@scotchurchestrust.bsky.socialIt's #TombTuesday, so let's return to Paisley Abbey, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, to have a look at its two royal tombs.
Unfortunately neither tomb survived the Reformation. The first was reconstructed in the 19th century from architectural fragments and an unknown effigy from the building. 🧵(1/4)
@ruhrlaubszeit.bsky.socialWas für eine Landschaft! Der Friedhof unterm Vulkan an der Hellnarkirka in Hellnar, Island.
„Friedhof“ oder halt hier "Kirchgarten" ist irgendwie für uns leichter auszusprechen als Hellnakirkjugarður 😉 #TombTuesday
@archaeohawke.bsky.social#TombTuesday
Lligwy Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber on Ynys Môn. It consists of a circle of upright stones, made into a low chamber by a very large roof slab estimated at 25 tonnes. Excavation in 1909 found the remains of some 15 to 30 people & pottery. #Archaeology
@antiquity.ac.ukJapan's island of Kyushu is dotted with decorated tombs from the Late Kofun period (6th–7th centuries AD) #TombTuesday
Examination of 38 of them provides insight into the mortuary traditions that shaped Kyushu's ancient societies.
@martynjb.bsky.socialThe Nympsfield long barrow, Gloucestershire, for #TombTuesday. (Scroll down for a photo of the information board at the site). The trees behind the barrow conceal impressive views across the Severn valley and beyond. (1/3)
@pjrobichaud.bsky.socialSt-Michel tumulus at Carnac in Brittany, built in the fifth millennium BCE. The chapel on top dates from the 17th century. #TombTuesday
📷 Personal photos, June 2023.
@druidtombraider.bsky.socialThe Early Neolithic Starveall Long Barrow in Starveall, Gloucestershire; courtesy of Ethan Doyle White. #TombTuesday #Archaeology #Neolithic
@a3minutewonder.bsky.social#tombTuesday
The tomb of William Hogarth in St Nicholas churchyard Chiswick.
@frenchmegaliths.bsky.socialThe magnificent dolmen angevin of La Roche aux Fées in Essé (Ille-et-Vilaine) is built from over 40 blocks of schist from 4km away. The 3 stones of the 3.5m long trilith portal entrance are smoothed beyond which is the 14x4m, 2m high chamber. #TombTuesday. Card by ELD c.1905.
@dancortona.bsky.socialLa Varde dolman, Guernsey, Channel Islands. One of three on L'Ancresse Common around which a busy golf course meanders. Nearly got hit by a golf ball looking for Les Fouaillages tomb. #TombTuesday
@johnnythin.bsky.socialThe hogback stone in Luss churchyard on the banks of Loch Lomond, decorated with an interlaced arcade on the side and scales or shingles on the 'roof' - a bonnie bonnie object for #TombTuesday. Described and illustrated by J Russell Walker in 1885.
@oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.socialA wild Dolmen appeared! Go Pikachu!
Devil's Den in Wiltshire, all that remains of a huge Neolithic long barrow, once 70m long!
(I miss Pokémon... good times 😅)
📸 Mine
@tony-o.bsky.socialFor #TombTuesday #RockinTuesday... Tullygobban Wedge Tomb, Cavan, Ireland
Image: 2017
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Infrared #B&W #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Photography #Landscape #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Cavan
@classicalalan.bsky.socialWhen I was in Brittany last month, I made a quick visit to the amazing Dolmen of Ty ar Boudiged, an ancient tomb that still retains its original mound. Its name translates into English as 'the House of the Fairies'. #TombTuesday
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social🧵/9
Anyway - real treat to see Møn, lots more still to catch there, but a good start
Next week we'll have to have a thread on Knudshoved Odde, where there's a whole load more
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social🧵/8
I mentioned in the episode, Møn put me in mind of another island rich in passage grave: Rousay, Orkney 🏴
While there are of course differences in the islands, elevation for example, you can see more from Rousay in this thread 👇
@mythicalbritain.bsky.socialWayland’s Smithy, late Autumn, from a linocut a couple of years back. #TombTuesday #Printmaking
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social🧵/7 while Sprovedyssen no longer has a mound over it the kerb stones & central dolmen mark out the passage very clearly
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social🧵/6
and just a few yards away, the very beautiful Sprovedyssen
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social🧵/5
You don't have to go far to the next pair
firstly Kong Asgers Høj
haven't been able to find anything more on a King Asger, he appears to be a purely folkloric figure
