This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future
Painting of two cloak wearing men with horses approaching a timber gate, with observation tower above, being opened by two shield carrying men whilst two men, a boy and a dog watch from the ramparts above
The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset
Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation
Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩
#HillfortsWednesday
An open area of grassy heath with a sign in the foreground
#RomanFortThursday A remote posting in Ordovician territory - the upland Roman fort at Tomen y mur in Eryri/Snowdonia is named after the great medieval summit motte ('tomen' or mound) which sits over the Roman fort ('mur' - wall)
The brilliant signs were unfortunately taken down in 2022😔
📷My own
...they said they still hated it and I thought well b*gger that, I've managed half a century without.
It wasn't entirely planned, but a series of unfortunate events not limited to a pandemic, illness, unexpected family bereavement and a cocked up eye test meant I had a load of lessons then stopped. Hated driving but was going to restart and casually mentioned to friends that I'd get used it...
I can't drive, not can my husband (well he has a license but refuses to), and we live in a village...
I would encourage those who can (and that's more than you think!) to enter this FREE contest. Sure, the odds are low of winning - but did I mention it's FREE? And potentially life changing for a writer. And entering contests is a great incentive to polish that piece of work.
Deadline 16th March.
Thanks, and yes, spring is very welcome just now!
Finally getting over COVID, taken weeks though.
this is so ghoulish and disgusting
The picture shows two dolls with movable shoulders, elbows, hips and knee joints. The legs of both dolls are partially broken off. One doll's arm is almost completely missing. The limbs and torso are very long, the breasts small. The faces are largely destroyed. The hair is combed back behind the ears, reaching down to the shoulders at the nape. The ivory, which is actually white, has turned brown over time.
Beloved #toys: a pair of #Roman ivory #dolls with articulated arms and legs found in a tomb of a little #girl from a wealthy family in Emona, Ljubljana/Slovenia.
The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
The impact of a growing pool of unemployed ecrs perhaps?
This isn't even 'regime change'. He was vile and is unmourned - and was 86. It's a fairy story that Iranian leadership hasn't succession planning.
I obviously lack the same nuance. We are being drawn into an opportunistic war fought for US reasons at a time when the US is demonstrably not supporting the UK.
In my experience in places like Dubai the majority will be expats
Part of a hand-coloured engraving of a Roman mosaic showing a boar in profile running to the right, flanked by trees.
For this #MosaicMonday, the adorably perky boar from the Withington Orpheus mosaic. The original can now be seen in
@coriniummuseum.bsky.social. 🐗😍
I've no issue with the evacuation - it absolutely may be needed. I've also been a diplomat involved with planning for evacuation (a very long time ago). For Brits not paying UK taxes, which will be a large numbers, there should be post-evacuation charges.
If people opt not to pay UK taxes, should they get UK benefits? FCO should charge them.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at UIowa Petition here c.org/ZVhdNSckD8
I think so too, most especially regarding regulator
Enough politics. It is publication day for the paperback edition for The Far Edges of the Known World; it's a book that has been described in reviews as both strikingly and refreshingly original.
So if you fancy reading about the ancient world from a different perspective - give it a read!
Useful corrective to this series.
No doubt she'll be writing about the inadequacy of the consular services I presume she's declined to pay taxes for.
This is eccentric by the standards of the median British voter, and British Muslims have far more socially conservative views than the median voter, by a huge distance. This is especially true regarding homosexuality and the role of women. The most ruddy-faced bar room reactionary at the 19th hole is a blue-haired college radical in comparison. (Incidentally, I’m also not sure how the Green party squares their environmental transport policy with the fact that British-Pakistanis tend to favour cars, as social conservatives with families.)
Thank God Muslim voters in Manchester overwhelmingly decided to vote for the female candidate in the party led by a proud gay Jew, then. Guess your analysis is wrong!
Hope you feel better soon.
🏺Time Team, then DFB showed how much appetite there is for solid, fieldwork-founded, object-exploring & narrative archaeological public communication.
People want to understand time and their place in it as individuals, communities & a species, and effects of this have a unique power for cohesion.
Could be fertility too. Maybe mixed genetics that way produced larger family sizes. Or maybe neanderthal men were in some way better at ensuring child survival (maybe in the research but paywall). So many possible explanations for an interesting finding.
Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Where do I start?! 1/4
