Caerwent Roman Town (Venta Silurum) in Monmouthshire. Parts of the surviving C4th walls still stand over 5m high #RomanSiteSaturday

A very late in the day #fontsonfriday The C18th font at the Chapel of St Luke, Royal Hospital Haslar, Gosport

Wonderful C9th Saxon font at St Mary’s Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. #FontsOnFriday

St Nicholas Church, Worth, West Sussex. Dating to the late 10th or early 11th century, the beautiful building on the outskirts of Crawley is one of the finest Saxon churches in England with the largest Saxon chancel arch in the country #SaxonSunday

Today’s Half Term boredom buster was a walking tour of Southampton’s Saxon, Viking and Norman past with SeaCity’s Andy Skinner, followed by a self guided lap of the Medieval walls (more survives than you think)!

Peak Lane, Fareham, Hampshire. The road was straightened in the late 60s / early 70s to remove a dog’s leg & give more direct access to Stubbington village. The original route is still visible in 3 sections, intersected by the new route of Peak Lane & the new Daedalus Way. #ghostroads #lostroads

St Thomas a Becket Church, Warblington, Hants. A view of the east wall of the current nave showing one of the original Saxon doorways into the tower. The current nave was added in the C13th, turning this external doorway into an internal window. #WindowsOnWednesday #Hampshire

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Small C13th doorway in the north wall of the NE chapel of St Peter and St Paul’s church, Fareham, Hampshire. #AdoorableThursday MedievalBlueSky 🏺

Hardknott Roman Fort, Lake District, Cumbria. Built early in Hadrian's reign, Hardknott was used for about 20 years, then abandoned, possibly due to other forts becoming more strategically useful. #RomanFortThursday 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Ramparts of Caesar’s Camp, Long Valley. A large, multivallate hillfort on the Surrey / Hampshire border with commanding view over the surrounding countryside. Excavations in the 1970s suggest 3 phases of Iron Age occupation #HillfortsWednesday 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Always worth sticking your head in a utility trench as you pass… you never know what you might see of interest #gosport #railwayhistory #disusedrailwayline

Hmm…. Not helpful when the bibliographic reference you want to check starts with a “B”…. Anyone else have the same printing error? 😂

The font in St Bartholomew the Great church in the City of London dates from 1405. It is believed to be one of only two pre-Reformation fonts in London. The painter William Hogarth was baptised here in 1697. #FontsOnFriday 🏺

McArt’s Fort, Belfast. Standing 368m above see level, this promontory fort (or ráth) is defended on the landward side by a deep ditch and on its other two sides by precipitous cliffs. While it is assumed to be Iron Age, very little investigation of the site has taken place #HillfortsWednesday

The Almshouse in Petworth (known as the Upper Hospital) opened in 1746, initially to provide housing & pension for 12 local widows. This eventually increased to 22 as a result of donations from benefactors #AdoorableThursday

Following on from yesterday, it is only right that today’s #HengeWednesday is Giant’s Ring henge itself. Situated in Ballynahatty, Northern Ireland, this well preserved henge is 180m in diameter, enclosing an area of 6.9 acres. At least 3 of the current 5 entrances are thought to be original. 🏺

The remains of a passage grave, situated in the centre of Giant’s Ring henge in Northern Ireland. Although both Neolithic in date, it is believed the passage grave was constructed first & the henge built around it #TombTuesday 🏺

Bangor Abbey church - the main body of the building dates from the 1830's and 1840's but the tower is from the 15th century and the octagonal steeple dates from around 1693. #SteepleSaturday #NorthernIreland

A doorway on the cliff. Causeway coastal path (nr the Giants Causeway), N. Ireland #AdoorableThursday #Thursgate #NoContextDoors

This Neolithic Court tomb from Ballintaggart County Armagh was at risk of destruction from expansion of a neighbouring quarry.  In 2006, the court tomb was dismantled and moved to the Ulster Folk Museum. #TombTuesday

St.Comgall's parish church, Bangor (N. Ireland) was built in 1882 to replace the church at Bangor Abbey which was deemed too small for Bangor’s expanding population #SteepleSaturday

For #FindsFriday here is lovely little George II farthing dating to 1736 that I picked up at an antiques fair this week

The West door of the Chapel of St Paul, Stansted Park, West Sussex - Originally part of the main Stansted House built in 1480, before being ruined in the Civil War, the building was converted into a place of worship in 1807. #adoorablethursday

Squeezing in a #WindowsonWednesday with only 5 minutes to spare (in the UK). More windows than you could dream of a Stansted House, West Sussex. Build in the 1903 on the exact footprint of the former C17th house destroyed by fire 3 years earlier 🏺

The Romanesque “Abbess’s” Doorway on the south side of the nave at Romsey Abbey. The door once opened from the cloisters into the abbey #MedievalMonday MedievalBlueSky 🏺

Anglo Saxon rood on the exterior west wall of the south transept of Romsey Abbey. The rood dates from the first half of the 11th century and it is thought that it was originally placed above a chancel arch. #SaxonSunday🏺

More photos of the Roman wall at Chichester for #RomanSiteSaturday AncientBlueSky 🏺

Despite a few challenges (see previous post) today we walked the Chichester City walls and popped into the cathedral

Chichester - competing for the title of least dog friendly city in the country. Only trying to walk the city walls and running into blocker after blocker 😔