Another reminder of the fundraising campaign to keep the Melsonby assemblage in the region.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

Plaque - 10th/11th Century AD
Walrus ivory

Christ in Glory flanked by the Virgin Mary & St Peter, with 8 figures below.
A cross is carried by two angels.

Found North Elmham #Norfolk - 1847
Now @maacambridge.bsky.social, #Cambridge

#AngloSaxon #Archaeology
Early #MedievalBluesky

UM, I had NO idea facebook was tracking everything I did on the internet. EVERYTHING. I have diligently blocked and followed all ways to try to stop this messed up social media from taking from me, but this is the final straw… THESE JERKS! AGH! [screenshots on how to do it in the comments]

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A 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian beauty box with original containers and traces of makeup and beauty products!

An ancient version of a modern cosmetic beauty case!

📷 Museo Egizio, Turin

#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology

On the other side of the Thames, the new Battersea Power Station was beginning to appear. Built in two phases, from 1929 to 1935 and 1937 to 1941, its four chimneys would become an icon of the riverside. Now a shopping and apartment complex 8/9

1929 also saw the construction on a few buildings that would come to be some of the most emblematic modernist designs in Britain. In Fleet Street the Daily Express Building was being built. Initially designed by Ellis & Clarke, it was given a sleek overhaul by Owen Williams 7/9

On Great Marlborough Street, Ideal House was completed as offices for the National Radiator Company. Designed by American architect Raymond Hood, the 7 storey building is clad in black granite with art deco detailing at street and roof level 5/9

1929 also saw the completion of a number of other buildings in the capital that heralded the coming age of modernity; Bechstein Hall, now Greybrook House, showrooms for the piano manufacturers, designed by Thomas Tait of Sir John Burnet & Partners 2/9 www.modernistlondon.co.uk/greybrook-ho...

55 Broadway was officially opened OTD in 1929 as the new HQ of London Transport. Designed by Charles Holden, the building was one of the first modern skyscrapers in London and the tallest in the capital at the time. Read more here www.modernistlondon.co.uk/blog/55-broa... 1/9🧵

#SaxonSunday
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but w parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939, then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.

@aucklandproject Faith Museum.

Announcement of the discovery of the massive pylon of the temple of Ptolemy VIII at Athribis, with fascinating astral imagery! I was lucky to be there when these reliefs appeared. Another testimony of the importance of the astral sciences at the site! 🪐💫

www.facebook.com/share/1Jasb1...

One of the outrageously important runic inscriptions on the Viking-style Galloway Hoard, deposited c. 900 in what is now SW Scotland.

The exciting kicker is that the runes are ANGLIAN, not Old Norse, likely made by an Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian.

My images from the Treasure Trove in Scotland viewing.

The Midland History journal welcomes article submissions from professional and independent historians, and research students, working on any aspect of the history of the Midlands from Roman times to the 21st century. Visit our submissions site here:
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Feels like that story should sit alongside this one.

European cities reclaiming public squares from cars.

Incredible we ever let these spaces become car parks.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Terribly sad really. The television has done what even some of the most vigorous nationalists of the 18th and 19th century could not.

Dolphins in Wroxeter: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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