St Mary’s Church, North Creake, Norfolk
A circular font, which Historic England suggests might be 12th Century.
#FontsOnFriday
A necklace with lotus-shaped pendants, made of faience.
Lotus was an important symbol in ancient #Egypt. It was associated with rebirth and rejuvenation.The plant was also valued for its pain-relieving properties. Ca 1,400 BC, from Theben.
On display at Neues Museum, Berlin.
📷 me
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June 11: Feast of Ríagul of Bennchor (Bangor, County Down), who supposedly wrote a poem in honour of Aldfrith, king of the Northumbrians (†704/5).
Ecgberht was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne by Archbishop Eanbald II of York and bishops Eanberht of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham) and Badwulf of Candida Casa / Hwit Aerne (Whithorn) at Bigwell (Bywell) #OTD in 803. The Latin poem De abbatibus was dedicated to him. 📸xlibber
Cleaning two Iron Age roundhouse gulleys in Trench S at #Durotriges26 as rhe rain, hail and thunder diverts to the north...
...for the moment at least 🌧⛈️
#Archaeology
Nina Willburger
The Escrick Ring which was found in a field near Escrick in North Yorkshire in 2009. Dating to the 5th or 6th century AD, the ring is possibly Merovingian in origin. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #YorkshireMuseum
Fragments of painted wall plaster from a Roman villa site at Hunsbury in Northamptonshire. Now part of the collections at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain #Hunsbury #Northamptonshire
Łukasz Sokołowski
Malcolm Stoneman
The decorated octagonal font of St. Mary’s Church at Beverley in East Yorkshire. The font is made from Derbyshire marble and was given to the church in 1530 by William Leryfaxe, a local draper. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Beverley #Yorkshire
Figsbury Ring; a Neolithic/Iron Age scheduled monument (enclosure) near Salisbury, also host to a large diversity of wildlife.
North Ages
North Ages
Durotriges Dig
Kevin Wilbraham
Kevin Wilbraham
Kevin Wilbraham
Roman art shared a common visual repertory throughout the Empire, but there were significant variations in local styles
