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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve read some great books recently, and this is one of them. Since retirement. I’m slowing inching my way towards a better understanding of the long 17th Century. @alicehunt.bsky.social

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Garn Goch Iron Age hillfort overlooking the magnificent Tywi Valley in Carmarthenshire. With a total enclosed space of 16.6ha, Garn Goch is one of the biggest hillforts in Wales. Strangely, I had this hugely evocative place entirely to myself. #HillfortsWednesday #Wales 📷 By me, last Thursday

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m currently very much enjoying ‘The Road to Mons Graupius’ by @classicalalan.bsky.social My only problem is having left Scotland a couple of weeks ago I now need to plan another trip

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Muir O’Fauld Roman watchtower. One of 17 such watchtowers along the Gask Frontier. Situated just a few miles SW of Perth. #RomanFortThursday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Moredun Iron Age hillfort near Perth. The largest hillfort in the Tay Estuary. Fabulous views north to the Cairngorms, west to Dundee and the Tay bridges, south to Fife. #HillfortsWednesday 📷 By me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Tomnavarie Stone Circle, complete with recumbent stone. Near Aboyle, c.3,000 BC. #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The plaque below marks the house where the infamous Duke of Cumberland slept prior to the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746. It can be found at No. 38 High Street, Nairn, but you wouldn’t find it if you didn’t know where to look. The battle was undoubtedly an awful affair. #Jacobites #Culloden

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Pictish cross stone in Nigg Old Church, Easter Ross, Scotland. Dates from the 700s. Reputed to be one of the finest surviving Pictish carved stones, and one of the most elaborate such stones surviving from early medieval Europe 📷 photo by me #Picts #Pictish #findsFriday #Scotland

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Wild camping with Suilven in the background. Not another person for miles #wildcamping #Assynt #Scotland

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Clachtoll Broch, NW Scotland. Iron Age homestead from 2000 years ago. Remarkable. I know it’s not a hillfort, but would ask for your tolerance. #hillfortWednesday 📷 by me yesterday

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Wild camping on Dartmoor. Because we can. Even at our advanced age #OkeTor #righttoroam #leavenotrace #stormynight 📷 by me, yesterday evening

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Tre’r Creiri Iron Age hillfort in N Wales. Fabulously impressive and views to die for. #HillfortsWednesday 📷 photos by me, Monday

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Pont Britannia. Originally a wrought iron tubular bridge designed by Robert Stephenson. It opened in 1850 to complete the rail link between London and Holyhead. The bridge was destroyed by fire in 1970 and given new life by the addition of the steel arches now so dominant. #engineeringhistory

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Mosaic with head of Medusa. 1st Century BC from Pompeii. Now in Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli. #mosaicmonday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Visited the Mary Rose for the first time. A remarkable insight into the mid-16th Century, not least through the recovered day-to-day artefacts. 📷 By me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Mosaic of Mediterranean sea life. Pompeii, House of the the Geometric Mosaics. An octopus fights a lobster surrounded by a myriad of sea life. Early 1st Century BC. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli #mosaicmonday 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Finally, yesterday, I made it to #Pompeii. It was everything I expected it to be, and more besides… Photos 📷 by me

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Danebury Iron Age Hillfort in Hampshire. Fabulous first time visit. Monumentality writ large. #HillfortsWednesday 📸 Mine

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Roman fort at Ambleside in the Lake District. Stunning location at the head of Lake Windermere. #RomanfortThursday Photo by me.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I’m not normally one to boast about my educational achievements on social media, but in 1965 I received 1st prize for good attendance at Manchester Road Methodist Sunday School in Burnley.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Temperate rainforest alive and well in Langdale.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Here lies the remains of Britain’s only truly europhile prime minister. Salisbury Cathedral.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I’m really enjoying reading this. It’s a real page-turner. The adopted long-term perspective on the relationship between UK and EU brings fresh insights @tommctague.bsky.social

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Swarkestone Bridge near Derby. Most southerly point reached by the Jacobites in 1745.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It’s possible to have a nice evening walk even if you live in Reading. Fabulous campus @uniofreading.bsky.social

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Delighted to finally get my hands on The Hillforts of Iron Age Wales by @drtobydriver.bsky.social Blimey, it’s a handsome book. No sticky fingers allowed…

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Further to my recent post from the British Library, here’s a follow-up from Birmingham Central Library. Any excuse to visit a library is good enough for me…

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I defy anyone to watch this video and not feel a little bit happier #FestiniogRailway

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

One of the best things about doing research is I get to hang out in cool places like the British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Cambridge city centre is so affluent it seems almost opulent. It’s difficult to believe it’s in the same country as Burnley (my hometown). Whatever happened to regional policy?

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Smallbrook Queensway in Birmingham. Despite being a huge fan of Brutalist architecture I struggle a bit with this one…

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Looking south from Quinag in Assynt. Happy days.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The hidden valley, Glencoe. Much more popular than it was 30 years ago

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Here lies the grave of John Loudon McAdam: Engineer and Road Builder. He invented the process known as ‘macadamisation’ for building roads with a smooth hard surface. An invention which undoubtedly changed the modern world. I stumbled across his uncelebrated grave in Moffat in the Scottish Borders.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The Eagle Stone, Strathpeffer. Pictish symbolism c600 AD. The mists of time…

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Clashnessie beach at rush hour. Oystercatchers galore but very few people

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Kylesku Bridge in Sutherland, NW Scotland. I may have to go to bed before it gets dark.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Every opportunity of walking from Paddington Station to Kensington is an opportunity to be celebrated- especially on a nice day.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Here’s me planning my forthcoming trip to Scotland. Happy days @walkhighlands.co.uk

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Fabulous evening of Bowie music in Bristol last night. Tony Visconti Woody Woodmansey Glen Gregory

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Found this on my bookshelf. It’s dated 1982 and cost £3.95. I obviously needed no convincing that computers were the way forward - I just wasn’t sure what to do with them.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

What else are bank holidays for other than walking the South Downs Way?

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Lunchtime walk in the Harris Garden at the University of Reading. Sunny weather is not good for productivity.

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today I visited Swarkestone Bridge over the River Trent (south of Derby). This was the most southerly point reached by the Jacobite Army on 4th December 1745. They retreated from here all the way to Culloden. What would have happened had they carried on to London? #Jacobites

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Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is the location where the A329(M) crosses the River Loddon near Reading. It’s the site of a famous falsework collapse on 24 October 1972. Three construction workers killed and ten injured when the part-poured deck fell in the river due to a design error. The site remains very prone to flooding.

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