsky.social 271
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026See also Gill, D. W. J., and C. Tsirogiannis. 2025. "The Stern Collection of Cycladic Figures and the Metropolitan Museum of Art." MeditArch 38: 1–24. www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...jstor.org 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 02/05/2026First painted lady of the year basking on the Suffolk coast at Hollesley Marshes @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 1141
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Volcanic activity on the Methana peninsula, Greece www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...ekathimerini.comGreece’s Methana shows volcanoes can slumber a long time before reawakening | eKathimerini.comFor people living in communities in the shadow of a volcano, a long silence may give the impression that the geological beast is not merely sleeping but has gone extinct. But, as research detailing th... 000
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 28/04/2026#archaeology #Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCouncil funds replica Iron Age roundhouse plans at Gairloch MuseumHighland Council gives £45,000 to create a replica Iron Age roundhouse in the outdoors area of Gairloch Museum in Wester Ross. 010
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Well over 100 observations - 9 species - today bringing this year's total to 450. Plenty of male and female orange-tips with a few holy blues. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 031
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026First sightings of green-veined white and red admiral today at Flatford; numerous female orange tips; this year's count just went over the 200 mark @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 000
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Late Roman portrait excavated in the agora at Izmir in the early 1930s has been returned to Türkiye from the Denver Art Museum @denverartmuseum.bsky.social lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/04/denv...lootingmatters.blogspot.comDenver Art Museum Returns Roman Portrait to TürkiyeSource: Denver Art Museum A fifth century CE Roman portrait excavated in the agora at Izmir in the early 1930s has been returned to Türkiye ... 020
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026First 100 observations this year: Peacock (65), sm white (21), brimstone, orange tip, sm tortoiseshell, comma, sp wood @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 021
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 25/03/2026cathedral.org.uk/news/bishop-...cathedral.org.ukMemorial stone dedicated to Bishop Timothy Dudley-SmithA memorial stone to Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith was dedicated at Choral Evensong on Sunday 22 March. 000
Reposted by David GillNorwich Cathedral @norwichcathedral.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The life and legacy of Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith was celebrated at Choral Evensong on Sunday 22 March. Bishop Timothy served as Archdeacon of Norwich from 1973 to 1981, and as Bishop of Thetford until 1991, and during his lifetime he wrote more than 450 hymns. cathedral.org.uk/news/bishop-... 031
Reposted by David GillGraham Usher @bishopnorwich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord! A great joy to preach at Evensong at @norwichcathedral.bsky.social with Pam Rhodes reading a lesson, and then to dedicate a stunning plaque in memory of Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith (Bishop of Thetford). Lord of our lives, to live for Christ alone. 0122
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 15/03/2026cathedral.org.uk/news/bishop-...cathedral.org.ukMemorial stone for Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith to be dedicated at EvensongA memorial stone for Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith is to be dedicated at Norwich Cathedral on Sunday 22 March. 012
Reposted by David GillNorwich Cathedral @norwichcathedral.bsky.social · 13/03/2026All are welcome to join us for Evensong at 3.30pm on Sunday 22 March, when we will dedicate a memorial stone for Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith, Archdeacon of Norwich from 1973 to 1981. This service will also be live streamed on our YouTube channel. Read more at cathedral.org.uk/news/bishop-... 041
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026For attributions and the Stern collection: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07...bmcr.brynmawr.eduArtwashing the Cyclades: The Leonard N. Stern Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Bryn Mawr Classical Review 100
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Take the so-called Berlin painter. Only 17% of the corpus comes from relatively secure archaeological contexts. It is worth reflecting on the scale of lost knowledge. 100
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Archaeological contexts help us to interpret and date the objects. 'Ungrounded' pots (to use @lizmarlowe.bsky.social phrase) have lost part of the information that they could have conveyed. 100
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Is it appropriate for figures carved in the southern Aegean in the third millennium BCE? Some of the Cycladic 'sculptors' are insecure as they do not contain any figures from a secure archaeological context. 100
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026It would have been helpful if the curatorial team had taken the issue of authenticity more seriously. If the figures are modern there is no contribution to our knowledge of the past. 100
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Renfrew's classification is rooted in the archaeological record of the Cyclades unlike the attributions to anonymous "sculptors" 100
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Association with Becchina overlooked at the Cycladic conference @metmuseum.org discussing the Stern collection of Cycladicising material #provenance lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/02/draw...lootingmatters.blogspot.comDrawing attention to "provenance" at the MetCourtesy of Christos Tsirogiannis One of largest group of repatriated material from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was dervied from P... 030
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 24/01/202611 species in the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch bit.ly/3tgxjGSbit.lyRSPB 020
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Roman villa identified at Margam @swanseauni.bsky.social #archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMargam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam County Park. 130
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025#wildlife #Athens #urban #fox www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...ekathimerini.comWildlife increasingly wandering into cities | eKathimerini.comPolice trying to capture a wild boar near a school in Evosmos, Thessaloniki, recently drew online attention and renewed debate over the growing presence of wildlife in Greek cities. 030
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025For the US: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/polar-coro...barnesandnoble.comPolar Corona|PaperbackPolar Corona by Caroline Gill is a prize-winning crown of seven interlinked sonnets about Antarctic exploration and penguins. While some of Caroline's sonnet patterns differ from those in John Donne's... 000