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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

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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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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to philosophy

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Another first that feels like it should've come sooner, first time setting foot in the eternal city itself

#AncientSiteSunday #Rome #EternalCity #RomanArchaeology

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to Budapest

6 / Another first, this time a first time in Hungary a lot to love about Budapest but in particular the spectacular Roman ruins of Aquincum

#AncientSiteSunday #Budapest #Roman

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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

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A first time in Istanbul & with all the episodes we're making on the Venetians, Byzantines & others, seemed mad that we hadn't seen #Constantinople or the Hagia Sophia yet

#AncientSiteSunday
#Byzantine

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

3/ getting out into the Cyclades & Santorini was itself a massive thrill, but seeing the bronze age settlement of Akrotiri & its frescoes was a major bucket list tick

#AncientSiteSunday
#BronzeAge #Thera

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

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Sicily was an absolute life-changer of a trip, with many highlights & firsts: but of all of them Cefalù was just ridiculous:

A Norman Cathedral, Byzantine mountain fortress AND a late Bronze age temple-structure-something, get outta here 😳😳

#AncientSiteSunday
#Sicily #Cefalù

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to ireland

Ok its #AncientSiteSunday & the last of the year so, might as well have a run down of the most exciting visits for this year

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and to begin, back in feb: first time in Ireland! couldn't possibly pick just one neolithic highlight, incredible all the way down

#StandingStoneSunday
#Ireland #Neolithic

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 4 months ago to random

#Adoorablethursday and this beautiful Romanesque ghost doorway on the side of St Andrews, Wroxeter

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, 5 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday & just one more for 2023, one of my favourites that i never got around to posting (its been a busy Autumn for hillforting)
A few from Nordy Bank hillfort, #Shropshire with just the right autumnal light

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#FontsOnFriday and this rather lovely #Romanesque work from St Mary's Puddletown, #Dorset

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#HillfortsWednesday & a cloudy day this week at Torberry hillfort, glanced across from Harting Beacon & couldn't help but notice the hill above South Harting looked rather fort-y, sure enough!

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#TombTuesday with the larger cairn atop Cley Hill, the cloud inversion visible behind

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#SteepleSaturday with St Giles church, Watersfield - West Sussex with its C12 tower & timber addition at the top

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#RomanSiteSaturday & down a side street I almost missed, the ghost of a Roman basilica absorbed by a later wall in Brescia 🇮🇹

#RomanArchaeology

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

Cley Hill just outside Warminster, turned into a winter wonderland with the Hoar Frost & a cloud inversion
You could just about perceive Battlesbury & some of the other hills in the area as distant islands in the mist

#HillfortsWednesday

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#TombTuesday with the long barrow at the centre of Bratton Camp, partly decked out in frost
Somewhat damaged with deep grooves and furrows from excavations over the years

#Wiltshire

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

Blown away & blown around this morning at a rather blustery but never disappointing St Aldhems Head

#Dorset #JurassicCoast

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#AdoorableThursday next from Devon: this beautifully ancient blocked doorway from Saint Winifred's Church, Branscombe

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

#AdoorableThursday with a few from Devon
This Romanesque portal is one of the few norman traces surviving on St Marys church Axminster

Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

More from Bratton Camp saturday
& tick 'photograph a cloud inversion' off my bucket list
📝😊
buzzing

#HillfortsWednesday

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Forest_Jungle_Collective, 5 months ago to random

I never feel im in the right place at the right time photographically speaking, I find myself looking enviously at other togs who [inexplicably] are,

so imagine my glee at making it to the top of Bratton Camp last saturday & catching the cloud inversion
#HillfortsWednesday