Tom Singleton

Dean Village, Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #DeanVillage #Edinburgh #Scotland

One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses from the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, over 30 headdresses have been found at the site. This example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own #Mesolithic #StarCarr

Edinburgh Castle (Scotland) reconstruction suggestion of 1445 siege by King James II of Scots with the Black Douglas against Lord Crichton supported by the Red Douglas, Earl of Angus. #EdinburghCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

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

Looking up toward the arch of Belford Road Bridge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #WaterOfLeith #Edinburgh #Scotland

Amongst the trees can seen the remains of Bell’s Mill Saw Mill on the Water Of Leith. It’s located just down from Douglas Crescent 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #WaterOfLeith #Edinburgh #Scotland

The Water of Leith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️ #WaterOfLeith #Edinburgh #Scotland

Taken a year ago 🥲 #Team70 70014 waiting in Wallers Ash as the leaves begin to change colour and fall from the surrounding tree line.

#RomanFortThursday – The Roman auxiliary fort at Gračine, near Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina, traditionally linked to ancient Bigeste. Excavations in 2023–2024 uncovered its northern gateway, flanked by two square defensive towers. The fort was occupied from the 1st to the early 3rd century AD.

For #RomanFortThursday here’s a smaller fortlet on top of Penycrocbren hill, Dylife in Powys, Mid Wales. It lies next to a Roman road over the ridge & north of the linear remains of early lead mines. To the west is a gibbet site on a Bronze Age burial mound. The fortlet dates to the 2nd c.

Some gorgeous, decorated glass beads, one complete (18mm diameter) and three fragmentary, from Glastonbury Iron Age Lake Village Showy and eye-catching jewellery from over 2,000 years ago now in the Glastonbury Tribunal Museum #Somerset 📷 August 2026 #FindsFriday

The heavily restored Norman font of St Peter and St Paul's Church at Belton in Lincolnshire. The church served as the estate church for the nearby Belton House. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Belton #Lincolnshire

Been in Scotland seeing family last week. Here’s a photo of the Old Town in Edinburgh. Got plenty more photos to share to you all ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Scotland #Edinburgh

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A Pictish cross-slab was moved from Benvie Churchyard, on the outskirts of Dundee, to the city’s McManus Galleries #OTD in 1991. The 9thC Benvie Stone bears a cross with angels and intertwined serpents on one side, and mounted warriors with drooping moustaches on the other.

Wow, the world’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey! “A time capsule at the bottom of the sea” 🌊 A trade ship heading for Troy or Minoan Crete sank with a cargo of storage jars. Residue tests will show what they contained c. 4,700 years ago! #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The chandelier in the ballroom is Christmas decoration from TK Maxx and the statues are figurines of William Wallace and Robert The Bruce from the shop at Stirling Castle 😃 #Playmobil #Hobby

The Queens Bedchamber and Dressing Room 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

The Long Gallery 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

The Ballroom 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

The Drawing Room and Antechamber 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

The Fountain Hall 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

The Palace Museum and its conservation laboratory 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

The Palm Court tearoom and its kitchen 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

The entrance hall to the palace. It features a welcome desk and a gift shop 😊 #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

My newest Playmobil custom build is this palace 👑😊 It’s one of the largest buildings I’ve built out of Playmobil’s System X. It uses three 3019 Princess castle sets! It has 13 rooms including the grand hallways. All fully detailed! #Playmobil #PlaymobilCustom #ToyPhotography

In 1833 in Mold, Wales, labourers discovered a skeleton in a grave. This highly decorated, beautiful gold cape was found with the body. The age & sex of the person is unknown though the cape is very small so it may have been a slight woman or child. The owner was high status 🕰️1900-1600BC 🏛️BM 📷 mine

A remarkable ancient Iberian silver patera (offering dish) with a wolf devouring a human head (!), encircled with snakes. It’s surrounded by two friezes: one showing nine hunting scenes, the other a procession of male and female centaurs. In Iberian culture, the wolf was a psychopomp … 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Threave Castle, Dumfries & Galloway (Scotland) 'chphd' image & reconstruction mock-up with reinforced wooden hoarding & gunloop Barmkin wall. A stronghold of Archibald 'The Grim' Douglas (Son of the Black Douglas) built in 1369. #ThreaveCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

Reconstruction mock-up of Finlaggan on Eilean Mór, Islay, (Scotland). Stronghold of Clan Donald from the 1200s. #HistoryRebuilt #Finlaggan

#StandingStoneSunday Avebury Henge 📷 July 2026

Dornoch Castle (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up Paint Gif from 2023 over @undisscot.bsky.social image, when held by the Gordon family in the 1500s. #DornochCastle #ScottishCastles

Hexham Abbey The screens and panels are rare survivors of the destruction suffered by so much church imagery during the Commonwealth period in England. #History #HistoryMatters

The totally stunning ceiling in the (equally stunning room) in Bishop West’s Chantry Chapel, Ely Cathedral 😍 The detail and surviving colours are amazing! West was chaplain to Henry VII and a diplomatic envoy to Henry VIII.

One of the stone rows at Ballymeanoch - part of the remarkable prehistoric landscape at Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Kilmartin #Argyll

Heading for The Smoke...

The *Haystack* on #Ilkley Moor West #Yorkshire (looking west) A natural outcrop covered in over 70 Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age engraved cups, grooves and rings 📷 August 2022 An enigmatic lying down boulder for #StandingStoneSunday

Dahlia 'Fashion Monger' is a bright-faced classic collarette #dahlia that I would plant just for the name. 😍🌺Its open center makes nectar easily accessible, so is favored by bees, butterflies, and other #garden pollinators. It will #flower from mid-summer to the first frost #BloomScrolling #PinkMon

Celtic Funerary Stele, Mazarelos, Oza dos Ríos, Galicia, Spain, Museo das Mariñas Betanzos, 2nd-3rd century CE, Inscription: Sacred to the Gods Manes, to Primiano, son of Vitalis, aged 75 #druidsky /|\ #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #archaeology #Iberia #Funerarystele #celestial

Skipton... 158848 is bound for Leeds, while 784 is bound for the luxurious seaside resort of Morecambe. Ok, maybe take "luxurious" with a pinch of salt 🤣 #SteelCityDoggoPhotography #Skipton #TheBenthamLine #AiredaleAndWharfedale