Dr Alan Montgomery

@classicalalan.bsky.social

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Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan

Crumbling and collapsing walls built from large blocks of cut stone.
An ancient tomb constructed from three large upright stones and a fallen cap stone, with a metal fence encircling them.
A small church with a tall tower and spire.
A black and white painting of a pitted and grooved standing stone
Several carved blocks from a fragmentary pediment, which a round bearded face at the centre.
A painting of a sun with a face hanging over a stone circle with a henge around it
A painting of a sun with a face
A colourful Roman fresco featuring architecture details and a cupid standing at the centre.
A bike rack completely blocked up with rental bikes.
A monochrome pencil drawing of an ancient dolmen in a landscape, it consists of a large cap stone supported by several upright stones.
A tall medieval gatehouse built from flint, with a more recent brick house next to it.
A black and white painting of Men an Tol, with a round hollow stone places between two standing stones in moorland.
The covers of two books entitled Walking the Antonine Wall and the Road to Mons Graupius
A faded wooden door in a heavy stone wall with grass growing in front of it.
A painting on paper of a man's face with hair and beard of leaves and bunches of grapes hanging from it.
A black and white painting of Wayland's Smithy, a tomb constructed from large stones with a dark doorway at the centre. In the background are trees.
A square panel of Roman mosaic mounted on a wall. It features a red border and a pattern of guilloche and a cross at the centre.
A standing stone carved with a round flat face in some woodland.
The ruins of Hermitage Castle with a lichen covered wall in front of it and hills in the background.
A short length of Roman wall constructed from stone and lines of brick surrounded by the concrete columns and ceiling of an underground car park.
A rough edge panel with squares etched into it and coloured game pieces on and around it.
The view from the top of the Monument, with the RIver Thames and Tower Bridge.
a path leading between to large natural rocky outcrops.
A black and white painting of an ancient burial mound, with piles of pebbles in the foreground and a dark doorway leading into an underground chamber.
The keep of the Tower of London, a tall square tower with smaller corner towers with onion dome roofs.
A painting of a sun with a face hanging above a stone circle within a henge earthwork.
The base of a partly ruined wall, constructed from stone and red terracotta tiles.
A lamp made from orange terracotta in the shape of a sandalled foot.
Two ravens croaking at one another with historic buildings in the background
A view from a hilltop, with a large rubble rampart visible below. In the distance are fields and forest.
A painting on deckled edge paper of a stylised sun with a face hanging in the sky over a dolmen.
A mosaic with broken edges showing two horse-like creatures and a stylised dolphin made of tiles in brown, red and cream.
A black and white painting of a standing stone that is riddled with holes and crevices.
A grassy and muddy forest track with tall trees on either side.
A yellowish limestone sculpture of a man flanked by a dog and a how headless stag.
A slab of stone with a carving of a phallus inside a circle.
A patch of meadow with long grass and trees and a bright blue sky.
A black and white painting of a chunky dolmen next the gable end of a stone house
A view over woodland with a lake far below.
A tumble of stones, some upright, some fallen, surrounded by yellow flowering gorse.
I thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Montgomery’s journey through Roman Scotland and highly recommend giving it a go. It serves both as a delightful travelogue filled with tiny glimpses into his journey and also as a historical commentary on important Roman sites to include the historical record of generations of antiquarians who came before. It was a pleasureful read at every ‘step’ on the Road to Mons Graupius.
A black and white drawing of a castle with steps leading up to the front door and two flanking towers with pointed roofs.
The front of the neoclassical mansion Dumfries House, with a large banner for the Bowell Book Festival on the grass.
A grey and white standing stone surrounded by yellow flowering gorse with trees behind.
A black and white painting of a fingerpost pointing in both directions with the words Dere Street on it. A road and leafless trees and hedges are visible behind.
A black and white watercolour painting of lines of deep ditches with a causeway running over them and trees in the background.
A short bit of the stone rampart of Hadrian's Wall emerging from grass with a fence around it.
An ancient burial monument consisting of several large stones placed on top of a mound, which an entrance visible at the centre.
A castle with towers and cone roofs flanked by trees and reflected in a lake.
A line of tall, skinny standing stones running over a grassy moor. Behind then is a windmill and some trees.
A poster for my talk about my book The Road to Mons Graupius taking place at Dumfries House on the 10 May at midday, which features the cover of the book and a photo of me!
Useless and completely incorrect AI 'recreation' of a Roman fort.
A ludicrous AI 'reconstruction' of a Roman fort, which contains almost no accurate details at all.
A hand painted wooden sign for the ancient monument in Brittany known as the Dolmen des Follets. There is woodland in the background.
An earthen path leading through trees with bluebells on either side.
The ruins of a castle with a lake in front and trees behind. The castle consists of two tall towers, one in ruins, the other with a roof.
A standing stone carved with a stylised face. The ground around it is covered in fallen leaves and there are trees behind.
A tall fragment of an octagonal shaped building, with grass in front and a tree to the left.
Various fragments of glass in shades of blue, green and brown.
A poster for the Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold exhibition