🧵8 Posts: High on the windy ridge above the Spen Valley, beside Walton Cross Farm at Hartshead, stands a remarkable survivor from Yorkshire’s medieval past. At first glance, it appears to be little more than a weathered block of grey gritstone. Yet this is the surviving base of
September 26, 2026 at 7:17 AM
For the dry stone wall freaks....we hit the motherlode.
June 21, 2026 at 8:59 PM
A remarkable glimpse from a mountain road through the broken roof of an abandoned chapel yesterday
📷 Arthog
📷 Arthog
May 8, 2026 at 6:06 AM
The 16th century door of the village pump house at Walsingham in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Walsingham #Norfolk
June 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Mid-13th century door from the undercroft at Wells Cathedral in Somerset. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #WellsCathedral
April 9, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The remains of the north gate at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Chesters
April 2, 2026 at 6:36 AM
The late Anglo-Saxon west doorway at Holy Trinity Church in Colchester. Dating to the mid-11th century, the doorway incorporates re-used Roman bricks. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #AngloSaxon #Colchester
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
New #Gaslands #minspiration just dropped.
March 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
New #Gaslands #minspiration just dropped.
Stairway to premier seating in the #Roman amphitheatre of #Caerleon legionary fortress #Gwent
Here the officers and guests of the Legio II Augusta would ascend to watch *entertainment* in the arena 😱
📷 2015
#RomanFortThursday
Here the officers and guests of the Legio II Augusta would ascend to watch *entertainment* in the arena 😱
📷 2015
#RomanFortThursday
August 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
March 10, 2026 at 7:46 AM
The remains of Dun Carloway Broch on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. It was probably built in around 200 BC, and still stands at some 9 meters in height. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Brochs #Archaeology #Lewis #DunCarloway
May 2, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Definitely saved for #minspiration
Tree in Alexandra Park feels like it was made by @fenrisgames.com 🤔
April 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Definitely saved for #minspiration
Kloster Walkenried im Schnee (Walkenried Abbey in Snow)
Carl Hasenpflug (1802–1858)
Carl Hasenpflug (1802–1858)
January 13, 2026 at 8:38 PM
A "chain-link" column on the south portal of the western facade of the church of Saint-Lazare D'Avallon, in north-central #France. c.1160.
#architecture #art #History #medieval
#architecture #art #History #medieval
May 10, 2026 at 11:21 AM
#RomanSiteSaturday a modern-day 'Roman' villa in rural France this week.
Ruins like this must have dotted the southern British landscape in the post-Roman era, waiting to be reoccupied or their building materials re-used
📷 My own
Ruins like this must have dotted the southern British landscape in the post-Roman era, waiting to be reoccupied or their building materials re-used
📷 My own
June 6, 2026 at 6:05 AM
The south transept doorway of St. Magnus Cathedral at Kirkwall in Orkney, with its alternating sandstone stonework. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Kirkwall #Orkney
February 5, 2026 at 8:04 AM
October 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Two years ago, I embarked on an ambitious 3D reconstruction model of Dover Castle, recreating how it might have looked at the time of the Great Siege in 1216. Working with a team of architectural and military historians, the digital model and 3D renders took over five months to develop. #Blender3D
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
local #minspiration
Lincoln’s Newport Arch was built by the Romans in the 3rd century and is still very much in use by vehicles today, some 1,800 years later- this is pretty amazing!
October 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
local #minspiration
Blakethwaite Smelt Mill in Gunnerside Gill, Swaledale. The area was a lead mining centre in the 18th and 19th centuries, this plant being built in 1821. The landscape is still scarred by spoil heaps and 'hushes' where dams were built and breached to strip soil from the bedrock.
August 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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