James Wright
@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Pinned
I'm back with a winter season of online talks, starting with Dating Ancient Buildings.
Join us on Tue 25 Nov to learn how to use archives, archaeology & dendrochronology to understand the age of historic buildings.
Booking is now open, here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Join us on Tue 25 Nov to learn how to use archives, archaeology & dendrochronology to understand the age of historic buildings.
Booking is now open, here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
My north Wales hotel offers tremendous sea views...
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My north Wales hotel offers tremendous sea views...
'And tomorrow brings another train
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and the grey'
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and the grey'
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
'And tomorrow brings another train
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and the grey'
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and the grey'
Spotted Richard III Society repeating the myth that rude carvings in churches were put there by unpaid masons. Instead they relate to a form of spirituality called negative mysticism: achieving salvation by resistance to temptation. More here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Spotted Richard III Society repeating the myth that rude carvings in churches were put there by unpaid masons. Instead they relate to a form of spirituality called negative mysticism: achieving salvation by resistance to temptation. More here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...
Reposted by James Wright
Did you know there's a website dedicated to helping you discover more about the archaeology and heritage cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk?
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Did you know there's a website dedicated to helping you discover more about the archaeology and heritage cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk?
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
Reposted by James Wright
I'm back doing online talks again this winter. First one is on 25 November and will be a look at Dating Ancient Buildings though archives, archaeology and dendrochronology.
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm back doing online talks again this winter. First one is on 25 November and will be a look at Dating Ancient Buildings though archives, archaeology and dendrochronology.
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
I'm back doing online talks again this winter. First one is on 25 November and will be a look at Dating Ancient Buildings though archives, archaeology and dendrochronology.
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm back doing online talks again this winter. First one is on 25 November and will be a look at Dating Ancient Buildings though archives, archaeology and dendrochronology.
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Booking is now open and places are going extremely fast...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
I walked with our friend back to the rail station. In surprising news, I may have stumbled into the pub on the way home (there are not actually any pubs on the route home)...
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I walked with our friend back to the rail station. In surprising news, I may have stumbled into the pub on the way home (there are not actually any pubs on the route home)...
Reposted by James Wright
This charming view of a Worcestershire house is from a map of 1744. Its the earliest archival evidence for the property... but we know from dendrochronology that the building is c 300 years older.
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This charming view of a Worcestershire house is from a map of 1744. Its the earliest archival evidence for the property... but we know from dendrochronology that the building is c 300 years older.
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
...and so we enter the liminal time where hardly anyone will make a decision on anything because they are fixated on one roast dinner in late December...
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
...and so we enter the liminal time where hardly anyone will make a decision on anything because they are fixated on one roast dinner in late December...
This charming view of a Worcestershire house is from a map of 1744. Its the earliest archival evidence for the property... but we know from dendrochronology that the building is c 300 years older.
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This charming view of a Worcestershire house is from a map of 1744. Its the earliest archival evidence for the property... but we know from dendrochronology that the building is c 300 years older.
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Come find out more on Dating Ancient Buildings, 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
The dated references for the history of a house in Worcestershire.
✅️ Yes, my bookshelves are now a chronology.
✅️ Yes, I'm an archaeologist.
✅️ Yes, I think visually and physically.
❌️ No, I can't hold this in my head or relate to it as digital files.
✅️ Yes, my bookshelves are now a chronology.
✅️ Yes, I'm an archaeologist.
✅️ Yes, I think visually and physically.
❌️ No, I can't hold this in my head or relate to it as digital files.
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The dated references for the history of a house in Worcestershire.
✅️ Yes, my bookshelves are now a chronology.
✅️ Yes, I'm an archaeologist.
✅️ Yes, I think visually and physically.
❌️ No, I can't hold this in my head or relate to it as digital files.
✅️ Yes, my bookshelves are now a chronology.
✅️ Yes, I'm an archaeologist.
✅️ Yes, I think visually and physically.
❌️ No, I can't hold this in my head or relate to it as digital files.
Spotted this blocked window and chute in the chimney at Oakwell Hall. The window once lit and ventilated a latrine next to the fireplace in a bedchamber. I can't begin to emphasise enough just how posh heated chambers with toilets were in 16th century West Yorkshire! 🔥🛏💩🏰
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Spotted this blocked window and chute in the chimney at Oakwell Hall. The window once lit and ventilated a latrine next to the fireplace in a bedchamber. I can't begin to emphasise enough just how posh heated chambers with toilets were in 16th century West Yorkshire! 🔥🛏💩🏰
Reposted by James Wright
Cruck frame barn, dated c 1550, from Llanerch Banna (Flint) and now at St Fagans National Museum of History.
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Cruck frame barn, dated c 1550, from Llanerch Banna (Flint) and now at St Fagans National Museum of History.
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Cruck frame barn, dated c 1550, from Llanerch Banna (Flint) and now at St Fagans National Museum of History.
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Cruck frame barn, dated c 1550, from Llanerch Banna (Flint) and now at St Fagans National Museum of History.
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Such curved timbers known as crucks will feature a fair bit in my upcoming online talk on 25 Nov, Dating Ancient Buildings.
Booking is now open.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Reposted by James Wright
Dear Heritage Comms Offices,
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Dear Heritage Comms Offices,
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
Simultaneously writing up two building surveys. One is a mediaeval timber-framed house in Worcestershire. The other is a post-mediaeval stone-built house in Somerset. The chances of confusing to two is unlikely, but not entirely impossible...
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Simultaneously writing up two building surveys. One is a mediaeval timber-framed house in Worcestershire. The other is a post-mediaeval stone-built house in Somerset. The chances of confusing to two is unlikely, but not entirely impossible...
Dear Heritage Comms Offices,
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Dear Heritage Comms Offices,
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
Please stop using the phrase "witchmarks" in your Halloween cash in posts. It is inaccurate, reductive & unhelpful. Other terms can be used. Contextualise and explain. Don't dumb down.
More info here:
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
Wtf is this? Should I turn it off and on again?
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Wtf is this? Should I turn it off and on again?
Appropriate that these two feuding felines agreed a temporary truce for Black Cat Day.
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Appropriate that these two feuding felines agreed a temporary truce for Black Cat Day.
Reposted by James Wright
Haddon Hall are interpreting burn marks as apotropaic rather than accidents & the Trip to Jerusalem changed the website to reflect its real history! Pleased that the Mythbusting book is doing its job! Now, we just need Colchester Castle to stop with the spiral stairs myth...
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haddon Hall are interpreting burn marks as apotropaic rather than accidents & the Trip to Jerusalem changed the website to reflect its real history! Pleased that the Mythbusting book is doing its job! Now, we just need Colchester Castle to stop with the spiral stairs myth...
Haddon Hall are interpreting burn marks as apotropaic rather than accidents & the Trip to Jerusalem changed the website to reflect its real history! Pleased that the Mythbusting book is doing its job! Now, we just need Colchester Castle to stop with the spiral stairs myth...
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haddon Hall are interpreting burn marks as apotropaic rather than accidents & the Trip to Jerusalem changed the website to reflect its real history! Pleased that the Mythbusting book is doing its job! Now, we just need Colchester Castle to stop with the spiral stairs myth...
And there we have it.
I'm a landlord of a pub. Have spun a story that a major literary figure used to drink at my inn back in the 1700s. Completely untrue, but tourists love to visit the pub and sit in his 'seat'. All bollocks, but it's great for business.
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
And there we have it.
Gig Number 2 of the Weekend. A trip over to Brum for an impressive Big Rock Show by the ever-mighty Fields of the Nephilim 🖤
October 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Gig Number 2 of the Weekend. A trip over to Brum for an impressive Big Rock Show by the ever-mighty Fields of the Nephilim 🖤
Took a trip back to 2005 for one night only with TCC. Shall we just say that we got into a few japes'n'scrapes with these lads back in t'day...
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Took a trip back to 2005 for one night only with TCC. Shall we just say that we got into a few japes'n'scrapes with these lads back in t'day...
Reposted by James Wright
Old maps are an important resource for understanding historic buildings. This map shows the semi-fossilized mediaeval plan of Sneinton (Notts) in 1796. Only two buildings are still standing!
Join us for an online talk, Dating Ancient Buildings on 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Join us for an online talk, Dating Ancient Buildings on 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Old maps are an important resource for understanding historic buildings. This map shows the semi-fossilized mediaeval plan of Sneinton (Notts) in 1796. Only two buildings are still standing!
Join us for an online talk, Dating Ancient Buildings on 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
Join us for an online talk, Dating Ancient Buildings on 25 Nov:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...