I'm no longer engaging much with Twitter but can be followed at celticist.bsky.social or on Instagram at @sculpturesmith. Tweets for @AS_Corpus.
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8 Jul 2022
Got to marvel at the Rupertus Cross in the Salzburger Dom (Cathedral museum) last week. Couldn't stop smiling! Thankful for these moments of renewed joy and wonder for the #earlymedieval world...which I've found somewhat difficult to keep while wading through a pandemic PhD.
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21 Oct 2025
Rob Rinder talks about his deep affection for churches. "Places where the sacred and the ordinary share a postcode." #GreatExpectationsForChurches
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5 Mar 2025
Question for the hive mind: If you could only take 3 objects w/ you that represent core memories, what would they be?
Pets/people are a given.
Thinking about this as I learnt I lost most of my treasured childhood & uni objects - a burglar ransacked my storage unit back home.
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3 Mar 2025
A 2nd c BC limestone grave-marker from Tremithousa, Cyprus, on which a man and woman flank a deceased man.
Note the placement of the hands 👋🏼.
On display, Room 72, @britishmuseum
#britishmuseum #cyprus #sculpture #sculpturesnippets #funerarysculpture #archaeology
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3 Mar 2025
Here’s a #Chalcolithic pottery ossuary from Azor, Israel. Used to hold the bones of the dead, this 🏠 house-shaped box was originally painted—its gables and windows decorated and delineated with pigment. 🎨
Held @britishmuseum in Rm 59.
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21 Feb 2025
I've decided to attempt a sculpture-focused Instagram (@sculpturesmith). This emerged after spending the last year leading tours of sculpture in the British Museum. I'll try my best to include as much geographic, temporal, and material breadth as possible. Follow, if interested!
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3 Oct 2024
An absolute pleasure to be in Newcastle with the Antiquaries last week!
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And Lowther has some pretty fantastic early medieval sculpture to boot (chacklepie.com/ascorpus/catv…)
Can't make it to Lowther? The Great Court @britishmuseum has one of the Lowther pieces: a show-stopping vinescroll cross-shaft! 🌱
15 Aug 2024
Is this Italy....Croatia....Greece? No, it's Lowther Castle in Cumbria!
What a glorious Wednesday visit to @lowthercastle.
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15 Aug 2024
Is this Italy....Croatia....Greece? No, it's Lowther Castle in Cumbria!
What a glorious Wednesday visit to @lowthercastle.
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12 Aug 2024
The church of St Bega on the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake (approached from the Cumbrian Way). C.10th century, the church may represent the Kingdom of Cumbria's Irish-Scandanavian links across the Irish Sea. More on the intriguing St Bega from Clare Downham: doi.org/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2…
ALT Small church of St Bega in the setting sun on the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake, oak in foreground, fells in background.
ALT Close up of small church of St Bega in the setting sun on the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake, oak in foreground, fells in background. Church surrounded by gravestones.
ALT View from the Cumbrian Way approaching Bassenthwaite, from edge of waterfall looking over valley.
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14 Aug 2024
#Ireland Rock ‘n’ Road Trip Day 3: Killaghtee, #Donegal . The circular head contains a cross. Below the cross is a triple knot (triquetra). Possibly dates from about 650AD and might mark the grave of an early monk, St. Aedh who is believed to have had a ‘cell’ here. @weefiddler
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1 Aug 2024
1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance
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Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier
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25 Jul 2024
Best cathedral on planet earth! 😍
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25 Jul 2024
Congrats, Neil! 🎉 Looking forward to reading it!
25 Jul 2024
News, just signed a contract to write a book about the #Picts, with @reaktionbooks as part of their 'Lost Civilizations' series. Looking forward to the project, something a bit different for me! #medievaltwitter #medievalscotland
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25 Jul 2024
A keyhole view of @DurhamCathedral. looking down onto the crossing from the Bell chamber. another vertiginous moment @BBCRadio3
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23 Jul 2024
The @britishmuseum have reopened their domed Reading Room and it is GORGEOUS. Feel quite bereft I never got to work in here! Quick visit before following the manuscripts to their new home at the @britishlibrary.
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22 Jul 2024
Trinity bridge at Crowland, Lincs. The streams it was built over have long long so it looks very curious.
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23 Jul 2024
Medieval Women?
In their own words?
A major exhibition?
At the British Library?
Opening on 25 October and running to 2 March?
You can buy your tickets now?
The must-see event this autumn.
"I wouldn't be seen dead anywhere else"
(Christine de Pizan)
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23 Jul 2024
some beautiful images of our Holy Island Day @BBCRadio3
23 Jul 2024
The sound of Lindisfarne 🏰
@PetrocTrelawny travels the north east of England exploring the rich culture, landscape and music @NTNorthd_Coast 🎵 Available now @BBCSounds 🎧 bbc.in/3y8YaXG
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