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A model wax arrowhead to create a lost-wax mould to then cast metal arrowheads

Just coming in here to say that Carreg Cennan Castle is absolutely A1 - the stones, the setting, the mysterious caves. You have to go.

Not a fan generally, so of course its keeper, seeing my discomfort, insist I hand feed it 😲

It is but a cheeky poleaxe

May have succumbed to the temptation of the merch and returned home with a medieval board game and, erm, a poleaxe

Very wholesome fun at the Evesham medieval market today

Reading I, Claudius on the train led to a cracking literature and history chat with my fellow passenger, the best of railway experiences

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What would you prioritise if you’ve got a day to spend in York?

Spent a whole day in one of the museum stores today, may honestly never be warm again

King's Lynn museum pulls out of LGBTQ+ history trail Concerns from volunteers and stakeholders lead to the decision to withdraw from the project.

Well this sucks. Museum caves in in response to a hostile article in the local press written by a former Restore Trust director.

If you’re gonna have these initiatives at your museum, you need to have some backbone too.

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I’ll tell this to any and every museum that ever asks how to roll out DEI initiatives. If you want to do that- if you really want to- then you need to STAND WITH YOUR STAFF when the trolls descend. Because they will. Every time. The institution needs to stand strong.

The best thing about walking past a (partially) 12th C church is when you bump into the warden who lets you in!

(St Chad’s, Boningale, Shropshire)

Excellent news - sounds like a great post - many congratulations!

Sunny wintry field

Flooded field in bright sunlight

Woods in sunshine

Spaniel dog behind gate

Sunny days at the end of the Christmas holidays are the best

At least having a Christmas flu has given me a cast iron excuse for not going out on New Year’s Eve (the very worst night to go out ever)

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A spaniel sitting in a car

I just had the most pawsome taxi driver

Ruined medieval priory in twilight conditions with purple/ yellow skies looking very atmospheric

Ruined medieval priory in twilight conditions with purple/ yellow skies looking very atmospheric

Ruined medieval priory in twilight conditions with purple/ yellow skies looking very atmospheric

Ruined medieval priory in twilight conditions with purple/ yellow skies looking very atmospheric

White Ladies Priory, Shropshire, looking nice and spooky in the twilight this evening

Big spider in the snow

Not sure I like this new brand of snow-impervious spiders!

Have you ever had a documentation mystery so gnarly and challenging you've wanted to scream?

Sheep in a snowy field from a gap in a hedge

View through a leaf arch to a snowy field

Oaks trees with orange leaves under snow

View over gate to snowy field

Obligatory snowy scenes from Shropshire this morning

As a museum worker, I do wonder which of my particular actions of today will take my successors literally hundreds of hours to unpick tomorrow.

Yours were definitely one of the highlights of the old place!

Just hope they bring them in here, and a slightly longer character limit might be nice too

just wish this website had the capacity for running ridiculous polls

I’m at a Spa for the first time and it’s the least relaxing experience ever. Never have I felt more out of place. I don’t know how anything works. There’s a changing room with other men in it. They’ve run out of slippers. My partner has gone into a mysterious room and I’m so alone and terrified.

Mannequin with missing legs

Headless mannequin impaled by pole

Now that I’m on this place I suppose I should post some top quality museum content, so please enjoy these excellent mannequins