Sarah Mint
Post-grad Archaeology - Bangor University
Weather obsessed 🌞 🌧️ Globe trotter 🗺️
Fledgling archaeologist/historian
Locum library & archives assistant 📖
- #WyrdWednesday The Black Witch moth, is so large it can be mistaken for a bat (wingspan of >7") In some cultures they are a good omen, but not everywhere, in Mexico they are called Mariposa de la Muerte / the Butterfly of Death
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- #AdoorableThursday At Nefyn, North Wales.
- A loo with a very fine view! at the wonderful Nant Gwrtheryn nantgwrtheyrn.org #NorthWales
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- Did you know?....that because the 1939 register is not a census record you don't have to wait 100 years to read it AND it is free to search on 'Find My Past' until 8th May search.findmypast.co.uk/search.../19...
- Did you know?....that because the 1939 register is not a census record you don't have to wait 100 years to read it AND it is free to search on 'Find My Past' until 8th May search.findmypast.co.uk/search.../19...
- #StainedGlassSunday - St Mary, Lyminster Angels of day and night flank images of the demise of the Water Dragon of Knucker Hole who had been fed a poisoned pie by a bloke called Jim oldechronicles.org.uk/the-dragon-o... #Dragon #Folklore #DragonLore 📷: Poliphilo WikiCommons
- Photo: James Kerwin Photographic Abandoned building, Kolmannskuppe, Namibia #adoorablethursday #nocontextdoors #dailydoor
- ⭐️Tales of the night sky from Welsh folklore⭐️ This Wednesday 2nd April in #Llanrwst with renowned storyteller & author Fiona Collins⭐️
- #mosaicmonday Detail from a mosaic depicting King William II the last Norman king of Sicily This 12-13th century mosaic is within Monreale Cathedral
- #adoorablethursday #nocontextdoors Photo taken earlier this year in the Kasbah neighbourhood of #Marrakesh #Morocco
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- CBA Wales - Pembrokeshire Field Trip Join archaeologists George Nash and Tomos Jones to explore the archaeology of Whitesands Bay. Date: 26/04/2025 #Archaeology #Wales #Cymru
- CBA Wales - Pembrokeshire Field Trip Join archaeologists George Nash and Tomos Jones to explore the archaeology of Whitesands Bay. Date: 26/04/2025 #Archaeology #Wales #Cymru cbawales.org/2025/03/pemb...
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- CBA Wales - Pembrokeshire Field Trip Join archaeologists George Nash and Tomos Jones to explore the archaeology of Whitesands Bay. Date: 26/04/2025 #Archaeology #Wales #Cymru cbawales.org/2025/03/pemb...
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- Inside the Supreme Court of Justice, London where you can pop in for a mooch & a break from the busy city. Go the cafe or the exhibition or just sit & recharge in one of the quiet spaces. Photo by me. #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #Woodensday
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- CBA Wales - Pembrokeshire Field Trip Join archaeologists George Nash and Tomos Jones to explore the archaeology of Whitesands Bay. Date: 26/04/2025 #Archaeology #Wales #Cymru cbawales.org/2025/03/pemb...
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- #StainedGlassSunday Birkenhead Town Hall, Hamilton Square At the top of the first flight of stairs This is a beautiful building within a fine square which has the "most Grade I listed buildings outside London (after Trafalgar Square)". rb.gy/u2o4er 📷My photo
- #StandingStoneSunday Kintraw Standing Stone, Scotland "A Bronze Age complex consisting of a standing stone & three cairns...the standing stone, which leans NW, faces approximately E-W & measures 13' in height & 3'6" in breadth" canmore.org.uk/site/22824/k... 📸Walter Baxter
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- #AdoorableThursday Photo by James Kerwin Photographic "Abandoned building, Kolmannskuppe, Namibia" @itsjameskerwin #NoContextDoors #WindowsOnWednesday
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- #FolkloreThursday The legend of the Wookey Witch took a sinister turn in 1912. Herbert Balch, local archaeologist, excavated ancient remains from a shallow grave, along with the remains of 2 goats, a bowl, a dagger, a latch lifter & an alabaster ball, now in Wells Museum, #Somerset
- A communal space at the delightful Felin Uchaf Centre, Rhoshirwaun, Pen Llŷn Here you can even stay in a thatched roundhouse www.felinwales.org #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #Woodensday
- #WellsonWednesday Discover some of the historic and holy wells of the Llŷn Peninsula storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ecdc... #Ffynnon #NorthWales #Hanes #History
- #HillfortsWednesday Woodhouse Hill One of 6 hilltop enclosures of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge The interior has never been excavated - but advanced dating techniques suggest the ramparts were originally built during the Late #BronzeAge 🖼️via sandstoneridge.org.uk #Archaeology
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- Mosaic Floor 350 AD - 375 AD Fragment "was part of a much larger floor from a Roman villa in Medbourne in Leicestershire" Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum #MosaicMonday
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