Lesley McFadyen
@lesleymcf.bsky.social
archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer
Ardeer Nature - There are still some tickets left, come join us at the Scottish Maritime Museum this Sunday, guided walk and eco-poetry with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge. Get tickets here 👇 #Ardeer #Irvine #CommunityHeritage www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000318947...
Ardeer Nature Creative Workshop
Take photos of nature on a guided walk overlooking Ardeer with photographer Alex Boyd and poet Gerry Cambridge. Site-writing and eco-poetry.
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Memories of Ardeer - There are still some tickets left, come join us at the Scottish Maritime Museum this Saturday, morning drop-in or afternoon ticketed Brew&Blether with me and @linda83ross.bsky.social! #Ardeer #Ivine #CommunityHeritage www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000317866...
Memories of Ardeer
Brew & Blether - A space to reminisce about family members and friends who worked at the Ardeer.
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Anyone fancy a job helping deliver for nature and climate in one of the most extraordinary historic landscapes in the NE of England? One of those once in a decade opportunities just came up at @NationalTrust Wallington/Heart of Northumberland estate www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/d9vU9N7C...
General Manager - National Trust | Morpeth
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We're hiring a (full-time, permanent) colleague to join us as Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage in @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY235/l...
Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage at Birkbeck, University of London
Apply for the Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Our Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar this year is "Activating/Excavating Archives", and we're thrilled that @clmorgan.bsky.social will be kicking it off with Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity All welcome! Abstract and sign-up linked below!
*26th and 27th September* Come and share photographs and memories of Ardeer, drop-in and brew & blether, joined by historian @linda83ross.bsky.social! Or go on our guided walk and eco-poetry session on nature at Ardeer with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge!
Two days of insightful and thought provoking work at the Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium and Workshop - @archscot.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies.
Lots of trees popped up in the wood peat deposits at Must Farm. It’s always satisfying uncovering them ready for recording and sampling.
The joy of digging at Must Farm is that it is less about orthodox archaeological features (pits, ditches, postholes) & more about old land surfaces, animal tracks, submerged forests, preserved fence lines. Past deposits are intact, articulated, & the distinction between natural & cultural is blurred
Cambridge Archaeological Unit@cambridgearch.bsky.social · last mo.The wood-filled deposit in the latest phase of work at Must Farm contained alder and ash trees. It is possible the deposit could be part of another palaeochannel or it may be another step or dip in the earlier floodplain.
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Archaeology Scotland
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Lesley McFadyen@lesleymcf.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin @archscot.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies for the Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium, 10th and 11th September. Get your in person and online tickets for Day 1 here: lnkd.in/eRSCXhCa
Join @archscot.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies for the Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium, 10th and 11th September. Get your in person and online tickets for Day 1 here: lnkd.in/eRSCXhCa
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
Two Orkney-led PhDs available as part of North Sea Heritage project
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
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1/3 My book ‘Wild wetlands and domestic drylands’ was published with @barpublishing.bsky.social last month! The book explores the relations between wetland and dryland communities in and around the later prehistoric East Anglian Fens. See final post for a link to Chapter 1!
Workers at the archaeological site of Dura-Europos, Syria, during 1920s-30s Yale-French Academy excavations. They were vital to the project, but were never named and local voices are largely absent from publications on the site. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #WaybackWednesday 🏺 #Archaeology
It's a Sign! come on in, you'll get a strange book if you pledge £25 , lots more on offer! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign...
It's a Sign!
I will make an exhibition and publication about the found, defaced, debased, hilarious and incomprehensible floods of signage in our lives.
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I’m very proud our amazing undergrad students have rated us so highly on the NSS: ranked first for archaeology teaching in the country. @lesleymcf.bsky.social’s leadership of our BAs combines incredible archaeology with real care for students, and it shows!
Lesley McFadyen@lesleymcf.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat's in a national survey? The brilliance of Birkbeck's BA Archaeology and BA Ancient History & Archaeology students, the incredible archaeologists (@jenbaird.bsky.social, Esther Breithoff, Tim Reynolds) and partners (MOLA Archaeology) that teach them, and the archaeology itself!
What's in a national survey? The brilliance of Birkbeck's BA Archaeology and BA Ancient History & Archaeology students, the incredible archaeologists (@jenbaird.bsky.social, Esther Breithoff, Tim Reynolds) and partners (MOLA Archaeology) that teach them, and the archaeology itself!
This has been a bit of time coming but so glad its now out in time for #FestivalofArchaeology. A call to #Archaeologists to help tackle the nature crisis. Share your examples of how archaeology has helped nature restoration? @nattrustarch.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
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The National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate have launched the ‘Knepp Accord’, a new framework to tackle the nature and climate crisis.
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What is the long-term legacy of foreign excavations in places like Dura-Europos in Syria? Out today and open access in @antiquity.ac.uk with my colleague Adnan Almohamad: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria
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When people lived on the wetlands - the Late Bronze Age pile dwellers of Fenland #Fenland #Archaeology #Prehistory #MustFarm
Cambridge Archaeological Unit@cambridgearch.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’re excited to share new free KS2 resources for teachers. Covering Must Farm and the Bronze Age, the resources include videos, reconstruction illustrations, presentations and more! We’re hoping they’ll help teachers bring the Bronze Age to life historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...
‘This house is a thing both ancient and disjointed, an entity of addition and subtraction, a palimpsest of stone and wood and caulk and mud. Its existence here, on the peninsula, is proof that everything was once something else: nothing goes away.’ Maggie O’Farrell
What can hoards reveal about life in post-Roman Britain? A @ukri.org AHRC funded project exploring the last Roman hoards deposited in Britain is reshaping what we know about 5th century society. Discover the research and learn more about hoards in museums across the UK here blogs.kent.ac.uk/hoards
I'm exploring how @coastsinmind.bsky.social can help address the gap between formal evidence systems and the lived realities of those most affected by coastal change. Supported by Coast-R Network. #CoastsInMind #ArchiveToAction #CoastR www.ukcoastalresilience.org/project/arch..
Archive to Action: Connecting Coastal Community Insights to Policy - Coast R Network
Archive to Action explores how coastal community archives can help policymakers use local knowledge in more inclusive, resilient coastal planning.
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We are delighted to announce Prehistoric Society award & prize winners for 2026/7. 🎉 The Europa 2027 honouree is Prof. Mel Giles, Univ. of Manchester. I am sure Mel needs no introduction as a well known & respected researcher of the Iron Age. Congratulations Mel! #Archaeology 🏺 #Prehistory 1/6
For historians who are endlessly organising workshops on the "material turn" - please remember that archaeology is an entire discipline predicated on material culture and we might just have something to contribute #disciplinarymyopia
Proper archaeology! An absolute joy this evening watching @nie-theatre.bsky.social perform 'Once Upon a Time in Fenland' nie-theatre.com/productions/...
Once Upon A Time in Fenland – New International Encounter
These fantastical, funny and thought-provoking tales will transport you back in time
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