Waiting for for the hemeroskopos to arrive with the code for 2FA...

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2w ago

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

This looks good, and might just be the excuse I have been waiting for to drift north of the wall again...

Lindsay Powell FRHistS@lindsaypowell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Coming soon! An exhibition about the Romans in Scotland is opening in Edinburgh this autumn, 'Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire', running from 14 November 2026 to 18 April 2027 at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street. www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Excellent short piece here with wise words from @markknight63.bsky.social Back in February 2016, I was lucky enough to visit the site of excavations there. The quality of the archaeology (and of the archaeological investigation) has stayed with me.

merryn@merryn02.bsky.social · 2w ago

Must Farm quarry. Its a huge site with loads of archaeology. Some of the best Bronze Age organics yet discovered in Britain. Flax, wood and those amazing pots of grain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just home from giving a talk to a local society about #chalkstream archaeology in the Chess Valley. A lovely neighbour was waiting in front of my flat 😎

I am worried by their statement AFTER rejecting a proposal, that a document detailing their use of AI will be forthcoming. That document and policy should have not only been written and in place before opening the call for proposals, it should have been made VERY CLEAR to all applicants.

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 3w ago

while the British Academy is using partial randomisation on its small grants -- and awarding more women/and POC researchers than ever before -- UKRI is feeding your painstakingly-developed proposal into an AI. But it's okay because they then get *two* AIs to debate whether you get the money.

Bledlow Ridge Brownies commissioned @chapcic.bsky.social to run a session for their Archaeology badge! 26 very enthusiastic young people handled artefacts, discussed local archaeology, and made 'Beaker pots'. The evening ended with a bit of a carnyx solo,and they each left with a copy of my book.

I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator!

Less than a week and I'm already missing this gorgeous ditch. Look at all the lovely filling. 😌 The lump of Hertfordshire puddingstone in the section at the interface of two very different fills...*chef's kiss* #ashwell26

And just like that, it was over 🥺 #Ashwell26 But plenty of postex!!

First day off 23td August. That's right, 12+hr days, 7days a week. Did I lie in a darkened room and contemplate my life choices? Nope! First, to @NationalTrust Ankerwyke to see the priory ruins, then walk the Thames at Runnymede. Slap up roast in Wraysbury, then to St Albans for some Jazz!

121 people, 27mph winds, 2 trenches, 7 site tours, one me. Been a brilliant day at the #ashwell26 open day, despite the variable weather (only a few raindrops!!) Thanks to all who came out!

Saturday 11-4 Ashwell End - SG7 5JE Come along to the Open Day at the end of #ashwell26 A few nice features, a few nice finds, the good people at the Asheell Museum are opening up too and doing teas and things. We have a lot of gorgeous Iron Age potsherds and a very sexy bronze iron age coin...

Chalk is so pretty... #ashwell26 @chapcic.bsky.social

#FindsFriday Fresh from the trenches... (Fresh indeed - the cheeky chap on the Samian sherds is lucky that break spared his blushes) #ashwell26 @chapcic.bsky.social

Good morning, from the site van, where the horizontal rain is making wonderful percussion. Winds gusting to 35mph currently... 😬 #ashwell26

Anyone hot on their chronology of Hertfordshire field drainage? Maybe @themerl.bsky.social ? It's truncating the eastern side of our (probably late med) boundary ditch. Despite this lack of Romanitas, Bea seemed happy to reveal it😂 #ashwell26

We have had a visit from the local detecting society who were kind enough to go over our spoil heaps. #ashwell26

Well, it's a a start... #Ashwell26

Oh I do so love working on chalky geology...

It's happening!! Laying out the trenches today, machines on site tomorrow! @chapcic.bsky.social Training Excavation starts Sunday at 0930!!

share.google/FRa2NQHSVqHh... Yet another reason for the expansion to be stopped. The Environmental reasons alone are more than sufficient but the heritage aspects are not insignificant. Was lucky enough to visit this place a fortnight ago. Absolute stunner.

www.instagram.com/reel/DcRZB_P... Why these guys aren't on #Bluesky, I've no idea. Giving very @bucksarchives.bsky.social vibes

Leominster Heritage on Instagram: "LOOK UP IN LEOMINSTER 👀 Corbel. Bargeboard. Mullion. Brace. Quoin. String course. Buttress. Finial. Once you know the terminology, you start seeing the buildings d...

90K likes, 1,315 comments - leominster_heritage on August 20, 2026: "LOOK UP IN LEOMINSTER 👀 Corbel. Bargeboard. Mullion. Brace. Quoin. String course. Buttress. Finial. Once you know the terminology...

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I failed to get permission to photograph the finds but they have a lovely collection of Roman ceramics, including a stamped tile. Lovely excavations at Bodiam Castle being run by @nationaltrust.org.uk @nattrustarch.bsky.social @uclarchaeology.bsky.social Tidy trench hygiene too! Baz would be proud

Drought stories continue to make national headlines! Following Monday’s Times feature, @drtobydriver.bsky.social appeared on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine and Radio 4’s The World at One, discussing the archaeological crop marks revealed across Wales by the dry conditions. Listen again on BBC Sounds.

These eclipse glasses fitted over my phone are the business!!

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

Out doing watery archaeology today with the @riverthamect.bsky.social in Dorchester on Thames, a place where I cut my archaeological teeth a couple decades ago 😬 NB: that isn't a cannon btw #MuddyMonday

This one is baroque I guess I'll use the Bach door...

Good thing there is a hosepipe ban on... Apparently leaks don't count 🤷‍♂️ Massive amounts of water haemorrhaging out on the A416 near Amersham.

Happy #StandingStoneSunday! A new arrival at the Archaeology -inspired art installation Luton Henge. @chapcic.bsky.social has been working with @revolutonarts.bsky.social to bring all things prehistoric to life during their festival.