A macabre look at a London "plague pit" burial site from the 1350's, uncovered by the Crossrail transportation construction crews...
Elizabethan London
Tyburn was an infamous execution spot west of London, used since medieval times. The Tyburn "tree" - a unique, multi-person gallows - erected in 1571 became a popular public spectacle, drawing crowds of thousands.Tyburn Tree blog is less blood-thirsty but hopefully topical, interesting and informative, if slightly bent to my personal topics of interest - books, writing, history, technology, with a smattering of politics and dash of pop culture, science and the downright strange. So "take a ride to Tyburn" and see what happens...
Monday, March 31, 2014
"...when shadows fall."
Labels:
archaeology,
History,
medieval,
plague
My skittish mobile throwrug....
Meet "The Gremlin", a feral cat we took in at the behest of my sister-in-law. It's like living with a small throwrug that runs...
After four months lurking and skittering about the upstairs rooms in a panic everytime someone looked at him sideways, he has calmed down enough for me to grab a finally get a photo of him.
About a quarter second after the shutter snapped he scrambled away again. Probably see him again in a day or so....
After four months lurking and skittering about the upstairs rooms in a panic everytime someone looked at him sideways, he has calmed down enough for me to grab a finally get a photo of him.
About a quarter second after the shutter snapped he scrambled away again. Probably see him again in a day or so....
Labels:
cat,
unblinking stare of doom
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