We’re hiring a full-time Historic Environment Advisor for our West England District. Work across Exmoor, Dartmoor, Cornwall WHS and the Forest of Dean, supporting biodiversity and sustainable forestry. A rare chance to shape landscapes at scale. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
A spring view of British Camp Iron Age hillfort on the Malvern Hills, on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border. Despite the changeable weather (sunshine and rain showers), the herd of cows in the foreground were decidedly unfussed. They're friendly if you stop and say hello, but make sure you wash your hands afterwards...
Capricious skies over British Camp from this Sunday for #HillfortsWednesday.
Because well-being is linked to place and heritage, not just nature
Draw of pottery shards in individual boxes. Grey in colour
We are delighted to share that @cotswoldarch.bsky.social have just completed a new and exciting project, creating a pottery type series for Wiltshire, dating from 400AD to the 1700s
The briefest of brief explainers of that most brilliant of resources to the historian, archaeologist, geographer and resident, the Historic Environment Record. #Skystorians
Cover of the guidance document showing a diver in full face mask examining the hull of a wooden shipwreck.
The 3rd edition of the Historic England guidance Accessing England's Protected Wreck Sites: Guidance Notes for Divers and Archaeologists is now available online. The guidance has been revised and updated by @msdsmarine.bsky.social, with contributions from several protected wreck licensee teams.
Come & Explore the award-winning Middleport Pottery Open 10am to 4pm Factory tour, Heritage trail, Virtual factory tour, The Packing House Café, Independent traders of Port Street Range & Harper Street, Burleigh factory shop & Middleport Pottery gift shop
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#stokeontrent
Possible floral decorations in the head area of the shaman, from left to right: Meadowsweet, Mullein, Creeping Buttercup, Devil's Bit, Dove Scabious.
Adorned with flowers? Pollen analysis deciphers invisible grave goods in the grave of the Bad Dürrenberg shaman. #archaeology
More information: idw-online.de/de/news866973
@aliceponderland.bsky.social - Noone expects the Viking Intermission!
Neanderthals & Mesolithic foragers reshaped Europe’s ecology long before agriculture… 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Fragments of fresco retrieved during excavations of one the peahens striding along the yellow cornice against a backdrop of a colonnade.
Two excavators digging the other half of the peacock room in Oplontis. Behind them the facing wall being revealed and the fresco that mirrors the known wall coming to light. One of the peahens can be seen in situ on the the left side above a panel of bright red.
The excavation site from above showing where the excavators are working in the foreground in relation to the known half of the peacock room behind the hoarding in the background.
The peacock from the well known peacock room in Oplontis. It stands on the yellow cornice with its tail draped over the edge. Behind it the colonnade painted in perspective.
An undeniably emotional experience seeing the other half of the ‘peacock room’ in Oplontis being excavated and meeting their counterparts: the two peahens that graced the facing wall. What a delightfully playful idea by the artist.
Compliments to my colleagues, excavators & conservators. Spectacular
What does it mean to be “tough enough” in #archaeology? A new blog and research article (out now #openaccess in @saa-aap.bsky.social) reconsider previous ideas around physical and emotional resilience and calls for a healthier, safer field culture.
🔗 https://cup.org/4ae3k3L
Because I saw this last night and cant let it go: if you are critiquing people for how long it took them to get a PhD, grow up. Getting a PhD is hard enough without also trying to please some arbitrary speed guideline. It took me a long time in part because of covid, partially because I had to work
A photo of a short article by Averil Kear, describing how small 'Turnspit' dogs were bred to run in Turnspit wheel cages in the Medieval and Post-Medieval period. These were used to rotate food set over open fires in buildings in Gloucestershire. The article focuses on one remaining in St Briavels castle in the Forest of Dean, written by Sir John McLean in 1887. A small illustration shows one (presumably at St Briavels) in operation, with the wheel set high on a right-hand wall, close to a fireplace, with attached leather band or rope turning meat on a spit. A woman is sat on the left-hand side in a chair. A cat, sat close to the fire, eyes the meat, and looks on at the dog in contempt.
New cooking method revealed with this 1 weird trick....
The cat: 'Pfft, what a loser...'
Source: Averil Kear, Forest of Dean Local History Society New Regard magazine
#cat #dog #cooking #Gloucestershire @catsofyore.bsky.social
I like the name of the farm!
Calling all UK archaeologists! I am conducting some reasearch on Stratigraphic literacy in the industry. If you work/have worked in archaeology in the UK I would really apprechiate if would fill in this survey!
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For anyone who missed our @rcahmwales.bsky.social Christmas lecture last week - a four way presentation about our amazing year in survey & investigation - it's now on YouTube
Make a cuppa, put your Teams light on red, & settle down for some discoveries...
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I like the phrase 'bits and bobs of people' - I may start allowing this in project designs 😂
Bye bye Academia.edu.
To avoid clicking accept on the new Terms of Service - in Firefox you can use F12, look for the <div> with 'tos' in, click on it, right-click and select delete - you can then navigate to account settings to delete your account.
Hi Sue, we're off today but please feel free to come tomorrow if you're about!
You definitely timed that well @peterreavill.bsky.social - it's pretty wild up here today 😂
It was a bit of a scorcher yesterday at #Arthur'sStone, #Herefordshire so we had a well deserved early finish. Some really interesting archaeology and finds showing up though and the next two weeks are going to be monumental 😎☀️
Please do! Feel free to call in if you're about too!
We're lucky this year (so far) - the breeze is offering more respite than the 2023 heat wave. We finished at half 3 today so definitely solving the looking parched bit 🍻! Feel free to call in!
We're back at #Arthur'sStone, #Herefordshire this summer as part of the #UniversityOfManchester Beneath Hay Bluff project, led by @julianthomas2.bsky.social.
This year we've got some very exciting trenches planned on the monument. Stay tuned for updates 😎☀️
#Archaeology
#FlintFriday. Amazing sticker made by one of my students!
