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Tracy Marshall
@tracym57.bsky.social
Interests: Mediterranean/Iberian/Punic/Roman archaeology; British genealogy.....and many other things. English living in Andalucia, collects stray dogs...
The EU has issued an alert for everyone to stock up a 72 hour supply of food (and presumably flock to the nearest fortified castle) in case of invasion.

My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
right?
March 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Jimena de la Frontera: ship paintings from Laja Alta are the oldest in the western Mediterranean.
....naval representations dating from between the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. #cavepainting #Andalucia
canal.ugr.es/noticia/pint...
January 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Our FB group The Forgotten Messages Project in the news:
"The family of a globe-trotting butler who mingled with royalty has been reunited with his lost postcards from the 1920s.
..eight postcards have been found .. on the Isle of Wight and reunited with his family."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A stele with a possible unknown writing was discovered in Escúllar (Almería) #Spain
efe.com/andalucia/20...
January 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
La valiosa villa romana que sale a subasta en Córdoba, en imágenes
Datada en el siglo III d. C. y enclavada en el barrio de cordobés de Santa Rosa, deberá liquidar una deuda de 878.000 euros.
www.abc.es/espana/andal...
December 22, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Sam at the river ford, Montenegral. #Andalucia
December 10, 2024 at 8:49 PM
December 3, 2024 at 9:45 AM
"To Ximena on a Donkey" (Jimena de la Frontera, Spain)
Graphic - Saturday 23 September 1893
Image © Illustrated London News Group. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
via British Newspaper Archives.
December 1, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Carteia in the Illustrated London News, 22 October 1927.
via British Newspaper Archives.
December 1, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Exhibition in UK of Roman relics from Carteia, Spain.
"Haleius Caus Sallustius..."
Birmingham Journal - Saturday 19 September 1840
via British Newspaper Archives.
December 1, 2024 at 7:09 AM
For Sale in 1840 in Birmingham, UK. From the ruins of Carteia (Spain):
Four pieces of sculpture 2000 years old.
Aris's Birmingham Gazette 8 June 1840.
via British Newspaper Archives.
December 1, 2024 at 7:04 AM
#RomanSiteSaturday
Guadalquiton/Borondo, Sotogrande, Spain.
Looted, unexcavated and unprotected.
November 30, 2024 at 1:31 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
Jimena de la Frontera, Spain.
November 30, 2024 at 1:26 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
Baelo Claudia, Bolonia, Spain.
November 30, 2024 at 1:24 PM
#WindowsWednesday #Andalucia
Cortijo de Marajambuz.
November 27, 2024 at 6:53 AM
#WindowsWednesday
Alcaidesa beach ruin #Andalucia
“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own..."
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
November 27, 2024 at 6:50 AM
#MosaicMonday
Mosaic found in Marchenilla, Jimena, Spain, in 1965.
andaluciaylaeducacion.blogspot.com/2021/12/el-i...
November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
#MapMonday
Mannequin I covered with maps, out on a day trip.
November 25, 2024 at 5:19 PM
#MosaicMonday
Italica, Sevilla, Spain.
November 25, 2024 at 10:32 AM
#MosaicMonday
Archaeology museum, Sevilla, Spain.
November 25, 2024 at 10:28 AM
#MosaicMonday
Archaeology museum Sevilla, Spain.
November 25, 2024 at 10:26 AM
#MosaicMonday
Archaeology museum, Sevilla, Spain.
November 25, 2024 at 10:25 AM
#StandingStoneSunday
Msoura, near Asilah, Morocco.
November 24, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Post you from a different era:
Joining in with this, here's one.
November 21, 2024 at 10:53 AM