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Tony Divey

@tonydivey.bsky.social
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Archaeology volunteer for English Heritage and St.Albans museums. Co-curator of ‘Religion in Verulamium’ exhibition. Retired archaeology and Latin teacher with MA in Classical Archaeology. Posts will mostly be about archaeology, beer or bird watching

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For #FootwearFriday I offer Wellington’s boots (yes, really). My 📷 boots in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For #adoorableThursday here’s a door from St. Albans Clock Tower. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For #TilesonTuesday here’s the medieval floor tiles from Wenlock Priory, taken from the site 60 years ago and now returned to EH. My 📷. Here’s the story www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/search...
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For ##MuralMonday here’s the wall by the entrance to the delightful Curve Garden in Dalston - well worth a visit. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For #SignsonSunday I rather like the elegance of this. Berlin, of course, my 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For #SlateSaturday here’s a piece of medieval roof tile from Wigmore Castle. It’s been inscribed with the board for Nine Man’s Morris and a possible gaming piece found with it. My 📷 object in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It takes a moment to spot it, but for #FindsFriday here’s a lead figure of Venus from Roman Wroxeter. My 📷 object in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For #AbandonedWednesday here’s the ice house in the gardens of Burghley House. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For #TowerTuesday my offering is the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Probably doesn’t strictly qualify for #FrescoFriday, but this is my favourite from Berlin’s East Side Gallery. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For #adoorableThursday here’s a detail from Bushmead Priory, in the care of EH, where I was a guide earlier this month. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For #WallsonWednesday I offer the line of the Berlin Wall. My 📷 taken last weekend
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just got back from Berlin so for #MemorialMonday here’s the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. My 📷s
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I see there’s a #MothMonday …. Here a couple of Buff-tip Moths shown to us by a staff member at WWT Llanelli earlier in the summer. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For #PostboxSaturday here’s a George V box attached to the rather quirky Valentine’s Lamp in Frome, Somerset. A working gas light it’s lit with ceremony every February 14th. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For #IronworkThursday I offer this delightful camel, marking the site of the Singer’s Foundry in Frome, Somerset. My 📷 from last week
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
For #CastleSaturday here’s Corfe Castle as depicted in the Model Village. My 📷 taken last month
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For #TilesonTuesday here’s a collection from Castle Acre Priory, now in the care of EH. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For #FeatheredFriday here’s a friendly, and hopeful, robin. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For #PubSignThursday I offer the rather good Grainstore Brewery in Oakham. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
For #CastleSaturday here’s a rather misty Corfe Castle emerging behind ‘Britain’s Most Photographed Pub’ The Greyhound. My 📷 taken a couple of weeks ago
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For #FeatheredFriday I offer an oystercatcher nesting in a plant pot. My 📷 taken on Brownsea Island
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For #BluePlaqueTuesday here’s a stash of spare or displaced blue plaques kept at the EH stores. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
For #MedievalMonday here’s Bushmead Priory (or, at least, its refectory) where I was a guide last Saturday. My 📷s
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
For #StainedGlassSunday here’s a bit of a mosaic or collage of stained and painted glass from Bushmead Priory, where I was a guide yesterday. Property in care of EH, my 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For #FindsFriday here’s a Roman pottery sherd from Wroxeter incised with a star, somewhat mysteriously. My 📷 object in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
For #WednesdayGreen #WildlifeWednesday and #WetlandsWednesday here’s that wonderful oasis of calm that is Camley Street Natural Park, near Kings Cross. My 📷 taken yesterday
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Some time ago for #BluePlaqueTuesday I posted an unlikely example of Karl Marx in Margate. Well here’s one of his mate, Engels, in Primrose Hill. My 📷s
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Curators talk… that’ll be me, tomorrow!
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Last week on #FindsFriday I posted some painted Roman wall plaster from the 2024 excavations at Wroxeter, now in the care of EH. Well, here’s some more. My 📷s
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
For #abandonedWednesday I offer Bottoms Mill, just outside of Holmfirth in W. Yorkshire. The chimney, added in 1911, now seems mostly held together by vegetation. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
For #TowerTuesday here’s a striking piece of Victorian architecture. It’s part of the water pumping mechanism of Lockwood reservoir, situated in the lovely Walthamstow wetlands. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For #FindsFriday here are pieces of painted Roman wall plaster from the 2024 excavations at Wroxeter. My 📷s, objects in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
For #AdoorableThursday here’s the dovecote (including door) in Avebury, some of the materials being sarsen stones. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
For #WetlandsWednesday here’s the wonderful Walthamstow Wetlands nature reserve, visited yesterday. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
For #BluePlaqueTuesday here’s an interestingly different style. The house it was attached to, New Little Holland House, was demolished in 1964. My 📷 object in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
For #RomanFortThursday here’s the reconstructed wall and footprint of buildings of Mamucium in the Castlefield area of Manchester. My 📷s taken this week
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
For #WednesdayGreen here’s some sheep 🐑 in the very green ditch and bank of the henge at Avebury. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here’s another view of West Kennet for #TombTuesday. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
For #MosaicMonday I offer the site sign from #RSPB Fairburn Ings. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
For #StandingStoneSunday here’s a couple of views from Avebury. My 📷s
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
For #RomanSiteSaturday here’s another Roman roof tile from Wroxeter, I think with cat 🐈‍⬛ prints 🐾 but happy to be corrected
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
For #FindsFriday here’s a carved chalk plaque from Grimes Graves, late Neolithic. My 📷 object in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Can’t resist promoting this again… not too many hard questions please!
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
For #HelmetThursday there are plenty on display at the British Museum’s Samurai exhibition but I’ll go for this one in the final ‘influences’ section
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
For #WednesdayGreen how about the splash of green that is Silbury Hill, taken from West Kennet? My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
For #TombTuesday here’s the view from inside West Kennet through the ‘modern’ skylight. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For #MedievalMonday here’s a piece of the carved wooden screen from Gainsborough Old Hall. My 📷 object in care of EH
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
For #CeilingsonSunday here’s the roof of the 17th century threshing barn at Avebury. My 📷
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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
For #PostboxSaturday I offer this wonderful example of a knitted postbox cover from Avebury. It shows a flock of happy sheep being beamed into a spaceship from a stone circle. My 📷
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