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Landscape Archaeologist, UK. #EarthworkSurvey | #Prehistory #LandscapeArchaeology Nature lover. Wanderer & ponderer. Dreaming of Swallowdale, seed cake & tame adventures, oh and hachures! 😅 🌿🏺Own views. She/her

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Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 6d ago

Last week the posy I brought home from the garden had a chrysalis attached though I didn't notice till I got home. If you, like me, haven't watched a butterfly emerge you won't be prepared for how amazing or how long emergence takes #TinyJoys a 🧵

Photo of a small posy of sweet peas and snap dragons with a painted lady chrysalis hanging from one blossom. The chrysalis is pale with gold flecks
EarthworkBec@earthworkbec.bsky.social · 6d ago

Worked or working on a project combing archaeology & nature? Get a proposal in by close of tomorrow - this is building up to be a superb conference line up! Details below, please repost or send to relevant peers ⤵️

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💠Call for Papers!💠 LSG Conference, 6-7 Nov 2026, N.Yorkshire, UK. Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey & understanding to holistic Nature Recovery Abstracts due by 31 July. Expand attached poster for full details ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology #NatureRecovery #Archaeology 🏺 #LSG2026

Poster text, shortened for ALT text: Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey and understanding to holistic Nature Recovery. Fri 6 & Sat 7 November 2026. Memorial Hall, Pickering & the North York Moors National Park. The Landscape Survey Group’s 2026 conference will combine a day of in-person presentations followed by a day visiting the North York Moors. The conference will explore the growing role of landscape archaeology in shaping nature recovery, climate resilience and long-term land management. It seeks to bring together archaeologists, heritage/ecology/conservation professionals, land managers and community groups to consider how applied archaeological knowledge and investigation can help support better decision-making. At a time when environmental change is accelerating, this conference asks how the deep-time perspective of landscape archaeology can help shape more resilient futures. By reading the past carefully, we can act in ways that respect complexity, protect heritage, restore ecological value and strengthen the relationship between people and place. Papers are sought on how archaeological evidence, historic landscape character, traditional land-use and community memory can all contribute to more integrated approaches to nature recovery. Focus will be placed on recent case studies where landscape archaeology has helped develop collaborative, landscape-level restoration and recovery strategies. Projects may include (but need not be restricted to) improving biodiversity, habitat creation or other landscape management work. Presentations should show how archaeological survey, including field observation and recording, aerial survey methodologies and local knowledge can reveal not only what survives, but how that understanding can support practical management, partnership working and wider public benefit. To contribute a 20min paper or a poster, please send titles & abstracts (250 words max) to andrew.burn@historicengland.org.uk by 31 July.
EarthworkBec@earthworkbec.bsky.social · 6d ago

Worked or working on a project combing archaeology & nature? Get a proposal in by close of tomorrow - this is building up to be a superb conference line up! Details below, please repost or send to relevant peers ⤵️

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💠Call for Papers!💠 LSG Conference, 6-7 Nov 2026, N.Yorkshire, UK. Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey & understanding to holistic Nature Recovery Abstracts due by 31 July. Expand attached poster for full details ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology #NatureRecovery #Archaeology 🏺 #LSG2026

Poster text, shortened for ALT text: Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey and understanding to holistic Nature Recovery. Fri 6 & Sat 7 November 2026. Memorial Hall, Pickering & the North York Moors National Park. The Landscape Survey Group’s 2026 conference will combine a day of in-person presentations followed by a day visiting the North York Moors. The conference will explore the growing role of landscape archaeology in shaping nature recovery, climate resilience and long-term land management. It seeks to bring together archaeologists, heritage/ecology/conservation professionals, land managers and community groups to consider how applied archaeological knowledge and investigation can help support better decision-making. At a time when environmental change is accelerating, this conference asks how the deep-time perspective of landscape archaeology can help shape more resilient futures. By reading the past carefully, we can act in ways that respect complexity, protect heritage, restore ecological value and strengthen the relationship between people and place. Papers are sought on how archaeological evidence, historic landscape character, traditional land-use and community memory can all contribute to more integrated approaches to nature recovery. Focus will be placed on recent case studies where landscape archaeology has helped develop collaborative, landscape-level restoration and recovery strategies. Projects may include (but need not be restricted to) improving biodiversity, habitat creation or other landscape management work. Presentations should show how archaeological survey, including field observation and recording, aerial survey methodologies and local knowledge can reveal not only what survives, but how that understanding can support practical management, partnership working and wider public benefit. To contribute a 20min paper or a poster, please send titles & abstracts (250 words max) to andrew.burn@historicengland.org.uk by 31 July.
Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 7d ago

❗️Deadline Approaching❗️ Some fantastic submissions so far, submit by end 31 Jul to join them.

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💠Call for Papers!💠 LSG Conference, 6-7 Nov 2026, N.Yorkshire, UK. Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey & understanding to holistic Nature Recovery Abstracts due by 31 July. Expand attached poster for full details ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology #NatureRecovery #Archaeology 🏺 #LSG2026

Poster text, shortened for ALT text: Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey and understanding to holistic Nature Recovery. Fri 6 & Sat 7 November 2026. Memorial Hall, Pickering & the North York Moors National Park. The Landscape Survey Group’s 2026 conference will combine a day of in-person presentations followed by a day visiting the North York Moors. The conference will explore the growing role of landscape archaeology in shaping nature recovery, climate resilience and long-term land management. It seeks to bring together archaeologists, heritage/ecology/conservation professionals, land managers and community groups to consider how applied archaeological knowledge and investigation can help support better decision-making. At a time when environmental change is accelerating, this conference asks how the deep-time perspective of landscape archaeology can help shape more resilient futures. By reading the past carefully, we can act in ways that respect complexity, protect heritage, restore ecological value and strengthen the relationship between people and place. Papers are sought on how archaeological evidence, historic landscape character, traditional land-use and community memory can all contribute to more integrated approaches to nature recovery. Focus will be placed on recent case studies where landscape archaeology has helped develop collaborative, landscape-level restoration and recovery strategies. Projects may include (but need not be restricted to) improving biodiversity, habitat creation or other landscape management work. Presentations should show how archaeological survey, including field observation and recording, aerial survey methodologies and local knowledge can reveal not only what survives, but how that understanding can support practical management, partnership working and wider public benefit. To contribute a 20min paper or a poster, please send titles & abstracts (250 words max) to andrew.burn@historicengland.org.uk by 31 July.
EarthworkBec@earthworkbec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👀 Seen our LSG call for papers? Tell us about your projects linking #LandscapeArchaeology to #NatureRecovery. Moor, coast, fen, field, mountain, riverine, urban or other… Resilient Landscapes #LSG2026 :

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💠Call for Papers!💠 LSG Conference, 6-7 Nov 2026, N.Yorkshire, UK. Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey & understanding to holistic Nature Recovery Abstracts due by 31 July. Expand attached poster for full details ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology #NatureRecovery #Archaeology 🏺 #LSG2026

Poster text, shortened for ALT text: Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey and understanding to holistic Nature Recovery. Fri 6 & Sat 7 November 2026. Memorial Hall, Pickering & the North York Moors National Park. The Landscape Survey Group’s 2026 conference will combine a day of in-person presentations followed by a day visiting the North York Moors. The conference will explore the growing role of landscape archaeology in shaping nature recovery, climate resilience and long-term land management. It seeks to bring together archaeologists, heritage/ecology/conservation professionals, land managers and community groups to consider how applied archaeological knowledge and investigation can help support better decision-making. At a time when environmental change is accelerating, this conference asks how the deep-time perspective of landscape archaeology can help shape more resilient futures. By reading the past carefully, we can act in ways that respect complexity, protect heritage, restore ecological value and strengthen the relationship between people and place. Papers are sought on how archaeological evidence, historic landscape character, traditional land-use and community memory can all contribute to more integrated approaches to nature recovery. Focus will be placed on recent case studies where landscape archaeology has helped develop collaborative, landscape-level restoration and recovery strategies. Projects may include (but need not be restricted to) improving biodiversity, habitat creation or other landscape management work. Presentations should show how archaeological survey, including field observation and recording, aerial survey methodologies and local knowledge can reveal not only what survives, but how that understanding can support practical management, partnership working and wider public benefit. To contribute a 20min paper or a poster, please send titles & abstracts (250 words max) to andrew.burn@historicengland.org.uk by 31 July.
Adam Tranter@adamtranter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

EarthworkBec@earthworkbec.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well this is going straight in my to-listen list. And just look at those gorgeous animated illustrations 💚 The perfect accidental find after a marvellous seminar day discussing Henges & Nature just down the road from the #ThornboroughHenges, as part of the #FestivalOfArchaeology

Folk on Foot@folkonfoot.com · 2w ago

Rob Cowen’s evocative description of the Thornborough Henges, re-imagined by the artist Imogen Taylor in this lovely animation. Find out more in our latest episode here: pod.fo/e/44c958 @robcowen.bsky.social @johnnyflynnmusic.bsky.social

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited by this year’s #FestivalOfArchaeology theme of Archaeology & Nature? 🏺🌱 Check out our November conference: Resilient Landscapes #LSG2026 Tell us about your projects linking #LandscapeArchaeology to #NatureRecovery *Call for papers ends soon!* Details ⤵️ Please share widely

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💠Call for Papers!💠 LSG Conference, 6-7 Nov 2026, N.Yorkshire, UK. Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey & understanding to holistic Nature Recovery Abstracts due by 31 July. Expand attached poster for full details ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology #NatureRecovery #Archaeology 🏺 #LSG2026

Poster text, shortened for ALT text: Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey and understanding to holistic Nature Recovery. Fri 6 & Sat 7 November 2026. Memorial Hall, Pickering & the North York Moors National Park. The Landscape Survey Group’s 2026 conference will combine a day of in-person presentations followed by a day visiting the North York Moors. The conference will explore the growing role of landscape archaeology in shaping nature recovery, climate resilience and long-term land management. It seeks to bring together archaeologists, heritage/ecology/conservation professionals, land managers and community groups to consider how applied archaeological knowledge and investigation can help support better decision-making. At a time when environmental change is accelerating, this conference asks how the deep-time perspective of landscape archaeology can help shape more resilient futures. By reading the past carefully, we can act in ways that respect complexity, protect heritage, restore ecological value and strengthen the relationship between people and place. Papers are sought on how archaeological evidence, historic landscape character, traditional land-use and community memory can all contribute to more integrated approaches to nature recovery. Focus will be placed on recent case studies where landscape archaeology has helped develop collaborative, landscape-level restoration and recovery strategies. Projects may include (but need not be restricted to) improving biodiversity, habitat creation or other landscape management work. Presentations should show how archaeological survey, including field observation and recording, aerial survey methodologies and local knowledge can reveal not only what survives, but how that understanding can support practical management, partnership working and wider public benefit. To contribute a 20min paper or a poster, please send titles & abstracts (250 words max) to andrew.burn@historicengland.org.uk by 31 July.
EarthworkBec@earthworkbec.bsky.social · last mo.

What an incredible opportunity for Nature & Culture! A big philanthropic donation (or several) maybe needed, but there are still 3months for the public to do their thing and help get The Wildlife Trusts towards their goal. @northwildlife.bsky.social 🦡

Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · last mo.

Just two months remaining for the Wildlife Trusts to raise, crumbs, over £12M to purchase the vast Rothbury Estate in Northumberland. They've raised 59% of the purchase price but have scarcely added to the pot in June. Needs one obscenely rich donor to pay off the (extremely rich) seller. 1/2

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 3 wks left to submit proposals for papers / posters for our November conference: Resilient Landscapes #LSG2026 Tell us about your projects linking #LandscapeArchaeology to #NatureRecovery. Moor, coast, fen, field, mountain, woodland, riverine, grassland, urban, other… Please share. Details ⤵️

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💠Call for Papers!💠 LSG Conference, 6-7 Nov 2026, N.Yorkshire, UK. Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey & understanding to holistic Nature Recovery Abstracts due by 31 July. Expand attached poster for full details ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology #NatureRecovery #Archaeology 🏺 #LSG2026

Poster text, shortened for ALT text: Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey and understanding to holistic Nature Recovery. Fri 6 & Sat 7 November 2026. Memorial Hall, Pickering & the North York Moors National Park. The Landscape Survey Group’s 2026 conference will combine a day of in-person presentations followed by a day visiting the North York Moors. The conference will explore the growing role of landscape archaeology in shaping nature recovery, climate resilience and long-term land management. It seeks to bring together archaeologists, heritage/ecology/conservation professionals, land managers and community groups to consider how applied archaeological knowledge and investigation can help support better decision-making. At a time when environmental change is accelerating, this conference asks how the deep-time perspective of landscape archaeology can help shape more resilient futures. By reading the past carefully, we can act in ways that respect complexity, protect heritage, restore ecological value and strengthen the relationship between people and place. Papers are sought on how archaeological evidence, historic landscape character, traditional land-use and community memory can all contribute to more integrated approaches to nature recovery. Focus will be placed on recent case studies where landscape archaeology has helped develop collaborative, landscape-level restoration and recovery strategies. Projects may include (but need not be restricted to) improving biodiversity, habitat creation or other landscape management work. Presentations should show how archaeological survey, including field observation and recording, aerial survey methodologies and local knowledge can reveal not only what survives, but how that understanding can support practical management, partnership working and wider public benefit. To contribute a 20min paper or a poster, please send titles & abstracts (250 words max) to andrew.burn@historicengland.org.uk by 31 July.
Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Actually want to amplify this further--95% haven't been digitized and even beyond that, archival CATALOGUING is its own patchy horrorshow of varying strategies, standards, and funding levels. To DIGITIZE something you have to FIND IT first!

Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

EarthworkBec@earthworkbec.bsky.social · last mo.

What an incredible opportunity for Nature & Culture! A big philanthropic donation (or several) maybe needed, but there are still 3months for the public to do their thing and help get The Wildlife Trusts towards their goal. @northwildlife.bsky.social 🦡

Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · last mo.

Just two months remaining for the Wildlife Trusts to raise, crumbs, over £12M to purchase the vast Rothbury Estate in Northumberland. They've raised 59% of the purchase price but have scarcely added to the pot in June. Needs one obscenely rich donor to pay off the (extremely rich) seller. 1/2

Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · last mo.

Just two months remaining for the Wildlife Trusts to raise, crumbs, over £12M to purchase the vast Rothbury Estate in Northumberland. They've raised 59% of the purchase price but have scarcely added to the pot in June. Needs one obscenely rich donor to pay off the (extremely rich) seller. 1/2

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Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...

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Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks to everyone who's bought a copy of 'The Gleaning' this week (in spite of the extreme heat obliging us to postpone its launch until the autumn). Last two days to order with free UK delivery: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

While forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

Five copies of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite against an orange background
Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · last mo.

Need a distraction in this heat? 🥵 It has been almost 3wks since we shared our Call for Papers: Tell us about your projects linking #LandscapeArchaeology to #NatureRecovery. Moor, coast, fen, field, mountain, woodland, riverine, grassland, urban or other… Resilient Landscapes #LSG2026 ⤵️

Landscape Survey Group@landscapesurvey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💠Call for Papers!💠 LSG Conference, 6-7 Nov 2026, N.Yorkshire, UK. Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey & understanding to holistic Nature Recovery Abstracts due by 31 July. Expand attached poster for full details ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology #NatureRecovery #Archaeology 🏺 #LSG2026

Poster text, shortened for ALT text: Resilient Landscapes - applying archaeological survey and understanding to holistic Nature Recovery. Fri 6 & Sat 7 November 2026. Memorial Hall, Pickering & the North York Moors National Park. The Landscape Survey Group’s 2026 conference will combine a day of in-person presentations followed by a day visiting the North York Moors. The conference will explore the growing role of landscape archaeology in shaping nature recovery, climate resilience and long-term land management. It seeks to bring together archaeologists, heritage/ecology/conservation professionals, land managers and community groups to consider how applied archaeological knowledge and investigation can help support better decision-making. At a time when environmental change is accelerating, this conference asks how the deep-time perspective of landscape archaeology can help shape more resilient futures. By reading the past carefully, we can act in ways that respect complexity, protect heritage, restore ecological value and strengthen the relationship between people and place. Papers are sought on how archaeological evidence, historic landscape character, traditional land-use and community memory can all contribute to more integrated approaches to nature recovery. Focus will be placed on recent case studies where landscape archaeology has helped develop collaborative, landscape-level restoration and recovery strategies. Projects may include (but need not be restricted to) improving biodiversity, habitat creation or other landscape management work. Presentations should show how archaeological survey, including field observation and recording, aerial survey methodologies and local knowledge can reveal not only what survives, but how that understanding can support practical management, partnership working and wider public benefit. To contribute a 20min paper or a poster, please send titles & abstracts (250 words max) to andrew.burn@historicengland.org.uk by 31 July.
Exmoor National Park@exmoornp.bsky.social · last mo.

With this sunny weather, there's an increased wildfire risk. If a fire starts, it could spread quickly and easily - destroying wildlife and putting huge pressure on our Fire and Rescue Service To prevent wildfires, please: -Take litter home cont...

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Emma Butterworth Music@emmabmusic.bsky.social · last mo.

My son's school is closing at lunch time on Wednesday and Thursday. I'm sure many other schools across the south will be doing the same. It scares me that THIS is the most stable weather all of us will ever experience. It's only going to get worse, and we need a government who takes that seriously.

Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · last mo.

On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday: