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Gavin MacGregor

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Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tempo time credits are an excellent system that is under used in the heritage sector.

Heritage Volunteering Group@heritagevols.bsky.social · 3d ago

🗣️ Speaker Spotlight: Rachel Gegeshidze, Tempo Volunteering thrives on reciprocity, inclusion and connection. At #HeritageVolunteering26, Rachel will share an adaptable Time Credits toolkit shaped by heritage practice. 📅 24–25 Nov | 💻 Online | 🎟 £30 members 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-v...

Jim Leary@jimleary.bsky.social · 4d ago

But the greatest impression came from the children’s playground, which was archaeologically themed. If we want to get the next generation into archaeology, this is the way to do it!

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Mark Knight 🍉@markknight63.bsky.social · 5d ago

Clement Reid used submerged forests exposed along the Norfolk coastline to point to the existence of Doggerland - a terrestrial landscape pre-existing the formation of the North Sea. At Must Farm the preserved stumps of Oak trees pre-date a marine inundation caused by rising sea levels around 2300BC

Buried Forest seen at low water at Dove Point, on the Cheshire coast (1913) - from Sumerged Forests by Clement Reid
Cambridge Archaeological Unit@cambridgearch.bsky.social · 5d ago

The area of preserved trees at Must Farm gave us an insight into the landscape and its changes over time. The stratigraphy at the site showed us clearly that the trees were growing in an environment wet enough for peat to form. In this image, a tree stump is rooted directly into the wood peat layer.

An archaeologist cleans an area to highlight the stratigraphy around a preserved tree stump.
Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 6d ago

When I see commentators using terms like “DEI” I immediately suspect that they’re trying to ignite a US inspired (and maybe funded?) culture war here. Because the acronym used in the UK is EDI - equality, diversity, inclusion - linked to the equality act 2010. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/1...

Equality Act 2010

An Act to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economi...

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Mark Knight 🍉@markknight63.bsky.social · last wk.

As we travel down the gradient, seeking out what survives of the old land surface, the archaeology becomes less and less intensive. More often than not it is incidental traces of ephemeral actions that punctuate these early contours. A flint blade, a deer skull, a patch of scorched earth

A single flint blade (probably Mesolithic) held in the palm of a peat stained hand. Written in black biro on pink skin are the numbers 5545 (the Spot Find Number given to this find).
Cambridge Archaeological Unit@cambridgearch.bsky.social · last wk.

Our new work at Must Farm focused on an old land surface or buried soil situated at the bottom of the Flag Fen Basin. The adjacent, deeper floodplain also had a buried soil that is more poorly preserved. This lower land surface produced small numbers of Late Mesolithic & early Neolithic worked flint

A drone image showing the long, thin area of excavation at the edge of the quarry that gradually slopes downwards towards the bottom of the basin.
NPicts@northernpicts.bsky.social · last wk.

One of our trenches this year is across the middle rampart of Burghead Pictish fort. This is the least well surviving rampart on the ground but amazingly our team have found really well preserved midden deposits under a huge deposit of rampart collapse!

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Gavin MacGregor@gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · last wk.

And ruins, in the shadow, of the mausoleum... Ferns & moss slowly cover the shell of the Cottage. It sits in rarely visited edgeland, haunt of graffitists. Woodland slowly swallows walls, its collapsing roof shivers to the elements. Adjacent the larger vaulted mausoleum casts its long shadow.

View inside building, into ground floor with stone walls covered in moss and ferns. Rubble and rubbish cover the floor. Ceiling has collapsed revealing room above, and its brick fireplace. In corner stairs spiral up to next level.Blonde sandstone block built corner butress with relief carving in organic mosaic of irregular forms. Fringed by ferns, and woodland.Blond sandstone building, covered by green leaves branches and fallen tree. To right hand side steel boarded entrance has been pulled open, darkness beyond. Graffiti covers out surfacesLarge blonde sandstone built multistorey structure with central cupola capped building. Entrance to lower crypt is through three arched barred doors. Either side large lions recline, heads resting in front paws.
Gavin MacGregor@gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · last wk.

And ruins, in the shadow, of the mausoleum... Ferns & moss slowly cover the shell of the Cottage. It sits in rarely visited edgeland, haunt of graffitists. Woodland slowly swallows walls, its collapsing roof shivers to the elements. Adjacent the larger vaulted mausoleum casts its long shadow.

View inside building, into ground floor with stone walls covered in moss and ferns. Rubble and rubbish cover the floor. Ceiling has collapsed revealing room above, and its brick fireplace. In corner stairs spiral up to next level.Blonde sandstone block built corner butress with relief carving in organic mosaic of irregular forms. Fringed by ferns, and woodland.Blond sandstone building, covered by green leaves branches and fallen tree. To right hand side steel boarded entrance has been pulled open, darkness beyond. Graffiti covers out surfacesLarge blonde sandstone built multistorey structure with central cupola capped building. Entrance to lower crypt is through three arched barred doors. Either side large lions recline, heads resting in front paws.
Bridget McKenzie@bridgetmck.bsky.social · last wk.

Are you starting to have more environmental chats but finding them a struggle? Do you want to include the Earth Crisis in how you engage with people & do your work? Want more creative & effective methods? I've worked really hard for 4 years to create the Earth Talk community of practice.