Mel Roxby-Mackey
@archaeoborders.bsky.social
Archaeologist of borders, Anglo-Welsh borderland and its folklore, digital humanist, University of Birmingham. Archaeologist in Residence, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
And otters have even inspired local artists taking part in the city’s Paint Festival
December 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And otters have even inspired local artists taking part in the city’s Paint Festival
I really enjoyed the video of @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on her restorative walk through the woods in her fight against the decrepitude accompanied by her Wirehaired Vizsla, Lupa. Here’s our Hamish with his mate Cav (an equally wirey Griffon) demonstrating the utter joy of beach walks too
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I really enjoyed the video of @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on her restorative walk through the woods in her fight against the decrepitude accompanied by her Wirehaired Vizsla, Lupa. Here’s our Hamish with his mate Cav (an equally wirey Griffon) demonstrating the utter joy of beach walks too
If anyone is looking for a present for a book lover who has an interest in the Anglo-Welsh border, its landscape, heritage and folklore I can highly recommend Sarah Siân Chave’s Hafren
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If anyone is looking for a present for a book lover who has an interest in the Anglo-Welsh border, its landscape, heritage and folklore I can highly recommend Sarah Siân Chave’s Hafren
Cavall the Spanish rescue Griffon says hi back
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Cavall the Spanish rescue Griffon says hi back
It was a day for magazines in the post. We also got our latest update from @englishheritage.bsky.social including an account of the varied uses of castles featuring Stokesay Castle in #Shropshire. It’s a truly magical setting and a wonderful haven for wildlife too
October 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It was a day for magazines in the post. We also got our latest update from @englishheritage.bsky.social including an account of the varied uses of castles featuring Stokesay Castle in #Shropshire. It’s a truly magical setting and a wonderful haven for wildlife too
So excited to receive a copy of the first Annual Review of the Offa’s Dyke Association. There is so much going on. Conservation work, conferences and research all feature!
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
So excited to receive a copy of the first Annual Review of the Offa’s Dyke Association. There is so much going on. Conservation work, conferences and research all feature!
Wise words from @wwf.org.uk ‘20 minutes of nature a day can improve your wellbeing’. Even better it it’s mixed with archaeology too like at the beautiful @wtscotsocial.bsky.social site of Credenhill, Herefordshire 👍
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Wise words from @wwf.org.uk ‘20 minutes of nature a day can improve your wellbeing’. Even better it it’s mixed with archaeology too like at the beautiful @wtscotsocial.bsky.social site of Credenhill, Herefordshire 👍
You did a cracking job on turning my Anglo-Welsh border over millennia ramblings into something coherent and I loved the positivity wrap up with @iwm21.bsky.social too. Definitely up for another expedition when we're next in deepest Shropshire with Hamish and now also Cav!
June 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
You did a cracking job on turning my Anglo-Welsh border over millennia ramblings into something coherent and I loved the positivity wrap up with @iwm21.bsky.social too. Definitely up for another expedition when we're next in deepest Shropshire with Hamish and now also Cav!
I’m revisiting Rowland Parker’s magical The Common Stream - a reminder of why I love landscape archaeology because it tells the stories of “the ordinary men and women who in their countless thousands have trudged through life and then departed from it, leaving little visible trace”
May 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’m revisiting Rowland Parker’s magical The Common Stream - a reminder of why I love landscape archaeology because it tells the stories of “the ordinary men and women who in their countless thousands have trudged through life and then departed from it, leaving little visible trace”
Hamish too. He wants to be a bones specialist when he grows up.
April 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hamish too. He wants to be a bones specialist when he grows up.
#Shropshire stone circles in the sunshine. Mitchell’s Fold ❤️
February 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#Shropshire stone circles in the sunshine. Mitchell’s Fold ❤️
Not the Anglo-Welsh border, but archaeology and dogs. The best kind of content ❤️ In our house it would have to be ‘Destroyer of beer mats and tissues’
January 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Not the Anglo-Welsh border, but archaeology and dogs. The best kind of content ❤️ In our house it would have to be ‘Destroyer of beer mats and tissues’
Likewise further along the Severn
December 24, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Likewise further along the Severn
Thank you to @archaeologyuk.bsky.social for this news on new discoveries in Flintshire. If you don’t subscribe to British Archaeology you’re missing out if you love your heritage. Why not make hints for Christmas and support the work of the Council for British Archaeology?
December 8, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Thank you to @archaeologyuk.bsky.social for this news on new discoveries in Flintshire. If you don’t subscribe to British Archaeology you’re missing out if you love your heritage. Why not make hints for Christmas and support the work of the Council for British Archaeology?
Hamish sends paw waves in a break from rearranging the autumn leaves in the park
November 7, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Hamish sends paw waves in a break from rearranging the autumn leaves in the park
Doesn’t half remind me of the replica little Chilean stone mask I brought back with me many years ago!
October 26, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Doesn’t half remind me of the replica little Chilean stone mask I brought back with me many years ago!
And if you want to see an example of some of this conservation work, here are before and after shots of scrub clearance undertaken at Sedbury, Gloucestershire
March 19, 2024 at 1:31 PM
And if you want to see an example of some of this conservation work, here are before and after shots of scrub clearance undertaken at Sedbury, Gloucestershire
Bodenham Arboretum doing their bit for keeping Worcestershire weird. Brilliant!
November 6, 2023 at 12:36 PM
Bodenham Arboretum doing their bit for keeping Worcestershire weird. Brilliant!
Yesterday @iwm21.bsky.social had a great outreach session with a school from Brecon at the Offa's Dyke Centre. Hamish went along for the ride. How much fun can a dog have at a heritage centre on a walk with his Dad afterwards? This much, apparently. The sign says nothing about paws. . .
October 26, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Yesterday @iwm21.bsky.social had a great outreach session with a school from Brecon at the Offa's Dyke Centre. Hamish went along for the ride. How much fun can a dog have at a heritage centre on a walk with his Dad afterwards? This much, apparently. The sign says nothing about paws. . .