Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Kevin Wilbraham
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Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten.
Dating to around 1353–1336 BC
📷 Metropolitan Museum
The remains of one of the 3rd century granary buildings at Vindolanda Roman Fort, just south of Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda
My #HillfortsWednesday 'Out of Office' 🧐 remains on while I am in France, carefully & accurately researching the origins of the ancient Gauls... 🤨🤔
#ReliefWednesday - Relief frieze of the 2nd-century AD Parthian Monument commemorates the Roman victory over the Parthian Empire, featuring Lucius Verus on Helios' chariot, driven by Nike.
Ephesos Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Here's the small but perfect Iron Age hillfort of Mistleberry on the #Dorset side of the border with #Wiltshire
Lightly covered with trees, wild garlic and bluebells, it was first recorded by George Heywood Sumner in 1911
It is also utterly magical 😍
📷 April 2021
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
To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄
Some 3,000 years ago, the artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene.
📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...
#Archaeology
The 16th century door of the village pump house at Walsingham in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Walsingham #Norfolk
Carved stone relief from Roman Corbridge (Coria) depicting the Goddesses Fortuna and Ceres. The relief can be viewed in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Corbridge
The approach to Ringses Hillfort on Doddington Moor in Northumberland. The multivallate fort is Iron Age in date. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Doddington #Prehistory
