Kevin Wilbraham

The remains of the 13th century Shrine of St. William - the first abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #RievaulxAbbey #Yorkshire

13th century heraldic floor tiles from the Church of St Mary at Abbey Dore in Herefordshire (the former abbey of Dore Abbey). #TilesOnTuesday #AbbeyDore #Herefordshire

#TombTuesday Small but perfectly formed 🥰 The diminutive Poulnabrone dolmen in the Burren of western Ireland, seen in summer 2023 with an Alpine carpet of wildflowers at its base💐 Did the original Neolithic builders ever think their family tomb would become world famous? 📷 My own

#MedievalMonday with the Barochan Cross at Paisley Abbey, Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 from between c8-11 see more of the ancient stonework around Glasgow in the new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aKu...

🧵Ellerton Priory was a small, poor Cistercian nunnery in Swaledale, founded around 1200 and housing only about 13 nuns at its peak (and as few as five by 1381). Following the priory's surrender to the Crown in August 1536 and its formal dissolution in 1537. the site underwent a dramatic shift in

Gold ring with Sitting deity and row of Minoan Genius figures bearing offerings, found in context from Mycenaean #Greece, but probably made in Minoan Crete, (National Archaeological Museum of Athens N 6208) #Archaeology #Art #jewellery

Sarsen stones on Milk Hill, looking across the huge valley towards Rybury Camp and Tan Hill, #Wiltshire

Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons, died #OTD 899. St Cuthbert appeared in a vision to the then king of the West Saxons as he sought refuge in the Somerset marshes, vowing he would defeat his foes. This he did at the Battle of Ethandune (Edington, Wiltshire) in 878. 📸CNG

The Westness brooch-pin formed part of a Viking-Age grave disturbed by a farmer at Westness, Rousay, Orkney, #OTD in 1963. It is silver decorated with gold, amber and glass. The grave contained the remains of a young woman and newborn child. 📸National Museums Scotland

Since it's #MosaicMonday, we can have a look at both sides of the shield, thanks to the Piazza Armerina hunt mosaic.

Niche - but I like it.

Back in Athens after far too long. Some cities feel like coming home, Athens is one of them.

Some of the most incredible craft work from #Monreale #Cathedral #MosaicMonday

St Osmund’s foramina tomb shrine base in Salisbury Cathedral. A remarkable survivor.

The Milestone which sits alongside the Stanegate Roman Road at #Vindolanda fort is one of the very few stones still in its original location out of thousands which must have existed across the UK #archaeology #HadriansWall

Oct 26: Feast of Eata (†686), bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham). Educated by Aidan, he became a monk, and eventually abbot, at Mailros (Melrose). Tenures as abbot of Lindisfarne and bishop of Bernicia also preceded his time at Hexham. Tunberht succeeded him. 📸Kevin Wilbraham

#MosaicMonday Part of the Roman mosaic found at Hinton St. Mary, Dorset 4th Century AD. Now at the British Museum. #History #artwork #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday #Roman 🏺 Marine theme in vestibule of Domus M Caesi Blandi, centurion of Praetorian Guard, #Pompeii. Two dolphins + sea serpent beside a trident, around a ship's rudder topped w bird, + fortifications on threshold panel above. Perhaps a tribute to source of family fortunes.

From the latest Digest: a neon boat, a Whisky Sour and a 700-year-old oak door. Somewhere between dream and reality, I found myself in Alrewas, speaking its strange name and sensing something beyond the everyday. Read on 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

Today's the feast of St Chad, 7th Century abbot and bishop in turn of both Northumbria and Mercia. He stands outside of Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire, where his shrine was until it was destroyed at the Reformation. His brother was St Cedd, evangelist to the East Saxons.

Current lunch view, Wiltshire

Detail from a 4th century AD mosaic floor at Littlecote Roman villa in #Wiltshire showing pieces of tesserae cut from reused stamp-impressed box flue tile 📷 May 2015 #MosaicMonday

Detail from the 4th century ‘Charioteer Mosaic’ featuring a victorious charioteer and quadriga (four horse chariot). The mosaic decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire; now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

The remains of the medieval gatehouse of St. Benet’s Abbey on the Norfolk Broads - the only Norfolk monastery founded in the Anglo-Saxon period which continued in use throughout the Middle Ages. A windmill was built onto the gatehouse during the 18th century. 📸 My own #MedievalMonday

This is a marvelous example of whimsy and craftsmanship! A rare Greek askos, made in the shape of a lobster claw. Dating back to approximately 450 BC, the vessel was used to hold perfumed oil. 🦞 📷️ Antikensammlung Kassel #archaeology 🏺

Men Gurta, ‘the stone of waiting’. Cornwall’s bulkiest megalith, veined with feldspar. What a fantastic stone! Happy day today stone hunting on St Breock Downs and environs 💚🪨 #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday Overlooking Loch Roag and the hills of Great Bernera, the Callanish Standing Stones—also known as the Calanais Standing Stones. Ilse of Lewis

A life-size #Roman marble head found in #Sussex now in the British Museum (1961,1103.1) Our report identifying it as Agrippa Postumus, youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus, is open access thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy #StoneHeadSunday

Don't miss Post 3!. 🧵Forming part of a wider prehistoric complex concentrated around the River Ure are the Devil’s Arrows at Boroughbridge. They form the southern edge of a ritual landscape which includes the Thornborough Henges as well as the Cana Barn, Nunwick, and Hutton Moor henges.

A compressed aerial shot along the mysterious Wansdyke as it crosses Tan Hill, looking South East towards Woodborough Hill and the Pewsey Downs in #Wiltshire. "Dyke of Woden".

Romano-Celtic stone head found at West Denton close to Hadrian’s Wall in 1969. Now in the Great North Museum, Newcastle. This one is clearly trouble at night, hence the restraining bars. #StoneHeadSunday

EGO SVM VIA VERITAS St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 877: Composite manuscript: Grammar · Poems and Carmen paschale · Miscellaneous · Dialogue between teacher and disciple · Pauline commentary; 9th century; St. Gall; p.455 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

A lovely little eyebrow dormer in Alrewas, Staffordshire, living up to its name – peeping out from beneath a tangle of foliage, with the village church keeping watch above.

Wittenham Clumps today. Pictured; Round Hill from Castle Hill's ramparts.

Part of the stone circle at Little Salkeld in Cumbria known as ‘Long Meg and Her Daughters’. Dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the circle is one of the widest in the UK. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #LongMeg #Prehistory #Archaeology #Cumbria

An early 12th century corbel from Wimborne Minster in Dorset of Moses, with the Ten Commandments in hand. 📸 My own #StoneworkSunday #WimborneMinster

The Hole Stone (or Crow Stone) in Galloway. Local tradition says that it was used during marriage ceremomies, by joining hands through the hole. It stands close to the White Cairn and another stone reputedly once accompanied it. #Scotland #History #StandingStoneSunday

Magnificent fan vaulting above the choir and altar in Bath Abbey. built in the time of Henry VII by Master Masons Robert and William Vertue. #ceilingsonsunday #tudor

#StandingStoneSunday with the Sun Stone, perhaps the earliest of the @govanstones.bsky.social crosses that may have been a standing stone transformed into a cross See more of the Stones & the ancient sites around Glasgow in the new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aKu...

To bring a smile to your face, here’s a c. 4,500 year-old clay vase in the shape of a little hedgehog holding a bowl! 🦔 ❤️ From Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 📷 ArchaiOptix #Archaeology

For #RomanSiteSaturday a walk through the remarkable Ravenglass bathhouse in Cumbria, on a lovely day last month.

The Crowning of the Virgin at St Mary's, Black Bourton, Oxon.

#RomanSiteSaturday - The monumental eastern gate of Roman Philippopolis (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). It opened onto a broad, paved street lined with Corinthian colonnades and shops, and incorporated an earlier honorary arch, likely built during Hadrian's reign to commemorate his visit.

National Museums Scotland announced it had acquired a rare, 8thC, gold sword pommel #OTD in 2022. A detectorist found it at Blair Drummond, Stirling, in 2019. Encrusted with garnets, it has eyes and a beak on each end. 📸National Museums Scotland

🎂 Happy Birthday to #Roman Emperor Domitian! Born #OTD 24 Oct AD 51, he was the youngest of 3 children of Vespasian & Domitilla,& grew up in the shadow of his brother Titus. He ruled AD 81–96. Trimontium was a new fort during his reign, established c AD 80 as Rome expanded into Scotland.

Chuffed for @friendlesschurches.bsky.social to see this beautiful and inspiring article about their work in the FT today.

St Mary, Ashby, since 1974 Suffolk's most northerly parish church. The tower is octagonal with a round lower stage, both of c1300 when the whole church was rebuilt. By the churchyard, a memorial to those lost in two WWII plane crashes in the nearby marshes. 1/2 #SteepleSaturday

Two #Roman gold bracelets in the form of snakes. The craftsmanship on these is beautiful, with a lot of intricate detail including the scales. They were found in Herculaneum (Italy), lost or left behind when the city was abandoned following the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 #AncientBlueSky

The splendidly maintained remains of the stoking-area to a 3rd century #Roman bathhouse with main flue and relief arch together with ghostly attendant 👻 Preserved in a concrete bunker beneath the busy A1(M) at Welwyn #Hertfordshire 📷 January 2026 @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social #RomanSiteSaturday