The @wainwrightprize.bsky.social shortlist is out ... and Stone Lands is on it! AMAZING. Thank you everyone involved in making the book (especially Philip Harris who did the beautiful illustrations) and in selecting it – what an honour this is 💚
Peter Reavill
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Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology. All views my own Expert is Reavillnomicism
Just discovered that the ITV Drama YouTube channel are uploading episodes of Cadfael (they've done the same with Hornblower and Sharpe). Why yes, I will watch Derek Jacobi roaming around Shrewsbury in the middle of Stephen and Matilda's civil war.
🌟Not for everybody, but if you like the alternative and the quirky in our historic environment, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - a photographer's camper-van-camino through the British Isles. Out weekly. Subscribe for free here: www.digest.andymarsh...
I came to a sudden halt inside St Mary and St Barlok, Norbury. For a moment, I thought I’d caught someone slumbering in the summer heat. Turns out he’s been there for several hundred years - not a peep.
An #IceAge masterpiece: This small carving (4.7cm) of a water #bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a #diver, #cormorant, or #duck. Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura. It's the oldest known representation of a bird. 🧵1/2
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
Lovely bilingual tombstone at Llanhamlach for #MementoMoriMonday - the Welsh memento mori poem Cofia ddyn wrth fyned heibio at the bottom, part hidden by grass. More on these at www.draenog.co.uk/Mynwenta/Cof...
What is the Genius Loci Digest? I don't believe stories only exist in books. They're written into the places we inhabit. There are whispers within the walls. The world is storied - we simply have to learn how to read it. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
This painting by Stephen Bone captures the unconfined joy of a bonfire. I love it for its innocence; the child depicted is his son, Gavin Bone, who also became an artist and exhibited several times at the Royal Academy.
‘Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard’ Fantastic Yorkshire Museum exhibition showcasing some of the 800+ artefacts from the UK’s largest Iron Age metalwork hoard! So many beautifully crafted bronze objects decorated with coral, glass, and enamel! Do visit! 📷 me #Archaeology
Some stone pilgrims come to connect to the energy they feel. Some to make communion with the dead, to sit with the stones' stories. In this brutal heat, I slump in the shadow of the Long Neolithic, grateful for bothi it shade and ongoing mysteries. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
Rainfall from 1st July to 2nd August in England and Wales. Most in Cumbria, Lancashire, Northumberland, north Devon and a bit of Cornwall and spine of Wales but most of the rest of England has had less than 1 mm. (Map courtesy of RoostWeather.com) #UKWeather #UKDrought
A beautiful standing stone in a stunning setting in the Arthog hills, one of several shown to me by local expert @philolithia.bsky.social who is studying the area for her PhD. What a fantastic day out that was! #StandingStoneSunday
Another offering from the Arthog stone setting, taken from the nearby cairn and showing the white quartz boulder of the monument gleaming out from below the white quartz outcrop of the hill above for #StandingStoneSunday
Bore da / good morning on #StandingStoneSunday Here are the Gorsedd stones inside Aberystwyth Castle at dusk; they were erected in 1914 for the Eisteddfod. It is the only Gorsedd circle in Wales to include a stone from every county 😮 🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/800... 📷 My own, last night
And let's not forget that tax payers subsidise cheap alcohol for MPs in Parliament's bars...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d ago‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster
I imagine you'll want to hear me telling @experimentalkearns.bsky.social from @butserancientfarm.co.uk about that time I set a world record and stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpRJ...
6 Roman Hypocausts in 1 Day ︳The Story Behind #HyperHypocaustGate
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A notice from The Heraldry Society concerning William Cowley the UK's last commercial parchment and vellum maker.
Morning @tessmachling.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @claireboardman.bsky.social @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social and of course @trixranderson.bsky.social My son has started learning Spanish at Nursery but he still can't say please. That's poor for four! Enjoy your day
Spanish Torero Fan at Football Match
ALT: Spanish Torero Fan at Football Match
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A delicate Lammas dress from 1902 by Gustav Beer, richly decorated with silken wheat stalks, for drinking chouchen and telling fortunes in an old country garden, as a great golden moon rises in the dark Breton sky.
As a curator of digital and physical data, as well as a creator of data this is so important and a much overlooked and utterly poorly funded. Making HERs statutory as intended by the inacted statutes of LURA would be a good and easy starting point
Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · last wk.🆕 New #openaccess research in the #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social highlights a growing digital curation crisis in #archaeology. Read the blog and associated article! 🔗 https://cup.org/4uRYbGY #digitalhumanities #datapreservation
🆕 New #openaccess research in the #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social highlights a growing digital curation crisis in #archaeology. Read the blog and associated article! 🔗 https://cup.org/4uRYbGY #digitalhumanities #datapreservation
How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago...
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Creigiau Eglwyseg cairn A howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/c...
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What can we learn about prehistoric barrows in North East Wales? In the context of recent news reports of heritage crime affecting later prehistoric monuments in Denbighshire, I showcase and celebr…
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