Edmund Simons
@tunky-pig.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Heritage Management, Buildings Archaeologist, Oldthingologist, Anthropospelæologist
All opinions my own
All opinions my own
Easy LB description to AI any guesses?
June 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Easy LB description to AI any guesses?
Enjoying putting listed building descriptions into AI. It’s not bad, but can’t get phasing or weathering, everything looks 19th c (too much American data?).
Easy one, what building is this?
Easy one, what building is this?
June 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Enjoying putting listed building descriptions into AI. It’s not bad, but can’t get phasing or weathering, everything looks 19th c (too much American data?).
Easy one, what building is this?
Easy one, what building is this?
Beautiful, early 16thc linenfold doors, falling apart and being eaten by beasties! I won’t say where to save the blushes of the parishioners…. But really! #AdoorableThursday
May 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Beautiful, early 16thc linenfold doors, falling apart and being eaten by beasties! I won’t say where to save the blushes of the parishioners…. But really! #AdoorableThursday
Nordy Bank hillfort, Clee Hill, Shropshire, you can see about a billion other hillforts from here
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
May 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Nordy Bank hillfort, Clee Hill, Shropshire, you can see about a billion other hillforts from here
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
Wise words from behind the organ
May 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Wise words from behind the organ
I’m slightly obsessed with decaying medieval churches, but sometimes the scale and rate of loss becomes all too apparent.
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’m slightly obsessed with decaying medieval churches, but sometimes the scale and rate of loss becomes all too apparent.
This is wonderful! I’ve never seen it before, 1240s? Judging by the armour. I presume they were mounted, but they are using narrow lances with both hands and without shields, very very archaic! Do you mind if I ask others about it?
March 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is wonderful! I’ve never seen it before, 1240s? Judging by the armour. I presume they were mounted, but they are using narrow lances with both hands and without shields, very very archaic! Do you mind if I ask others about it?
This is a VERY exciting photo! Beavers! After a gap of 800 years
March 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is a VERY exciting photo! Beavers! After a gap of 800 years
Saint Non’s Bay, next to the birthplace of David, monastic pioneer and a link between the Christian Roman world and the Middle Ages. Happy Saint David’s Day
March 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Saint Non’s Bay, next to the birthplace of David, monastic pioneer and a link between the Christian Roman world and the Middle Ages. Happy Saint David’s Day
A site I haven’t been to in ages, but which retains its appeal. Bit modern, (18thc) but with some amazing literary associations (not the one you would think).
February 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A site I haven’t been to in ages, but which retains its appeal. Bit modern, (18thc) but with some amazing literary associations (not the one you would think).
Tenbury Wells wonderful 19th century round market hall for #Adoorable Thursday
January 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tenbury Wells wonderful 19th century round market hall for #Adoorable Thursday
A beautifully creepy weird frost day.
January 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A beautifully creepy weird frost day.
I have the pleasure of working on the beautiful round market at Tenbury Wells. A glorious example of Victorian practicality.
December 10, 2024 at 7:09 PM
I have the pleasure of working on the beautiful round market at Tenbury Wells. A glorious example of Victorian practicality.
Underground places that have possible associations with Early Medieval saints are irresistible, so looking forward to exploring this enigmatic, eremitic probable souterrain in central Birmingham.
December 4, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Underground places that have possible associations with Early Medieval saints are irresistible, so looking forward to exploring this enigmatic, eremitic probable souterrain in central Birmingham.
he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy, and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave’s mouth grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.
December 3, 2024 at 2:19 PM
he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy, and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave’s mouth grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.
St Cassian’s (I know) Chaddesley Corbet (Worcs). An emergency churching trip, I needed an easy local fix of Medieval
November 26, 2024 at 5:26 PM
St Cassian’s (I know) Chaddesley Corbet (Worcs). An emergency churching trip, I needed an easy local fix of Medieval
While we are #steeplesaturday have this one. Ahhh, Italy I hear you cry, no, St Catherine’s Hoarwithy (Herefordshire). A bit of pseudo early med
November 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
While we are #steeplesaturday have this one. Ahhh, Italy I hear you cry, no, St Catherine’s Hoarwithy (Herefordshire). A bit of pseudo early med
St Peter’s, Kinver, Staffordshire, taken a couple of days ago. The tower is 14thc but the main body of the church has fabric dating back to the 11th or 12th. It sits on a high ridge above the planned medieval town #steeplesaturday
November 23, 2024 at 8:34 AM
St Peter’s, Kinver, Staffordshire, taken a couple of days ago. The tower is 14thc but the main body of the church has fabric dating back to the 11th or 12th. It sits on a high ridge above the planned medieval town #steeplesaturday
Just a raw point cloud, but I will never tire of the joy of repeatedly slicing the roof off and peeking inside a building. In this case Heath Chapel (Shropshire). I do love laser scanning.
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Just a raw point cloud, but I will never tire of the joy of repeatedly slicing the roof off and peeking inside a building. In this case Heath Chapel (Shropshire). I do love laser scanning.
Some Free French pictures today for @davidpetts1.bsky.social Ribbesford House, Bewdley, (annoyingly scaffold clad) used by the Free French for training
November 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Some Free French pictures today for @davidpetts1.bsky.social Ribbesford House, Bewdley, (annoyingly scaffold clad) used by the Free French for training
Couple of weeks ago Prof Mark Horton gave a wonderful lecture on 50 years of archaeology at Repton. We were joined my the great Martin Biddle himself. Such an important site and not just for Vikings
November 16, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Couple of weeks ago Prof Mark Horton gave a wonderful lecture on 50 years of archaeology at Repton. We were joined my the great Martin Biddle himself. Such an important site and not just for Vikings
Kelmscott, yeah yeah…William Morris, fascinating… but look at these timber gutters, by far the most exciting thing (but don’t tell the Antiqs)
November 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Kelmscott, yeah yeah…William Morris, fascinating… but look at these timber gutters, by far the most exciting thing (but don’t tell the Antiqs)
I took the liberty of plonking them in iDStretch
November 15, 2024 at 10:33 AM
I took the liberty of plonking them in iDStretch
Well, is this nicer than Twitter? Not that I ever did much on Twitter.
November 14, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Well, is this nicer than Twitter? Not that I ever did much on Twitter.