August Miscellany Upcoming Events On 19 September I'll be giving an online talk on Tudor Houses. This site will feature prominently – King's House at the Tower of London. Built c 1538-40, it is one of the first houses to have attics lit by dormer windows. Booking details are here:https://t.co/mKdWgoTlP0 pic.twitter.com/T7MHo0WhaM — James Wright (@jpwarchaeology)…
December Miscellany Upcoming Events From the Romans to World War Two: Two Thousand Years of ‘Smut’ Graffiti We have three online historic graffiti talks available to book over the festive season – details are below.ALL monies from these events will be going to @ShelterBecause sometimes we all need a helping hand.https://t.co/f7cChjHqx1 pic.twitter.com/IKGJ31My2f — Medieval Graffiti…
May Miscellany Upcoming Events Reading the Room – What Historic Graffiti Tells Us Witchcraft and Counterwitchcraft 1500-1900 in Europe Items of Interest Witchmarks found in 300 year old Sunderland church From Twitter Ancient Graffito of the Day: A scatalogical graffito from the latrine of the House of the Gem, Herculaneum (Ins. Orientalis 1.1). #AGOTD…
December Miscellany Upcoming Events Medieval and Historic Graffiti in Gloucestershire Churches – 21 Jan 2022 Items of Interest The Graffiti That Changed a City Medieval graffiti at Flamstead Church Caerphilly’s ‘witch marks’ Ship graffiti in church in Porto Torres, Italy From Twitter We were back @MalmesburyAbbey this week after a break. Re-taken the Cons' Cross…
August Miscellany Upcoming Events Historic graffiti at Kibworth Harcourt windmill, Leicestershire. 16 September 2021 From Twitter Royal Naval Air Station Dale was built on the Pembrokeshire coast in 1941. During the war it was used by No.34 Polish Bomber Squadron. The site is now mostly farmland, tho one of the RAF officers' accommodation blocks…
August Miscellany Upcoming Events Creswell Crags have bookings for private tours of ice age art and/or witch marks CCT Talk on Historic Graffiti in Winchester Cathedral Items of Interest Video discussing ice age engraving of a horse found at Creswell Crags Prehistoric engraved stones found on Jersey Graffiti found on the…
St Bartholomew, Churchdown, Gloucestershire St Bartholomew’s church in Churchdown is, in the way of many English village churches, actually at the top of steep hill. The church dates back to the 12th century with the usual additions and modifications through the centuries. The tower is 17th century. The carvings on the arch of the south…
May Miscellany Some faces from the past this month… Events and Dates for the Diary There is still time to submit abstracts for the Making Your Mark Symposium. The deadline is 14th June 2019 for the call for papers and poster submissions. The book launch for ‘Magical House Protection‘ by Brian Hoggard of Apotropaios is…
March Miscellany Welcome to this month’s roundup of items of interest from the internet and twitter feeds. Pictures We have a little game of compare and contrast here – with two pipe smokers! One is from Gloucester Cathedral and the other is from St Mary’s church in Elsenham, Essex. Remember people, smoking is bad, no…
Genealogist Richard Rossington has carried out some detective work on H Ghostly of Berkeley, who appeared in an early post. Richard describes how he went about his research and shares the results… The unusual separate bell tower of St. Mary the Virgin, Berkeley, Gloucestershire has a graffito ‘H. Ghostly’ cut into it, with ‘1826’ carved…
Skull and Crossbones Hole, Thrupp, Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire Skull and Crossbones Hole in Mackhouse Wood Quarry, Thrupp, near Stroud was located earlier this year by members of the Gloucestershire Speleological Society. An alternative name is Mackhouse Wood no 2. ” template=”/var/sites/r/rakinglight.co.uk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery-caption.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The mine contains a large slab of stone with a…
St Mary’s Church and Tower, Berkeley, Gloucestershire St Mary’s is a Grade 1 Listed 13th century church, with the core of the current building dating from 1225 – 1250. All that remains of the earlier Norman church is the south door and the font, which was built for the total immersion of infants. To the…
Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire The castle, which is open to the public, originally dates back to the 11th century and has been in the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a short period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is belied to have been the scene of the murder…