We just hit 100 followers on here for @brparchaeology.bsky.social! It’s a small milestone, but we are hoping our friends from the other site find us here! #archaeology We are in week 3 of our dig at Bamburgh Castle, and we are posting every day about our finds and interpretations!

We had some special guests on-site a few weeks ago! Check out this write-up from their perspectives!

YAC@yac-cba.bsky.social · yesterday

📢New on the YAC blog: young archaeologists Amelia, Aiden and Ania tell us about their exciting day digging at Bamburgh Castle with @brparchaeology.bsky.social as part of this year's Dig It! competition! 👉https://www.yac-uk.org/blog/dig-diaries-2026-bamburgh-castle/ 🧵1/2

Sheffield will only send a physical copy of my transcript to the uni that hired me as an adjunct, so I ordered one last month which DHL swears up and down they delivered in mid-July. I’m panicking a little but the HR team is still calm, cool, collected. (I wish that were me.)

Weekly Round-up: We've finally made it to the #medieval throughout the trench! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/w...

Weekly Round-up: Now Come the Artefacts

We had a very busy week, so apologies for the lack of blog updates. We’ve finally made it through the modern and Victorian rubbish to sealed archaeology! Our enviro team began flotation, both…

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Folks, we have officially made it through the Victorian and modern rubbish into secure archaeology…things are beginning to snowball regarding our medieval interpretations. No one is more relieved than I, because I was struggling with artifact and trench “stories” to follow for our socials and blog.

ANOTHER piece of worked #flint, a scraper, came out of a possible #medieval beam slot near the midden where Bianca was working!

Ahhh a thread that absolutely fried my brain in a good way

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 5d ago

Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵

Worked #flint from our midden! Very chunky, and unfinished, but there are ripples that show it was partially knapped (right).

Extremely hot woke son of my summer landlady came by today while I looked like I crawled out of Satan’s butthole so tell me why does God give me His toughest battles??????

A fragment of a #medieval bone comb came out of the shell midden (rubbish deposit)! You can see it broke off where the rivet would be. It's not decorated, so we can't get more specific dating, but here's hoping there's still more to be found!

The Victorian postern gate split stairs are on top of the #medieval wall foundations between the folly and 13th/14thC extant wall! You can see the massive stones continue from left to right sloping upwards, one even appearing at the split!

Two big discoveries in one day (check the reskeets)…

Bitten by many different species of bugs but it wasn’t the usual one day of horror we get once a summer. Also we got 13thC pottery yesterday and 12thC pottery today so we are going in the right direction…

Actually I think Finds Liaison Officers for the Portable Antiquities Scheme who work almost exclusively with metal detectorists should be allowed to carry a gun but that’s just my onion

Cannot believe I missed @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social at Lindisfarne this weekend after I was JUST talking about him on one of my tours at Bamburgh on Friday. I need like an alert system for when cool people are within visiting distance of my job!!!!!!

Loving the dig season so far, haven’t had a single second to work on my syllabus though, even though I’m only missing like three supplementary readings. It should be fine long before it’s due, but I also really wanted to get all the content prepped as well.

Enviro results from Romano-British roundhouse! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/n...

Not-So-Wayback (Yet Simultaneously Still Quite Wayback) Wednesday

*KLAXON* Romano-British Finds from Old Trench 3! In 2020, with covid and lockdown, we were unable to run the field school for one final season in Trench 3. Instead, we contracted commercial archaeo…

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Hey, I am back to work on the dig blog! This time with CLAY TOBACCO PIPES, my FAAAAAAAAVE.

Bamburgh Research Project@brparchaeology.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fresh from the Wash: You know we can't resist talking about #claypipes whenever we get the chance! #pipebowls bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/f...

Now that I am in British jurisdiction instead of “free speech land” idk if calling people who are wankers in British politics “wankers” is gonna get me in trouble but it appears Andy Burnham took all of five seconds to become an absolute wanker

Our first blog of the 2026 season! We hope you’ll follow along! #medieval #archaeology #fieldschool bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/l...

Let’s Get the 2026 Season Rolling!

Hello everyone! Yes, we know we’ve made you wait just a little longer into the summer than usual, but we have it on good authority that this is going to be a fantastic season! We’ve got mater…

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Made it safely to my accommodation for the month, and dig officially starts tomorrow! Please follow bamburghresearchproject on here AND insta! I’ll be posting every day on here and there,

JFK ✈️ DUB ✈️ EDI

I’m working on the slideshow and lecture for what I think will be one of my favorite units: we are reading about rising kingdoms in post-Roman Britain in the textbook, but in the primary sources we are going to read “The Ruin” (OE poam about Roman baths), compare it to “Ozymandias” (Shelley),

First two weeks of designing my university course completed: all readings organized, discussion prompts finished, quiz questions sorted, and slideshow with audio track as “lecture” done! I think I’m getting the hang of this…kinda.

The new episode of “Patience” (autistic clerk helps Yorkshire police solve murders) is about a Vikings expert and my dad calls out to me “There’s a big stone, come look!?” Me, running from three rooms away, in a sweat: “A RUNESTONE OR A HOGBACK?!”

To quote the cinematic masterpiece “A Muppet Christmas Carol,” “Your chains are forged by what you say and do, so have your fun; when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.”

Muppet Christmas Carol Chains

ALT: Muppet Christmas Carol Chains

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Why is my best work between 11pm and 3am? Why do I have career(s) that require being up during normal business hours?

The little sloop I mentioned on insta with the Indigenous rights (+ racial justice and climate solutions) banner was forcibly escorted out of the parade by a supergroup of the CG, USN, and NYPD boats. Captain was told the decision was coming from above those orgs.

Went onto the army base near my family home to see the tall ships come into the harbor. I was looking through binoculars and calling out the countries by flag like a damn pirate! 🏴‍☠️ (Pics on Instagram)

The strike is extraordinary all by itself, the cherry on top is how he casually takes the soul of that dude first.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

Golazo from Sidny Lopes Cabral, level again