David
@tombtraveller.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The Viking Mask Stone.
A runestone set up in memory of a warrior who died in battle, c. AD 970-1020.
Runic inscription: ‘Gunnulfr and Eygautr/Auðgautr and Áslakr and Hrólfr raised this stone in memory of Fúl, their partner, who died when kings fought’.
From Aarhus, Denmark
📷 by me
#Archaeology
A runestone set up in memory of a warrior who died in battle, c. AD 970-1020.
Runic inscription: ‘Gunnulfr and Eygautr/Auðgautr and Áslakr and Hrólfr raised this stone in memory of Fúl, their partner, who died when kings fought’.
From Aarhus, Denmark
📷 by me
#Archaeology
February 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Viking Mask Stone.
A runestone set up in memory of a warrior who died in battle, c. AD 970-1020.
Runic inscription: ‘Gunnulfr and Eygautr/Auðgautr and Áslakr and Hrólfr raised this stone in memory of Fúl, their partner, who died when kings fought’.
From Aarhus, Denmark
📷 by me
#Archaeology
A runestone set up in memory of a warrior who died in battle, c. AD 970-1020.
Runic inscription: ‘Gunnulfr and Eygautr/Auðgautr and Áslakr and Hrólfr raised this stone in memory of Fúl, their partner, who died when kings fought’.
From Aarhus, Denmark
📷 by me
#Archaeology
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
February 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
February 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
February 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Annaghmare Court Tomb from above showing the horseshoe shaped court, a gallery of 3 burial chambers & 2 side chambers which were added much later...Neolithic pottery, bone, flint scrapers & a bear's tooth were found during excavations
County Armagh
#TombTuesday
County Armagh
#TombTuesday
January 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Annaghmare Court Tomb from above showing the horseshoe shaped court, a gallery of 3 burial chambers & 2 side chambers which were added much later...Neolithic pottery, bone, flint scrapers & a bear's tooth were found during excavations
County Armagh
#TombTuesday
County Armagh
#TombTuesday
November 24, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Something wonderful for the weekend!
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist at work, sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist at work, sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Something wonderful for the weekend!
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist at work, sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist at work, sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Reposted by David
This time last year I was lucky enough to see this amazing artefact at an exhibition at the @museecluny.bsky.social in Paris - a prehistoric spearhead fashioned from rock crystal, discovered in France and possibly up to 20,000 years old.
November 22, 2024 at 3:47 PM
This time last year I was lucky enough to see this amazing artefact at an exhibition at the @museecluny.bsky.social in Paris - a prehistoric spearhead fashioned from rock crystal, discovered in France and possibly up to 20,000 years old.
Killarah, County Cavan
#fingerpostfriday
#fingerpostfriday
November 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Killarah, County Cavan
#fingerpostfriday
#fingerpostfriday
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#FindsFriday
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2024 at 9:53 AM
#FindsFriday
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Beautiful Mesolithic baskets!
So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago!
A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today!
Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Reposted by David
Novel archaeological survey technique deployed at Dunluce Castle a few years back.
November 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Novel archaeological survey technique deployed at Dunluce Castle a few years back.
November 19, 2024 at 10:13 PM
November 17, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Herne the Hunter, the #BonfireSculpture for 2024 is done.
Herne, his origin lost in the mists of time, appeas in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', I first knew him via Susan Cooper's book 'Dark is Rising'. Accounts see him haunting Windsor Great Park and leading the Wild Hunt.
Herne, his origin lost in the mists of time, appeas in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', I first knew him via Susan Cooper's book 'Dark is Rising'. Accounts see him haunting Windsor Great Park and leading the Wild Hunt.
November 4, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Herne the Hunter, the #BonfireSculpture for 2024 is done.
Herne, his origin lost in the mists of time, appeas in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', I first knew him via Susan Cooper's book 'Dark is Rising'. Accounts see him haunting Windsor Great Park and leading the Wild Hunt.
Herne, his origin lost in the mists of time, appeas in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', I first knew him via Susan Cooper's book 'Dark is Rising'. Accounts see him haunting Windsor Great Park and leading the Wild Hunt.
Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb in County Waterford...a shoddily reconstructed dolmen with a wall of concrete blocks to support the capstone. A 1939 excavation found cremated bone, flint and charcoal in the chamber.
📷July 2024
#TombTuesday
📷July 2024
#TombTuesday
November 12, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb in County Waterford...a shoddily reconstructed dolmen with a wall of concrete blocks to support the capstone. A 1939 excavation found cremated bone, flint and charcoal in the chamber.
📷July 2024
#TombTuesday
📷July 2024
#TombTuesday