And if you still haven't had your fill of #Orkneyingasaga #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney (who has?), I'm doing a webinar on 4th March: www.mymagazinesub.co.uk/history-scot... (see also Niall Sharples on #Vikings in the #Hebrides on Thursday)
A blue T-shirt with a white design saying Besselsleigh 2026 and the logo for Community Archaeology North CIC. The background is an archaeology plan of decorative cobbles
Only 4 places left for our Oxfordshire #archaeology field school 20-24 April. You will get five days of digging and top teaching in #excavation and recording techniques. And the chance to get your hands on our best dig tshirt yet. cancic.com/2026-field-s...
This ‘rewarding looting’ model really has to stop.
This case has made many aghast today. But, as Tess has long been asking, how do we change this broken system, the law? Rewards need to be capped, hobbyists should not be paid by those who can ill afford it (museums). Those of us on boards or councils of organisations need to raise the issue.
*Academic sells history off to the highest bidder*
There, BBC, we sorted that headline for you
If he truly feels *a connection* to the find, as the article claims, would he not have donated it to a museum?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Last few places available for the @cancic.bsky.social 2026 #archaeology Oxfordshire fieldschool. 20-24 April at a #medieval manor site west of Oxford. Northumberland is now sold out, waiting list only. More details via cancic.com 🏺
Book before 10 Feb!
Britain: The Beginning, a 6-part online lecture series explores archaeology, landscapes, and the people who shaped them
17 Feb- 24 Mar 7.30-930pm BST
£90 per person
EMAIL TO REGISTER:
CHAP@chilterns.org.uk
2-hour sessions includes live discussion and Q&A
📷 mine 16/05/25
ABSOLUTE SCENES AT ST. JAMES' PARK!!! 😍😍
Bookings are now open for the @cancic.bsky.social 2026 #archaeology fieldschools. 20-24 April at a #medieval manor site in Oxfordshire and 18-22 May at an early #Anglo-Saxon site in Northumberland. More details via cancic.com
Bookings are now open for the @cancic.bsky.social 2026 #archaeology fieldschools. 20-24 April at a #medieval manor site in Oxfordshire and 18-22 May at an early #Anglo-Saxon site in Northumberland. More details via cancic.com
This is one of the reasons why I go to a barber and not a women’s hairdresser. See also price.
Yup. Same here.
Midwinter is here and the Solstice sunrise is less than an hour away at the end of the longest night of the year.
Get ready to let the light back in.
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This is a brilliant local museum with some grand collections and very accessible. It should not be allowed to slip quietly away.
Let the council know it's just not on to hide away history.
Sundown on downtown Papay.
3.20pm
Skies afire.
I feel the same - can’t fault their season. Good to have more NE teams in the limelight (I suppose…). I just couldn’t watch from about 30 mins in. The dog got an extra long walk for her birthday.
👋👋 42 reporting for duty. Now standing by for a blog on Life, The Universe and Everything.
Okay. This is angering me.
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Did exactly that for mine, for that reason.
Must be tired. That took me two reads to get it. 🤦🏻♀️
A night view looking up at the clock tower of Hexham abbey above the corner of two stone walls both with illuminated stained glass windows
A night view of Hexham abbey below clear dark skies and a full moon above the clock tower. Stained glass windows are illuminating stone walls
Hexham Abbey looking especially beautiful under clear skies and moon last night. 📷 My own
Especially the ones without backs. They are torture!
Those West gallery bench pews are among the most uncomfortable seats I’ve ever tried to perch on for a concert. They and the ridged backs of the pews below are designed to make parishioners (or idle students) sit up and alert, however long the sermon.
This is also represents a perpetuation of a weird obsession with big monuments & sites that were totally anomalous in the Neolithic. That tell us virtually nothing about the everyday lifeways of people who lived in the 3rd millennium BCE.
That's my evening gone then 😆
It would be interesting to know where the costumes in the show came from
Our money is on HBO's Rome with a bit of BBC's I Claudius and some generic fancy dress to finish things off
Win a copy of STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
🏆Win🏆the perfect Christmas 🎄 gift for a stones enthusiast:
STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO
THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/
For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
We’ve done a couple of stollen already 😬
So good they named it twice.
