Interested in ancient religion, attempting to catalogue shrines, temples, and churches in Britain and Ireland between 150 BCE and 600 CE
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11 Nov 2024
I appreciate that I don't post much anymore, but there's been a real surge of activity at the other place. So I think I'll be spending more time there from now on. You can find me there as @templum.bsky.social
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14 Jul 2025
This took way longer than I intended it to, but I finally got round to finishing an article about the temple at Pagans Hill. If you're interested in rural temples during the end of the Roman West I think you'll enjoy it
wedeti.substack.com/p/pagans…
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28 Jun 2025
Some figurative sculpture was on display - a hippocamp on a decorative frieze recently found at Irthlingborough, and a crudely carved Hercules found at Higham Ferrers. Neither usually visible to the public @TemplumData
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29 Jan 2025
As today marks the start of Chinese Year of the Snake... it's a good time to show off perhaps our most enigmatic sculpture - the serpent stone. Both the Chinese and the Romans associated snakes with prosperity, among many other things.
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9 Nov 2024
#RomanSiteSaturday
The nymphaeum (shrine to a water nymph) at Chedworth roman villa in Glos. A spring was channelled into an octagonal basin [sound on] which then supplied the villa's kitchen, baths and... 1/2
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8 Nov 2024
🏛 I had the pleasure of getting a tour of the Uncovering #Roman Carlisle project at Carlisle Cricket Club, where the brilliant team are excavating an enormous administrative building with huge bath-house, roads, and a fascinating monumental area that might include large shrines!
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5 Nov 2024
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Sunday 10th November 2024, 4pm
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New play on Dorset hillfort to tour ahead of its London premiere bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2…
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4 Nov 2024
Exhibition features lesser known folklore figures buff.ly/40v5MiW
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3 Nov 2024
Pádraigín Riggs about the storyteller Tomás Ó Cathasaigh in @IrishTimes:
irishtimes.com/opinion/an-ir…
The volume Sgéalta ó Thomás Ó Cathasaigh will be the subject of the Irish Texts Society’s Annual Seminar:
9 November
@UCC @uccsmghaeilge
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1 Nov 2024
Ponders...
Has anyone exhaustively mapped all the Churches across the UK that are home to / or give house-room to Roman Altars'?
1 Nov 2024
A little stone altar, thought to be Romano-British, Atropos cutting the threads of life. Discovered during excavations of All Saints, Gresford, and now displayed in the church - I couldn't get a great shot but I really liked it and it seems appropriate for the day! #findsfriday
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29 Oct 2024
An excellent lecture by @urbanprehisto on
*Housing the future dead: the new British wave of long barrow construction*
at the 2024 @BU_ArchAnth @PrehistSociety annual Pitt Rivers lecture tonight (with a nice tribute to the late great Tim Darvill at the beginning)
#Archaeology
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16 Oct 2024
This striking Iron Age bone comb was made from a horse metapodial bone, recovered during excavations by Wessex Archaeology at Harwell, Oxfordshire. The seemingly human face that looks back at us is a highly unusual form of decoration for this object type & period! #WildWednesdays
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23 Oct 2024
This looks interesting, it's interesting to think about what the overlap between mortuary architecture and practices is with late temple/shrine architecture. I'd love to compare this to Blair's Anglo-Saxon pagan shrines and their prototypes. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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19 Oct 2024
The steps leading down to Burghead Well - a rock-cut chamber filled by a natural spring, situated within the Pictish fort at Burghead in Morayshire. Theories abound concerning its use, but it may have had a spiritual or religious significance. #StaircaseSaturday 📸 My own.
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14 Oct 2024
essay on relic belief and skepticism in the late antique/early medieval west now up on s*bst*ck. wrote this for my master's. link in bio; no paywall!
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15 Oct 2024
Look what book came early 😍 some really interesting bits in here
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14 Oct 2024
The ritual amalgam of the Tyne Gap frontierland: a Roman pagan altar repurposed as a baptismal font, Haydon Old Church.
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