profontography.bsky.social

20 September 2026 07:45

Thanks so much for our 3pm tour. I now understand the difference between the types of marks, which will make looking for them much more fun!

Bright Moonlight stories

brightmoonstories.bsky.social

09 September 2026 15:49

Hope the Tewkesbury tours go well on the 19th. If someone asks a question you did not expect, we would love to hear it. That is usually where we end up learning something.

Bright Moonlight stories

brightmoonstories.bsky.social

05 September 2026 15:15

Not my own, these are from the National Museum in Beijing. First is Song or Yuan, a birth god charm with the zodiac animals below. Second is Ming, the eight trigrams with the twelve animals round the rim. Both cast to look like coins and never meant to be spent.

Bright Moonlight stories

brightmoonstories.bsky.social

04 September 2026 06:40

Chinese builders did something close to this. Charm coins and written spells went under thresholds and roof beams to keep a house safe, and they turn up now when old buildings come down.

Ragged Robin

carolineirwin3.bsky.social

21 August 2026 22:45

#FontsOnFriday C12th font from St George, Orleton Herefordshire. The font was carved by the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculptors - probably by an apprentice. The cylindrical bowl has 9 arcades each containing the figure of an apostle.