merryn
@merryn02.bsky.social
Interests: archaeology of ale, beer and brewing, history & prehistory of malt and malting technologies. I like campervans, spinning, walking, gardening, swimming in the sea. Academic stuff is here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merryn-Dineley
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merryn-Dineley
Iron Age cauldrons: what were they actually used for? Making huge amounts of soup, stews or even porridge? Or were they used by brewers to heat the water for the mash? Its a good question.
In some places, Scandinavia for example, there are brewers who still do this. Its a living tradition. #brewing
In some places, Scandinavia for example, there are brewers who still do this. Its a living tradition. #brewing
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Iron Age cauldrons: what were they actually used for? Making huge amounts of soup, stews or even porridge? Or were they used by brewers to heat the water for the mash? Its a good question.
In some places, Scandinavia for example, there are brewers who still do this. Its a living tradition. #brewing
In some places, Scandinavia for example, there are brewers who still do this. Its a living tradition. #brewing
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345 hospitality businesses demand action at the Budget @teamdb.bsky.social
345 hospitality businesses demand action at the Budget
In the lead-up to the upcoming Budget, 345 leading hospitality businesses have called upon the British government for support in an open letter addressed to the Chancellor.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
345 hospitality businesses demand action at the Budget @teamdb.bsky.social
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One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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Can hardly believe this was done almost ten years ago. An attempt at mashing in, Epi Palaeolithic style, just like they did at Gobekli Tepe. Ancient grains. Limestone troughs. Hot rocks. No mention of malt in this article, an essential ingredient for a beer brewer. 🍺
www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...
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Out for a beer at the dawn of agriculture – Tepe Telegrams
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November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Can hardly believe this was done almost ten years ago. An attempt at mashing in, Epi Palaeolithic style, just like they did at Gobekli Tepe. Ancient grains. Limestone troughs. Hot rocks. No mention of malt in this article, an essential ingredient for a beer brewer. 🍺
www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...
www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...
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If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
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Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
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If you missed us on TV this week don't forget you catch up at:
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For fantastic Iron Age #archaeology and glorious #Dorset with #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students @buarchanth.bsky.social
Trust us, it's an emotional rollercoaster!
ENJOY
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For fantastic Iron Age #archaeology and glorious #Dorset with #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students @buarchanth.bsky.social
Trust us, it's an emotional rollercoaster!
ENJOY
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you missed us on TV this week don't forget you catch up at:
Channel 4 On Demand www.channel4.com
For fantastic Iron Age #archaeology and glorious #Dorset with #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students @buarchanth.bsky.social
Trust us, it's an emotional rollercoaster!
ENJOY
Channel 4 On Demand www.channel4.com
For fantastic Iron Age #archaeology and glorious #Dorset with #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students @buarchanth.bsky.social
Trust us, it's an emotional rollercoaster!
ENJOY
Over the years we have encountered a lot of doubt and suspicion from archaeologists when we try to talk about potential evidence for malting and brewing in prehistory. Even Iron Age. There's a FB page that refuses to publish my comments but they're happy to discuss 'special foods', soups and stews.
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Over the years we have encountered a lot of doubt and suspicion from archaeologists when we try to talk about potential evidence for malting and brewing in prehistory. Even Iron Age. There's a FB page that refuses to publish my comments but they're happy to discuss 'special foods', soups and stews.
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A gorgeous early Iron Age round-based pottery bowl from Howe broch #Orkney
The unusual design and decoration may have been intended to mimic a riveted bronze cauldron 🤩
On display in the wonderful Orkney Museum in #Kirkwall
#FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Aug 2024
The unusual design and decoration may have been intended to mimic a riveted bronze cauldron 🤩
On display in the wonderful Orkney Museum in #Kirkwall
#FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Aug 2024
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A gorgeous early Iron Age round-based pottery bowl from Howe broch #Orkney
The unusual design and decoration may have been intended to mimic a riveted bronze cauldron 🤩
On display in the wonderful Orkney Museum in #Kirkwall
#FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Aug 2024
The unusual design and decoration may have been intended to mimic a riveted bronze cauldron 🤩
On display in the wonderful Orkney Museum in #Kirkwall
#FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Aug 2024
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Shortly after Zohran Mamdani was anointed the mayor-elect of New York City on Tuesday, he strode onto the stage of a cavernous theater in Brooklyn and delivered a victory speech that celebrated New York’s immigrants, working class and young people. Follow live: nyti.ms/3X9h35I
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Shortly after Zohran Mamdani was anointed the mayor-elect of New York City on Tuesday, he strode onto the stage of a cavernous theater in Brooklyn and delivered a victory speech that celebrated New York’s immigrants, working class and young people. Follow live: nyti.ms/3X9h35I
Hope it is drinkable! We have a bottle of Arctic Alchemy, a re creation of this Victorian recipe, made by master brewer Christopher Bowen of Fegleys Brewworks, USA. Still not opened. I know, not quite the same. But similar.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Beer from Victorian Arctic expedition to be opened
Dougal Gunn Sharp plans to use the Allsopp's Arctic Ale as the basis for a new limited edition beer.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Hope it is drinkable! We have a bottle of Arctic Alchemy, a re creation of this Victorian recipe, made by master brewer Christopher Bowen of Fegleys Brewworks, USA. Still not opened. I know, not quite the same. But similar.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
You can't tell, but I can, that I have finally moved onto my shiny new phone. Tech support son did this for me. Pure wizardry as far as I am concerned. Would have taken me hours of stress and panic. Took him half an hour or so. And it all looks just the same. Except it now works properly.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:58 AM
You can't tell, but I can, that I have finally moved onto my shiny new phone. Tech support son did this for me. Pure wizardry as far as I am concerned. Would have taken me hours of stress and panic. Took him half an hour or so. And it all looks just the same. Except it now works properly.
Draper's. And a fine pint of ale.
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Draper's. And a fine pint of ale.
Some fine Tribute Ale. Tastes as good as it looks. The Wellington. Bristol. Holidays down south.
November 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Some fine Tribute Ale. Tastes as good as it looks. The Wellington. Bristol. Holidays down south.
Got two planes to catch today. Will we make the connection to the second one or not? Hope so because it's a tight schedule. Not flown for years. Not fun.
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Got two planes to catch today. Will we make the connection to the second one or not? Hope so because it's a tight schedule. Not flown for years. Not fun.
Nearly November and I am excited about our latest article on malt in prehistory that will be published very soon. 😀
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Nearly November and I am excited about our latest article on malt in prehistory that will be published very soon. 😀
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Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv
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October 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
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A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland
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October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Going to go to an archaeology event tonight, a talk all about the Burray Hoard of Viking treasure. It is being returned to Orkney Museum. Odd that I can't find very much online about it. There was a silver torc and coins.
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Torc of Silver, found in the Island of Burray, Orkney - Dig It!
Torc of Silver, found in the Island of Burray, Orkney (Notes on a Hoard of Silver Ornaments and Coins, discovered in the Island of Burray, Orkney. (1889). Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of ...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Going to go to an archaeology event tonight, a talk all about the Burray Hoard of Viking treasure. It is being returned to Orkney Museum. Odd that I can't find very much online about it. There was a silver torc and coins.
www.digitscotland.com?attachment_i...
www.digitscotland.com?attachment_i...
New archaeology programme is on its' way. I watched this promotion, do I see them chinking beer glasses? Will ale, beer and brewing get a mention? I hope so. About time. I'll have to watch and see. And @rakshadigs.bsky.social talks of 'powerful women in the Iron Age'. Hmmm. Interesting. #archaeology
New #Archaeology TV show alert!🚨 Hidden Wonders starts Tuesday 4th Nov 9pm on More 4
Available for download on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD
#newtv #documentaryseries #History 🏺
Available for download on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD
#newtv #documentaryseries #History 🏺
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New archaeology programme is on its' way. I watched this promotion, do I see them chinking beer glasses? Will ale, beer and brewing get a mention? I hope so. About time. I'll have to watch and see. And @rakshadigs.bsky.social talks of 'powerful women in the Iron Age'. Hmmm. Interesting. #archaeology
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Interest has perked up in this again, so... here's an extract from the Wiltshire Times' report on the auction, published 25 Sept 1915 - the purchaser was Mrs Chubb, not Mr...:
![Extract from the Wiltshire TImes, 25th September 1915, stating that Stonehenge, when the bidding readed £6,600, was [quote] "knocked down to Mrs. C.H.E. Chubb, the wife of a popular local landowner. There was much applause when the name of the purchaser was announced..." [end quote]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:trtximx22xbyxl6wwykqgoqf/bafkreicopn4nlsi2nidcpl45fhhwmu3p26kvcy5nkoaouv5bsu673wodim@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Interest has perked up in this again, so... here's an extract from the Wiltshire Times' report on the auction, published 25 Sept 1915 - the purchaser was Mrs Chubb, not Mr...:
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The inaugural Women in Beer Awards ceremony has taken place, at Eko Brewery and Taproom in London, celebrating the women shaping the beer industry beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/29/w... #beer #beernews #womeninbeer #beerawards @tipplemarketing.bsky.social
Melissa Cole is first Women in Beer Industry Icon - Beer Today
The inaugural Women in Beer Awards ceremony has taken place, at Eko Brewery and Taproom in London, celebrating the women shaping the beer industry
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October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The inaugural Women in Beer Awards ceremony has taken place, at Eko Brewery and Taproom in London, celebrating the women shaping the beer industry beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/29/w... #beer #beernews #womeninbeer #beerawards @tipplemarketing.bsky.social