In Rood Health: An Anglo-Saxon Church with Fascinating Roman and WW1 History
St Mary's Breamore dates to c. AD 1000 and is host to Roman spolia, a remarkable Old English inscription and stone Rood, and poignant First World War memorials.
drtomhornearchaeology.substack.com/p/in-rood-he...
St Mary's Breamore dates to c. AD 1000 and is host to Roman spolia, a remarkable Old English inscription and stone Rood, and poignant First World War memorials.
drtomhornearchaeology.substack.com/p/in-rood-he...
In Rood Health: An Anglo-Saxon Church with Roman and WW1 History
St Mary's Breamore dates to c. AD 1000 and is host to reused Roman spolia, an Old English inscription, and poignant First World War memorials.
drtomhornearchaeology.substack.com
October 29, 2026 at 2:21 PM
In Rood Health: An Anglo-Saxon Church with Fascinating Roman and WW1 History
St Mary's Breamore dates to c. AD 1000 and is host to Roman spolia, a remarkable Old English inscription and stone Rood, and poignant First World War memorials.
drtomhornearchaeology.substack.com/p/in-rood-he...
St Mary's Breamore dates to c. AD 1000 and is host to Roman spolia, a remarkable Old English inscription and stone Rood, and poignant First World War memorials.
drtomhornearchaeology.substack.com/p/in-rood-he...
Spoiling myself with spolias. Again.
November 3, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Spoiling myself with spolias. Again.
For #SpoliaSunday, a C2 CE #column in the #Lateran cloister. When the C15 papacy moved to the #Vatican, the sidelined Lateran rebranded this architectural spolia as the #Temple column that split at Christ's death, an ingenious ploy to draw pilgrims. #AncientBluesky 🏺
November 1, 2026 at 1:14 PM
For #SpoliaSunday, a C2 CE #column in the #Lateran cloister. When the C15 papacy moved to the #Vatican, the sidelined Lateran rebranded this architectural spolia as the #Temple column that split at Christ's death, an ingenious ploy to draw pilgrims. #AncientBluesky 🏺
🏛🧱⛏️ = ⛪️
It's not *quite* at the astonishing level of Roman fabric reuse at the early medieval All Saints', Brixworth, but the Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary's, Breamore, still has LOTS of Roman spolia in the form of reused red brick/tile (CBM = Ceramic Building Material).
It's not *quite* at the astonishing level of Roman fabric reuse at the early medieval All Saints', Brixworth, but the Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary's, Breamore, still has LOTS of Roman spolia in the form of reused red brick/tile (CBM = Ceramic Building Material).
October 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
🏛🧱⛏️ = ⛪️
It's not *quite* at the astonishing level of Roman fabric reuse at the early medieval All Saints', Brixworth, but the Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary's, Breamore, still has LOTS of Roman spolia in the form of reused red brick/tile (CBM = Ceramic Building Material).
It's not *quite* at the astonishing level of Roman fabric reuse at the early medieval All Saints', Brixworth, but the Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary's, Breamore, still has LOTS of Roman spolia in the form of reused red brick/tile (CBM = Ceramic Building Material).
spolia con gli occhi 😍🥰
October 28, 2026 at 12:14 AM
spolia con gli occhi 😍🥰
Wonderful example. Séguier's decoding of the pin holes at the Maison Carrée is fascinating. The stone remembers & we also see this in spolia, such as on the Arch of Constantine, where original faces & names were chiseled away & modified to serve a new narrative. etc.worldhistory.org/travel/hadri...
November 5, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Wonderful example. Séguier's decoding of the pin holes at the Maison Carrée is fascinating. The stone remembers & we also see this in spolia, such as on the Arch of Constantine, where original faces & names were chiseled away & modified to serve a new narrative. etc.worldhistory.org/travel/hadri...
For #ReliefWednesday, a fascinating piece of #spolia from the garden façade of the #VillaMedici. The central panel shows a suovetaurilia sacrifice, confidently assigned by Theodor #Mommsen and his successors to the Ara Pietatis Augusti, built by #Tiberius. #AncientBluesky 🏺
October 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
For #ReliefWednesday, a fascinating piece of #spolia from the garden façade of the #VillaMedici. The central panel shows a suovetaurilia sacrifice, confidently assigned by Theodor #Mommsen and his successors to the Ara Pietatis Augusti, built by #Tiberius. #AncientBluesky 🏺
🏛🧱 SPOLIA ALERT!
The lovely remnants of Boxgrove Priory seem to have incorporated reused Roman ceramic building material (CBM - brick/tile) in the guest house, which is always very cool, if relatively standard practice in a region containing Fishbourne Roman Palace and more!
The lovely remnants of Boxgrove Priory seem to have incorporated reused Roman ceramic building material (CBM - brick/tile) in the guest house, which is always very cool, if relatively standard practice in a region containing Fishbourne Roman Palace and more!
October 26, 2026 at 7:16 PM
🏛🧱 SPOLIA ALERT!
The lovely remnants of Boxgrove Priory seem to have incorporated reused Roman ceramic building material (CBM - brick/tile) in the guest house, which is always very cool, if relatively standard practice in a region containing Fishbourne Roman Palace and more!
The lovely remnants of Boxgrove Priory seem to have incorporated reused Roman ceramic building material (CBM - brick/tile) in the guest house, which is always very cool, if relatively standard practice in a region containing Fishbourne Roman Palace and more!
Last day of October. The name still means eighth; the month still sits tenth. Live with the scar in the language. Every month from September onward is lying about its number, politely, in Latin.
October 31, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Last day of October. The name still means eighth; the month still sits tenth. Live with the scar in the language. Every month from September onward is lying about its number, politely, in Latin.
9th-century royal church built with Roman and Visigothic remains identified in Spain
Workers removed modern plaster from the back wall of a village church near Lugo, Spain, in 2025. Behind the coating sat a triple window with four marble columns...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/10/9th-...
Workers removed modern plaster from the back wall of a village church near Lugo, Spain, in 2025. Behind the coating sat a triple window with four marble columns...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/10/9th-...
9th-century royal church built with Roman and Visigothic remains identified in Spain | Archaeology News Online Magazine
Removing plaster at Santa Eulalia de Esperante exposed a 9th-century Asturian church built from Roman ruins and Visigothic spolia in lugo.
archaeologymag.com
October 27, 2026 at 6:07 PM
9th-century royal church built with Roman and Visigothic remains identified in Spain
Workers removed modern plaster from the back wall of a village church near Lugo, Spain, in 2025. Behind the coating sat a triple window with four marble columns...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/10/9th-...
Workers removed modern plaster from the back wall of a village church near Lugo, Spain, in 2025. Behind the coating sat a triple window with four marble columns...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/10/9th-...
Past/Present/Future draw for 10/26/26
Been a week around here.
THE EMPRESS
Was my life once full of abundance and vitality? Is this card suggesting that it isn’t now? I acknowledge the power and influence of women in my past.
FOUR OF COINS
Seei… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/117508604330407977
Been a week around here.
THE EMPRESS
Was my life once full of abundance and vitality? Is this card suggesting that it isn’t now? I acknowledge the power and influence of women in my past.
FOUR OF COINS
Seei… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/117508604330407977
October 26, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Past/Present/Future draw for 10/26/26
Been a week around here.
THE EMPRESS
Was my life once full of abundance and vitality? Is this card suggesting that it isn’t now? I acknowledge the power and influence of women in my past.
FOUR OF COINS
Seei… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/117508604330407977
Been a week around here.
THE EMPRESS
Was my life once full of abundance and vitality? Is this card suggesting that it isn’t now? I acknowledge the power and influence of women in my past.
FOUR OF COINS
Seei… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/117508604330407977
spolia. cheaper to reuse a roman coffin than quarry new marble. half the abbeys in britain are doing it.
October 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
spolia. cheaper to reuse a roman coffin than quarry new marble. half the abbeys in britain are doing it.
For #SpoliaSunday, these fluted C15 #spolia #columns in a courtyard of the S. Spirito hospital survive from the ancient Horti Agrippinae below. In their presence, perhaps, the cruel emperor #Caligula would have unfortunates suffer arbitrary and violent fates. #AncientBluesky 🏺
October 18, 2026 at 9:39 PM
For #SpoliaSunday, these fluted C15 #spolia #columns in a courtyard of the S. Spirito hospital survive from the ancient Horti Agrippinae below. In their presence, perhaps, the cruel emperor #Caligula would have unfortunates suffer arbitrary and violent fates. #AncientBluesky 🏺
They'll be building with rubble and spolia from modern office buildings in the 27th century.
#SteepleSaturday
St Andrew's Church, Corbridge in Northumberland.
The original entrance to porch of c. 674 AD #Saxon church was at the west end frontage.
Tower added above c. 11th C.
Nearby #RomanSiteSaturday of Corstopitum supplied heaps of rubble/spolia. 🏺
St Andrew's Church, Corbridge in Northumberland.
The original entrance to porch of c. 674 AD #Saxon church was at the west end frontage.
Tower added above c. 11th C.
Nearby #RomanSiteSaturday of Corstopitum supplied heaps of rubble/spolia. 🏺
October 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
They'll be building with rubble and spolia from modern office buildings in the 27th century.
#SteepleSaturday
St Andrew's Church, Corbridge in Northumberland.
The original entrance to porch of c. 674 AD #Saxon church was at the west end frontage.
Tower added above c. 11th C.
Nearby #RomanSiteSaturday of Corstopitum supplied heaps of rubble/spolia. 🏺
St Andrew's Church, Corbridge in Northumberland.
The original entrance to porch of c. 674 AD #Saxon church was at the west end frontage.
Tower added above c. 11th C.
Nearby #RomanSiteSaturday of Corstopitum supplied heaps of rubble/spolia. 🏺
October 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
#SteepleSaturday
St Andrew's Church, Corbridge in Northumberland.
The original entrance to porch of c. 674 AD #Saxon church was at the west end frontage.
Tower added above c. 11th C.
Nearby #RomanSiteSaturday of Corstopitum supplied heaps of rubble/spolia. 🏺
St Andrew's Church, Corbridge in Northumberland.
The original entrance to porch of c. 674 AD #Saxon church was at the west end frontage.
Tower added above c. 11th C.
Nearby #RomanSiteSaturday of Corstopitum supplied heaps of rubble/spolia. 🏺
I have doubts on the structural integrity of future rubble and spolia from anything utilitarian/Bauhaus architecture.
October 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I have doubts on the structural integrity of future rubble and spolia from anything utilitarian/Bauhaus architecture.
#Traumnovelle ift.tt/ITe8H1C | posted by afasia | daily entries on contemporary art and architecture #afasiaarchzine #afasiaarq |
#architecture #arquitectura #design
Spolia . Liège Traumnovelle . photos: © Traumnovelle Spolia, or re-employm…
#architecture #arquitectura #design
Spolia . Liège Traumnovelle . photos: © Traumnovelle Spolia, or re-employm…
October 17, 2026 at 1:53 AM
#Traumnovelle ift.tt/ITe8H1C | posted by afasia | daily entries on contemporary art and architecture #afasiaarchzine #afasiaarq |
#architecture #arquitectura #design
Spolia . Liège Traumnovelle . photos: © Traumnovelle Spolia, or re-employm…
#architecture #arquitectura #design
Spolia . Liège Traumnovelle . photos: © Traumnovelle Spolia, or re-employm…
20th Venice Architecture Biennale (05|08|27➡️11|21|27) theme is “Do Architecture – For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality". The proposal SPOLIA, submitted by Frobel Estudio, has been selected as the winner of the competition for Spanish Pavilion. arquitecturaviva.com/articles/pab...
Spanish Pavilion for the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale
Curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, the 20th Venice Architecture Biennale will take place from May 8 to November 21,...
arquitecturaviva.com
October 18, 2026 at 4:01 PM
20th Venice Architecture Biennale (05|08|27➡️11|21|27) theme is “Do Architecture – For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality". The proposal SPOLIA, submitted by Frobel Estudio, has been selected as the winner of the competition for Spanish Pavilion. arquitecturaviva.com/articles/pab...
Before 1777, Falerio Picenus was a nearly perfectly-preserved #Roman town. Then Pius VI’s diggers arrived. For #MosaicMonday, we examine this Antonine-era leopard #emblema, stripped from a private #domus and treated as #spolia in the Vatican's Scala Simonetti. #AncientBluesky 🏺
October 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Before 1777, Falerio Picenus was a nearly perfectly-preserved #Roman town. Then Pius VI’s diggers arrived. For #MosaicMonday, we examine this Antonine-era leopard #emblema, stripped from a private #domus and treated as #spolia in the Vatican's Scala Simonetti. #AncientBluesky 🏺
This whole thread lol. But also I think reading RCG and then comparing against two of Opal's HR works, Spolia Victoris and Wolfbird, is very illuminating.
I planned to write and read FOR FUN today, but realized I hadn’t spent much time looking @ resources people kindly sent to help me learn to better identify AI output where fic should be. So I’ve printed out Rose-Colored Glasses chapter 1 (iykyk!) and I’m going to highlight lines that irk or bore me
archiveofourown.org
October 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
This whole thread lol. But also I think reading RCG and then comparing against two of Opal's HR works, Spolia Victoris and Wolfbird, is very illuminating.
A #watercolour sketch from 1821 by the visiting #French artist Augustin-Théophile Quantinet shows us what the courtyard of palazzo #Varese looked like before. The #fountain in the #garden looks delightful, and two ancient statues in niches flanked the portal leading to it.
October 11, 2026 at 7:55 PM
A #watercolour sketch from 1821 by the visiting #French artist Augustin-Théophile Quantinet shows us what the courtyard of palazzo #Varese looked like before. The #fountain in the #garden looks delightful, and two ancient statues in niches flanked the portal leading to it.
"In the stillness of remembering / What you had and what you lost." The courtyard of Carlo #Maderno's 1616-1618 palazzo #Varese looks convincingly #Baroque and full of #spolia. This #SpoliaSunday we're looking for the lost Varese collection. #AncientBluesky 🏺🧵
October 11, 2026 at 7:50 PM
"In the stillness of remembering / What you had and what you lost." The courtyard of Carlo #Maderno's 1616-1618 palazzo #Varese looks convincingly #Baroque and full of #spolia. This #SpoliaSunday we're looking for the lost Varese collection. #AncientBluesky 🏺🧵
Colchester is one of those rare places where you can literally see nearly a millennium of history in a single doorway. The structure is late Anglo-Saxon (mid-11th century), but the distinctive red bricks are Roman spolia, salvaged from buildings erected centuries earlier.
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 #HolyTrinity #Colchester
October 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Colchester is one of those rare places where you can literally see nearly a millennium of history in a single doorway. The structure is late Anglo-Saxon (mid-11th century), but the distinctive red bricks are Roman spolia, salvaged from buildings erected centuries earlier.