Haha! Yes! I've thought that a few times recently....

Oh please!

1066 and all that is a classic!

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(BTW love your profile pic... my family used to call me Crystal Tips growing up!! 🤣🤣)

They released them up river from here and they're gradually colonising further away. It's lovely to see.

Yup.

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

In more "archaeology isn't political" news... 🤬

BBC News - Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says
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Awww that's gorgeous! Keep going lovely xx

No, not at all - just ideas really. Nothing definite though.

Some have done this - but again, it's just adding work for cash strapped museums.

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery We are delighted to announce that The Friends of The Potteries Museums & Art Gallery, helped by generous public donations, have raised £10,000 towards the acquisition Ellastone Dress Fastener. Thank you everyone who has donated towards this fantastic milestone. We are now closing this strand of the funding campaign.

Some great news - thank you to everyone who contributed their hard earned cash!

(Just a reminder that had the finder/ landowner donated the dress fastener, it would have cost £0 instead of £150,000...)

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

Ex Libris George Eogan: an archaeologist’s library at the Museum | National Museum of Ireland Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

This is wonderful. I got to know George over my years in the Prehistoric Society - he was always a kind and lovely person and a fabulous prehistorian.

I'm glad his library has been preserved. 😊

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Me too! 😊

UK. I'm in St Albans in Hertfordshire.

These are loving St Albans now the water quality is improving! ❤️

It really is... it's so beautiful I haven't even minded getting stung to b*ggery wading through stinging nettles on the bank!! 🤣

The chalk river Ver looking lovely on a sunny day. Nettles, trees and reeds are growing on the banks.

In my happy place looking for water voles!☀️🏞

We're finding so much evidence of these gorgeous furry critters, who were released about 6 miles away and who have slowly but surely made their way down stream... ❤️

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Teeny vase of purple violets. The whole filled vase is onto a couple of inches tall

Honestly, 2026 is throwing everything it can at me, so I'm going with small wins and lovely things to try and keep me on an even keel.

Today it's the teeniest bouquet of miniature violets and a day by the river, in the sunshine, looking for vole poo...

🤣🤣🤣 Step away from the liquor!!

Noooooo... the just cherry picked nice sites!!

And they wonder why the toilets mysteriously block and there's a fire in the laundry... 🤔

Harry Price The torc path is never smooth, and this is very much the case with the Pulborough torc, which is closely associated with Harry Price. (The papers below are listed in date order, so start reading at…

Indeed! 🤣

In case you want to know more...

bigbookoftorcs.com/harry-price/

No idea tbh... there's no record of him adding a plinth, and that's definitely 'not original' - could be either as he both planted and faked, but would need a statuette expert to decide, I think.

A couple of folks, I showed the photos to, weren't convinced it was real.

That's nothing to the 'oh, look what I just happened to find at the end of my garden!!' 'Roman' Hercules statue discovery made by a certain Mr Harry Price...

Modesty intact on this one though!!

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Probably not, likely just to be the end of a hammered wire (they trend to be rounded).

The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 15 Glascote up close by Tess Machling I had the very great pleasure of being able to visit this intriguing torc recently and, as you’ll see from below, it has a rather fabulous story to tell us, both in the past&…

The latest blog in the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: Glascote up close!

#Archaeology #Torcs #StaffsTorcOdyssey 🏺

bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/04/15/t...

A cartoon - a woman lying in bed yelling 'somebody pamper me!' while in the next frame she says 'Oh yeah. I forgot. I'm a strong independent woman! Shit..... '

Big girl pants are well and truly pulled up these last few weeks... 🤣

Yup... latest I've seen was being melted down for fishing weights...