The early 14thC St Catherine at St Mary's, Deerhurst is such a stunner. Everything from the rich colours to the lovely sinous curve of the figure draw your eye. I particularly like the waving crockets above her leading to a rather extravagant finial. #StainedGlassSunday

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A temple of Aphrodite in Cyprus ✨ This gold finger ring top plate dates to the second century CE. The engraving shows the famous temple of Aphrodite in ancient Paphos in Cyprus with a curious conical stone in its centre, which actually represents the goddess in non-human form.

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It's not all bad news for pigs in November. In the Labours of the Months sequence of misericords at Great Malvern, Worcestershire, a man knocks down acorns to feed his pigs. This will keep them going over the winter, their ultimate fate postponed until next year.

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spooky skull with multiple functions 💀 Here, Matthew Winterbottom, Curator of Late-19th-century British sculpture and decorative arts, speaks to Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb about these eerie skull watches.

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