Jack Rowe
@archaeorowe.bsky.social
#Archaeology PhD, 'Exploring human movement on and around #Neolithic landscapes in western Britain' @UniversityofBradford
c. 2 years experience as Community Archaeologist
#Mendip #WaltonBasin he/him
Quotes Withnail and I a little too often
c. 2 years experience as Community Archaeologist
#Mendip #WaltonBasin he/him
Quotes Withnail and I a little too often
With the start of the new academic year, a topical way of showing first years the distinction between Terminus Post Quem and Terminus Ante Quem.
(Source: Middle England Male, Facebook)
(Source: Middle England Male, Facebook)
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
With the start of the new academic year, a topical way of showing first years the distinction between Terminus Post Quem and Terminus Ante Quem.
(Source: Middle England Male, Facebook)
(Source: Middle England Male, Facebook)
Did anybody else in the Mid Wales - Shropshire area feel an earth tremor last night at about 00:40? Was as if my neighbours were slamming a barn door at the far end of our semi-detached houses!
July 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Did anybody else in the Mid Wales - Shropshire area feel an earth tremor last night at about 00:40? Was as if my neighbours were slamming a barn door at the far end of our semi-detached houses!
Haven't done a #HillfortsWednesday for ages got up to Ffridd Faldwyn overlooking the upper Severn Valley by Montgomery yesterday.
The views north to Y Gaer, the Breidden, Beacon Ring etc were expected, but not west to Cefn Carnedd further up the Severn by Caersws, really reaching into Wales.
The views north to Y Gaer, the Breidden, Beacon Ring etc were expected, but not west to Cefn Carnedd further up the Severn by Caersws, really reaching into Wales.
June 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Haven't done a #HillfortsWednesday for ages got up to Ffridd Faldwyn overlooking the upper Severn Valley by Montgomery yesterday.
The views north to Y Gaer, the Breidden, Beacon Ring etc were expected, but not west to Cefn Carnedd further up the Severn by Caersws, really reaching into Wales.
The views north to Y Gaer, the Breidden, Beacon Ring etc were expected, but not west to Cefn Carnedd further up the Severn by Caersws, really reaching into Wales.
Belated Solsticemas from Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle yesterday morning.
Never thought of Mitchell's Fold as having any solar alignments but the way the sun rose perfectly behind the cairn on the southern peak of nearby Stapeley Hill... I'm sold.
Shared with curlews, skylarks, people, and dogs.
Never thought of Mitchell's Fold as having any solar alignments but the way the sun rose perfectly behind the cairn on the southern peak of nearby Stapeley Hill... I'm sold.
Shared with curlews, skylarks, people, and dogs.
June 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Belated Solsticemas from Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle yesterday morning.
Never thought of Mitchell's Fold as having any solar alignments but the way the sun rose perfectly behind the cairn on the southern peak of nearby Stapeley Hill... I'm sold.
Shared with curlews, skylarks, people, and dogs.
Never thought of Mitchell's Fold as having any solar alignments but the way the sun rose perfectly behind the cairn on the southern peak of nearby Stapeley Hill... I'm sold.
Shared with curlews, skylarks, people, and dogs.
80 years ago today.
And the sun is shining!!
And the sun is shining!!
April 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
80 years ago today.
And the sun is shining!!
And the sun is shining!!
Forgot I had this! Hope Basil and Joan enjoyed many long years together on Mendip
April 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Forgot I had this! Hope Basil and Joan enjoyed many long years together on Mendip
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Repost thys to celebrate the Birthedaye of the lovelye Will Shaksper
April 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Repost thys to celebrate the Birthedaye of the lovelye Will Shaksper
Remembering sunnier days watching the 2022 Summer Solstice sunset from Hambledon Hill, on my way back from the Prehistoric Society conference in Bournemouth.
Still the most incredible hillfort (and causewayed enclosure) I've visited! The scale of the ramparts is just bonkers.
#HillfortsWednesday
Still the most incredible hillfort (and causewayed enclosure) I've visited! The scale of the ramparts is just bonkers.
#HillfortsWednesday
April 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Remembering sunnier days watching the 2022 Summer Solstice sunset from Hambledon Hill, on my way back from the Prehistoric Society conference in Bournemouth.
Still the most incredible hillfort (and causewayed enclosure) I've visited! The scale of the ramparts is just bonkers.
#HillfortsWednesday
Still the most incredible hillfort (and causewayed enclosure) I've visited! The scale of the ramparts is just bonkers.
#HillfortsWednesday
Liz Truss, our most useless and inept PM, met with Queen Elizabeth II, who promptly popped it two days later.
JD Vance, who continues to show himself up for his ineptitude, met Pope Francis only YESTERDAY, and the pontiff has popped it today.
Are these people not washing their hands or something?!
JD Vance, who continues to show himself up for his ineptitude, met Pope Francis only YESTERDAY, and the pontiff has popped it today.
Are these people not washing their hands or something?!
April 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Liz Truss, our most useless and inept PM, met with Queen Elizabeth II, who promptly popped it two days later.
JD Vance, who continues to show himself up for his ineptitude, met Pope Francis only YESTERDAY, and the pontiff has popped it today.
Are these people not washing their hands or something?!
JD Vance, who continues to show himself up for his ineptitude, met Pope Francis only YESTERDAY, and the pontiff has popped it today.
Are these people not washing their hands or something?!
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#StandingStoneSunday the magnificent entrance stones of the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age Swinside stone circle in the Lake District
The great circle occupies a levelled terrace on a hillside & commands spectacular landscape views
📷 My own 2023
The great circle occupies a levelled terrace on a hillside & commands spectacular landscape views
📷 My own 2023
April 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#StandingStoneSunday the magnificent entrance stones of the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age Swinside stone circle in the Lake District
The great circle occupies a levelled terrace on a hillside & commands spectacular landscape views
📷 My own 2023
The great circle occupies a levelled terrace on a hillside & commands spectacular landscape views
📷 My own 2023
Looking up along a prehistoric highway with the Walton Basin #Neolithic landscape tucked just behind the imposing Burfa Bank hillfort, the dark rounded hill right of centre, in last week's glorious sun.
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
April 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Looking up along a prehistoric highway with the Walton Basin #Neolithic landscape tucked just behind the imposing Burfa Bank hillfort, the dark rounded hill right of centre, in last week's glorious sun.
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
At a glance, instead of my brain going straight to chocolate as it would any normal person with this week's Guardian insert, mine went to the Porcellanite #Neolithic polished stone axes from Tievebulliagh, Northern Ireland.
April 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
At a glance, instead of my brain going straight to chocolate as it would any normal person with this week's Guardian insert, mine went to the Porcellanite #Neolithic polished stone axes from Tievebulliagh, Northern Ireland.
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April 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Dotty saying hello to her first stone circle, Mitchell's Fold
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
April 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Dotty saying hello to her first stone circle, Mitchell's Fold
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
Spotted this interesting looking stone on the far side of the Ogwen Valley from the A5 yesterday - not been able to check Archwilio yet, could be an old gatepost stone given the gap just along from it, but, possible standing stone?
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
April 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Spotted this interesting looking stone on the far side of the Ogwen Valley from the A5 yesterday - not been able to check Archwilio yet, could be an old gatepost stone given the gap just along from it, but, possible standing stone?
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
Bloody foreign birds, comin over ere, eating our... worms... and....... grubs...
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(Actually I remember seeing one on holiday in Britanny as a kid and being dead excited!)
www.birdguides.com/news/major-h...
(Actually I remember seeing one on holiday in Britanny as a kid and being dead excited!)
Major Hoopoe influx hits Britain and Ireland
Extraordinary numbers of the colourful bird have been recorded during recent days.
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April 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Bloody foreign birds, comin over ere, eating our... worms... and....... grubs...
www.birdguides.com/news/major-h...
(Actually I remember seeing one on holiday in Britanny as a kid and being dead excited!)
www.birdguides.com/news/major-h...
(Actually I remember seeing one on holiday in Britanny as a kid and being dead excited!)
Oh happy day!! Always a welcome arrival through the post
April 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Oh happy day!! Always a welcome arrival through the post
Managed to check out Tan-y-Coed #Neolithic tomb in the upper Dee valley over the weekend as I happened to be passing by. Smells suspiciously of Cotswold-Severn type... maybe Capel Garmon isn't the only outlier in North Wales...
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
April 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Managed to check out Tan-y-Coed #Neolithic tomb in the upper Dee valley over the weekend as I happened to be passing by. Smells suspiciously of Cotswold-Severn type... maybe Capel Garmon isn't the only outlier in North Wales...
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
One of the two Caebetin round barrows, below the Kerry Ridgeway, Mid Wales. Excavations in the 1930s were led by local antiquarian Noel Jarman and found to have a circle of small stakeholes around its perimeter. Not quite a timber circle, but certainly some sort of embellishment.
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
One of the two Caebetin round barrows, below the Kerry Ridgeway, Mid Wales. Excavations in the 1930s were led by local antiquarian Noel Jarman and found to have a circle of small stakeholes around its perimeter. Not quite a timber circle, but certainly some sort of embellishment.
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
At the National Library of Wales for the #Archaeology open day, with @drtobydriver.bsky.social kicking off with Castell Nadolig #hillfort and the divination spoons
March 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
At the National Library of Wales for the #Archaeology open day, with @drtobydriver.bsky.social kicking off with Castell Nadolig #hillfort and the divination spoons
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He's getting scared he knows the mass protests are coming.
March 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
He's getting scared he knows the mass protests are coming.
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I have read #GeraldOfWales account of giant trees off the south coast but #StowsSurvey claims there were about 17 feet below London streets. #history #archaeology
March 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I have read #GeraldOfWales account of giant trees off the south coast but #StowsSurvey claims there were about 17 feet below London streets. #history #archaeology
Jumping on a #MedievalMonday to ask about this section of wall at Castell Dinas Bran above Llangollen, Denbighshire.
Why does this left wall have vertically-laid stones? Is it a bit of collapsed or fallen wall that's stuck? None other like it up there, pretty odd, can't work it out.
Why does this left wall have vertically-laid stones? Is it a bit of collapsed or fallen wall that's stuck? None other like it up there, pretty odd, can't work it out.
March 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Jumping on a #MedievalMonday to ask about this section of wall at Castell Dinas Bran above Llangollen, Denbighshire.
Why does this left wall have vertically-laid stones? Is it a bit of collapsed or fallen wall that's stuck? None other like it up there, pretty odd, can't work it out.
Why does this left wall have vertically-laid stones? Is it a bit of collapsed or fallen wall that's stuck? None other like it up there, pretty odd, can't work it out.
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#HillfortsMonday Always good to be back in mid Wales, passing local landmarks like the remote Dinas hillfort (centre), Ponterwyd, which once overlooked mountain trade routes in prehistoric metal ores
February 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#HillfortsMonday Always good to be back in mid Wales, passing local landmarks like the remote Dinas hillfort (centre), Ponterwyd, which once overlooked mountain trade routes in prehistoric metal ores
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Hello Archaeologists!
Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference!
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Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference!
Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions!
Find us on:
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X at @TAG2025_York
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#tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york
February 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Hello Archaeologists!
Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference!
Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions!
Find us on:
Facebook at TAG 2025 at York
X at @TAG2025_York
Instagram @tag2025_york
#tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york
Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference!
Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions!
Find us on:
Facebook at TAG 2025 at York
X at @TAG2025_York
Instagram @tag2025_york
#tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york