Tom Singleton
@tomsingleton.bsky.social
Gay and Autistic. I’m a Playmobil Collector and a railway modeller. I also have my own private museum. History and Archaeology fan. So join me as I share my interests with the world.
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today is the feast of St Nicholas!
St Nicholas and the Christmas Angel are visiting Van Horn Christmas Market 🎅🏻🕯️
#Playmobil
St Nicholas and the Christmas Angel are visiting Van Horn Christmas Market 🎅🏻🕯️
#Playmobil
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Today is the feast of St Nicholas!
St Nicholas and the Christmas Angel are visiting Van Horn Christmas Market 🎅🏻🕯️
#Playmobil
St Nicholas and the Christmas Angel are visiting Van Horn Christmas Market 🎅🏻🕯️
#Playmobil
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Happy St Andrews Day! 🏴
To celebrate the day here is a picture calendar from 1934 by The Scotsman newspaper.
Part of my museum collection.
To celebrate the day here is a picture calendar from 1934 by The Scotsman newspaper.
Part of my museum collection.
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Happy St Andrews Day! 🏴
To celebrate the day here is a picture calendar from 1934 by The Scotsman newspaper.
Part of my museum collection.
To celebrate the day here is a picture calendar from 1934 by The Scotsman newspaper.
Part of my museum collection.
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A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
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A pair of gold armbands from the Colchester Fenwick hoard, buried before Boudica’s attack in AD60. As the Roman last stand took place where Colchester Castle now sits, the owner may have perished where their jewellery is now displayed @ColMuseums.bsky.social
#FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
#FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A pair of gold armbands from the Colchester Fenwick hoard, buried before Boudica’s attack in AD60. As the Roman last stand took place where Colchester Castle now sits, the owner may have perished where their jewellery is now displayed @ColMuseums.bsky.social
#FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
#FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
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A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
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This #findsfriday we have an ear pendant made from a boar's tusk, which was found with a small beaker of the Wessex / Middle Rhine type found in Grave 10 of the Wilsford Barrow Groups.
Excavated by Mrs E Proudfoot on behalf of the Ministry of Works in 1960.
Excavated by Mrs E Proudfoot on behalf of the Ministry of Works in 1960.
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This #findsfriday we have an ear pendant made from a boar's tusk, which was found with a small beaker of the Wessex / Middle Rhine type found in Grave 10 of the Wilsford Barrow Groups.
Excavated by Mrs E Proudfoot on behalf of the Ministry of Works in 1960.
Excavated by Mrs E Proudfoot on behalf of the Ministry of Works in 1960.
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The C10th Huxley Hoard was discovered by detectorist Steve Reynoldson near Huxley, Cheshire, #OTD in 2004. The 22 items of Viking silver comprise 21 arm rings and one ingot. Fragments of lead suggest the hoard may have been wrapped in a sheet of the metal. 📸Museum of Liverpool #medievalsky
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The C10th Huxley Hoard was discovered by detectorist Steve Reynoldson near Huxley, Cheshire, #OTD in 2004. The 22 items of Viking silver comprise 21 arm rings and one ingot. Fragments of lead suggest the hoard may have been wrapped in a sheet of the metal. 📸Museum of Liverpool #medievalsky
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Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
![My photo shows a thin, rectangular, dark brown leaf of wood, which is broken in places. Across the surface are six lines of cursive Latin handwriting. The text is written in black ink which appears faded and faint. The Latin reads:
nenụ ...[.]n. Brittoneṣ
nimium multi ‣ equites
gladis ‣ non ụtụṇtur equi-
tes ‣ nec residunt
Brittunculi ‣ ụt ‣ iaculos
mittant
Translated as:
… the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins.
On display at the British Museum.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreiepntyce43pmmptw3xewwjw46tha2u4sqm7mptegttx5u2mqj527a@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Reposted by Tom Singleton
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
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LNER 1N36 2300 London Kings Cross > York #InterCity225 #ECML
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
LNER 1N36 2300 London Kings Cross > York #InterCity225 #ECML
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A look back in time for #MeridianMonday with 2 units that have now served their time on the #MML, 222005 has left for Scotland & #Lumo while i believe 222001 is one of the next to go off lease if not already? Seen here on up & down services at ☀️ Market Harborough on 7/5/21
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A look back in time for #MeridianMonday with 2 units that have now served their time on the #MML, 222005 has left for Scotland & #Lumo while i believe 222001 is one of the next to go off lease if not already? Seen here on up & down services at ☀️ Market Harborough on 7/5/21
I’ve started to plan my museum’s Christmas display today. I’m hoping to start putting it together next week 😊
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I’ve started to plan my museum’s Christmas display today. I’m hoping to start putting it together next week 😊
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An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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November 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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The east and west ends of my custom built Playmobil church after a recent rebuild.
The central tower stands over a metre high!
#Playmobil
The central tower stands over a metre high!
#Playmobil
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The east and west ends of my custom built Playmobil church after a recent rebuild.
The central tower stands over a metre high!
#Playmobil
The central tower stands over a metre high!
#Playmobil
Reposted by Tom Singleton
Reposted by Tom Singleton
A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above
Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater
📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008
#WhatLiesBeneath
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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730 224 at Harrow and Wealdstone on 16th October.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
730 224 at Harrow and Wealdstone on 16th October.
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The eastern end of the Norman crypt from the Church of St. John the Baptist at Berkswell in Warwickshire. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #Berkswell #Warwickshire
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The eastern end of the Norman crypt from the Church of St. John the Baptist at Berkswell in Warwickshire. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #Berkswell #Warwickshire
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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Reposted by Tom Singleton
701 026 and 701 054 at Clapham Junction on 9th October.
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
701 026 and 701 054 at Clapham Junction on 9th October.