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Portrait of the Norman baron Hugh de Lacy by Gerald of Wales, from his work Expugnatio Hibernica. 🏴🇮🇪
After the first English invasion of Ireland, Hugh de Lacy was appointed Lord of Meath by king Henry II of England in the year 1172, and acted as the de facto English viceroy on the island. Lacy gained infamy after luring the Irish king of Bréifne, Tighernán Ó’Ruairc to a parley at the Hill of Ward in Meath, where the Normans instigated a scuffle and sprung a treacherous ambush. Ó’Ruairc was killed, while De Lacy panicked and fled from the violence. De Lacy briefly fell out of royal favor after he married Róis Ní Chonchobhair, daughter of former Irish High King Ruaidrí Ó’Conchobhair without king Henry’s permission. The marriage was eventually approved and Lacy restored to his position. During his tenure, he was also noted for building large numbers of motte-and-bailey castles in Meath to defend against and better control the native population. This apparently wasn’t enough, however: the year 1186 Lacy was killed by an Irish assassin nicknamed “Gilla-gan-mathair” (“Motherless lad”) Ó’Maidhaigh, who approached him as he inspected a newly completed castle at Durrow, then struck off his head with an axe he’d been concealing under his cloak. The assassin escaped on foot in spite of being pursued by multiple soldiers. The Annals of the Four Masters state that the killing was carried out in revenge of St. Columba, i.e. for having profaned churches and monasteries founded by and associated with the saint.
| 2 |  Twisted gold torcs found near Leekfrith, in Staffordshire, England; 400-250 B.C. 🏴
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| 3 |  Everyone here knows I’m not a fan of AI… still… I gotta admit this was pretty awesome; made me laugh. | 339 |
| 4 |  Montefortino type bronze helmet discovered near Landau an der Isar, in Bavaria, Germany; 3rd century B.C. 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 Based on typology, the helmet is likely of Italian origin, and was perhaps acquired through trade, or perhaps it had belonged to an adventurer from Cisalpine Gaul. | 458 |
| 5 |  “Scottish” human rights lawyer Anas Sarwar recycles Longshanks’ infamous line from Braveheart: “The problem with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots”. 🦄🤡
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| 6 |  In Dover, England. Thousands of patriots organize to stop foreign invaders. 🏴👏🏻
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| 7 |  Coastal bluebell prairie in Fife, Scotland; Angus visible in the distance. 🏴 | 720 |
| 8 | sticker.webp | 375 |
| 9 | I’ve been flying a Spanish flag 🇪🇸 outside my house for over a month now in solidarity with our Iberian brothers and sisters.
Ceuta y Melilla son España y siempre lo serán. España Cristiana y no musulmana. ✝️🇪🇸🇪🇸 | 762 |
| 10 |  A normal day in Spain 🇪🇸
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| 11 |  Three spearheads recovered from the Celtic votive site of La Tène in Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland; 2nd century B.C.
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| 12 |  Bronze chain belt found (together with some bronze and glass-bead bracelets) in the ruins of a Gallic settlement in the Tiefenau district of Bern, Switzerland; 2nd century B.C.🇨🇭 | 788 |
| 13 |  +2Remains of the iron age hill-fort of Chûn Castle (Cornish: Chi an Woon; “House on the Downs”), near Penzance, Cornwall. 🏴
Pottery discovered at the site dated from the 4th century B.C. onward and showed a striking similarity to contemporary pottery from Brittany. The settlement appears to have been built to store and protect tin mined from the nearby Geevor Tin Mine and was thus, likely a specialized trading hub. Its robust fortifications and coastal position at the far western edge of Cornwall also suggest a military role akin to that of a watchtower. Chûn Castle was abandoned in the 1st century AD and reoccupied during the troublesome 5th and 6th centuries, i.e. the “Arthurian Age”. The fort is even a good candidate for having been Arthur’s famous place of residence: Kelliwic (Cornish: “Forest Grove”). It’s position with wide views over the Celtic Sea would seem to match the description of Kelliwic from the medieval Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen:
From here, one of his (Arthur’s) warband, Drem, could see a gnat as far away as Scotland; while another, Medyr, could shoot an arrow through the legs of a wren in Ireland.
A 1302 Cornish legal record also documents the existence of a man called “Thomas de Kellewik” from “west Cornwall”, which also suggests that Kellewic was located at the far end of the peninsula.
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| 14 |  +1Stone pillar decorated in La Tène style, found at Waldenbuch in Baden-Würtemberg, Germany; undated, possibly late 4th or early 3rd century. 🇩🇪 The top part of the broken pillar is lost and appears to have depicted a stylized man or (anthropomorphic) deity. The pillar was located near an ancient Gallic settlement at Federlesmad.
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| 15 |  +4Bennachie (Gaelic: Beinn na Cìche; “Mountain of the breast”), in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 🏴 At the pinnacle of the peak known as “Mither Tap” are the remains of an ancient hill-fort.
The Mither Tap hill-fort was protectedby two stone walls, both of which have collapsed into a single heap. Oak charcoals recovered from the site produced radiocarbon dates ranging between the 4th and 8th centuries AD. Some historians have speculated that Bennachie was the location of the AD 83 Battle of Mons Graupius between the Roman army and the native Caledonians; this is highly unlikely. Others have theorised that the current name is a distortion of Benne Cé (“mountain of Cé”), and that it was thus the subject of the medieval Irish tale Orgain Benne Cé (“The ravaging of the Mountain of Cé”). However, there are no signs of destruction or violence in the Mither Tap hill-fort, and the resemblance of a nipple caused by the ramparts and craig at the top make it more likely that the current name is ancient and original. Local folklore associated with Bennachie and its distant analog, Tap o’ Noth, still exists and shows a striking similarity to the giant-lore common in Wales and Cornwall: The giant Jock o’ Bennachie lived in the area and had a rivalry with Jock o’ Noth over a woman named Anne. The latter preferred to be with Jock o’ Noth, so that Jock o’ Bennachie became enraged and took to throwing boulders at his rival 13 miles away. In the ensuing throwing match, Jock o’ Bennachie accidentally crushed his beloved Anne. Heartbroken, Jock fled into some nearby woods. There, a fairy woman tricked him by appearing as Anne, and as he came to meet her, she cast a spell that trapped and sealed him within a cavern in the mountain, declaring that Scotland would never again be wealthy until Jock o’ Bennachie was released.
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| 16 |  +1Remnants of a chariot-burial from Llandstadwell, in Pembrokeshire, Wales; late 1st century AD. 🏴
Items shown are two sections of wheel, a severely corroded iron sword, and an enameled bronze bridle piece with La Tène style decoration. The burial also included other items, such two or three spears. It dates to a time when the Roman Empire was engaged in the conquest of Britain with Wales being one of the most active theatres of the war, although it’s uncertain if the local Demetae people offered any resistance to the legions (their neighbors the Silures and Ordovices certainly did, and were among Rome’s most tenacious and formidable opponents in Britain).
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| 17 |  +2Crozier made from yew, bronze, and zinc-tin alloy, found in a peat bog near Prosperous, in county Kildare, Ireland; late 10th century AD. 🇮🇪
The prosperous crozier is the only fully intact crozier found in Ireland. The crook is decorated at the top with eleven birds and a human head, while the drop has champlevé enameling and a glass bead. An inscription under the drop reads Sanctae Mariae Dubliniae, which indicates that the crozier became property of St. Mary’s Abbey in Dublin (founded AD 1139). It’s unclear when and how the crozier ended up in a bog over 20 miles away.
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| 19 |  Gallic iron helmet with La Tène decorated bronze attachments discovered in Borgo Rivola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; 4th or 3rd century B.C. 🇮🇹 The helmet is nigh identical to another one found in Umbria.
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| 20 |  Pre-Roman Cantabria: Tribes and territories. 🇪🇸
The Cantabrians are best understood as a tribal alliance or confederation. The name ‘Cantabri’ is of Celtic etymology and would mean something like “rim-dwellers”, the element ‘Cant-‘ meaning rim or ring, as in a curved mountain chain (The “Cantabrian Mountains” form a curved chain from eastern Galicia all the way to the Basque Country). The same etymology can be found in Britain for example, in the case of the Quantock hills of Somerset, as well as in the case of Kent, which was being thought of as a rim of arable land surrounding the vast inland forest later known as The Weald. As such, the name itself seems to suggest that in prehistoric times, ‘Cantabri’ simply denoted northern mountain dwellers in general, being applicable even as far as eastern Gallaecia, with a tribal alliance taking on that name exclusively later on. Lingüistic and archaeological evidence suggest that the peoples of the entire north-Atlantic coast and mountains shared a single origin, culture, and language; i.e. the Asturians and Cantabrians could be thought of simply as mountain-dwelling Gallaecians. Indeed, later Roman administrative divisions placed Asturias and León within a tripartite province of Gallaecia. All of these peoples were closely related to the Indo-European inhabitants of central Iberia, such as the Lusitanians, Vacceans, Vettones, etc. The major difference seems to have been a long-forgotten British element in the northern culture, with evidence existing that Britons traded extensively with the north and that some even settled there (i.e. like the ‘Albiones’ tribe living among the Gallaecians). Later on, Celtiberian influence became strong in the region, and classical historians even recorded the migration of the Celtici into Gallaecia. In the case of the Cantabri, they came into existence as a people who were neighbors of the Celtiberians for hundreds of years; from the 5th century B.C. onward, the culture of the Cantabri became heavily Celtiberianized, as shown by archaeologist Eduardo Peralta Labrador in his book Los Cántabros Antes de Roma (2003). Given the archaeological and epigraphic evidence, it seems likely that the Cantabri received and incorporated some Celtiberians into their confederation, or that heavy intermarriage occurred between the two peoples. Some of the tribal names can only be explained as Celtic: Orgenomesci “Drunk from violence”, Avarigini “Descendants of Avarus”, Concani: “Those accompanied by dogs / wolves”. Their territory was also much larger than the province bearing their name today, as it included large swaths of present day Asturias, León, Palencia, and Burgos. | 644 |
