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Hannah O’Regan

@palaeohan.bsky.social
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Archaeologist studying lots of things (mainly bones) ‘cos I’m cursed with curiosity. I like cats, crafts, bears and fungi. She/her. Own views.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 11h
🧵There has been a lot of discussion over the last few days about the politicising of a nostalgic view of the UK that never really existed, at least not for the vast majority of the population. The image of the traditional British country pub, a roaring log fire, wooden beams, a pint on the table
A romanticised 1946 depiction of a rural English village. Several villagers carry out various types of agricultural work, such as tending horses and fixing wheels on carts, whilst others are engaged in conversation outside the village pub.
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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 3h
I took interested undergraduates on a nature ramble around campus at lunchtime. One of the most rewarding bits of teaching I’ve done in years. Not timetabled, just being curious and sharing fun things. Tragic lack of fungi though, let’s hope next month is damper.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 4h
Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 3h
Your cat appears to be suffering from mange; she should have one to three drops of arsenic each day in milk.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 5h
He is not burning cash. He is investing money to shape political discourse and public opinion in line with his ideology and interests. And it's a successful strategy. Also, for a billionaire losing 10 million is like losing 1000 pounds for a middle class person.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 4h
Fossils found in the Gobi Desert solve a mammalian mystery, introducing us to Cretaceous shrew rabbits that hopped through the same desert where Velociraptor lived. My latest newsletter for my premium subscribers! 🧪
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Ancient Mammal Skull Solves a Fossil Mystery
Imagine a little shrew rabbit, hopping away from Velociraptor.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Submissions are welcome for the London Topographical Society's Anne Saunders Prize: £1,000 for an original & unpublished research essay on the topography, development, or buildings of #London in any period. Details here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann... #skystorians 🗃️
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Ann Saunders essay prize - London Topographical Society
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14h
An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me
A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 16h
when the only reason you agree to do reviews is the financial incentive of getting your friends’ books
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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fabulous morning fungi foray (finally) and a bewildering array of boletes. There might be more posts when I’ve worked out what they all are 😅 29/9/26 #fungi
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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Repeatedly. In the same session. And different programs that theoretically use the SSO. And oh, the 2fa code didn't come through. ☠️
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A record I always associate with a primary school camping trip to Cuffley Camp in Hertfordshire. This song seemingly blaring out of every transistor radio we encountered. All us kids singing "Ra, Ra, Rats put in, throw your dinner in the bin" as we queued up for meals in the rain. -
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lively #MosaicMonday from posh C4 #Roman villa at Horkstow Lincs once featured wheel w Orpheus in centre enchanting animals including this bear, elephant (yes really) + 6 others in panels around him. Now over Humber in Hull Museum of Archaeology 🏺 For painting of mosaics after 1797 discovery see 2/.
A partial survival of an interesting mosaic of Orpheus (who would have been in now missing centre of wheel like device) and 8 animals, 2 of which remain. In left remaining section is a part of a bear pouncing forward from hind legs. On right is an elephant, missing its trunk, with long legs. Below the wheel to the left a figure can be seen in the corner of the mosaic. 
Two wide bands that would have bounded the mosaic are seen - one guilloche and one floral vault variation - with rows of triangles pointing up and down on a white line between them. Colours throughout the mosaic are shades of red/brown plus black, white and grey.
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Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
nice to be addressed by my proper title
Screenshot of an email from the British museum that begins ‘dear example primary salutation’
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Tom Irwin @tomirwin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The plot thinnens
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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Work in progress: Cheiridium museorum. I'm working on some pseudoscorpion drawings based on observations of live animals in the field, photographs & reference specimens. The petri dish contains specimens that were found dead in cobwebs in a church & gives an idea of how small these arachnids are.
An A4 size drawing pad with pencil drawings of six pseudoscorpions on the page, four of which have been gone over in black ink. A grey pigment liner pen is at the top of the page and to the left is a Rotring pencil and a pen eraser. A credit card size measure (marked off in millimetres) lays on the bottom left corner of the pad with a round clear plastic petri dish on top of it. The petri dish contains seven tiny brownish specks.Close up of the sketch pad showing two of the drawings, one in pen, the other in pencil. Also in the photo is the petri dish laying on top of the measure.Close up of the brownish specks in the petri dish that measure barely over 1 mm. They are dead pseudoscorpions with teardrop shaped bodies and little 'arms' that end in claws. These were all found dead in cobwebs on a window ledge in a church.
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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't know why, but I need to know if anyone else finds the sound of paint syringes being rinsed oddly satisfying?
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)
Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background 
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Four springer spaniels, plus hawk, just hanging out with their booty from the hunt. By Carstian Luyckx of Antwerp, whose day is today.
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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Parents, grandparents, carers, keep your eyes peeled for showings in cinemas of a double bill of animations of 'The Tiger who came to Tea' and 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. Coming soon.
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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A mournful > of honking geese came flying over in minor key, and landed, grazing, in a field of cows, like two-legged ruminants. They reminded me that even though our winters are cold, some visitors come here because it's warmer for them.
Geese flying above a river,  in formation
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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250: Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts ✍️Elaine Treharne 📲 ARC Humanities Press: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270086...
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Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250 - Arc Humanities Press
This study uses a series of medieval texts to address a set of urgent critical issues in Humanities centring on categories of L/literature, history, periodiz...
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When Elton wrote the statement quoted below, Japanese, European and American eels were extraordinarily abundant species When Elton died (1991) all three had collapsed Everything has gone nothing but worse since then, and other eel species are now following that same extinction path (see post below)
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026
Our great thanks to Prof Glen O'Hara for his excellent RHS lecture last Friday evening: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’. Recordings are now available bit.ly/4ySyB6W #Skystorians 1/2
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Glen O'Hara gives latest RHS lecture on 'Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land' - RHS
On Friday 25 September the Society hosted the latest lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes University) who spoke on: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of...
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Technical debt and relying on third party vendors is the downfall of many a heritage database site. As someone who's stood awfy close to that fire a few times now: - Build and nurture internal capabilities. Try and retain people that know how it works.
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Lisa-Marie Shillito @archaeologylisa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introduction to Archaeological Science has a cover! As well as the usual peer review, text was reviewed by students, who gave feedback on how well it works for its intended audience. If you decide to use it, let us know! (pre-order for Nov 30th publication date). www.routledge.com/Introduction...
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Introduction to Archaeological Science
Introduction to Archaeological Science offers a clear, comprehensive introduction to archaeological science for students encountering the field for the first time. This book presents the principal are...
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This spellbook (~13th c.) is great. It's got spells for invisibility, protecting travellers, predicting pregnancy, causing love and hate, and scrying in a mirror. The magician started a spell for "gathering demons," but seems to have had second thoughts and stopped after 4 words. @theul.bsky.social
Brown, waterstained paper bifolium on a blue background next to a yellow label that reads T-S K1.132 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00001-00132/2)
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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible Pictured here at Emmanuel College beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @newnhamcollege.bsky.social table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing bodleianshop.co.uk/products/sel...
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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very excited for this talk by Dr Grace Exley, Munby Fellow at @theul.bsky.social and a Natural History Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate at @camglamresearch.bsky.social!
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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the Black Castle (Arnos Castle) in Bristol built c. 1750 from blocks of cast slag from copper smelting works. Visited by Horace Walpole, it doesn’t get more gothic than this! And they serve snakebite and black #urbangeology #gothic #18thCentury
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Darren Underwood @dku1000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Western Conifer Seed Bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis) - minus one back leg - Long Melford, Suffolk. The first for the garden (actually indoors). Originally native to North America, this is yet another accidentally introduced species to Europe (which has since spread to the UK). #UKBugs
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
so i posit that annunciation day was in fact not the first day of mary's last period, aka the start of the 40 weeks, but rather the ovulation date, the day the egg was fertilised, aka the start of exactly nine months.*
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour conference will be suffused with the imagery of class politics. Most of the speeches will refer to “working people”, and imply that the party represents the poor and middle-income majority against the rich. It has been untrue for years. www.independent.co.uk/voices/labou...
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By ’eck, Labour is the middle-class party now
Andy Burnham’s appeal to a northern working class that no longer exists could be the key to winning the next election – especially for a party whose supporters are now better-off and better-educated t...
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Liz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An Orange Grisette hatching. (Amanita crocea) Peak District #Fungi #Mushrooms @britmycolsoc.org.uk
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Botany One @botany.one · 27/09/2026
PDRA in Macroalgal Population Genetics // Scotland www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTA346/p... Your research will focus on identifying genetic loci associated with kelp phenotypes such as growth rate, blade morphology and polysaccharide content. #BotanyJobs
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PDRA in Macroalgal Population Genetics at Scottish Association for Marine Science - SAMS
An academic position as a PDRA in Macroalgal Population Genetics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can I interest you in Pop Art Harold Wilson?
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home
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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House. 
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham 
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.
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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Harvest #moon
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today I found my first seabean. This seed has travelled a long way to reach #Shetland. Starting it's journey in a tropical forest, travelling with ocean currents and washing up with our first autumn storms. A little piece of luck and joy to hold onto as daylight fades and winter approaches.
Heart shaped seed with blue sea behind
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
kitten wondering if it's worth using this last bit of her favorite perfume that was discontinued years ago
painting of a cat looking at a perfume on the dressing table, there is a vase of flowers, a box with a strawberry print and a cell phone showing a messaging app
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Ruth Newby @ruthnewby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More caterpillar conundrums: I found two of these large noctuid caterpillars (about 3cm long) when I removed a large mat of grass from a crack in our patio. Any ID suggestions gratefully received as I can’t find a match in my field guide. #teammoth @rlewington2.bsky.social
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026
Every time I try to talk about deaf cats, my phone corrects it to "dead." It's getting quite awkward. "Have you got any dead cats that need a home?" "Would you consider adopting a dead cat?" "He can't live with kids, he's dead"
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 24/08/2026
We’ve got a wonderful success story at Great Mell Fell 🦋 Once on the brink of extinction in Cumbria, the Marsh Fritillary is one of the UK's rarest butterflies, but we're thrilled to share a colony in Ullswater Valley has grown spread further along the fellside.
A beautifully patterned butterfly with speckled cream and orange wings with black dots and a black body rests on a bright green leafA delicate butterfly with a furry white body and orange wings with white and black markings on them clings to a green cluster of grass
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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well, some real shocks during the group stage of the #BiscuitWorldCup - bourbons didn't make it through! Good to see plucky newcomers Jezyki qualify
A whiteboard showing the results of the group Stage of the Biscuit World Cup; group A - chocolate digestives (15) and Jezyki (10) are through. Group B - Leibniz (15) and Jaffa cakes (10). Group C - Stroopwafels (13) and shortbread (11). Group D - Malted Milk (15) and the Mighty Custard Creams (12). There is a small raiding party of Vikings disembarking from a longship in the bottom left hand corner
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For anyone without access via university affiliation then membership to the British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social entitles you to a discounted subscription of this fantastic database of published historical research. www.history.ac.uk/resources/on...
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧵8 Posts: High on the windy ridge above the Spen Valley, beside Walton Cross Farm at Hartshead, stands a remarkable survivor from Yorkshire’s medieval past. At first glance, it appears to be little more than a weathered block of grey gritstone. Yet this is the surviving base of
The surviving base of the Walton Cross, an Anglian high cross probably dating from the late ninth or tenth century. The shaft and cross-head have long since disappeared, leaving only the richly carved socket stone.  Image: Tim Green CC BY-SA 2.0
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