Forest_Jungle_Collective

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

#TombTuesday and this is a headscratcher
A few yards from the Oxfordshire border, the 'Seven Barrows' Lambourn
The signs say 'Seven Barrows' but ...there's very clearly at least 9 - more like 10 if you count the nearest as a double
(and numerous others in the fields around)

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 2 months ago to random

#MedievalMonday with the Venetian Tower, Split 🇭🇷

the remaining portion of a Venetian castle built in the grounds of a demolished monastery just by the waterfront, completed around 1441

See more of Venetian Split & the area in the new episode >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic3KdhJ42fc

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 2 months ago to random

#RomanSiteSaturday with the Bancroft villa, just outside Milton Keynes

A first phase as a farmhouse in c1, later a much grander structure in c3 with upgrades & a garden added in c4

#RomanBritain

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 3 months ago to random

#FindsFriday with the pieces of Lorica Segmentata armour at the Bridport Museum plus the remains of a Gladius

#RomanBritain

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 3 months ago to random

#RomanFortThursday & it was a mish to get to
Waddon Hill Roman Fort, Dorset is quite difficult to parse, the ground has been disrupted - but you can see the square earthworks clearly in the NE corner as well as ditch works to the West
reconstruction from the Bridport museum

#RomanArchaeology #RomanBritain

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 3 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday with the always charming, yet unfinished Ladle hill, with a saucer barrow from the bronze age settlement here visible to the north

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 3 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday & this was incredibly satisfying
While we've done Beacon hill before, hadn't yet captured it under clear blue skies
& nice to see the path up is still an absolute death slide whatever the weather 😆

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 3 months ago to okc

#FontsonFriday and it is of course the spectacular Tournai at East Meon, this has got to be an all time favourite, an iconic piece of #Romanesque craftsmanship

#Hampshire #EastMeon #Norman

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 3 months ago to random

Dawn at Hengistbury Head this morning
#Dorset

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 3 months ago to random

#Hillfortswednesday with Old Winchester Hill and the gorgeous hampshire countryside surrounding it

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

Sunrise this morning, was hoping to get further afield today, but this is as far as im getting
perfect conditions to be hillforting too 😓

#Bournemouth #Sunrise

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

for #HillfortsWednesday a more humble - but very important site - the Martin down enclosure, a small #Bronzeage enclosed settlement with later Roman use

excavated by Pitt Rivers between 1895-96

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

#Tombtuesday & spot the barrow...
Swyre head in #Dorset & a bowl barrow that has staked out a very good spot to observe the centuries as they wash over the Jurassic Coast

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

Its the Cappella Sant’Aquilino in Milan for #MosaicMonday
the c4 mosaics including 'Christ the philosopher among the disciples' & at the bottom - the surviving portions of the 'christ as sol invictus' mosaic

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to philosophy

2/4 from Mediolanum - Roman Milan, and its a bit of a hidden one
this tower is not instantly visible from the street, but tucked away in front of what is now a hotel, the tower of the Ticinensis Gate, standing at 9m tall & built been later c1 BC / early c1 AD

#RomanSiteSaturday #Roman #RomanArchaeology

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to philosophy

#RomanSiteSaturday & a few highlights from Mediolanum - Roman Milan 🇮🇹
Beginning with the Colonne di San Lorenzo, a Roman colonnade held together with later & medieval structures
(the bronze of Constantine is a modern copy)

#Roman #RomanArchaeology

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

#hillfortswednesday with Perborough Castle, a univallate hillfort in West Berkshire
excavations in 1838, suggest that it was a lightly defended and possibly seasonally occupied site, containing just a few grain storage pits & slag pits

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

Honestly, setting foot out into #Dorset again yesterday afternoon was the first time i've felt human again this whole season
Swyre head really is something special if you can catch a sunny day in January, the low sunlight makes it glow & the jurassic coast unfurls like a scroll

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

A not-quite-so ruined priory for #RuinedPrioryFriday
over the years i must've taken countless pictures of the c13 church in priory park, Chichester
but yesterday finally got to satisfy my curiosity & see inside
part of a larger monastic complex and later used as a courthouse

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday with Prestonbury Castle, Devon

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

#TombTuesday with a frost-covered pair of Saucer barrows in the New Forest

#NewForest

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to philosophy

10 /
Finally, the aqueduct of Segovia 🇪🇸 made it there even after a cancelled flight lead to a 400km diversion, a particularly special survivor from antiquity

#AncientSiteSunday #Roman #Segovia

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

9/
Another one i wasn't sure when i'd be able to see, an incredible thrill to explore Ravenna and all its golden mosaics

#AncientSiteSunday

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to okc

8/ Not quite as far away with this one, & while a first time in Chester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 might not seem quite as exciting as some of the others on this list, as well as the amphitheatre & walls, managed to at last complete my punch card of Norman Cathedrals in England 😊

#AncientSiteSunday #Norman #Cathedral #Chester

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