Robert Barry (Mason)

@RobertBarry
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Robert Mason is an archaeologist at the University of Toronto & the Royal Ontario Museum. He does science on stuff, & has worked on castles & monasteries.

Robert Barry writes fantasy and science-fiction stories, he has published some of them on Amazon but plans to broaden his platform.

Robert Barry Mason has a garden with flowers, veggies, fairies, gnomes and a railway.

#Archaeology #AmWritingSFF #garden #Archaeometry #ArchaeologyOfStuff

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Daffodils and tulips in the garden.
This was put in one of my Twitter accounts. I don't follow him, never liked anything vaguely resembling this rubbish. That a white South African feels being aware of racism is a bad thing is disturbing, but not as disturbing as the fact he owns Twitter,
Signs of life in the Fairy Garden!
I am thinking of using this photo for a story in Medium. It's me in an abandoned fort in Saudi Arabia in 1977. Does it look clear enough?

I've just finished a piece about the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took. Have a look!

https://medium.com/@Robert_Barry/the-three-remarkable-daughters-of-the-old-took-38e49a17a4a2

#Gandalf

The three remarkable daughters of the Old Took - Robert Barry - Medium

I have often thought that the most interesting untold story of Tolkien’s Middle Earth concerns the three remarkable daughters of Gerontius Took. Most of what we know comes from the Appendices of Lord…

Medium
I just made my own Middle-Earth in Google Earth map. I placed Hobbiton at Oxford, which is the landscape that Tolkien's children would know best. The downs are on the wrong side, but this IS fantasy cartography at it's most esoteric.
#Tolkien #MiddleEarth
My first novel, Denizens of the Crystal Lattice, written in 1991 & published under my pen-name of Aelfan Corylus, is up on more platforms. Yes I have two pen-names!

The latest addition to my blog is a description of the magical system used in Roger the Wyrd.

https://robertthebarry.blogspot.com/2022/12/roger-wyrd-magical-system.html

#RogerTheWyrd #magic #wip

Roger the Wyrd - the Magical System

Roger's quadrate The primary magical system in my work-in-progress Roger the Wyrd is based on the elements. The Wyrdings are all individuals...

For #ToxologyTuesday an archer with composite recurve from a frieze of tiles in the ROM from 17th century Isfahan, Iran during the Safavid dynasty.
@ROMtoronto

#Iran #Isfahan #Archer #Archery #Ceramic #TilesOnTuesday #TuesdayToxology #Safavid
https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/426012/tile-from-frieze-for-archway-with-picnic-scene
Tile from frieze for archway with picnic scene

For all of you who have abandoned that bird site, this is what you're missing...