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Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, this looks pretty disastrous for researchers into English structures. How on earth could this have happened so suddenly that #HisttoricEngland had no warning?? Their risk register and risk management must be pretty weak. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

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Historic England’s Vanishing Archive

Historic England’s photos didn’t vanish. SmartFrame did. Then they broke their own links. Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic Englan...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 28/09/2026

NEW Sherd of terra sigillata pottery from Roman Tuscany, stamped with a large, ornate image of an altar. Stamps on terra sigillata were typically small and standardised, making this design completely unique. Was this vessel part of a limited series? 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Illustration, photograph and 3D model of a fragment of pottery. On its surface is stamped an image of a rectangular altar with a projecting cornice and base, which both appear to be decorated. Across the main body of the altar runs a horizontal garland with perhaps a left-facing songbird perched on top of a twig, and possibly a piece of fruit to its immediate right. Underneath this are stamped initials reading 'AV(in ligature)IL'.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The shrub on Thundersbarrow Hill has been partially cleared, revealing the profile of the bank, the ditch and Thundersbarrow itself under the shrub. How old is the barrow and how does it relate to the enclosure and the 'pond' to the south? #Prehistory #SouthDowns #Adur

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The masonry footings to a 4th century Romano Celtic temple Preserved within the sheep-gnawed grass of Maiden Castle hillfort #Dorset Excavated by Tessa Wheeler in 1934-5 Visiting with @buarchanth.bsky.social Sept 2026 #RomanSiteSaturday

The low masonry walls of a Roman temple building, one square room within another, preserved in the grass with people approaching and blue cloud flecked sky behind

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Back on the horse. Building the archaeological argument for a potential link between matrilineal kinship structures and the likelihood of female authority in areas of Iron Age Britain.

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romanbritain.bsky.social @romanbritain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A pottery mould found at Corbridge - Corstopitum on Hadrians Wall. Taranis a #Celtic god mentioned by the #Roman poet Lucan. Accompanied by a replica mould with colour restored. #RomanBritain #Towns #Archaeology #Gods

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 21/08/2026

#FridayLidar of The King’s Stables: an artificial pool from Bronze Age Ireland. Containing fragments of sword moulds, articulated animal remains and a portion of a human skull, it may have been a place for the deposition of votive offerings. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Lidar image of a circular pool filled with water, flanked by earthen banks.

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love this little dude so much, I used to visit him during my undergrad 💚

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Templum @templum.wiki · 14/08/2026

A bit funny, but it appears some one has left a Deipnon offering to Hekate on a cross-roads in my local park! Which is causing a bit of confusion and argument on the local facebook page

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A near life size Romano British limestone head found at Childe Oakford #Dorset now in the excellent Gold Hill Museum Shaftesbury Possibly meant to represent a female deity The hairstyle suggests a late 2nd or early 3rd century AD date 📷 August 2026 #FindsFriday #Roman #Celtic #Archaeology

Stone portrait of a woman with centrally parted hair

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An altar to the mother goddesses from Roman Cirencester (Corinium) which was set up by Sulinus. Now part of the collections at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Cirencester

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

✨️New Post ✨️ There is a new article over on the website! This one discusses some of my top tips for churchcrawling! There is a great joy to be found whilst visiting historic churches! nearlyknowledgeable.co.uk/guide-to-chu... #churches #history #heritage #churchcrawling

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Guide To Churchcrawling | Nearly Knowledgeable

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Kent Wildlife Trust @kentwildlife.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oaken Wood is under threat - again. > kwtg.uk/save-oaken-wood

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Templum @templum.wiki · 23/07/2026

In the 3rd CE Solinus reported that Odysseus had been to Scotland! This was apparently proven by the presence of a Greek inscribed altar: 22.1 - That Ulysses was driven into this Calidonian nook is proved by an altar inscribed with Greek letters.

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Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Relatedly, an epigram from Roman Britain about Caelestis, identifying her with the constellation Virgo, the Syrian Goddess, and others. Translated this years ago for the blog, but made a new tl. for the SARTRIX wiki: sartrix.miraheze.org/wiki/Imminet...

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Imminet Leoni Virgo - SARTRIX

Imminet Leoni Virgo are the opening words of a Latin epigram, made up of ten iambic senarii, that was found engraved on a stone panel. It was once set up at a Roman...

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Templum @templum.wiki · 17/07/2026

Oh our first complete rattle!

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Templum @templum.wiki · 11/07/2026

New statue of a genius from a potential domestic shrine at Vindolanda! Look at that little guy 👀 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

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Templum @templum.wiki · 08/07/2026

Get it. It's very good!

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Land Explorer is a superb resource for finding out who owns land in England & Wales. They're on their last day of crowdfunding and well worth supporting. (Plus, one of the gifts on offer is a signed copy of The Lie of the Land, by yours truly!) Chip in here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explo...

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Templum @templum.wiki · 04/07/2026

View from the North Downs Way towards the site of a Romano-Celtic temple just east of Titsey village

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Templum @templum.wiki · 02/07/2026

Sad news for our local woodland, as long as I know people have been able to access and roam this woodland despite it being privately owned! Realistically, if this goes there is no woodland accessible from Maidstone without getting in your car www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Kent council accused of 'ecocide' over Oaken Wood quarry plan

Campaigners are "horrified" by the plans but the council says "no decision has been made".

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The River Wharfe at Ilkley and the carving of the roman goddess associated with it, Verbeia. All Saints' Parish Church, where the carving can be found, is sited on a roman fort. #RomanFortThursday #Yorkshire #AncientBluesky

A view from a bridge of a fast flowing river, lined with trees.

A stone carving of a presumably female figure, Verbeia, the roman goddess of the Wharfe, wearing a pleated dress and holding what appears to be two snakes.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

🏺 It's been the most extraordinary week at #Chalke2026, with an alchemical process of collaboration & creation between archaeologists, heritage interpreters and masters craftsmen to make 2 Iron Age chariots AND enact a burial. 🎥 : inc Prof Mel Giles' poem, composed & performed yesterday

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Templum @templum.wiki · 30/06/2026

Fellow ramblers, what do you do when you come to path like this? A closed gate, a very private looking drive way, passing right past the garden furniture! I don't like the idea of being mauled by a jack russell while I'm halfway over the gate

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This statue of a household god was recovered in 1870 from a Roman house in Maryport, West Cumbria. He wears a toga and holds a patera in his right hand. Maryport Roman Museum, Cumbria. #RomanSiteSaturday

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Always have to pay my respects to the pagan gods at Carrawburgh Temple of Mithras and Coventina’s Well lying adjacent to the Brocolitia Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall 🙂

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Templum @templum.wiki · 16/06/2026

Does anyone else have absolutely no luck with inter library loans through your local library? It feels like there's no point even trying anymore

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Templum @templum.wiki · 14/06/2026

An interesting talk about modern Platonic Polytheism through the hermeneutic of persistence as laid out by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social and @robincdouglas.bsky.social in their recent book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zKp...

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"Platonic Polytheism Persisting: Surveying the Living Platonisms of Contemporary Pagan Thought"

YouTube video by Gus Kraus

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Fabulous painting by @ethnotweeter.bsky.social of the mountain lake of Llyn Cau, Eryri/Snowdonia, very likely to have been a votive focus in prehistory 🧙

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Oh absolutely this “With more of us investigating how to build a stronger, healthier connection with the natural world, folklore and myth can create a kind of bridge, inviting us to see waterways less as “resources” and more as living beings with their own stories and a curious will of their own”

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‘I’m hoping to meet a river goddess’: a wild journey through Britain’s mythic waterways

Follow the folklore and you will discover a landscape full of wonder and powerful women – from a fearsome Scottish warrioress to the first queen of a united England

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Roquepertuse has a fascinating #history that includes an Iron Age hillfort and a #Celtic community and shrine, where early forms of barley beer were made. The #hillfort dates to ca. 300 BC, with a fortification wall enclosing some 1300 square meters. #HillfortsWednesday #France

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hillfort in Maridalsvannet in Oslo, Norway. There are over 460 hillforts in Norway. First ever hillfort was described by chaplain Hans Jørgen Helsing in 1743 who thought them to be offering places to the pagan gods. #HillfortsWednesday

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 09/06/2026

Base of a cauldron from the Melsonby Hoards, depicting a fish set in a ‘Celtic Art’ style pattern of swirling water #InternationalDayofCelticArt Fish consumption may have been taboo in Iron Age Britain, raising questions as to the vessel's use. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Oxidised, partially damaged piece of metal, decorated with a design of a fish surrounded by swirling patterns.

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

What is that, lurking in the forest?! Giving serious folk horror vibes, this is the weird carved stone known as 'Le Babouin' (the Baboon) in the woods near Trédion in Brittany. No-one knows who made it, or when, or indeed why. #StandingStoneSunday

A standing stone carved with a round flat face in some woodland.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The latest volume of _Studies in Church History_ focuses on the theme of the interaction of the Church & military. Lots to take in from Crusades to Mongols, but I am enjoying Christopher Scargill’s discussion of evangelism along Hadrian’s Wall & beyond after 367 CE. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lead Christian chalice from Vindolanda. Press release from 2020: https://www.vindolanda.com/news/unique-christian-artefact-uncovered-at-vindolanda

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Templum @templum.wiki · 04/06/2026

New Late Iron Age 'sacred precinct' discovered near Cirencester, evidence includes a cobbled precinct, a 'hoard', spears and miniature weapons inserted vertically into the ground, and pits cut into the limestone possibly for planting trees or bushhes. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2616002...

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Ancient Celtic sacred site with coins uncovered in the Cotswolds

An ancient Celtic sacred site has been uncovered in the Cotswolds by archaeologists alongside coins and spearheads.

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Templum @templum.wiki · 02/06/2026

The heavens have finally opened ⛈️ and my dog won't stop barking back at the sky

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Relief of a Roman period ‘horned god’ - possibly a fertility god native to the North East of England. Now part of the collections at Durham University's Museum of Archaeology. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #DurhamUniversity

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A late entry for #RomanSiteSaturday to highlight that the gardens and Roman temple at #Lydney will now close for this year on 31 May, earlier than previously advertised. Also, beware that the entrance has changed (and is very easy to miss!). 1/3

The entrance steps to the Roman temple with low walls around and a large tree behind.

The walls of the baths from the north. The large tree in the background is the same as in the first photo.

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Digital Approaches to Sacred Space in Roman Britain Tuesday 19 May This one-day workshop will explore how digital tools and methods help change the way we study and analyse temples and shrines in Roman Britain. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Digital Approaches to Sacred Space in Roman Britain

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James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

For #RomanSiteSaturday here's a view of the 4th century Roman temple that sits on Jordan Hill, above the cliffs at Weymouth

Photo of the square stone ruins of a Roman temple on a grassy slope beneath a blue sky

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Newly published inscriptions provide evidence for the 'supraregional appeal of curative springs' & continuity in places of pilgrimage from pagan antiquity into the Christian period - inc. at Luxeil & Aachen - argues Martin Grunewald in this new (to me) article. Image of Sanxay by JC Golvin.