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Archaeologist & antiquarian; ex-Whitehall Digital programme mgr; Info & Rec Mgt; longbow archer; French đŸ·; jazz đŸ„ . Eclectic. Opinions own, retweets not always endorsements

Nicolas Colon and Aurora orchestra at Royal Albert Hall
Bronze Age, 2 of the 5 Roos Carr figurines, discovered in 1836.
Erling Haaland, double goal scorer in Norway’s victory over Brazil in World Cup.
Andy Burnham keeps the fox out of the Bins in his Makerfield acceptance speech
BBC report saying inflation not rising as expected
Oradour - memorial to massacred civilians
Painting of three women by Fernand Leger
Sir Clive Sinclair’s ill fated electric tricycle
Senora del Rosaria church, Fuengirola - float of Jesus arriving on a donkey enters Jerusalem, carried by 40 bearers
All Cannings long barrow, Wiltshire - interior of one of the Corbelled chambers
Lee Miller - self portrait, Tate Britain retrospective
The Mari Lwyd figure “grey mare” of a horses skull and sheet, a wassailing tradition in parts of Wales, still practiced
A natural piece of flint - a broken section reveals an internal pattern resembling the great C14 English poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer
Peter Hammill from recent concert in Manchester
Hindu goddess from Cambodia, AD 650 - 800
Daily Mail article showing support for Oswald Mosley’s fascist Black Short movement in 1934, penned by Viscount Rothermere, the paper’s owner
The 5 wooden figurines found at Roos Carr by labourers digging a ditch
Bronze statues at Battle of Britain museum, Hawkinge based on an iconic image taken on 24th July 1940
The cenotaph, Whitehall, draped in Union Jack flags to mark the start of 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe
Semana Santa, Andalusia- procession of one of the religious brotherhoods.
Stanwick horse mask, photo c British Museum. From hoard found in 1845
The Shell oil company logo. Caligula allegedly fought a war against Neptune and brought shells gathered by his legionaries back to Rome as part of the spoils of war.
Letter to citizens of Riom from Joan of Arc, requesting gunpowder. Thought you be written by a scribe but signed by her - signed Jehanne
Old man mask in a medieval hood, taken at Halloween, Avebury
Dr Franci Young’s ghost story for Christmas “Saturnslia”. Accompanied by a candelabra and a bottle of Dalva Tawny port
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A Christmas plum pudding, Victorian style
140 lb replica warbow - this is a modern trilaminate bow, but we also have replicas of bows found on the Mary Rose, made from high altitude Italian yew, as per the originals