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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

its #AncientSiteSunday & finally got to visit Flag Fen this week!
Having heard so much about it, was a rush to see it for ourselves

#BronzeAge #Fens

bronze finds from the site inc. swords
artist impression of the bronze age trackway
Iron age roundhouse

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#SaxonSunday with the crypt at St Wystan's Church, Repton, early c8 construction, later converted into a mausoleum for King Æthelbald of #Mercia

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

have spent this week exploring the treasures of Mercia so its going to be a good #SaxonSunday !
Lets begin with the anchor church, next to the river trent with a tentative c8-c9 date

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to okc

#SteepleSaturday and the very beautiful Church of St Kyneburgha, Castor
Particularly love the #romanesque work, if it looks familiar Castor was featured on a timeteam dig

#Norman #churchcrawling

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#RomanSiteSaturday with the Roman site in the village of Wall (confusing, yes)
the remains of a bathouse & mansio at the town of Letocetum

#RomanArchaeology #Staffordshire

Painting of how the Bath & Mansio structures may have looked
The ground level ruins of the Mansio facing northwest
The ground level ruins of the Mansio facing west

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to okc

#CastleSaturday with Oakham Castle in Rutland, a great surviving example of a Norman Domestic hall at the heart of what was a larger castle complex

#Medieval #Rutland #Norman

Painting of the medieval great hall with fire at the centre
Painting of the original Oakham Norman castle complex with encircling wall & church
the eastern end of the hall with 2 blocked doorways

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to philosophy

#FindsFriday with the incredible detail of the Hallaton Helmet: a Roman Cavalry helmet buried in a c1AD Iron
Age context in #Leicestershire
Taken at the Harborough Museum this week

#RomanArchaeology #Roman

A decorated cheekpiece of the helmet
A sketch of what the helmet would've looked like
the other cheekpiece depicting a cavalry warrior on a horse

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#FrescoFriday with the surviving medieval wall paintings at St Johns Duxford, #Cambridgeshire

#Medieval

Worn depiction of two bishops
the surviving red hues of the painting of the norman chancel arch
floral embelishment fragment surviving on the white plaster

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#RuinedPrioryFriday with Grace Dieu Priory, #Leicestershire this week

#Medieval #Augustinian

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#AdoorableThursday and another one from Cambridge with the Saxon doorway of St Peter's Church

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#BrochThursday with the incredible Broch of Gurness, Orkney & all the structures around it

#Broch #Orkney #IronAge

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

Its been a great week of church crawling, so for #AdoorableThursday lets start with the round Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge

#Churchcrawling #Templar

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

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#HillfortsWednesday & hows about some Hillforts without the hill?!

Belsars Hill, Cambridgeshire
Iron age origin - may have been refortified during the Norman period & used by the forces of Hereward the Wake
you can see the trackway running through the centre

#Ely #Cambridgeshire

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 9 months ago to random

#RomanSiteSaturday with the Roman military amphitheatre in Budapest 🇭🇺 from our visit this week

#RomanArchaeology #Aquincum

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 10 months ago to random

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

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 10 months ago to Scotland

#BrochThursday with the Midhowe Broch, on the edge of Rousay, Orkney
the seas encroaching right to the edge of the site

#Broch #Scotland #IronAge