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'Raised in the wild by Forest Sprites and Faeries'

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'The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails'.
#ShakespeareSunday TWT
🎨Arantza Sestayo

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@Gosiamikka You too G💫

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Morning💫

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'You are my spirit animal'
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[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

They refused to bathe. They refused to salute. They poached deer from an English lord's estate and used their washing water ration to cook it.

The night before D-Day they shaved mohawks and painted their faces like warriors.

Then they jumped into Normandy on one of the deadliest missions of the invasion.

This is the story of the Filthy Thirteen..🧵1/7

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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 3,500 years ago a Welsh goldsmith beat a single ingot of gold...

Thin enough to wrap around the shoulders of a child.

In 1833 quarry workmen broke it into pieces.

It took the British Museum 120 years to put it back together.

In October 1833, a team of workmen dug into a Bronze Age burial mound at Bryn yr Ellyllon, Mold, Flintshire, looking for stone for a wall. They broke into the cist. They found a small skeleton. And beside the bones, beaten flat against the stone, a sheet of gold.

564 grams of it. About 75% pure. Hammered thin. Worked in concentric bands of beaten pattern across the surface. Shaped to wrap around the shoulders of someone small.

🏛️ The workmen had no idea what they had. They split the gold between themselves and took it home.

Pieces were sold off, melted down, used as keepsakes.

A vicar wrote it up in The Cambrian. Decades later a museum officer began the work of finding the fragments and buying them back.

The reassembly took until 1953. 120 years from the day it was broken open. The British Museum's conservators pieced it back together against a leather backing, one fragment at a time, until the cape was whole.

It is the finest prehistoric goldwork ever found in Britain. Worked by a Welsh hand. For a child the village had set apart. In a country where the gold for it was mined, the bronze for the tools came from Cornwall, and the people who walked the hill knew the shape of every slope.

🇬🇧 You were told the finest prehistoric goldwork was continental. It was Welsh. And it is still in the British Museum.

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They preserved the child in gold.

Help us preserve their story. 👇🙏

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Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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@DreyfusJames 😔

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@LucyGoBag 😔

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Norway is coming🇳🇴

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[Neutralious @Neutralious]

Midsummer Eve

Edward Robert Hughes

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Slow start...

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[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

Very sad news. He was a superb man, and a very skilled, intelligent, wise, and patient leader; and a superb professional partner to all. RIP

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@BillyM2k Can't Stop RHCP 🤷‍♀️

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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

An ibex is carved into a Derbyshire cave wall. 🇬🇧

But there are no ibex in Britain...

There never have been. Nobody knew THIS until 2003.

Church Hole Cave at Cresswell Crags, on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border. A British limestone gorge that had been excavated by archaeologists for over a century.

In April 2003, Paul Pettitt and Sergio Ripoll walked into the cave with grazing torches. They tilted the light at an angle no Victorian had thought to try.

And the wall revealed itself.

🦌 Stags. Bison. Long-necked birds. An ibex. Cut into the limestone roughly 13,000 years ago. Britain's oldest known art.

The carving is a paradox. There are no ibex in Britain, and there never have been. So why is one here?

The Ice Age had pinned modern humans into the southern refuges of Europe. The caves of southern France. The valleys of Spain. The Alpine foothills. The same culture that painted Lascaux and Altamira.

When the glaciers retreated, they walked north. Back into these islands. And they brought their world with them. Including the mountain animal they had grown up watching.

🇬🇧 Cave art was made all over the world. Africa. Indonesia. France. Spain. And Britain. Most British schools were never told.
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Most British schools don't teach Cresswell Crags.

We do.

Your support pays for the research, the production, and the time it takes to get it right.

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