Dr Sue Oosthuizen
@drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social
Professor (Em.) of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Early #medievalEngland c400-1200CE; #commonrights & governance; #fen #watermanagement; #landscape⚱️& 🗃️. #medievalsky
Research & publications @ https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
Research & publications @ https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
Here’s more on the quarrying. Were the ponds an intended or unintended outcome?
www.wirralvikings.org.uk/docs/promoti...
www.wirralvikings.org.uk/docs/promoti...
www.wirralvikings.org.uk
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Here’s more on the quarrying. Were the ponds an intended or unintended outcome?
www.wirralvikings.org.uk/docs/promoti...
www.wirralvikings.org.uk/docs/promoti...
I can't be sure, but I think so. Alison Taylor, a geologist who researched pingos in the S. Cambs. landscape certainly thought so, as did Christopher Taylor, the great landscape historian.
September 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I can't be sure, but I think so. Alison Taylor, a geologist who researched pingos in the S. Cambs. landscape certainly thought so, as did Christopher Taylor, the great landscape historian.
Reposted by Dr Sue Oosthuizen
Resurrecting ponds and lakes would add biodiversity and possibly also provide more freshwater fish for our diets (presumably there's a whole possible thread about historic fishponds). And we just need to make ponds where the landscape tells us they should be!
September 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Resurrecting ponds and lakes would add biodiversity and possibly also provide more freshwater fish for our diets (presumably there's a whole possible thread about historic fishponds). And we just need to make ponds where the landscape tells us they should be!
I like this so much.
September 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I like this so much.
That's an interesting question! Well worth asking Essex Wildlife Trust? www.essexwt.org.uk
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September 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
That's an interesting question! Well worth asking Essex Wildlife Trust? www.essexwt.org.uk
Reposted by Dr Sue Oosthuizen
PS I wrote a very short piece some years ago about the 'Flood and Flow' project to map ancient place names and their relation to water: www.tim-waterman.co.uk?p=376
Tim Waterman | Flows off the Tongue: Charting climate change futures in ancient place names
www.tim-waterman.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
PS I wrote a very short piece some years ago about the 'Flood and Flow' project to map ancient place names and their relation to water: www.tim-waterman.co.uk?p=376
Are spring- and rain-fed lakes of water that appear in parts of Cambridgeshire in winter also the remains of similar ponds? bsky.app/profile/drsu...
THREAD. So much rain has the fields floating in water. Not quite the conditions yet of 2021 - the images in this thread - but, in the east of England, still a practical lesson explaining so much about land use before under-field drainage began in the 17thC.
September 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Are spring- and rain-fed lakes of water that appear in parts of Cambridgeshire in winter also the remains of similar ponds? bsky.app/profile/drsu...