Forest_Jungle_Collective

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 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, 7 months ago to cymru

More incredible welsh crosses, this time from St Illtyd's Church, Llantwit Major 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Beginning with the Houelt Cross, likely c9 and a stunning example of a wheel cross

#StandingStoneSunday #Wales #Celtic

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 days ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the stones at Stanton Drew

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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, 25 days ago to random

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

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 18 days ago to random

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

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, 2 months ago to random

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

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 25 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, 7 months ago to random

#MosaicMonday with the Labyrinth Mosaic, C1-C3 found in a Caerleon Churchyard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Displayed in the Caerleon Roman Legion Museum

Geometric mosaic in Black & white with a vine design around the border
Geometric top Corner of the mosaic in Black & white with a vine design flowing out of a vase around the border
Geometric Corner of the mosaic in Black & white with a vine design around the border

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 2 months ago to random

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

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the Duloe Stone Circle, taken on a sunny afternoon in february

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 11 days ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with the unforgettable Spinsters Rock, Dartmoor

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, 7 months ago to random

#AncientSiteSunday & was unreasonably excited to see this - the recreated neolithic sweet track from the Avalon Marshes
The original built in around 3800BC to cross the waterlogged landscape

#Avalon #Neolithic #Somerset

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

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 7 months ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday still at the Margam stones museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 with the Bodvoc stone late c6/early c7
with the oldest recorded welsh family history

translated '[the stone of] Bodvoc, here he lies, son of Cattegern, great grandson of Eternalis Vedomavus'

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, 8 months ago to random

#RomanFortThursday with the amazing Porta San Paolo, originating in c3 as part of the Aurelian walls in Rome

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, 9 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday
stick with me on this one...

Rome
specifically the Palatine hill & some of the earliest layers of settlement there with archaeology from c10-8 BC & these recreations of the 'Germalus huts'
Taken last week in the Palatine museum

an urn from the c10 BC burial found under the house of livia
pottery finds from a layer between c9-8 BC
recreation of the early palatine hill settlement

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, 9 months ago to Scotland

#BrochThursday with a couple from the Northern Tip of #Skye - beginning with Dun Borrafiach, the outer hebrides just visible on the horizon

#Broch #Scotland #IronAge

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 10 months ago to random

#StandingStoneSunday with Torbreck Stone Circle, just south of Inverness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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