Gail Boyle FMA FSA

@boyleg.bsky.social

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Museum Archaeology & Heritage Consultant (former Bristol Museum Senior Curator) Current Chair of CBA Trustees, Pucklechurch PC, Avon Local Councils Assn., & Bristol & Glos Archaeology Society. Treasure Valuation Committee member, Granny & Bristol Bears fan

Two chalet style residential in torrential rain
A mophead shaped hydrangea flower with pinky purple coloured petals.
A black and white image of Artichoke stems and flowers reduced to a line drawing in style (c) Gail Boyle
Golden field of ripening wheat below a blue summer sky with white scudding clouds.
Two smiling women!
Front cover of an activity booklet
A field full of golden ripening wheat with bright blue sky and clouds.
A ruined three storey building with carved stone blocks and projections.
A man stands on top of a high grassy bank above a steep ditch.
Large winged stinging insect with a golden brown abdomen and green blue eyes.
Larger adult male hand gently clasping a baby's fingers between a finger and thumb.
Torn scrap of wallpaper being held between a woman's finger and thumb, with a cartoon like fish design.
The corner of a plastered room stripped down to paint layers.
A close-up image of an orange and black insect sitting on a pink flowers head made up of hundreds of small heads
Front cover of British Archaeology magazine showing a woman wearing a hard hat and hi vis vest working with a trowel.
The roof of a church with five prominent domes and ornate façade viewed at an oblique angle from above, with red terracotta roof tops beyond.
A climbing frame
A stone sculpted face with almond shaped eyes, round cheeks, and bow shaped lips.
A green field with an Oak tree to the right with a darker strip of grass running towards it.
A circle scratched into a stone block with a series of lines that radiate out from a small hole at the centre.
Street road name sign for 'Homefield Road' set against a green hedge.
A picture of a public house painted white with a red painted name plate 'The Star'.
A leafy green lane with a stone wall to the right, with cow parsley along its base and mature green trees in the distance.
Massive standing stone with weathered and lichen covered surface in a grassy field.
A decorated silver D-shaped buckle ring to the right with a silver gilt, garnet and blue glass pin and plate with rivets to the left and a large black question mark in the middle.
White snow-capped mountains beyond ranges of darker peaks.
Scarf with Bristol coat of arms
Giant shiny metallic silver spheres connected in a wavy line seem to hover in front of the office block windows behind it.
Red floral arrangement on a table
Small child's hand holding a stick.
A stick with drawn eyes in front of a Stick Man book
Female figurine
Standing stones viewed through trees.
A metal hedgehog made up of several shallow stacking dishes - it has a long thin pointed snout to the left.
A rock cut tomb with classical pediment and columns carved out of a sandstone hillside, with two camels lying on the floor in the left foreground and people sitting to the right on its steps.
A stone relief showing an Egyptian hawk headed god facing right - he has an ankh in his right hand and a staff in the other.
Grassy banks and ditches with a man sitting at the highest point.
An adult Tiger lies outstretched on the floor of the forest.
A jumble of green pitted olives covered in herbs and olive oil.
A deep red, purple and magenta cloud formation over a dark riverside.
A rectangular plaster plaque with face of a young man in high relief in the style of a Greek classical sculpture - all painted to resemble teal coloured patinated bronze. The man is almost expressionless but his eyes look sorrowful.
A glass vase with wide round shoulders, narrow base and everted rim, decorated with swirls of silver within the glass.
A bright shining lantern light sits in front of a gothic building on the left, and the River Thames on the right. An illuminated big wheel sits in the background beyond a bridge. The water shimmers in the light.
A brightly coloured child's toy with multiple knobs and projections.
A bare-footed man with weighing scales is seated behind a sack of cauliflowers, a sack of carrots and a box of lemons.
Three hands raised above a table, all holding chocolate dipped ice cream cones filled with dollops of different flavoured ice cream.
A large circular chandelier with shades above descending concentric rings of pear-shaped maroon coloured glass drops coming to a point in the centre.
Almost complete squat jar made of blue glass with red streaks with applied vertical glass trails attached from shoulder to base, each with horizontal dents.
Garden snail with sun shining on its shell leaving a slime trail on a wooden table top.
A photograph of the sea rippling gently over rocks that sit in the foreground.
A small delicate vase with extremely narrow neck and narrow base.
A cascade of bell-shaped flowers, dappled in sunlight to the left of a small stone sculpture of a reclining lion, paws outstretched.
A green child's dress with with short capped sleeves - the design on the dress is a mixture of fairies, toadstools, leaves and acorns.
A dark concert venue filled with spectators with bright beams of blue light scattered across then and up into the air.
Large carved stone head and shoulders portraying an Egyptian pharaoh with hieroglyphic inscription on the left shoulder and a broken beard.
White mausoleum with onion shaped domes and 4 free-standing towers.
A thick circle of polished black onyx with two silver arrow shaped projections sitting opposite each other carrying a central cut gemstone
An intricately carved piece of wood depicting intertwined figures.