LizD

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She/her Elderly Scottish wumman who is into history and archaeology. Iron Age/Early Mediaeval. Volunteers at The Govan Stones.

A cylindrical well lined with tiles in various shades of blue. It is topped by a wooden plaque with the words Glasgow's Wellspring carved on it.
A dark grey grave marker, the top two thirds covered in green lichen. At the top of the stone an hourglass lying on its side is carved and below that a skull and crossbones.
A pale grey gravestone with the text Ian-W loves Helen K in white script inside a badly drawn heart. There also 6 crosses at the bottom of the stone representing kisses.
A rectangular, grey, stone slab supported against a wall. It bears faint traces of interlace and knotwork carving and what was once a cross. It has the initials WI and the date 1634 carved on it , neither of which form part of the original carving.
An elaborately carved, lichen covered gravestone which depicts the Figure of Father Time and the King of Terrors in the guise of a skeleton. Above them is an angel's head and wings with scrolls on either side.
A small grassy hill topped by a substantial tree and surrounded by shrubbery. The grass has patchy, yellow discolouration.
An ancient grey stone with worn carving that is shaped like the roof of a house. The stone is enclosed in a transparent box for protection.
Curved pediment of a gravestone with a left facing carved image of a cherub like angel with wings behind him. He is holding a large horn to his lips which he is pointing downwards.
A dark grey sandstone slab bearing a Latin inscription surrounded by a carved border. The translated inscription reads: To the spirits of the departed Ammonius, (son) of Damio, Centurion of the First Cohort of Spaniards, of 27 years service (lies here). His heirs had this made.
The carved figure of a man lying on his back. The hands and feet are damaged or missing.
A light grey grave marker with a curved pediment and faded text. On the pediment is a carving of a dolphin upright and Latin text which translated reads 'Calm in the midst of the waves'.
An illustration from the St Gallen manuscripts currently exhibited at the National Museum of Ireland. It depicts the sitting figure of St Matthew, vividly coloured in yellow, red and blue. In his right hand he is holding a pen which he is dipping into an inkwell. The image is surrounded by a red border.
Tree tops in the foreground with some low rise buildings behind them and slightly towards the left of the picture a single light coloured high rise building.
Gray stone monument bearing the carving of a human skull with skeletal arms and hands held aloft on either side of the skull. The lower portion of the carving has three images of crossed bones.
A grey stone rectangular grave marker with a faded line of text at the top highlighted in pink. The stone also has a carved motif showing two shovels, one perpendicular to the other. The stone is surrounded by an orange plastic barrier visible at the top of the stone.
A dry sandy foreground with the pale stone remains of Roman walls two or three layers high with a stone column at the centre. A row of dark green conifers contrast with a wide expanse of pale blue sky at the rear of the picture.
Pale lemon wall with an arched doorway. There are two doors painted dark green and each displays a gold coloured metal cross. On each side of the doorway are potted palms and on the left side is a climbing plant with purplish pink flowers.
White stone Roman gate with two pedimented arches at street level with two rows of six arched, glassless windows on the upper levels. Once the main entrance to the city of Verona.
A pale stone wall with a whiter (maybe marble) carving of a head on a plinth. The head is surrounded by a lot of curly hair and the plinth has 5 perpendicular lines running down it. To the right of the carving is a shady, narrow street.
A green hillside in the background and in the foreground the remains of a grey stone building about two feet tall. The remains of the Roman Fort and baths at Hardknott Pass in Cumbria.
An atmospherically dark, underground room with the subtly litstone remains of a Roman temple in the foreground.
A group of dandelions, pee-the-beds, growing in a patch of grass.
A green woodland background with a cluster of bright red rowan berries in the foreground.
Grey stone grave marker bearing a memento mori carving of a skull and cross bones and an hourglass. Located in the churchyard at Aberdour, Fife.
The remains of a Roman villa showing the hypocay.
A gravestone with a carving of a blacksmith, his tools and memento mori symbolism (an hourglass and the top of a skull).
A decorative, curved, stained glass ceiling.
Partial remains of the stone walls and floors that formed the Roman Bath-house at Bearsden near Glasgow. The site is surrounded by a metal fence and there are contemporary domestic dwellings in the background.
A grey gravestone with carvings of three skulls. One at the top and one on each side. It also has a carving of an upside down anchor in the centre.