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Annie Brassey
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Victorian Traveller, Writer and Collector (1839-1887)
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Whatever the weather, you can always find some adherents to the Black Fathom Faith in wordless wave communion. They storm-stare, listen to long sunken voices rasp against the stones of the shore. We who are outside this salt sect can only imagine their ecstasies. – #CLNolan
February 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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A belated Happy St Brigid's Day, celebrated optimistically in Ireland as the first day of spring! These (early) narcissi are from L'Obel's 1591 Icones Stirpium
#StBrigidsDay #LaFheileBride #Spring
Image of hand-coloured woodcuts of narcissi
February 3, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Potsherds from the Bronze Age settlement mound of Tabakoni, Georgia.

The bases are decorated with impressions, likely left by mats, providing a rare insight into textile remains that seldom survive in the archaeological record #TextileTuesday

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Seven potsherds: two rims, two handles, and three bases, impressed with a weave-like design, probably the impressions of textile/wicker mats.
February 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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For those of you coming to tonight's talk, you'll get to hear more of this breaking news of this brilliant day of archaeology and living history in Bexhill! 🏺
archsoutheast.bsky.social UCL Archaeology South-East @archsoutheast.bsky.social · 17h
Archaeology Exhibition Day | Saturday 21 Feb 11-3 | Bexhill Drill Hall

Join us for a FREE open day featuring:
🎖WW1 display by the Royal Sussex Living History Group
🔍Artefacts from the dig
👷Meet the archaeologists
🗣Share your stories, objects and memories

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-...
Poster advertising Cooden Camp Archaeology Open Day, Saturday 21st February 11-3 Bexhill Drill Hall. Free Entry. Inset is an historical photograph of men in flat caps sitting on the ground to eat lunch, with white tents in the background.
February 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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What heraldry are you choosing when you enter the tourney?

Pictured here is the Hatton-Dugdale Book of Arms (late 1630s), which is made up of copies of twenty-six medieval and sixteenth-century rolls.
A page full of rows and columns of coats of arms.
February 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Sunbeam #Benares #India 3.2.1887. "Returned to station & went on by train to Benares. Drove through the narrow & dirty streets to the Golden Temple. Not much to be seen in the shops except London brasswork & Hindoo gods...Dined at Clarke's Hotel, & returned to the train very tired." #Brassey #1880s
Page and map from "The Last Voyage" by Annie Lady Brassey, published posthumously in 1889. Benares, India 3.2.1887.
February 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Carved stele inside the Table des Marchands, a Neolithic tomb at Locmariaquer, Brittany. The shapes may represent shepherds’ crooks, symbolizing the pastoral life of the tomb's builders. #TombTuesday

📷 June, 2023.
Carved stone with shepherds' crooks, lit from below.
February 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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#RodentOfTheDay Wyoming Pocket Gopher (Thomomys clusius)

The "Wyoming Pocket Gopher is Wyoming’s only endemic mammal and is found only in south-central Wyoming."

Photo (c) Hannah Griscom

Ph/Inf: fieldguide.wyndd.org?species=thom...
Like other pocket gophers, Wyoming Pocket Gopher has a large head and shoulders tapering towards the posterior end. The front feet are large and strong with large claw-like nails used for digging. The species has small eyes and ears and fur-lined cheek pouches that open externally of the mouth (Keinath and Beauvais 2006; Buskirk 2016). Pelage is generally pale yellow-brown (Coues 1875), with young individuals lighter than adults. On the dorsal side, pelage is uniform in color. Wyoming Pocket Gopher can be distinguished from the sympatric Northern Pocket Gopher by its smaller size, lack of dark post-auricular patches, and presence of white hairs on the margins of pinnae that are lighter than the hair of the dorsum (Thaeler and Hinesley 1979). This one is standing on pale, rocky soil and is emerging from a tunnel. Photo (c) Hannah Griscom
February 3, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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"The Children's Fancy Bazaar At The Kursaal, Bexhill.
Workers in the Bexhill Leaguers' Bazaar."
Bexhill Chronicle 3.2.1899. #Kursaal #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1890s
February 3, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Avarian Warrior Tomb: Hungarian archaeologists uncover 1300 year old Avar warrior burial with intact sabre and other grave goods. A team from the Szent István Király Museum has discovered an elite warrior’s grave near Aba and Székesfehérvár in central Hungary.
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Sunbeam #Japan 3.2.1877. "But Mabelle & I spent most of the day in bed; she suffering from a blow from the boom, which had produced slight concussion of the brain, & I having a wretched cold, which has been gradually getting worse the last few days, & which has quite taken away my voice." #Brassey
Page and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Japan 3.2.1877.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Large #Roman sculpture found in Carlisle on site w several #TombTuesday s: thought to be related funerary #Monument.
In mythology:
snake=rebirth/transformation
pinecone=fertility/eternal life.
Alas my immediate thought was💩and I can't unthink it.
@tulliecarlisle.bsky.social said they felt the same.
A large brownish red sculpture of a snake in a spiral, with top end and head twined around a pinecone. It's quite coarsely finished and looks to many like a tall pile of poo.
February 3, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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In Anglo-Saxon architecture, Roman stone meets a timber way of thinking: stone becomes articulated into the Saxon timber-centric world view. I suppose, in this way, it is also a memory as well as a material. Here at All Saints', Earls Barton. 📸 my own.
February 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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The Flower Seller / La bouquetière
1875

Jules-Émile Saintin
French
February 3, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Join @helenerwin.bsky.social and @folklorethursday.bsky.social at @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social on 19th Feb for a FREE ONLINE event about Näcken, a dangerous and seductive creature from Swedish water folklore!

Book your seat on Eventbrite now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-spir...
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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Drawings of 10th century hogback tomb markers at St Andrews Church, Penrith, Cumbria dated 1921 by WG Collingwood who was professor of Fine Arts at University College, Reading and President of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society.
#TombTuesday
February 3, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. Its legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions Height 6.6 cm x Width 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.
February 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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"The Marina Looking West, Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard c.1955. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #History #1950s
February 3, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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The restored entrance to Wayland’s Smithy in Oxfordshire - a Neolithic chambered long barrow close to the Uffington White Horse. The barrow was built over an earlier burial structure which held the remains of at least 14 individuals. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #WaylandsSmithy
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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Headland
February 2, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Fornacalia festival. Fornax,goddess of ovens and furnaces- without which we could not cook or create,necessary to prevent burnt offerings and serious house fires.Festival lasted approximately nine days, and probably started around the 5th -7th of February to 17th. #Folklore
February 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Belated #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳

📍St Cathen's Church • Llangathen ⛪️

#Wales #History
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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The dolmen of La Pierre aux Fées in Reignier (Haute-Savoie) has a 5x4.5m capstone on 3 orthostats. It was built overnight by a fairy who carried the capstone on her head, an orthostat under each arm and the third on her head. #TombTuesday.
February 3, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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The detail in our Winter Wartime model railway is astonishing and has been featured on tv. When you visit us you can press the buttons to start the trains, turn on the streetlights, start the sails of the windmill and much more. It is set in the snowy #Bexhill winter of 1940.
This snapshot is a close up of one portion of the railway. It is looking up Devonshire Road and the Boots building is on the corner on the left, about halfway up. Everything is snow covered. There are lots of buildings of the town in this view.
February 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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We're at St Mary's Church, East Guldeford, C1505, right on the border of Sussex & Kent.
This fabulous font is a C12th Sussex marble one, fancy!, so it predates the Church by 350 ish years. Where did it come from....... well, it may have come from the inundated Church at Broomhill, Camber.
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM