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“The Watchtower of Light ~ Rising from the Mists of Avalon”

#TheWatchtowerOfLight #RisingFromTheMistsOfAvalon #GlastonburyTor #StMichaelsTower #SomersetLandscapes #UKLandscapes #LandscapePhotography #MysticalBritain #SacredPlaces #AncientBritain #SpiritualLandscape
#SacredMoments #WhispersOfAvalon
October 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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For #HillfortsWednesday another amazing view of some of the earthworks at the aptly named 'British Camp' hillfort in the Malverns courtesy of Stuart Herbert. #HillfortsWednesday #Celtic #IronAge #AncientBritain
August 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#TombTuesday Inside Quoyness Chambered Cairn on the island of Sanday in #Orkney

Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers!

📸 Mine

#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday
Inside an ancient tomb, with high stone walls on three sides above dark chambers at ground level
July 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
The Stones of Stenness in the Orkney Isles, off the north of Scotland.

Radiocarbon dating has suggested that work began on this stone circle by at least 3100 BCE, making them possibly one of the oldest henge sites in Britain.

📸By me #StandingStoneSunday #AncientBritain #Archaeology #Photooftheday
January 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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#romanobritish #ancientbritain #ancientjewelry #brooch #dragondesign #art #ancientart #metalworking #cloakfastener #romaninvasion
carausius286.bsky.social Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · May 29
This dragonesque brooch is typically Romano-British. While they only started appearing after the Roman invasion in 43AD, they use British motifs & reflect local tastes. These brooches were also used as fasteners for cloaks (the pin is sadly now missing).

🕰️C1-2AD
🏛️📷BM
#FindsFriday
May 30, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Ancient stone art inspiring modern day inky things.
#ancientart #stonebothering #prehistory #ancientbritain #neolithic #linoprint #linocut
January 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
An oystercatcher on a standing stone near the Ring of Bookan in the evening light, Orkney Isles, #Scotland

#StandingStoneSunday

🏺📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbritain #photooftheday #archaeobirds
Two standing stones in a green field with an oystercatcher bird on the right hand one
June 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Part of Castlerigg Stone Circle on a dreary day last year

#StandingStoneSunday

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbritain #ancientbluesky #photooftheday 🏺
Four standing stones embedded in a field in mist, with the silhouettes of hills visible in the background
March 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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The Ring of Brodgar in #Orkney on a fine day last month

#StandingStoneSunday

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbritain #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
Three large standing stones in a line coming out of a bank of heather, in front of a blue cloudy sky
June 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Avebury on heatwave day today ☀️🥵 #StandingStoneSunday

28°C was bad enough to have me hiding behind the stones... 31° tomorrow 😬

How are you spending your heatwave?

🏺 #archaeology #ancientbritain #ancientbluesky #photooftheday
May 24, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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The guardians of Maeshowe chambered tomb. Don't mess with these guys

#TombTuesday

📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology #cows #ancientbritain #ancientbluesky #photooftheday
A cow and calf in a wide green field eating from a green bucket looking at the camera, in the background is a large grassy mound
June 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Hello 👋 To kick off our feed, here is a photo of the #beavermoon rising at our local #neolithic #burialchamber #PentreIfan in #Pembrokeshire yesterday.

#introduction #supermoon #beavermoon2024 #fullmoon #novembermoon #neolithicbritain #ancientbritain #visitpembrokeshire #stormhour
November 16, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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More of my watercolours of Ancient British standing stones #archaeology #neolithic #standingstones #ancientbritain
November 20, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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#StandingStoneSunday

Meini Hirion (aka The Druid's Circle) in North Wales under a dramatic sky

This landscape is full of prehistory, with hillforts, stone axe factories and ancient trackways through the mountains. Very atmospheric!

📸Me 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain #photooftheday
March 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#StandingStoneSunday Two megaliths stand in the front garden of this house! Future home goals...

📍 Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbritain #photooftheday 🏺
A grassy bank with two standing stones and a house on the right, under a grey sky
March 8, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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🌿🏰 #HillfortsWednesday: Bury Ditches in Shropshire is one of England’s best-preserved Iron Age hillforts. Dating to around 500 BC, it has up to four concentric ditches & ramparts, commanding stunning views over the Shropshire Hills. A perfect mix of history & scenery! 

#IronAge #AncientBritain
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Boskednan Stone Circle on the Cornish moors. Such a eerie landscape. You wonder if it was the same 4000 years ago, and why this was built here...

#StandingStoneSunday

🏺📸 My own #archaeology #photooftheday #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain
A stone circle in the middle of a barren moorland stretching into the distance. The grass is full of purple and yellow heather and clumps up around the stones
April 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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A heart-shaped hillfort for #HillfortsWednesday in the run-up to Valentine's Day!

This crisp aerial shot is of Brent Knoll in Somerset by Frances Griffith
#AncientBritain #Photography #Photooftheday 🏺
A black and white aerial view over a hillfort in the shape of a heart, surrounded by a patchwork of fields
February 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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I'll never get tired of the Bronze Age barrows scattered throughout the Wiltshire countryside #TombTuesday

📸 My own

#archaeology #ancientbritain #blueskytuesday #photooftheday 🏺
A grassy mound with small trees on either side in a field of long grass, silhouetted against a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds above
May 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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#HillfortsWednesday The ramparts of Hembury Hillfort in Devon. Once so prominent and imposing in the landscape, they are now reclaimed by the trees...

🏺📸 Martin Bodman #archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain #photooftheday
A brown earthy ditch in a wood with bare trees stretching over the ditch
April 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Stonehenge holding up my tiny wee block of Boxwood for the green man carving session today...

#stonehenge #greenman #woodengraving #printmaking #folklore #ancienthistory #ancientbritain #megaliths
March 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Inside Cuween chambered tomb from 3000BC in the #Orkney Isles of #Scotland

On the floor were found skulls of at least 24 dogs! Like the Tomb of the Eagles and others, were #dogs the "totemic" animal of the people who built this tomb?

#TombTuesday

📸Mine #archaeology #photooftheday #ancientbritain🏺
Inside a tomb built with rows upon rows of flat slabs of rock, with two niches cut into the walls with darkened entranceways
June 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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A Bronze Age barrow on the Quantocks in Somerset smothered in heather, sadly forgotten.

You wonder who was buried here, what life they led, what struggles they faced, what stories they told...

#TombTuesday

🏺📸 My own #archaeology #ancientbluesky #ancientbritain #photooftheday
A field of green and purple heather with a mound in the centre, a burial mound smothered in heather, under a grey sky
April 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Out exploring moorland and a ruined Bronze Age cairn in the sun...and keeping the whippet elevated to avoid spindly leg injury.

#ancientbritain #prehistoric #prehistory #whippet
February 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
The Ring of Brodgar on the Orkney Isles in Scotland, in my opinion one of the best and most beautiful stone circles in Britain #StandingStoneSunday #AncientBritain #Photooftheday 🏺📸 My own
A landscape view of a multiple standing stones in a stone circle standing amongst heather in a rolling hill landscape under a blue sky with whispy white clouds
February 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM