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Mary B
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying
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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · Nov 17
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan
A path in a birch wood strewn with autumn leaves
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drtobydriver.bsky.social
#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands

Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮

🎥 My own, Sunday
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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bwallower.bsky.social
#ReliefWednesday
#Roman tombstone of Flavinus found under Hexham Abbey
floor.
The high ranking Signifer from Gaulish cavalry regiment of Petriana carries standard w sun god + wears a #torque, possibly mark of status among his Celtic people, as he tramples a barbarian.
A tall tombstone carved in relief, with a cavalry officer on his rearing horse, with standard in hand. Beneath is the kneeling, crouching image of a bearded barbarian with a club. Inscription below the translates: To the Venerated Departed: Here Lies Flavinus A Horse Rider of the Cavalry Regiment of Petriana Standard Bearer of the Troop of Candidus Aged 25, of 7 Years’ Service
January 28, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
I saw Merit’s beauty box last year when I visted the incredible Museo Egizio in Turin. Here’s a closer look at Merit’s fabulous blue glass kohl tube with applicator and her delightful blue glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads on the lid!
My photo shows a dark blue, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders, below the neck. It has a dark-blue circular glass lid, on top of which are two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills. The jar sits on a circular wooden display stand. In front of the jar is a blue glass eye makeup tube lying on its side. The glass is decorated with trails of white and yellow festoons. It contains a wooden applicator stick. Both are displayed on a glass shelf in the Egyptian Museum, Turin.
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
"On savait que c'était une tombe d'exception... ça a été bien plus" : le trésor du Prince de Lavau se dévoile au public. #Archéologie
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
"On savait que c'était une tombe d'exception... ça a été bien plus" : le trésor du Prince de Lavau se dévoile au public
Des bijoux en or, un immense chaudron en bronze ou encore de la vaisselle luxueuse... Dix ans après les fouilles, l'exceptionnel trésor mis au jour dans la tombe d'un prince celte à Lavau est dévoilé ...
www.radiofrance.fr
January 24, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
Hookland is an odd county. Nowhere else in England has a tourist board happy to promote its haunted shoreline, boast of it including a record number of haunted light houses. A civic pride in phantoms is not the standard approach to encouraging day-trippers. – George Kindred
January 28, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
The phantom economy has many meanings. In England, a good ghost story is hard currency in a pub. It can be exchanged for ale. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
January 28, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'When I Am Old I Shall Wear Purple' quilt art by textile artist/quilter Nancy Messier is named after the 1st line of the poem 'Warning" by Jenny Joseph, about fearless nonconformity and the liberation of older age #womensart
Quilt art with image of purple baseball boots Poem text
January 28, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Japanese artist Hiné Mizushima known for slow crafting, needle felting, weaving, making miniature collages, illustrations and puppet stop-motion animations #WomensArt
Photo of four different coloured felt cartoonish three dimensional octopus models against a blue background
January 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
Rest of UK has so far resisted calls to make it mandatory for developers to install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
Yuki onna is a fearful #yokai appearing on snowy winter nights. She glides across the snow with her blue lips and transparent skin. Beware as her icy gaze can be deadly and she will suck the life force out of you and leave you to die in the snow.
#LegendaryWednesday #JapaneseFolklore
🎨Shigeru Mizuki
A woman leans forward with arms outstretched in the snow. Her face is as white as snow and her black hair flies about wildly.
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: One of my favourite #Roman objects made of glass is this little basket (height 6.5cm). It is not clear what it was used for, possibly to hold cosmetics.

From Syria, dating 3rd century AD.

On display at British Museum

📷 me

🏺#archaeology
The picture shows a vessel in the shape of a two handled basket of brown colour.
January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Skating in the Bois de Boulogne, 1913 by Swiss artist Alice Bailly #womensart
Painting of a crowd of stylised figures skating on a lake
January 27, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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linda2.bsky.social
The Awakening!

It does not always happen, but when it does one must stand in awe of nature. The red sky.

#sunrise #red #landscape #nature #silhouettes #photography
Early morning sunrise. The sky is red as if in fire. The colour reflected in the Lake creating silhouettes of trees and plants.
January 27, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from Ashcourt Paranormal Exploration Society (APES), whose monthly meeting has erupted into an unholy row about whether recent Fethrower reports are hoaxes. Goodnight from Josie Carpenter, wishing it was easier to hold hands with a ghost. Goodnight from Hookland.
January 27, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
Painting portrait of the upper half of a white woman with brown hair tied up and pale top.
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
A mummy portrait of a young man, dating to the late 1st century. Originally from Fayum in Egypt, the portrait is now part of the collections at Manchester Museum. 📷 My own. #Woodensday #Fayum #ManchesterMuseum
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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kristenradtke.bsky.social
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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andreapa.bsky.social
Next up,local author Sarah Hall. Helm was Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2026. A story of the relationship between nature and people.The Helm Wind is Britain's only named wind, a powerful, cold northeasterly wind affecting the southwest slopes of Cross Fell in Cumbria. #Booksky
January 27, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
The remains of South Clettreval Chambered Cairn in North Uist. The cairn dates to the Neolithic and is located on the southern slopes of Cleitreabhal a Dheas. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #NorthUist
January 27, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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Bent iron sword and lance head found in a burial at St. Johann-Gächingen. Bronze and Iron Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before being placed into graves.. In this way, they 'died' with the owner. 3rd c. BC

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg🏺
Close-up of corroded iron items on a gray surface: a large bent sword blade and lancehead stored together loosely, alongside shears with curved blades and a fragmented razor blade.
January 27, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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#ArtDD2026
Godwit

A linocut I did 3 years ago.

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White image on black background, of wading bird standing on one leg, looking to the right. It has a very long thin beak, white head, breast and tail, and the rest of the plumage is shaded using white stripes. (An actual godwit's plumage is mottled browns and russets with a pink beak.)
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Some homes hold their ghosts with quiet forbearance. They do not boast of their phantoms nor advertise for psychic researchers to poke and test them. They accommodate both living and dead residents, afford privacy to both sides. Places of gentle spectral tolerance. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
January 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
A 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian beauty box with original containers for makeup and beauty products! 🤩

📷 Museo Egizio, Turin

#Archaeology
An image of an ancient Egyptian wooden box with a separate flat lid placed on top slightly ajar. Dimensions 29.5 cm x 22 cm x 49 cm. The inside of the box is divided into compartments (obscured in the image by the lid). The exterior of the box is decorated with a painted checkerboard pattern, with lotus bud and blossom border. The box’s contents are displayed next it. Small jars and containers made of alabaster, faience, and blue glass decorated with yellow and white festoons. Some still contain traces of original unguents and fat based creams. A blue glass eye-makeup tube decorated with white and yellow festoons, contains an applicator stick for applying kohl, a black eye cosmetic ‘made from soot and antimony that was applied to the eyelids and eyelashes as a protective filter against the rays of the sun and as a disinfectant’. This beauty box belonged to a woman named Merit. It was discovered in 1906 by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli inside Theban tomb (TT8) which belonged to Merit and her husband Kha. Kha was a high ranking official responsible for the design and construction of three 18th-Dynasty royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. An inscription on the beauty box, possibly added just before burial, states that the box is a funerary offering for Merit’s spirit. Dated New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, 1425–1353 BC.
January 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Discoveries revealed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe near Sanliurfa, Turkey, are giving archaeologists new understandings of how humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to settled societies more than 11,000 years ago. www.reuters.com/science/new-...
New finds in Turkey's southeast add to picture of Neolithic age
Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to se...
www.reuters.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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A Ulysses Swallowtail seen by a friend in Cairns Australia yesterday.
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM