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Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
kpw1453.bsky.social
The tomb of the Venerable Bede in the 12th century Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral. Bede’s relics were transferred from Jarrow to Durham in 1022, and eventually placed in the Galilee Chapel during the later 14th century. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #DurhamCathedral #Bede
October 6, 2026 at 6:24 AM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
Happy #TombTuesday to those who celebrate 💀🥳

The magnificent & enormous Bronze Age summit cairn on Aran Fawddwy mountain in Eryri/Snowdonia under a heavy frost on Christmas eve, 2025 ❄️

An epic place to inter the bones & ashes of the prehistoric dead 👌

📷 My own
October 6, 2026 at 5:26 AM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
Walking around the famous Neolithic portal dolmen at Pentre Ifan, Nevern, Pembrokeshire 🤩 for #TombTuesday

This extraordinary structure looks so different from every angle

🎥 My own, 2023; no sound
August 25, 2026 at 5:25 AM
carausius286.bsky.social
It’s #TombTuesday & and this is the magnificent polychrome sarcophagus of Selanti Hanunia Tlesnasa, a wealthy Etruscan lady. Typical of Etruscan tombs, she reclines on a pillow holding a mirror in her left hand, displaying her face with her right. She was about 50 when she died.

🕰️C2nd BC
🏛️BM
📷mine
April 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
alisonfisk.bsky.social
#TombTuesday

Let’s go inside Bryn Celli Ddu!

A remarkable Neolithic passage tomb built some 5,000 years ago to align with midsummer sunrise! 🌅

Look out for the stone pillar in the burial chamber. Pehaps a tomb guardian keeping watch from the shadows!

Anglesey, Wales

🎥 by me

#Archaeology
February 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
stonelands.bsky.social
I'm seeing a few Welsh sites this #TombTuesday, so to join in here is lovely Carreg Samson on the Pembrokeshire coast. The huge capstone was put in place by St Samson of Dol, using only his little fingernail ...
January 20, 2026 at 11:40 AM
mostlyrambling.bsky.social
Queen Maeve's cairn on top of Knocknarea, seen from Yellow Strand on the opposite side of Sligo Bay last weekend.

#TidesOutTuesday #TombTuesday #PassageTomb #IrishHistory #Prehistory #Archaeology #Ireland #Neolithic #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #ECK #EastCoastKin
Landscape oriented, 16:9 image. A sandy beach in the foreground, still wet from the retreating tide. There is a strip of land at the end of the beach with a bungalow on it to the right hand side and several telegraph or electricity posts. Behind this a large hill stands on the horizon. It looks like it is looming over the aforementioned strip of land but it is in fact several kilometres away on the far side of an ocean bay. The hill's steep slopes are forested on the left, while its right hand side is comprised of precipitous limestone cliffs. Towards the left hand side of its broad, flat summit a large neolithic cairn is silhouetted against the sky. The sky itself is pale blue with scattered light clouds.
October 6, 2026 at 7:53 AM
tony-o.bsky.social
For #TombTuesday... Temple of Deen aka Laraghirril Court Tomb on the Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal, Ireland
Image April 2026
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Photography #Infrared #Black&White #Monochrome #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Inishowen #Donegal
October 6, 2026 at 6:55 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Orcadian Gothic

A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney

Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting

Well played 👏

📷 Aug 2024

#TombTuesday #Archaeology
A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy
September 29, 2026 at 6:46 AM
alisonfisk.bsky.social
Bryn Celli Ddu is a remarkable Neolithic passage grave built some 5,000 years ago to align with midsummer sunrise.

The rising sun on the longest day of the year lights up the inner burial chamber, where a stone pillar keeps watch from the shadows.

Anglesey, Wales 📷 by me

#TombTuesday
#Archaeology
A photo collage of Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic passage tomb on the island of Anglesey, Wales. Top photo: view of the grassy mound which covers the inner burial chamber, with east-facing stone-lined tomb entrance, and a kerb of rocks around the mound. Bottom left photo: stone-lined entrance passage leading to the inner burial chamber. There is a low shelf on the northern side of the passage (on the right in my photo). Bottom right photo: the central chamber lined with large stone slabs, and a free-standing stone pillar
January 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
lomelindi12.bsky.social
The tomb of the Venerable Bede in Durham Cathedral

A black, gleaming slab

#TombTuesday
Black topped tomb in Durham Cathedral’s Galilee Chapel - the internment of the Venerable Bede
April 7, 2026 at 7:21 AM
lomelindi12.bsky.social
#TombTuesday

A diadem for the dead #Dartmoor
Cairn circle on autumn moors
October 6, 2026 at 5:50 AM
alisonfisk.bsky.social
Bryn Celli Ddu is a remarkable Neolithic passage tomb built to align with midsummer sunrise some 5,000 years ago!

On the longest day of the year, the rising sun lights up the inner burial chamber where a stone pillar keeps watch from the shadows.

Anglesey, Wales 📷 by me

#TombTuesday
#Archaeology
My photo collage shows Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic passage tomb on the island of Anglesey, Wales. Top photo: view of the grassy mound which covers the inner burial chamber, with east-facing stone-lined entrance, and a kerb of rocks around the mound. Bottom left: stone-lined entrance passage leading to the inner burial chamber. There is a low shelf on the northern side of the passage (on the right in my photo). Bottom right photo: inside the tomb, the central chamber is lined with large stone slabs, and a large stone pillar made of blue schist stands in the shadows to the right of the doorway.
June 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
mythicalbritain.bsky.social
Delightful Ricardian tomb to Maud, wife of Sir Thomas Harcourt, dated to ca. 1394 at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. I wonder what poetry she listened to and what music she enjoyed in those far off troubled days? #TombTuesday
Medieval tomb chest with figure of a woman painted in yellow and red colours of the family.
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
#TombTuesday

Roman tomb on Dere Street, near High Rochester, Northumberland.

#RomanBritain #Archaeology #History (see Alt.)
Dere Street Roman Road was built by occupying Romans in AD 7981. It was reused during the time of the Antonine Wall, some 60 years later. It also found use in 1298, when King Edward of England marched his forces north along Dere Street to the Battle of Falkirk. A Roman cemetery is an area of ground set aside for the disposal, celebration and remembrance of the dead. Under Roman law it was illegal to bury or burn the dead within a town, so throughout the Roman occupation cemeteries were set up outside the settlement to which they belonged, usually alongside an approach road. The monument is situated on a rocky eminence some 400m SE of High Rochester Roman fort close to Petty Knowes farmhouse, and comprises a Roman cemetery located on either side of Dere Street Roman road. Around I00 small barrows have been identified, these being largely low circular mounds averaging 3-4m dia. some of which also exhibit a shallow external ditch and low external bank.
October 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM
kpw1453.bsky.social
The tomb of King John of England (1166-1216) at Worcester Cathedral. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #WorcesterCathedral
May 19, 2026 at 6:02 AM
mythicalbritain.bsky.social
Faces of power from long ago fashioned most finely from stone. Here, Sir Edward de Benstede and his wife Joan Thornbury at Benington, Herts. Edward successfully navigated the end of Richard II’s reign to serve under Henry IV. Remarkably, he was around 77 when he died - a grand age. #TombTuesday
Stone effigies of an armoured knight and a lady on top of a tomb in Benington church, Hertfordshire. Both figures lie on their backs facing upwards and are shown at prayer. A large candlestick is visible in the background,
April 21, 2026 at 7:06 AM
forestcollectiv.bsky.social
#TombTuesday & the instantly-recognisable Coetan Arthur, St Davids Head 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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October 6, 2026 at 6:40 AM
alisonfisk.bsky.social
#TombTuesday

The Lady of Baza. A remarkable cremation urn from the Iberian Iron Age. Painted limestone, 4th century BC.

Found inside an underground chamber in 1971 during excavations of the Baza, Sanctuary necropolis, Granada, Spain.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. 📷 by me

#Archaeology
Limestone cremation urn in the form of a richly-dressed woman seated on a wing-backed armchair. Her right hand rests on her knee. She holds a bird in her left hand. Over her tunic dress she wears a full length mantle edged with a pattern which retains its original red pigment. She wears a headdress with beaded headband, large pyramidal earrings with fringe, chokers around her neck, two large necklaces, and finger rings. Funerary offerings included luxury pottery and metal weapons placed at the feet of the statue in the underground tomb chamber. My photo shows a reconstruction of the tomb at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid.
November 26, 2024 at 11:59 AM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
#TombTuesday A Neolithic tomb in a 'sea' of limestone

The modest but iconic Poulnabrone chambered tomb standing proud in the wild Burren landscape of Co. Clare, western Ireland

📷 My own, summer 2023
A stony landscape of limestone pavement with a slab built dolmen on a grassy rise in the middle distance
February 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
maxmoran.bsky.social
Cerrig Llwydion Burial Chamber, nr Cwmduad, Carmarthenshire
📷 22.02.22 #TombTuesday
A small burial chamber of standing g stones and a capstone in a field boundary and rural setting.
October 6, 2026 at 5:30 AM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
Back to the Neolithic for #TombTuesday... 🥳

The magnificent surviving end chamber & entrance façade of Pentre Ifan long cairn, in the hills above Newport in Pembrokeshire.

Look at that perched capstone 😮

The first Scheduled Ancient Monument in Wales 🥰

📷 My own, Sept 2023
A stone chamber tomb with a stormy sky beyond
August 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
mostlyrambling.bsky.social
For #RockinTuesday a view of the cairn from a walk up Knocknarea in 2023.

Although I have pictures taken closer, I chose this one as the walkers ahead on the path give a sense of just how big it is.

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#TombTuesday #IrishHistory #Archaeology #Ireland #Neolithic #Landscape #Sligo #ECK #EastCoastKin
Landscape-oriented, 3:2 image. A wide, flat hilltop. There is a path on the right hand side that traces a course through the low-growing vegetation to a massive stone cairn on the horizon. If you zoom in, a group of walkers are approaching the cairn on the path. Their tiny figures provide a sense of scale, revealing how impressive the Stone Age cairn is - its diameter is around 55 metres (180 feet) and it stands around 10 metres tall (33 feet). It is a bright, cold January morning. The scene is sunlit and the sky is pale blue and clear aside from a few wisps of high, white cloud.
October 6, 2026 at 10:52 AM
mythicalbritain.bsky.social
Time, tide and temporary things … a monumental memento mori stands hidden in a corner at St Clement’s, Cambridge, ever watching the sands sifting downwards. #TombTuesday
Stone tomb cover showing a low relief carving of a skeleton bearing an hour glass in one hand and a spear in the other. At his feet, at the point of the spear, is a young child.
March 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM