Archaeological trench across the Flag Fen Post-alignment. Preserved wooden piles, a mass of horizontal timbers sealed beneath oxidised peaty silts
New light and a 'bottom-up' perspective on Flag Fen and the Flag Fen Basin this Friday
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Fen to Fire brings to life the Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement, showing activity from construction to destruction. Each run-through is different with varied activities, events, weather and camera angles while the seasons change over time. The cause of the site’s fiery demise can also vary.
A must-see at March Library
#MustFarm #BronzeAge #Fenland
Fen to Fire is part of @incollusion.bsky.social SHAPE Hub programme with thanks to funding from @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Visitors can experience the full installation, comprising the main digital artwork alongside interpretation and behind-the-scenes films offering a window into both the Bronze Age world and the creative process behind the work.
We are excited to announce the launch of Fen to Fire, a living reconstruction of the Late Bronze Age Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement that we’ve worked to create with digital artist Guy Schofield and pupils from Cromwell Community College in Chatteris.
Colour photo of an excavated, preserved tree stump of an oak that grew in the Early Bronze Age
The preserved stumps of oak trees survive below the Flag Fen post-alignment. Part of a submerged forest, these trees belong to a Early Bronze Age terrestrial landscape that pre-dates the rising groundwater table that turned these low-lying contours into a fen embayment. #BogOaks #Fenland #FlagFen 🏺
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Excavations at Needingworth Quarry, Cambridgeshire discovered this probable Neolithic house. Measuring roughly 10m by 7m and composed of both narrow beam-slots and postholes, its architecture broadly matches other known structures from the UK.
Front cover of the book
@cambridgearch.bsky.social Head of Finds Dr Emily Banfield has published a chapter "And Say the Animal Responded?" in the new edited volume "Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times"
Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/and-say...
#FindsFriday What's he got in his pocket today?
Black and white photo of archaeologist Dorothy Liddell and an unnamed male colleague investigating a prehistoric ditch
Black and white photo of archaeologist Dorothy Liddell with finds tray and her team with shovels investigating prehistoric features
Black and white photo of archaeologist Dorothy Liddell and her team at Hembury hillfort Devon
More pictures of the talented archaeologist Dorothy Liddell and her team excavating Hembury Iron Age hillfort and Neolithic enclosure #Devon 1930-5 for #HillfortsWednesday
📷 © Devon Archaeological Society
For more on her life and contribution to archaeology see:
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Colour photo of a white tea towel printed with pale green coloured drawings of items from the Lare Bronze Age Havering Hoard. Items include socketed axes, socketed spears, sickle and sword fragments
The Havering Hoard tea towel - well-used (like the socketed axes!)
Alf still one of Britain’s most inspiring humanists!
“Populism can be a very tough business to fight against. But in the end, we have to approach human rights issues with certain principles. We have to say something is right, and we stick by what is right.”
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Come join us in London! There are still spaces for our next CISA seminar on the 29th April with The 50 Layers Project and the amazing Cristina Gameiro!! Vir!!!
Sign saying "Frog mouthed wanker" on a wire fence
So Nigel Farage popped over to Shetland and it went well for him.
Very niche, but definitely something to be encouraged...
An unused white linen tea towel showing a beautiful black line work hachure plan of the North Ring at Mucking, excavated between 1965-78 by Margaret Jones, assisted by her Husband Tom Jones (not that one). Reproduced absolutely without the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum
Ok, slightly niche and potentially doesn't hit the brief as it's a souvenir of a gargantuan post-excavation project, but check out my Mucking Phase Plan tea towel
Not anymore. Charity shop finds.....
Glass tankard with black text: FLAG FEN Bronze Age Excavation 1000 B.C.
I don't know about a set darts, but......
I'm guessing so. The discovery and early excavations occurred throughout that decade.
Photo of clear glass ashtray with the base labelled in bold black letters: FLAG FEN Bronze Age Excavation 1000 B.C.
Here's my candidate for the best ever archaeological excavation souvenir- what's yours? #SundaySouvenir
Tall thin standing stone on green moorland
Beardown Man #Dartmoor
Piercing the skies for centuries
#StandingStoneSunday
You guessed it.
#FindsFriday #2
What's he got on his bookshelf today? Fresh off the printer, and with the lead piece by yours truly, CA can be bought in most reputable newsagents or downloaded from the Current Archaeology website - Read All About It! #Archaeology
Brown sherds of a Neolithic pot have been put back together. They are held together by tape in places. The pot is not complete.
The pot is buried in the ground and is peeking out from the sand around it
Archaeologists 🤝 puzzle lovers
Found on site @sizewellc.bsky.social and pieced back together by our office staff, this early Neolithic pot features delicate fluting which you can explore here: skfb.ly/pIxG9
#FindsFriday #OCAArchTeam @cotswoldarch.bsky.social
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A stack of cardboard boxes labelled 'Boneless Pork Rectums Inverted, Product of USA'
Just looking up the Reform Party regional list for Edinburgh and the Lothians.
