Pretend the dog needs walking in different parts of my town for *her* mental health, but actually it's an excuse to find different bird songs on the merlin app

Masses of pink blossom against blue sky

View of pink blossom through an arch

Our cherry blossom giving 110% this spring

Mighty indeed!

Day FOUR of #Glass-tonbury, our experiment @butserancientfarm.co.uk where we try to recreate Roman window glass. 🔥🍷 We have a parallel experiment running where we try to find out how many near-identical pictures of hot things we can post on Bluesky before we get complaints. 😬😳

Let's see.... 🧵👇

A replica roman glace furnace, freshly lit, and with flames leaping from the chimney.

Back to #Glass-tonbury, our project to recreate Roman window glass today.

We emptied 4 buckets of hot embers from yesterday's firing (in which we baked a couple of potatoes for an excellent lunch). The furnace still had 200 degrees worth of residual heat when we re-lit it.

St. Botolph's Church at Boston in Lincolnshire. The main body of the church dates to the C14th, while the magnificent west tower (the ‘Boston Stump) was largely constructed during the C15th. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Boston #Lincolnshire

Much damaged circular tub font hidden behind a piano and wedged into a corner between a radiator and two fire extinguishers in a church.

Oh the indignity wrought by the Victorians!

Cast off, hidden and ignored after the church was rebuilt, the original Romanesque font at All Saints, Braunston, Northamptonshire shows signs of a church of great antiquity now all but lost to the world. #FontsOnFriday

Will archaeological data ever be FAIR? 🌐💻

Nicholson et al. explore why so much data remains hard to find and reuse. They advocate for the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to improve stewardship as open science becomes the standard.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Peak concentration

A pink-trousered man casually pouring chocolate over a pyramid of tennis balls

Disregarding the fact that he's cos playing as some of home counties Tory, just caught my husband pouring melted chocolate over a pile of tennis balls....

One of the drystone clochans on Skellig Michael, it is a dome shaped structure with a doorway facing the photographer

"integrate AI into your workflow..."

buddy, given half a chance I'd be scratching on vellum with oak gall ink in a nice dark clochán on Skellig Michael.

I have no interest in generative AI at all, I wish they would stop trying to crowbar it into *everything*.

Sometimes the effort is the point.

The Great Orion Nebula (M42 & M43) taken with a Seestar S50 telescope. 90 minutes of data. Processed on a Google Pixel 7 pro.

I hope I continue to always be amazed at the images a mere $500 telescope can capture from my backyard in just a few hours of time.

Set up my Seestar sometime after 8:30 pm last night. Carefully levelled, aligned, etc. Aimed at M42. Let it capture 1.5 hrs of data.

A few editing tweaks & "Voila!"

Using this as a start: what are your favorite examples of unconscious/unforced dad-or-mom shade about your musical tastes? Just something said immediately or off the cuff. Spill all your secrets!

An old-fashioned three-way signpost at Barnwell in Northamptonshire, with a lichen-covered, zebra-like post and writing in stern black capital letters. There are directions to Oundle, Thrapston, Armston, Polebrook, Thurning and Hemington.

#FingerpostFriday

The double doors to the priory church at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire. The doors are brown wood with four magnificently flamboyant black metal hinges. There are many stone columns on either side supporting a many-layered gothic stone arch above.

#AdoorableThursday Canons Ashby

Did you know that there are over 80 Historic Environment Records (HERs) in England? Most of them are available online.
Learn more on www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/chr/...
#sharedhistory
#historicenvirommentrecords #algao #sharedhistory #culturalheritage

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two brand new films highlighting the work of Historic Environment Records will be released next week. We can't wait to share them with you!

Have you ever looked really looked at where you live? Here's where you get started lnkd.in/ewYiJCPg
#historicengland #historicenvironmentrecord

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Fatal Pronunciation: The Shibboleth Story The Bible can make for a gruesome read. An effortless observation (which has led to much reasonable criticism) is that, for a collection of texts which many people take as foundational for life, it…

My latest online offering presents the bloody history behind the word ‘shibboleth’, with the point to make that a story about death brings its people to life. Naturally, it accompanies that point with references to Monty Python, German accents, fossils, and Stalin.
dannybate.com/2026/03/16/f...

Learn more at her.northamptonshire.gov.uk

Most of us walk across layers of history every day without realising it.
Not just famous landmarks, but ordinary places. Fields. Streets.
What stories do these places hold? Who or what was here before us? The answer is out there, sometimes all it takes is knowing where to look.

Government to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secure The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.

This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space.

"In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."

A photo of the Eleanor Cross at Geddington.

A photo of the altar inside the mediaeval church at Geddington.

A photo of a stained glass window inside Geddington church.

A photo of a mediaeval arch and wooden screen inside Geddington church.

In 1290, Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I & mother of his 14 kids, died in Nottinghamshire. The places where her body rested during the journey to its tomb in Westminster were marked by stone crosses.

One of these still stands at Geddington, Northants, & I took these pics there this p.m.

My new needy sheep friends

Term of endearment, I'd say!

Almost forgotten what hope felt like! Congratulations 💚💚💚💚

The Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally an internal door leading to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursdsy #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding lead 'pigs' for a piece of work I'm doing on silver.

Some were marked 'ex arg' ('of the silver mines') which suggests there may have been some de-silvering going on in Britain.

A lead thread 🧵 😉

#Archaeology 🏺

The result of two hours of searching on a North Yorkshire beach- five slightly rubbish ammonites

Ammoniting on cold damp English beaches=pure joy