Historic Environment Records: What are they? Why do they matter? How can you - as someone who is interested in where you live, or as local, family, or academic historians, archaeologists (or anyone!) - make use of them and the records they contain?
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Blue background with the text 'No Funding No Museum' and 'Banbury Museum and Gallery' overlain with a red slashed circle.
Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding.
There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think.
Please respond to the consultation and share this post
www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...
News | Fall in number of finds logged in Scotland after post-Covid high – but treasure and archaeological finds remain on upward trajectory, with over 6,000 reported in 2024-25
I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.
advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.
Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man!
www.badsquiddogames.com
Howdy Wendy this is still in the treasure process at the moment
Three socketed bronze axes and one casting mould.
New paper out:
"Bronze and Iron Age axe-hafting techniques in Central and Southeastern Europe. A study of the archaeological visibility of prehistoric technological innovations". #archaeology
DM me for a pdf!
I’ve got some great feature articles for the forthcoming British Archaeology issues but we’re always on the lookout for more - don’t be shy! Get in touch! 🏺👇🏽