Mark Knight 🍉
@markknight63.bsky.social
Archaeologist with a Fenland tendency. Happiest in the black, buttery depths seeking old land surfaces. You got them big dreams....
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Remembering Walker Evans on his birthday 🎂
A self-portrait from c. 1934
"Stare. It is a way to educate your eye, & more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
A self-portrait from c. 1934
"Stare. It is a way to educate your eye, & more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Remembering Walker Evans on his birthday 🎂
A self-portrait from c. 1934
"Stare. It is a way to educate your eye, & more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
A self-portrait from c. 1934
"Stare. It is a way to educate your eye, & more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
Glasgow glasshouse - look up!
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Glasgow glasshouse - look up!
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It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
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Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
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I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
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Ja, wirklich cool! Schon was älter, aber ich sehe mit meinen Kleinen auch immer wieder gerne das Steinzeithaus der Maus:
www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-ma...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-ma...
Die Maus : Steinzeithaus - hier anschauen
Wie haben die Menschen in der Steinzeit gelebt? Armin besucht Menschen, die ein Steinzeithaus bauen.
www.ardmediathek.de
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ja, wirklich cool! Schon was älter, aber ich sehe mit meinen Kleinen auch immer wieder gerne das Steinzeithaus der Maus:
www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-ma...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-ma...
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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 🌟
Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The Granite Kingdom at the edge of winter.
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Granite Kingdom at the edge of winter.
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The Fenland of Cambridgeshire is my photographic “backyard” -a place of wide open landscape broken by drains, droves and lines. The rich black peat , slowly eroding contrasts against constantly changing light.
Using pinhole and Holga cameras I try to capture the still beauty of the place.
Using pinhole and Holga cameras I try to capture the still beauty of the place.
November 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Fenland of Cambridgeshire is my photographic “backyard” -a place of wide open landscape broken by drains, droves and lines. The rich black peat , slowly eroding contrasts against constantly changing light.
Using pinhole and Holga cameras I try to capture the still beauty of the place.
Using pinhole and Holga cameras I try to capture the still beauty of the place.
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Bronze Age and C20th granite construction: elegant hut circle revealed by low water level at Fernworthy Reservoir, Dartmoor last month
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
October 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Bronze Age and C20th granite construction: elegant hut circle revealed by low water level at Fernworthy Reservoir, Dartmoor last month
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
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Coynant Maenhir
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Coynant Maenhir
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
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Linton Kwesi Johnson and Black British Struggle - the originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.
africasacountry.com/2017/05/lint...
africasacountry.com/2017/05/lint...
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Linton Kwesi Johnson and Black British Struggle - the originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.
africasacountry.com/2017/05/lint...
africasacountry.com/2017/05/lint...
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First project output published! 🙌 Fully open access
Read more about our project and initial results here!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read more about our project and initial results here!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
First project output published! 🙌 Fully open access
Read more about our project and initial results here!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read more about our project and initial results here!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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... and of course #mustfarm another illustration of the far-reaching impact of the archaeology of the #flagfenbasin
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
... and of course #mustfarm another illustration of the far-reaching impact of the archaeology of the #flagfenbasin
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'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney', a new book by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards is out now.
#BronzeAge #Prehistory
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/01/animating-dead/
#BronzeAge #Prehistory
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/01/animating-dead/
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney', a new book by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards is out now.
#BronzeAge #Prehistory
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/01/animating-dead/
#BronzeAge #Prehistory
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/01/animating-dead/
Friday morning flint - fresh out of the buried soil #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Friday morning flint - fresh out of the buried soil #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
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"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops."
via Ian Almond
via Ian Almond
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops."
via Ian Almond
via Ian Almond
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University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!