#sundaystonework — Public Fediverse posts

#Effigy of a lady in Elizabethan costume, very sophisticated, with her baby close to her right shoulder,
Llantwit Major, St Illtud, Vale of Glamorgan, #Wales
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& the c10 Cross standing in the churchyard of St Wilfrids, Halton - just northeast of Lancaster
Described variously as a 'viking cross' it has carvings depicting the norse legend of sigurd as well as christian imagery

#StandingStoneSunday

#SaxonSunday with the Tuwini Cross, Cumbria
with some beautiful details & a runic inscription - thought to be work from around mid c9 overlaid on an earlier inscription possibly from c7-8

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was blessed with the *perfect* light to see these as we were travelling on thurs
for #SaxonSunday - the Sandbach crosses

First half of early c9 - despite needing re-assembly post reformation they were always a pair & carved by the same workshop

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#SaxonSunday with the Beeley Cross, c10 now cited in the church yard of All Saints, Bakewell

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#SaxonSunday and of course, while we're in Wirksworth we have to look at this gorgeous Saxon spolia set into the wall

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#SaxonSunday at St Mary's Church, Wirksworth with the fantastic C7 carving on a coffin lid, mounted on the wall in the Nave

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#SundayStonework with the Saxon cross fragments at the Hancock Museum Newcastle, from between c8-c11

#SaxonSunday #Northumbria

#SaxonSunday with some of the cross fragments at St John the Baptist, Chester,
Not individually labelled so some might be later work but described in the church as c10-c12

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A few last crosses from Margam Stones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 before we move on (these could use a click)
In order:
- The Cross of Grunte, c10
- Disk Headed slab cross, c10-11
- Disk Headed slab cross fragment c11
- The pillar of Thomas, c8-early 9

#StandingStoneSunday #SundayStonework

#SundayStonework with the phenomenal fan vaulting at Sherborne abbey, Dorset

#StandingStoneSunday still at the Margam stones museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 with the Ilci & Ilquici crosses, c10 or early c11
(may need a click)

When found at a farm south of Margam they had been laid flat to form a bridge over a stream

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#SaxonSunday with these Saxon cross fragments from around c9-c10 discovered at Shaftesbury Abbey: burial place of King Edward the Martyr

#Dorset #Saxon #SundayStonework

Then on the opposite side of the forum the Arch of Septimius Severus

#SundayStonework #EternalCity #AncientRome

More triumphal arches with the arch of Titus, at the entrance to the Roman forum, built in around 81 AD

#SundayStonework #EternalCity #AncientRome

#SundayStonework with some of the magnificent triumphal arches around Rome
Beginning with the arch of Constantine, completed in 315, just opposite the Colosseum

#EternalCity #AncientRome

#SundayStonework with the surviving Saxon carvings embedded in Breedon on the hill, carvings dating back as far as c8/c9

#SaxonSunday #Saxon #Leicestershire

the cup marks on the stone inside the South west Cairn of the Clava Cairns 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#SundayStonework #CupMarks #Neolithic #Scotland

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Keeping it zoomorphic: the bull found at Lochardill, inverness

#Pictish #SundayStonework

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Next the #Pictish 'beast head' from the same wall where the wolf was discovered

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#SundayStonework with a hidden Ottoman fountain, tucked in the backstreets of Nafplio 🇬🇷
Its part of an Ottoman legacy that despite spanning over 400 years is often hidden & hard to find in present-day Greece, we did an episode on this which you can watch here >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKvQPYylN8

#Ottoman