Amanda Chadburn 🏺
@amandachadburn.bsky.social
PhD FSA FSAScot
Loves old stuff especially *Archaeology *Heritage Mgment *Landscape *Prehistory *World Heritage *Archaeoastronomy *IA Coins *Respons.Detecting *Heritage Crime
Loves old stuff especially *Archaeology *Heritage Mgment *Landscape *Prehistory *World Heritage *Archaeoastronomy *IA Coins *Respons.Detecting *Heritage Crime
October 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Dogwalk to the mighty Southmead round barrow yesterday. Difficult to get a sense of its scale but it’s BIG. 🏺
October 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Dogwalk to the mighty Southmead round barrow yesterday. Difficult to get a sense of its scale but it’s BIG. 🏺
It’s been an odd day on social media discussing the horns of Moses! And now by complete coincidence - @mappadan.bsky.social and @wittspat.bsky.social - look what I’ve just seen in the National Gallery dating to 1290-95! This is Moses breaking up a fight! 🏺
May 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s been an odd day on social media discussing the horns of Moses! And now by complete coincidence - @mappadan.bsky.social and @wittspat.bsky.social - look what I’ve just seen in the National Gallery dating to 1290-95! This is Moses breaking up a fight! 🏺
See also Michaelangelo for a Moses with Horns: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%2...
May 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
See also Michaelangelo for a Moses with Horns: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%2...
Look what arrived from @livunipress.bsky.social! Many thanks - really looking forward to reading it in depth! A quick canter through already and it is fascinating. 🏺
May 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Look what arrived from @livunipress.bsky.social! Many thanks - really looking forward to reading it in depth! A quick canter through already and it is fascinating. 🏺
Travelling to the Big Smoke tomorrow for the Museums and Heritage Awards ceremony. We are shortlisted for our #Stonehenge lunar research 🌙 partnership project…. Fingers crossed! 🏺
May 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Travelling to the Big Smoke tomorrow for the Museums and Heritage Awards ceremony. We are shortlisted for our #Stonehenge lunar research 🌙 partnership project…. Fingers crossed! 🏺
he nearest I’ll get to viewing a Neolithic village in twilight. (Reconstructed houses based on excavated floor plans from Durrington Walls). Stonehenge visitor centre. 🏺
May 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
he nearest I’ll get to viewing a Neolithic village in twilight. (Reconstructed houses based on excavated floor plans from Durrington Walls). Stonehenge visitor centre. 🏺
Off to Stonehenge today to talk to the Neolithic Studies Group about archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge. This 📸 taken last month during a lunar research field trip. 🏺
May 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Off to Stonehenge today to talk to the Neolithic Studies Group about archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge. This 📸 taken last month during a lunar research field trip. 🏺
Is this five-sided church apse in my village the remains of an Anglo-Saxon church? If so, it was much altered later (including the crypt which housed the remains of the medieval Bishop John Carpenter). The five sides are more apparent inside the church. 🏺
May 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Is this five-sided church apse in my village the remains of an Anglo-Saxon church? If so, it was much altered later (including the crypt which housed the remains of the medieval Bishop John Carpenter). The five sides are more apparent inside the church. 🏺
Reminds me more of Pictish symbol stones with their mirrors and combs! 📸Catfish Jim and the soapdish • CC BY-SA 3.0🏺
May 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Reminds me more of Pictish symbol stones with their mirrors and combs! 📸Catfish Jim and the soapdish • CC BY-SA 3.0🏺
A memorial to “Mary” - much else gone. I’ve never ever seen a gravestone weather like this before. In the churchyard of the mighty Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. #archaeology #church #churchcrawling 🏺
May 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A memorial to “Mary” - much else gone. I’ve never ever seen a gravestone weather like this before. In the churchyard of the mighty Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. #archaeology #church #churchcrawling 🏺
My best photo of this morning’s partial solar eclipse. Taken with my iPhone looking through my eclipse glasses - all a bit Heath Robinson! Was lucky enough to see the whole thing.
March 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My best photo of this morning’s partial solar eclipse. Taken with my iPhone looking through my eclipse glasses - all a bit Heath Robinson! Was lucky enough to see the whole thing.
Solar eclipse right now in the UK! Got my glasses! 😎😎😎 - get those colanders out!
March 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Solar eclipse right now in the UK! Got my glasses! 😎😎😎 - get those colanders out!
Tried but no luck yet! Moon very bright….
March 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Tried but no luck yet! Moon very bright….
Trying to view the most northerly moonset at Stonehenge last night - sadly the moon disappeared behind this bank of cloud before set. Nevertheless, a great night. 🏺#lunarresearch
March 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Trying to view the most northerly moonset at Stonehenge last night - sadly the moon disappeared behind this bank of cloud before set. Nevertheless, a great night. 🏺#lunarresearch
One of the oldest doors in my village, around 1445, made of oak and original. Bears the cross of the medieval Bishop Carpenter of Oxford University and Worcester Cathedral fame. (He was buried in the adjacent church). 🏺
March 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One of the oldest doors in my village, around 1445, made of oak and original. Bears the cross of the medieval Bishop Carpenter of Oxford University and Worcester Cathedral fame. (He was buried in the adjacent church). 🏺
The Plough (Big Dipper) over Stonehenge last night. Mixed results for our lunar research but a very worthwhile trip. Much warmer last night too! #bonus 🏺
March 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The Plough (Big Dipper) over Stonehenge last night. Mixed results for our lunar research but a very worthwhile trip. Much warmer last night too! #bonus 🏺
There was a concerted effort by the County Archaeologist to improve things and it really worked. Including the installation of public art.
March 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
There was a concerted effort by the County Archaeologist to improve things and it really worked. Including the installation of public art.
Dog walk to my nearest round barrow, looking good after its recent haircut! Well done to Bristol Council for looking after it so we can all enjoy this nationally important monument. 🏺
March 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Dog walk to my nearest round barrow, looking good after its recent haircut! Well done to Bristol Council for looking after it so we can all enjoy this nationally important monument. 🏺
A beauty tonight
March 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A beauty tonight
Here are the Pleiades as they weren’t in the above photo. They were very bright. So difficult to see from towns today, but would have been well-known in prehistory. #astronomy #PlanetaryParade #darkskies
February 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Here are the Pleiades as they weren’t in the above photo. They were very bright. So difficult to see from towns today, but would have been well-known in prehistory. #astronomy #PlanetaryParade #darkskies
Beautiful #darkskies in the Surrey Hills last night; Mars, Jupiter and Venus once again clearly visible. And the Pleiades with the naked eye. You’ll have to zoom in!
February 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Beautiful #darkskies in the Surrey Hills last night; Mars, Jupiter and Venus once again clearly visible. And the Pleiades with the naked eye. You’ll have to zoom in!