Charlotte Walker
@staysleeping.bsky.social
Historic Environment Record Officer for Northamptonshire.
Local government archaeologist and runner. ❤️ art, music, science and kind fools🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Local government archaeologist and runner. ❤️ art, music, science and kind fools🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Autumn vibes on the morning dog walk
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Autumn vibes on the morning dog walk
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Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) – the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology – whic…
bigbookoftorcs.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
Early, early dog walk because someone doesn't understand daylight saving. Can hesitantly say it was worth it.
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Early, early dog walk because someone doesn't understand daylight saving. Can hesitantly say it was worth it.
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Everyone’s tidying up for winter — but your “mess” might be saving wildlife.
Leaf piles + log piles = shelter for hedgehogs, frogs, insects. More on the website. 👇
Https://gardeningwell.ie/gardens-as-biodiversity-engines
#WildlifeGardening #Biodiversity #QuietActivism #GardeningWell
Leaf piles + log piles = shelter for hedgehogs, frogs, insects. More on the website. 👇
Https://gardeningwell.ie/gardens-as-biodiversity-engines
#WildlifeGardening #Biodiversity #QuietActivism #GardeningWell
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Everyone’s tidying up for winter — but your “mess” might be saving wildlife.
Leaf piles + log piles = shelter for hedgehogs, frogs, insects. More on the website. 👇
Https://gardeningwell.ie/gardens-as-biodiversity-engines
#WildlifeGardening #Biodiversity #QuietActivism #GardeningWell
Leaf piles + log piles = shelter for hedgehogs, frogs, insects. More on the website. 👇
Https://gardeningwell.ie/gardens-as-biodiversity-engines
#WildlifeGardening #Biodiversity #QuietActivism #GardeningWell
Official release of Northamptonshire's HER website. A fantastic resource for exploring the heritage of the county!
New online hub brings Northamptonshire’s rich heritage to life | West Northamptonshire Council
A new website has been launched to give people access to Northamptonshire’s Historic Environment Record (HER).
www.westnorthants.gov.uk
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Official release of Northamptonshire's HER website. A fantastic resource for exploring the heritage of the county!
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A medieval floor tile depicting a lion from St. Andrew’s Priory in Northampton. Now part of the collections at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #NorthamptonMuseum
October 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
A medieval floor tile depicting a lion from St. Andrew’s Priory in Northampton. Now part of the collections at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #NorthamptonMuseum
A key from the Priory is currently part of the Histories of Northamptonshire exhibition at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
timeline.northamptonmuseums.com/timeline/mon...
timeline.northamptonmuseums.com/timeline/mon...
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
A key from the Priory is currently part of the Histories of Northamptonshire exhibition at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
timeline.northamptonmuseums.com/timeline/mon...
timeline.northamptonmuseums.com/timeline/mon...
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St. Patrick's, Patrington, Yorks: "Flying buttresses scarcely suffice to tether the needle-sharp...most tapering of all these spires to its tower, and the designer has invented a ravishing cusped and pinnacled corona of arcading to steady it." Olive Cook #thread
October 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
St. Patrick's, Patrington, Yorks: "Flying buttresses scarcely suffice to tether the needle-sharp...most tapering of all these spires to its tower, and the designer has invented a ravishing cusped and pinnacled corona of arcading to steady it." Olive Cook #thread
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Not for everybody, but If you ❤️ history, architecture and heritage like here at Patrington, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free here: www.digest.andymarshall.co
October 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Not for everybody, but If you ❤️ history, architecture and heritage like here at Patrington, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free here: www.digest.andymarshall.co
This friendly double-headed dragon popped up in a medieval cartulary today
October 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This friendly double-headed dragon popped up in a medieval cartulary today
Excited to say that Northamptonshire's Historic Environment Record website is live and ready to explore. A new way to lose a few hours 🙃
her.northamptonshire.gov.uk
her.northamptonshire.gov.uk
Home
Northamptonshire’s Historic Environment Record
her.northamptonshire.gov.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Excited to say that Northamptonshire's Historic Environment Record website is live and ready to explore. A new way to lose a few hours 🙃
her.northamptonshire.gov.uk
her.northamptonshire.gov.uk
Getting quite autumn-y around here
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Getting quite autumn-y around here
A reporter wrote of #northampton in 1869: in 'the lowest parts of London I have never heard such a general superfluous of obscene naughtiness...as I heard during my stay in Northampton'. Proud 😁
October 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A reporter wrote of #northampton in 1869: in 'the lowest parts of London I have never heard such a general superfluous of obscene naughtiness...as I heard during my stay in Northampton'. Proud 😁
#Mackerelsky over Northampton on the early morning dog walk.
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#Mackerelsky over Northampton on the early morning dog walk.
A new exhibition has just opened at Northampton's museum, showcasing a hundred objects from Northamptonshire chosen by 51 guest curators. Some amazing objects and well- worth seeing
www.northamptonmuseums.com/homepage/73/...
www.northamptonmuseums.com/homepage/73/...
September 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A new exhibition has just opened at Northampton's museum, showcasing a hundred objects from Northamptonshire chosen by 51 guest curators. Some amazing objects and well- worth seeing
www.northamptonmuseums.com/homepage/73/...
www.northamptonmuseums.com/homepage/73/...
Sometimes archaeology is so dull. Data entry day as part of the Northampton deposit modelling project. On my second listen of this fine episode for my sanity!
Episode LXII is live as of yesterday evening! I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X
September 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Sometimes archaeology is so dull. Data entry day as part of the Northampton deposit modelling project. On my second listen of this fine episode for my sanity!
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THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
September 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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A collared urn from St. Peter's Street in Northampton and two Bronze Age cups from Hunsbury Hill in Northampton. In the Northampton Museum. #FindsFriday
August 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A collared urn from St. Peter's Street in Northampton and two Bronze Age cups from Hunsbury Hill in Northampton. In the Northampton Museum. #FindsFriday
Can't decide what to get though...(probably more drone)
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday.
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday
daily.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Can't decide what to get though...(probably more drone)
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If there's one thing you watch today, make it this
Bob Geldof criticises Israel for what they're doing in Gaza
Then criticises Trevor Philips for making excuses for what Israel is doing in Gaza
Part 1/3
Bob Geldof criticises Israel for what they're doing in Gaza
Then criticises Trevor Philips for making excuses for what Israel is doing in Gaza
Part 1/3
July 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If there's one thing you watch today, make it this
Bob Geldof criticises Israel for what they're doing in Gaza
Then criticises Trevor Philips for making excuses for what Israel is doing in Gaza
Part 1/3
Bob Geldof criticises Israel for what they're doing in Gaza
Then criticises Trevor Philips for making excuses for what Israel is doing in Gaza
Part 1/3
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If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.
July 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.
Reposted by Charlotte Walker
Good morning from the #FestivalOfArchaeology team out at Chester House Estate for our #Archaeology Youth Day 🏺
We've got a full day of activities across the site. Orange Team have headed out to explore medieval tiles.....
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We've got a full day of activities across the site. Orange Team have headed out to explore medieval tiles.....
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July 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Good morning from the #FestivalOfArchaeology team out at Chester House Estate for our #Archaeology Youth Day 🏺
We've got a full day of activities across the site. Orange Team have headed out to explore medieval tiles.....
1/
We've got a full day of activities across the site. Orange Team have headed out to explore medieval tiles.....
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Coquettish, leg-dangling on the sofa kind of day
July 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Coquettish, leg-dangling on the sofa kind of day