Sadie Watson
@drsadiewatson.bsky.social
Archaeologist, social value, fieldwork, developer-funded, Roman London. SE London and Dorset. she/her. 🏺🏛️👷♀️My views. Cyclist. Cats and daughters.
🚲 hero
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
🚲 hero
This is why we used a detected Bronze Age ring from Cumbria as a case study for the Cultural Heritage Capital scoping report (Appendix 3).
Valuation is complex, Waverley criteria used in some but mostly beyond scope of current legislation and will probably remain so.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Valuation is complex, Waverley criteria used in some but mostly beyond scope of current legislation and will probably remain so.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is why we used a detected Bronze Age ring from Cumbria as a case study for the Cultural Heritage Capital scoping report (Appendix 3).
Valuation is complex, Waverley criteria used in some but mostly beyond scope of current legislation and will probably remain so.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Valuation is complex, Waverley criteria used in some but mostly beyond scope of current legislation and will probably remain so.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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This year I had a life-threatening brain haemorrhage, caused by a Cavernoma (the source of my epilepsy) and underwent major brain surgery. I’m asking people to donate to the Epilepsy Society as they conduct cutting edge research, provide medical care and advocacy to support people like me! 💜
Leah's story | Epilepsy Society
Leah shares in her own words, how she had to learn to be a different 'me' following life changing...
epilepsysociety.org.uk
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This year I had a life-threatening brain haemorrhage, caused by a Cavernoma (the source of my epilepsy) and underwent major brain surgery. I’m asking people to donate to the Epilepsy Society as they conduct cutting edge research, provide medical care and advocacy to support people like me! 💜
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Yes to this, and also particularly if grandparents are present but a distance away.
Just to say, if you know someone parenting a kid alone, especially a small one, see if you can buy a present that the kid can give to their parent. Even take the kid shopping so they can choose. It's not even about the money - the parent might happily pay for someone else to do this kindness.
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Yes to this, and also particularly if grandparents are present but a distance away.
Much deserved winners of the TAG prize 2025 🏆 50% of @trowelblazers.bsky.social being presented with their prize by @pennybickle.bsky.social in York earlier tonight.
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Much deserved winners of the TAG prize 2025 🏆 50% of @trowelblazers.bsky.social being presented with their prize by @pennybickle.bsky.social in York earlier tonight.
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Join us #TAG2025 Session 7 in LMV/036X for Archaeologies in and of Neoliberalism: Is Professionalisation a Barrier to Participation? 12.30 on Monday.
@drsadiewatson.bsky.social and I reflect on development-led archaeology and museums & I'll be sharing participatorymuseums.wordpress.com/the-report/
@drsadiewatson.bsky.social and I reflect on development-led archaeology and museums & I'll be sharing participatorymuseums.wordpress.com/the-report/
The Report
The Report ดูหน้าภาษาไทย Our open access project report was published on the 25th of June 2025 and launched at the GLAM Cares conference in Leeds on the 26th. It brings together the results from ou…
participatorymuseums.wordpress.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Join us #TAG2025 Session 7 in LMV/036X for Archaeologies in and of Neoliberalism: Is Professionalisation a Barrier to Participation? 12.30 on Monday.
@drsadiewatson.bsky.social and I reflect on development-led archaeology and museums & I'll be sharing participatorymuseums.wordpress.com/the-report/
@drsadiewatson.bsky.social and I reflect on development-led archaeology and museums & I'll be sharing participatorymuseums.wordpress.com/the-report/
Just did a mock Oxbridge interview for a brilliant Dorset state school pupil who was on @durotrigesdig.bsky.social this summer ✨🏺👩🏼🎓
December 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just did a mock Oxbridge interview for a brilliant Dorset state school pupil who was on @durotrigesdig.bsky.social this summer ✨🏺👩🏼🎓
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A year ago yesterday, everything changed for Syria. This January, Hiba Alkhalaf will speak at Birkbeck about "From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years On".
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A year ago yesterday, everything changed for Syria. This January, Hiba Alkhalaf will speak at Birkbeck about "From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years On".
I had a fab chat with some sparky 11-12 year olds in the US yesterday- highly recommend helping out @skypeascientist.bsky.social for inserting a fun 40 minutes in your day!
You're never gonna believe this, but we're out of archaeologists again.
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
SKYPE A SCIENTIST
Skype a Scientist matches your classroom, scout troop, or library with scientists for Q&A sessions for free!
SkypeAScientist.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I had a fab chat with some sparky 11-12 year olds in the US yesterday- highly recommend helping out @skypeascientist.bsky.social for inserting a fun 40 minutes in your day!
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Very much looking forward to next week’s @royalarchinst.bsky.social lecture @antiquaries.bsky.social by Dr Al Oswald - ALL WELCOME!
#Neolithic
#Neolithic
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Very much looking forward to next week’s @royalarchinst.bsky.social lecture @antiquaries.bsky.social by Dr Al Oswald - ALL WELCOME!
#Neolithic
#Neolithic
In which the European Neolithic is invoked in support of banning ‘veggie burger’ as a descriptor for vegetarian burger-shaped food. 🤦♀️
"In today’s Brussels, appeals to heritage and identity land more softly than calls for food system innovation." www.politico.eu/article/vegg...
How a ‘veggie burger’ ban nobody wanted became one Brussels might actually pass
A fringe amendment to protect meaty vocabulary has become a test of Europe’s loyalty to tradition and its waning appetite for food innovation.
www.politico.eu
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In which the European Neolithic is invoked in support of banning ‘veggie burger’ as a descriptor for vegetarian burger-shaped food. 🤦♀️
Both my babies were born at home, with experienced midwives (2 at each, plus a student at the 2nd, her first delivery ❤️). No risk taken at any stage, with anything.
Home birth is not the same as free birth, I could barely read this awful story. But home births should continue when possible.
Home birth is not the same as free birth, I could barely read this awful story. But home births should continue when possible.
I’m a mum that chose homebirth for three of my children after a traumatic hospital birth for the first, so you might think I’d lean towards ‘freebirth’ - but the dangerous bullshit on show here is terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Both my babies were born at home, with experienced midwives (2 at each, plus a student at the 2nd, her first delivery ❤️). No risk taken at any stage, with anything.
Home birth is not the same as free birth, I could barely read this awful story. But home births should continue when possible.
Home birth is not the same as free birth, I could barely read this awful story. But home births should continue when possible.
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What's buried under Peers' Car Park? 🚗
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What's buried under Peers' Car Park? 🚗
Finally results of the #archaeology evaluation at #Westminster are being publicised by R&R: fieldwork by my MOLA colleagues. Also a foreshore survey incorporating documentary research.
Some incredible evidence of 11th century #medieval phase, with earlier yet to come underneath (in a later post).
Some incredible evidence of 11th century #medieval phase, with earlier yet to come underneath (in a later post).
What do medieval remains and a stone crucible have in common? They were excavated by hand by archaeologists in Victoria Tower Gardens.
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Finally results of the #archaeology evaluation at #Westminster are being publicised by R&R: fieldwork by my MOLA colleagues. Also a foreshore survey incorporating documentary research.
Some incredible evidence of 11th century #medieval phase, with earlier yet to come underneath (in a later post).
Some incredible evidence of 11th century #medieval phase, with earlier yet to come underneath (in a later post).
A lot of comments on low student numbers, obvious absenteeism in this vid - but it shouldn’t only be up to them to protest. Are Summers’ Harvard colleagues doing anything about how disgusting it is to have him a room with young people? (genuine question, I haven’t seen anything but 🤞🏻 there is)
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A lot of comments on low student numbers, obvious absenteeism in this vid - but it shouldn’t only be up to them to protest. Are Summers’ Harvard colleagues doing anything about how disgusting it is to have him a room with young people? (genuine question, I haven’t seen anything but 🤞🏻 there is)
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A £50 annual licence fee for the 3000 members of the Surrey Metal Detecting Club could pay for three FLO post recording solely their finds. But why ask the cost of heritage in a finder takes all system.
An onslaught on heritage: "Surrey Metal Detecting Club… membership has rocketed… to more than 3,000 in 2025."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
The Surrey Metal Detecting Club sees membership leap in six years
Founded with 60 members in 2019, the Surrey club now has more than 3,000 members across the county.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A £50 annual licence fee for the 3000 members of the Surrey Metal Detecting Club could pay for three FLO post recording solely their finds. But why ask the cost of heritage in a finder takes all system.
And don’t forget we have one last gas lamp powered by actual human gas 💨
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
And don’t forget we have one last gas lamp powered by actual human gas 💨
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
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We're really looking forward to welcoming @rakshadigs.bsky.social to Sussex to deliver the 2026 Long Man Lecture.
We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
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We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
🏺
We’re thrilled to announce our 2026 Long Man Lecture speaker: Raksha Dave! 🎉Raksha is an archaeologist, author, broadcaster, and current President of the Council for British Archaeology. Thurs 26th March 2026, ACCA, Brighton. Early Bird tickets now on sale, starting at £10: https://loom.ly/f0zNR6w
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We're really looking forward to welcoming @rakshadigs.bsky.social to Sussex to deliver the 2026 Long Man Lecture.
We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
🏺
We don't have enough opportunities to meet together to listen to, and celebrate, a single voice from the heritage world, but this is one.
Pls share and join us this March!
🏺
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Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...
People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...
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Hello folks. I've been making plaster of paris artefacts/decorations for friends.
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Hello folks. I've been making plaster of paris artefacts/decorations for friends.
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟
Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It was a real joy to write this paper with @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social - in many ways an overdue love letter to my colleagues in the trenches over the years.
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️
So happy to see this article out!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3...
In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3...
In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It was a real joy to write this paper with @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social - in many ways an overdue love letter to my colleagues in the trenches over the years.
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️