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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 8 days ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the stones at Stanton Drew

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 15 days ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the unforgettable Spinsters Rock, Dartmoor

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 22 days ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the extremely pleasing concentric circles of Yellowmead, Dartmoor

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 29 days ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the Alignements Lagtjar, Brittany

my goodness Brittany seems a long time ago now 😔 am about 5 years overdue for another visit

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 29 days ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the gorgeous Ballynoe Stone Circle, NI
& framed beautifully in the distance by the Mourne Mountains

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 2 months ago to random

#SaxonSunday with the Beeley Cross, c10 now cited in the church yard of All Saints, Bakewell

#SundayStonework

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 2 months ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the beautiful henge & stone circle of Arbor Low

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 2 months ago to random

#Standingstonesunday with the Nine Ladies, Stanton moor in the sunshine last weekend

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 2 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday & one i've been meaning to tick off since forever 'Alfreds Castle' Oxfordshire.
Iron Age fort established within a series of late Bronze Age linear ditches, nowadays clearly visible in the landscape but covered with rather long grass

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

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This was a major goal: see Mousa Broch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
a living miracle that a ~2000 y/o tower in the British Isles is still standing basically intact
A long way to go but worth every second

#AncientSiteSunday
#Broch

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

#Adoorablethursday & time for a few last doors that we've missed off
beginning with this beautiful but tiny door on the southern side of Luppitt St Marys, Devon

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

#MosaicMonday with another mosaic treasure from #Ravenna & its the Neoniano Baptistery, built at the end of c4 - early c5
Will post a close up on the central pannel beneath this 🧵👇

The central circular design on the ceiling above the baptistery
close up on the border patterns
detail with some of the figures surrounding the central panel

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

#MosaicMonday and the famous central pannel from the Arian Baptistery in Ravenna,
the fact they managed to achieve the effect of translucency using just tiles 😳

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

More from Ravenna & since its #TombTuesday - its got to be the Mausoleum of Theoderic - a superb c6 survivor on the northern outskirts of the town

#Ostrogothic

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

so... recently we were in #Ravenna & as you might imagine its furnished us with enough material for a lifetime of #MosaicMonday's
but gotta start somewhere so today a few from the Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo

#RomanArt

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

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Next Mount Caburn - had eyes on this for ages, bit of a trek from Lewes but thankfully had a beautiful day for it!

#HillfortsWednesday

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

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Was absolutely thrilled to get to Belas Knap for the first time a couple of weeks ago, incredible place 😊 with a pretty brutal slope to reach it 🥵
So, figured today is as good as any to have a bit of a Cotswolds-Severn Long barrow group spree

#TombTuesday

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

#MedievalMonday with the beautiful, if a little neglected Heath Chapel, #Shropshire. C12
Including this white-washed chancel arch & traces of wall paintings

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday with the Ramparts of Humpleton Hill, #Northumberland
Other than the gorgeous views, was a distinct satisfaction getting to climb this as last time we were in the college valley area this is the one major hillfort we didn't get time for

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

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#TympanumTuesday then the southern side of St Swithuns, Quenington under a porch with a coronation of the virgin design

#Medieval #Cotswolds #Romanesque

wide shot of the Norman church

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 6 months ago to random

The small & rather ploughed but no less beautiful Thundersbarrow Hill in the Sussex Downs
#HillfortsWednesday

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 7 months ago to cymru

#StandingStoneSunday with Meini Dirion or 'the Gentle Stones' just outside of Bridgend 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#Neolithic #Wales

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 7 months ago to cymru

#tombtuesday with the Tinkinswood Burial Chamber 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿while it has a huge, 40 ton capstone, from futher back you can appreciate its overall form

#Wales #Neolithic

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 7 months ago to cymru

Just one more for St Illtyd's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for today, the cylindrical pillar from c10-11 & one of a pair, the precise function of these pillars is unclear, there is a long v-shaped groove cut down it which may have been a slot for supporting a decorative screen.

#StandingStoneSunday #Wales #Celtic

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 7 months ago to cymru

Next from St Illtyd's, St Samsons pillar that reads 'IN NOMINE DI SUMMI INCIPIT CRUX SALVATORIS QUAE PREPARAVIT SAMSONI ABATI PRO ANIMA SUA ET PRO ANIMA IUTHAHELO REX ET ARTMAIL ET TECAN'

"In the name of the most high God begins the cross of the Saviour which Samson the Abbot prepared for his soul, and for the soul of Iuthahelo the King and of Artmail and of Tecan."

Luthahelo is thought to be Ithel, a king of Gwent who died in 846

#StandingStoneSunday #wales #Celtic