Dr Dot Boughton
@metadot.bsky.social
Finds & Archives Project Officer @ Greenlane Archaeology Ltd in Ulverston, Cumbria. Loves small finds, cats, archiving and archives.... And databases/metadata😄
In Ulverston, if your down that way 😀
Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · last yr.At Greenlane Archaeology Ltd we also have a bookshop- mainly archaeology and history but also lots of local volumes, nature, gardens etc. Have a look at the catalogue on the website: www.greenlanearchaeology.co.uk/bookshop/ Get in touch if you find anything of interest!
Have been dabbling in making glass mosaics. First attempt was my tortoiseshell, Furnace. Thanks for suggesting this crafty activity @lucyh24.bsky.social !
At Greenlane Archaeology Ltd we also have a bookshop- mainly archaeology and history but also lots of local volumes, nature, gardens etc. Have a look at the catalogue on the website: www.greenlanearchaeology.co.uk/bookshop/ Get in touch if you find anything of interest!
Should spend more time on here. Work is just keeping me mega busy! Don't know what's going on but definitely not complaining! Got lots of new books in and sample processing to do! Hello Bluesky!
Memories of #Breitscheidplatz still raw, and here we are again 😔 BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1... Magdeburg market attack: At least one dead and dozens injured after car driven into crowd at German Christmas market, reports say - BBC News
Magdeburg market attack: At least one dead and dozens injured after car driven into crowd at German Christmas market, reports say
Reports suggest the driver has been arrested and 60 to 80 people have been injured, according to German public broadcaster MDR.
bbc.co.uk
A broad-band silver armring with stamped decoration from the Galloway Hoard, deposited c. AD 900. Likely beaten out of silver ingots, they were produced, seemingly, in Hiberno-Scandinavian / Great Army contexts c. 870x930, following a 'prototype' form developed in Danish southern Scandinavia.
I have always loved some of the portraiture on Roman coinage - here's a favourite from the Brislington Coin Hoard: a denarius of Septimius Severus with wonderful curly hair and beard detail. I also love the way the wavy edge shows how the silver has been squashed as it was struck. #FindsFriday
For #FindsFriday a neck ring found in a Jutish bog. The tradition of offering neck rings was common practice in the Bronze Age period in Jutland, Denmark, and still thrives in the first century of the Iron Age. Solid crown neck rings are of foreign design,with inspiration...1/2 📷me 🏺 #archaeology
#Adventkalender Door 6: this is another find from our Millom Community Dig in the summer: a cap(?) badge with a boar's head left above a banner with the motto VIX EA NOSTRA VOCO (lat. "I scarcely call these things our own"). If anyone can shed any light on this, or give us a date we'd appreciate it!
I captured the light shift over a day at Wells Cathedral and put it on my wall - a full day of light jam packed into my room. My image of Wells Cathedral in a day is now available as a digital print. 📍More info here🔗: andymarshallphotos.co.uk/products/wel...
West coast Oregon to 10 miles NW of Santa Cruz tsunami warning after 7.3 mag earthquake near Eureka. Northern California coastal folks review your tsunami plans!!!
Also, my boss gets kudos today for his very awesome Adventkalender!
#Adventkalender Door 5: Greenlane Archaeology supported Millom & District History Society last summer, excavating summer trenches near Millom Castle and Holy Trinity Church. We found some medieval 12h-14thC objects like this stirrup shaped strap fitting which came out in almost mint condition!!
All ready to host visiting @molarchaeology.bsky.social researcher examining these Roman ceramic flue tiles @romtoronto.bsky.social today! Ancient #ceramic building materials still looking great. #TileTuesday 🏺 #archaeology
Ok #roman #pottery people, any ideas pls as to whats caused the dimple impressions on these clay plates from a kiln site? They sort of look like hobnail impressions? On more than one plate so not accidental? If not accidental then why? Any ideas @sherdnerd.bsky.social @pottedhistory.bsky.social ?
Der Stuhl aus einem frühmittelalterlichen Grab in Trossingen ist eines der über 1.600 Objekte in unserer Großen Landesausstellung "THE hidden LÄND". Bis 26. Januar im Kunstgebäude in #Stuttgart. www.thehiddenlaend.de
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2y ago#Woodensday! Only few pieces of furniture from early #medieval times have been preserved. Due to the water-logged condition of the area, many wooden objects such as this terrific chair made from maple and ash wood survived in a burial at Trossingen. Dating 580 AD. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺
Classifications for book reviewers: 192 pages or less: slim 256: brisk 320: detailed 384: richly detailed 448: ambitious 512: imposing 576: sprawling 640: magisterial 704+: heard it was good
That is a very cool post doc!
Christian Cooijmans@ccooijmans.bsky.social · 2y ago📢Job alert! Postdoc (History) on Norse links with North America at the Arctic Centre of @unigroningen.bsky.social - part of the CONTACT ERC project (1.0 FTE, 12 months with expected 1.5 year extension, deadline 31 December) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
An American Murder Log and some wonderful shell beads made c. 700 years ago out of knobbed whelk along the Georgia coast #archaeology
Sometimes nothing beats a good old family recipe. For this festive season, here's a mid-20th century one for gingerbread from our Burrows family recipe book. If you make it, do let us know! #ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveFeast #FoodHistory #Foodies
Dieser Schädel einer drei- bis vierjährigen Kuh stammt aus einem Grab der Baalberger Kultur (ca. 3900 bis 3400 v. Chr.), das 1951 in Weißenfels freigelegt wurde. Für die hiesigen jungsteinzeitlichen Gesellschaften waren Rinder die wertvollsten Nutztiere. © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J.Lipták.
Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
Found another fragment of the same plate- the complete pattern is that sort of thing: a pagoda on an island with shrubbery. I really like it!
#Adventkalender Door 4: in the last couple of years I was also introduced to underglaze blue painted earthenwares/tin glazed earthenwares, dating from late 18th-early 19th C. I love the painted Chinese pagoda patterns, definitely prefer them to transfer prints! This lovely sherd is from Lancaster.
As we approach mid-winter, an illustration of cave art showing two Reindeer; from Font de Gaume cave, France. One is licking or smelling the other who appears to be sleeping? giving birth? dead or dying?. Originally rendered by someone of the Magdalenian culture, 16,000 years ago. #AncientSky 🦣🏺
In 1892, a farmer discovers a Bronze Age grave at Hammer near Nürnberg in southern Germany. Fragments of a clay pot, two needles, a knife and a sword. The sword became the reason for still ongoing discussions. 1/2 #Archaeology
#Adventkalender Door 3: Delftware. Over the last 2 1/2 I developed a soft spot for post medieval pottery, especially locally Delftware. There was a big Pothouse at the Quay in Lancaster (1754-c1786) and we found some of their products at a site near Watery Lane, Lancaster.
