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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

On the lookout. Romanesque capital, south doorway, St Mary, Great Wymondley. #stoneworkSunday

Stone carved face with protruding ears and a dimpled chin. Sitting on top of the main doorway shaft, this guy (and his opposite on the other side of the doorway), looks out at everyone entering the church

Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Just about finished tree wrangling. About to trudge to the bottom of the garden to snaffle some ivy before it gets too dark to see anything.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's dark. It's cold. It's that time of year again. #thedarkisreading

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Feast day of St Martin of Tours. 15th C Laon Cathedral #medieval

Statue of a man dressed in the uniform of a Roman soldier, on horseback, turning to face the viewer. His leg, and both arms are missing, but his cloak (the main part of his legend) is visible to the left, draped over both Martin and his horse.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This is utterly disgraceful.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

They’re brilliant, aren’t they?! Saw them live at Cambridge Folk Festival and was blown away

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Walking on gorgeous Therfield Heath today, so here are some #tombsonTuesday. The Heath is an ancient chalk landscape and home to tumuli and barrows spanning several thousand years. Most of it is still common land. More info in alt text. Bonus points for spotting smol dog

View of hilly grassland, some of which has been mown as it's a golf course. On the centre right is a wood, of which this section is mostly beech trees. A chalk path can be seen on the left, winding up the hill. To it's right is a round tumuli emerging from the rough grass. Another tumuli can just be seen on the top of the hill, up and to the right of the first. These are both early bronze age. At the bottom left of image is a wire-haired dachshund, snuffling about in the grass.

This image shows the next ridge along. Again, the chalk path can be seen to the left and to its right three tumuli are visible on the crest of the hill. To their right, a neolithic long barrow can just be seen on the horizon.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I love things like this. It's so great to be able to compare. Thanks for sharing. 😊

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Wow! These are great! Thank you. 😊

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

'Alexa. Show me a dog who has totally got it made.' #dogsofbsky #dachshund

A very handsome* mini wire-haired dachshund lounging on a red sofa with his head propped on a cushion. *opinions are my own

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A reminder of life before vaccines. #memorialsMonday #earlymodern All Saints, Southill 📷 my own

Wall memorial to members of the Ringsted family, commemorating - amongst others - 'Four of their sons John, George, Charles, and Ralph, who were cut off in their bloom of life by that fatal distemper the small pox'

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I was thinking the exact same thing!

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Not much beats an autumnal Green Lane.

Image shows a sunken lane in north Herts. The bottom of the lane is deep is in fallen leaves, while the trees curve overhead to form a tunnel winding away down the hill.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Designed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1937 and dedicated to Joscelyne Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Howard and Madeline Whitbread, who died in 1936, aged 29. All Saints, Southill. #fontsonFriday @poorfrankraw.co.uk any idea who did the lettering? 📷 my own More info in alt text

Beautifully carved round bowl of pale stone, sitting on a slim pedestal. This is mounted on a small octagonal base, which sits on a larger octagonal surround, all of the same stone. Around the edge of the basin is carved the name Joscelyne Whitbread. The Whitbreads were a local Bedfordshire family who made their fortune from brewing. Since 1795 the family have owned and lived in Southill Park, next to the church. My ancestors are documented as living in the village from as early as the first surviving records in the 1500s.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Nature doing what nature does. Autumnal churchyard bench #woodensday 📷 my own

Part of a wooden bench covered in vigorously growing moss and lichens.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Exquisite. 2 of 4 semi-circular enamels depicting the evangelists. End of 12th beginning of 13th century. Troyes cathedral treasury. 📷 my own #medievalMonday more info in alt text

Set together to form a circle, each enamel is set in gold and surrounded by precious stones (including, I think, citrines and an amethyst), with floral and filigree gold decorative work surrounding them. Some of the other stones appear to be intaglios, though it's hard to make out what they show. Even though there wasn't any information on the display, my guess is that they are probably re-used Roman intaglios. The left semi-circle depicts Matthew as an angel, while the right is an eagle to represent John.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I love Harris & Harris. Not only do they have great new books, but their second hand selection has a great history section.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

That’s fabulous! I love the carvings.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Norwich 1) Dragon Hall 2) depending upon what's currently in them, one of the churches looked after by www.nhct-norwich.org/our-churches/ 3) Norwich Cathedral Refectory cathedral.org.uk/the-refector...

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OUR CHURCHES | Norwich Historic Churches Trust

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Heard it this morning. Astonishing.

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Lovely people of Suffolk (and nearby bits of Cambs & Essex). Happening on Oct 11th in Suffolk's smallest town to fundraise for the school. Bar, Food, and laughs! claredoescustardcomedy.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Sally Spong @drsalspong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

One of my favourite parts of the cathedral.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Meanwhile, in 'ya don't f*king say' land, Reform discover that governing ain't quite so easy... ' "Everyone thought we'd come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren't," said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent. '