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Kenny Brophy
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
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mjpcuervo.bsky.social
A reader told me she was asked to take off her Hellebore “Wind in the Willows” jumper before entering Westminster Abbey. The reason given was that it depicts the devil and might offend people. The reader explained it was the Greek god Pan, but the security guard didn’t backtrack. Satanic panic 2025.
Hellebore jumper with the original illustration for the cover of Wind in the Willows, showing Pan among the reeds playing his syrinx
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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fossilbeetle.bsky.social
Really enjoying our visit to the Agricultural Research Council facilities at Porteshtroom & their research on traditional crops as part of AGRI-DRY project
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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asigot.tech
The UK needs strict rules like Finland has as well as the same reward system, nobody is making millions, it must not be removed from context and you stop digging/detecting the second you find something and report it as well as heavily restricted areas you can't touch.
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Fantastic to see the first edition of the @stoneclub.bsky.social zine Ancient Times leading with some Cornwall #UrbanPrehistory! More of this kind of thing please.
Cover of Ancient Times zine 1
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
Really looking forward to hosting Dr Wright, Tuesday 25th Nov, for a @sussexpast.bsky.social online talk.
A classic archaeological story, the discovery of a Saxon toilet led to locating of Harold Godwin's Hall.
Join us for a great evening of high-status Saxon fun!🏺
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Autumn Talk: Dr Duncan Wright - Bosham, Bayeux, and Beyond: The Archaeology of England's Earliest Medieval Lordly Centres - Sussex Past
Join our Zoom talk with Dr Duncan Wright to discover how a rare cesspit find at Bosham reveals Harold’s elite hall and transforms our understanding of medieval lordly centres in England. Tuesday 25th ...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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drtobydriver.bsky.social
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏

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Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It!
Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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bajr-badger.bsky.social
Designations Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255-£38,500
Closing Date: 26/11/25
Location: Longmore House, Edinburgh

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Designations Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £32,255-£38,500Closing Date: 26/11/25Location: Longmore House, Edinburgh
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November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to Prof Driscoll’s Dalrymple lectures on 20th and 21st November on the theme of the contribution of archaeology to the story of #Glasgow850
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
https://gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
...and in great news - this is what £250,000 can buy you in a museum.

We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔

#Archaeology 🏺

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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pottedhistory.bsky.social
THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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drsadiewatson.bsky.social
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 🌟
Two women at the start of a lecture, one sitting and the other standing to introduce her. The first slide says: Networks of Sociability in Portuguese Late Prehistory.
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
#UrbanPrehistory
dunblanemuseum.bsky.social Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 9d
November #Museum30 theme 6 is #clay. Dunblane Museum has 4000-year-old pottery food vessel, discovered in 1999 during excavations for housing development in Dunblane’s Barbush. This was in child’s burial cist, part of evidence of early Bronze Age settlement youtu.be/mGl6VlJg5Qk
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November 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
Five MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduates will be showcasing their work at the Northlight gallery, Stromness, from November 14-25, 11am to 4pm.
Art and Archaeology graduates showcase work in Stromness
The Work Is All We Have. (Diane Eagles) Five MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduates will be showcasing their work at the Northlight gallery, Stromness, from November 14-25, 11am to 4pm. The exhibition, entitled Wider Than Living, features the creations of Diane Eagles, Harry Payne, Iain Davidson, Janet Tryner and Lara Band. It is the first time a group of…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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johnnythin.bsky.social
As it's Richard Jefferies' birthday (born #OTD in 1848), here's an extract from a piece he wrote for The Graphic in 1877 about flint: "all along the vast caravan route, so to say, of the human race… in cave and mound, and river, the chipped flint is found, the stamp, as it were, of [man's] presence"
Extract from 'The Commonest Thing in the World', in The Graphic, 11 Aug 1877: "From the distant East—India—to the distant West—America, all along the vast caravan route, so to say, of the human race, from the sunrise to sunset, in cave, and mound, and river, the chipped flint is found, the hieroglyphic of man; the stamp, as it were, of his presence. Ay, and even at the bottom of the sea. Off the eastern coast of England the trawl and dredger now and then at intervals brings up to the surface from the silence of the deep—miles and miles out at sea—just such tools and weapons, adding to the accumulated evidence of the enormous changes which have taken place since the Stone peoples hunted over what is now the home of the mackerel, since this island was part of a continent. What a history has yet to be written of those strange times! The chapters are being slowly spelt out word by word, in caves, in tumuli, by stones and flints, and shell mounds, and carved horn and ivory; just as the cuneiform inscriptions were deciphered by patient ingenuity."
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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suegreaney.bsky.social
Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...
Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
An academic position as a Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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yorktone.bsky.social
Central Devil's Arrow, Boroughbridge
#photography
October 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Another session working with Ronald Morris’s rock art archive in the HES search room. There are probably 5,000 to 7500 individual archive items pertaining to 2000+ rock art sites across Scotland. All uncatalogued & unscanned. Huge research potential! Images all (c) HES
Items from Ronald Morris archive held by HES Items from Ronald Morris archive held by HES Items from Ronald Morris archive held by HES Items from Ronald Morris archive held by HES
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
Honestly. We all need to read this. The amount of money apparently being spent, which could instead be being invested in our museum services is horrific.

Next figures from DCMS/PAS are due in the next month or two. How bad will they be?

#Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Detecting
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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dendrochronicle.bsky.social
The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age.

#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
A colour photo taken from the rear end of the logboat on display. The slot for a missing transom can be seen on this end of the boat. The massive nature of the logboat is evident. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2023
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
A thread following yesterday’s Neolithic Studies Group fantastic conference in London on the theme of kinship in the Neolithic of Europe. Over 150 folk in the room or online, and many, many friendly faces. Watch out for news of our 2026 events!
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 12d
Josh Pollard kicking off today’s Neolithic Studies Group conference on the theme of kinship #NSGKinship
Josh Pollard
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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pennybickle.bsky.social
What a fantastic day yesterday was! Such a rich set of data and perspectives on kinship. I learnt so much. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Also good showing from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social with my paper, and Sophie Charleton speaking later on about the curious site of Banbury lane.
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 12d
Now the fantastic @pennybickle.bsky.social is taking us through kinship and aDNA in the LBK cultural world, teasing out some key questions posed by ethnographic concepts of kinship that might be answered through the archaeological record #NSGKinship
Penny Bickle
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
The best conference session in the history of TAG will take place on Monday 15th December at the University of York called 'Time-Layered Narratives: Engaging Non-Specialists with Temporally Complex Sites'
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
Programme - TAG 2025
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
#UrbanPrehistorex
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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bajr-badger.bsky.social
It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.

Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology

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BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM