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Helen W
@ctipps1968.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, lover of aerial photos, books, old stuff, food
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ctipps1968.bsky.social
Check out this video of excavation at Castilly Henge by Historic England, Cornwall Heritage Trust, Cornwall Archaeological Society, and Cornwall Archaeology Unit - with a huge thank you to the brilliant volunteers! www.instagram.com/reel/DRbhbA7...
Historic England on Instagram: "We're one step closer to unlocking the secrets of Castilly Henge in Cornwall. 🔍 We've been working with @cornwallheritagetrust, Cornwall Archaeological Society, @archa...
501 likes, 3 comments - historicengland on November 23, 2025: "We're one step closer to unlocking the secrets of Castilly Henge in Cornwall. 🔍 We've been working with @cornwallheritagetrust, Cornwall...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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peigibheag.bsky.social
Look at this wonderful art @ctipps1968.bsky.social
aerialembroidery.bsky.social Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 29d
'Senescence' - my new aerial embroidery of a warm Autumn landscape. Moorland ponies dot the grass while a stream cuts through the scene. Now available along with a miniature of the same theme: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a...
An embroidery landscape depicting an aerial view of Autumn moorland. It has brown trees to the north of the hoop, grass to the south, with a road and stream cutting through it all. An embroidery landscape depicting an aerial view of Autumn moorland with brown bushy trees and a pale blue stream cutting through. An embroidery landscape depicting an aerial view of Autumn moorland with brown bushy trees, a pale stream and country road.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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gailmyerscough.co.uk
It's been a very quiet week.
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.

So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.

Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
Grid of nine images featuring retro-themed items, including a t-shirt, framed prints, phone case, Christmas gift wrap, cushion, and a mug.
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!

Which is your favourite? ❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif: Top left: swirling white vine-like lines and round reddish-orange medallions framed by white circles on a black background. Top right : large white spiral on front of cup with a reddish-orange oval shape with stylised white petals beside it, on a black background. Middle left: diagonal zig-zag stripes in alternating black and white above and below a band around the middle of the cup Bottom left: swirling white lines and reddish-orange and white geometric band on a black background. Bottom right: diagonal white stripes below a row of red dots outlined with white circles on a black background. This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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olafbayer.bsky.social
Over 700 people on our open day at Castilly Henge #Cornwall with @cornwallarch.bsky.social and Cornwall Heritage Trust. Starting the long journey home, tired but very pleased
October 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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End of week 3 at Castilly henge excavation #cornwall www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/community/ca...
Castilly Henge Excavation Blog | Cornwall Heritage Trust
"What was once a rarely trodden landscape, the field in which Castilly Henge lies, was now busy with volunteers and archaeologists digging, sieving, and
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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pastglasgow.co.uk
Flying across the tenements of the West End, off Great Western Rd.

📍 Carrington St
📍 Rupert St
📍 Dunearn St
📍 Woodlands Dr
📍 Barrington Dr
📍 Montague St

#Glasgow #aerialphotography #dji
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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olafbayer.bsky.social
BBC Cornwall article and radio interview about our excavation at Castilly Henge #Cornwall www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Work begins on hidden Neolithic stone circle dig near Bodmin
More than £40,000 of National Lottery funding was awarded to excavate the site earlier this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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olafbayer.bsky.social
This is the project that I’ve been developing over the last year #Cornwall #Archaeology #Neolithic www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/project-to-u...
Project to uncover possible hidden stone circle in Cornwall awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant | Cornwall Heritage Trust
Located just off the A30 near Bodmin, Castilly Henge is believed to have been built during the late Neolithic period (about 3000 to 2500 BCE). It is a
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org
June 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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govanstones.bsky.social
It may be dreich (wet and miserable) outside, but our amazing collection of #Viking-Age carved stones are nice and dry inside Govan Old!

We're open every day, 11am-4pm, and always free to enter 🎟
April 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
ctipps1968.bsky.social
For lovers of all things aerial archaeology, check out the new EAC lidar guidance. Congratulationsto all involved: zenodo.org/records/1460...
Guidelines for the use of Airborne Laser Scanning (Lidar) in Archaeology (EAC Guidelines 10)
Airborne Laser Scanning (sometimes referred to as lidar) has been described as revolutionary for the understanding and management of cultural landscapes. The ability to create highly accurate three di...
zenodo.org
March 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
In 2010 Damian Grady spotted the distinctive *playing card* shape of a Roman fort at Bradford Abbas #Dorset

Part of the II Augusta legion's campaign against the Durotriges

The Historic England report can be downloaded for free here 😊👇👇

historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

#RomanFortThursday
The distinctive *playing card* shape (rectangular with rounded corners) of a 1st century AD Roman fort shows up on this aerial photo from 2010 as a dark green line in the more yellow crop. Today overlain by more modern hedge field boundaries
March 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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heritagewshc.bsky.social
Great coverage by BBC Wiltshire of the Hearth Tax project & the involvement of our former colleague #archivist Steve Hobbs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Link to the project website - gams.uni-graz.at/context:htx

#archives #exploreyourarchive
Records for loathed 300-year-old tax reveal 'incredible' details about 17th Century
Wiltshire has some of the earliest records of a tax on fireplaces.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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govanstones.bsky.social
Share this image of the Govan Warrior with your friends and family and help spread the word about the Glorious Govan Stones - Thanks!

Unearthed in 2023, this early medieval carved stone is one of the most important discoveries made in the last century in the 1,500-year-old Govan Old churchyard.
December 18, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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johnindie.bsky.social
Feathered thorn moth on our door last night. Not enough butterflies and moths. Do what you can in the garden to help them!!!
December 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
Santa Claus is coming to town... by airship!

Sauchiehall Street department store Copland & Lye's magnificent 1904 Christmas present catalogue.

Pic: Glasgow City Archives
December 9, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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govanstones.bsky.social
🎙 We need ONE more download to get 1,000 plays of our Govan Early Medieval Podcast!

Could it be you? open.spotify.com/show/0NAyzrc...
November 29, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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sghetorg.bsky.social
#LetGlasgowFlourish We've made a Greater Glasgow Heritage and History starter pack, including nearby places ~ if we've missed you off (or you want to be removed) let us know. It's a work in progress 💚 #Glasgow #heritage #history #archaeology #architecture #environmentalhistory go.bsky.app/M4Dezri
November 13, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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eric180uk.bsky.social
Back at my desk after 3 great days trekking through the Staffordshire Moorlands tracing the lines of four early tramways. You might have to take my word for it but 3 of them (1786, 1804, 1847) are visible in this photo and all four, here historicengland.org.uk/images-books...
November 14, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…
Image: A bedroom at night, a face is lit up by the glow of a phone screen displaying cat memes. On the book-cluttered bedside table, three books look on angrily. The lead book waves a large knife and says: "Nobody needs to get hurt... Let's just put the phone down, nice and slowly..." Caption: Bedside reading pile turns nasty
November 16, 2024 at 12:04 PM