Temples of Britain and Ireland

Interested in ancient religion, attempting to catalogue shrines, temples, and churches in Britain and Ireland between 150 BCE and 600 CE

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

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

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

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
https://t.co/SpFEWFUidt

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

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

[Senhouse Museum @senhousemuseum]

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.

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

@JJCONeill Hey John, was this work published in Emania 26?

[Brittunculus @Brittunculus410]

#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

[Dr Tom Horne @HorneSupremacy]

🏛 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!

[Allendale Community Centre @CentreAllendale]

Fort
Sunday 10th November 2024, 4pm
https://t.co/2lg6ldj4UM

New play on Dorset hillfort to tour ahead of its London premiere https://t.co/by3bdlsTsc

[ChiCentreFairyTales @ChiCentreFFSF]

Exhibition features lesser known folklore figures https://t.co/vnxkWsP4Nn

[David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @ChronHib]

Pádraigín Riggs about the storyteller Tomás Ó Cathasaigh in @IrishTimes:

https://t.co/FMY5jiZuc2

The volume Sgéalta ó Thomás Ó Cathasaigh will be the subject of the Irish Texts Society’s Annual Seminar:
9 November
@UCC @uccsmghaeilge

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

@DrFrancisYoung @pighilltweets One project at a time

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

@DrFrancisYoung @pighilltweets I've thought about it! And maybe I will eventually, but I can't help but think that they'll be a nightmare to find and validate

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

@pighilltweets I'm imagining a "Find my Altar" app now

[Peter Lorimer @pighilltweets]

Ponders...
Has anyone exhaustively mapped all the Churches across the UK that are home to / or give house-room to Roman Altars'?

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

Hexham heads archival footage recovered 💀 https://t.co/swHehV4I3c

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

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

['Rewilding' Later Prehistory @RewildArch]

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

[Temples of Britain and Ireland @TemplumData]

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. https://t.co/sGdRXILzTr