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Landscape Archaeologist, UK.
#EarthworkSurvey | #Prehistory
#LandscapeArchaeology
Nature lover. Wanderer & ponderer
Dreaming of Swallowdale, seed cake & tame adventures in a kinder world.
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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · Oct 27
The #YorkshireWolds at their glorious autumnal best today. Heart & soul nourished, feet tired 🍁☀️🧡
Countryside scene: sun-kissed trees with vivid orange and yellow leaves to the left, green fields and bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds to the right. Countryside scene: sun-kissed rolling chalk grassland in muted greens, with the hedges and trees, in the centre is a tall architectural tree with no leaves. All under a bright blue sky with wispy white and grey clouds. Countryside scene: sun-kissed trees with vivid orange, yellow & lime-coloured leaves to the left, hedges to the right, a track down the centre covered in crisp orange leaves, and bright blue sky above.
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artefactual.bsky.social
You have one week left to submit abstracts for the 2026 @postmedarch.bsky.social Congress!

The conference is in May next year, hosted at Reading University, UK.

Share your fascinating research with international delegates!
postmedarch.bsky.social Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (SPMA) @postmedarch.bsky.social · 13d
We are pleased to announce a short extention to the Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress 2026 #cfp deadline, to 15 November! We look forward to welcoming delegates to #PMAC26 in Reading in May 2026. Authors will be notified by email of the status of their submision no later than 1 December 2025 1/2
Call for papers: Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress 2026. Middle: DEADLINE EXTENDED! Lower left-hand side: 15-17 May 2026 University of Reading United Kingdom Lower right-hand side: Titles & abstracts: 15 November 2025 conference@spma.org.uk Upper right corner: SPMA logo William Havell's 1807 painting of Reading Abbey as the background
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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mirandakeeling.com
Your replies are so lovely! Let’s collect any new ones here: #handwriteyourpost
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
With #Halloween & bonfire night fast approaching, it's vital that we remember the effect #SpookySeason has on our wildlife and natural landscapes. 🎃🦔

Here are our 3 tips for staying nature friendly over the next week or so.

Please share to spread the word. 🙏

#Cumbria #LakeDistrict
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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adammarkham.bsky.social
The trees are on fire.
A tree turning orange and yellow against a clear blue sky.
October 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#LandscapeArchaeology 🏺
| projektwald.hypotheses.org/527
October 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
We have a very exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Project Officer to join us to help create England's highest nature reserve - Skiddaw Forest 🌳🌳

Apply below ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/skiddaw-forest-project-officer

#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #ConservationCareers #SkiddawForest
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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orkat3.bsky.social
Broch-tastic news. Taking experimental #archaeology to the extreme! Such a fantastic project, great news for #Caithness and Scottish archaeology. #IronAge #Broch #Scotland

www.northern-times.co.uk/news/scotlan...
Scotland’s first new broch for 2000 years wins planning approval
The approval of the Caithness Broch Project’s plans represents a major milestone for their bid to build a “faithful replica” on a site near Latheron.
www.northern-times.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
earthworkbec.bsky.social
@artefactual.bsky.social A smidge further east, but maybe today’s mystery hollow was made by a larger one of these…? 🤔😉
handhyorkshire.bsky.social History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 23d
Given that the Orionid meteor shower is taking place at the moment I thought this my be appropriate. The Wold Cottage meteorite (also called the Wold Newton meteorite) fell near Wold Cottage farm on 13 December in 1795, a few miles away from the village of Wold Newton
The Wold Cottage meteorite (also called the Wold Newton meteorite) fell near Wold Cottage farm on 13 December in 1795, a few miles away from the village of Wold Newton
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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tomeenmurphy.bsky.social
Even if you can’t make the event, this is a nice little checklist of people doing interesting things
smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 29d
Programmes! Pick up a free one at Small Publishers Fair in @conwayhall.bsky.social next week, Fri 24+Sat 25 October.

Or take a look now here tinyurl.com/3p427jpj for the 66 publishers, Erica Van Horn exhibition and readings, launches and talks. All free.
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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smallpublishers.bsky.social
Sheffield-based @longbarrowpress.bsky.social has been exploring the intersections of landscape, history and memory since 2006; recent titles include Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey's 'To the End of the Land'. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
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The pamphlet and CD editions of 'To the End of the Land' by Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey: the blue-grey coastal edge of Nova Scotia, with dilapidated wooden lobster traps in the foreground, sea and distant land beyond, and white clouds and blue sky above.
October 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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peterchilvers.com
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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jonaschlegel.com
day 8 of #archInk: stratigraphy

I reworked an older drawing from when the prompt was “written”. And here the trowel still “writes” the site’s stratigraphy in a way: layer by layer, deposit by deposit and interface by interface.

#archaeology
Digital illustration of a trowel cutting through layered soil. Each layer shows archaeological deposits with stones, pottery fragments, and features. The soil profile curls in a scroll-like shape, as if written by the trowel.
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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earthworkbec.bsky.social
The most beautifully bound, curated and delivered poetry books from Longbarrow Press. Treat yourself or a dear one a some treasure 📚✨ #Booksky

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longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Nov 17
Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Steve Ely's 'Eely', Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour', and Rob Hindle's 'Sapo'. You can order them here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
January 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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maxinebeuret.bsky.social
Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com

In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Five book sales in nineteen days. "The books go to their readers, one by one, at times quickly, at times slowly, halfway around the world or halfway across the city. There is no supply chain, not as such, only the postal network, irregular events, direct sales to bookshops, and local distribution."
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Oct 8
Update: two book sales in eighteen days. "The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Oct 7
One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
October 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
earthworkbec.bsky.social
Well that settles tonight’s bedtime re-read 😢
#JaneGoodall
Colour photo of a book (graphic novel): Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas. Written by Jim Ottavaviani and illustrated by comics artist Maris Wicks. It has a green cover showing cartoon drawings of a procession of three women and three wild primates (a chimpanzee, a mountain gorilla, and an orangutan) Page 18 of a colour cartoon/graphic novel. Four image boxes each show a young blond woman (Jane Goodall) working outdoors, each with different weather conditions. The text reads: Many scientists did feel threatened by me, though, for oh-so-many reasons - | First, my sponsor, Louis, was controversial. Second, I didn’t look like most of them. | And I had no academic credentials. | Habituating animals to human presence also wasn’t common. | And worst of all, I started naming the chimps.
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social!

Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR).

View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5
Colour screengrab of magazine’s contents page, 1 of 2: Page 6 – Early Railways in England. Page 11 – A Brief Overview of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Page 16 – An Aerial Perspective of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Page 24 – Exploring New Shildon, England’s First Modern Railway Town. Page 32 – The Stockton & Darlington Railway’s Coal Drops at Shildon. Page 39 – Protecting Railway Heritage: One of England’s Early Goods Depots. Colour screengrab of magazine’s contents page, 2 of 2: Page 47 – The S&DR Darlington Lime Depot. Page 53 – Early Bridges of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Page 59 – The Bridges of the Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway. Page 66 – Transforming a Historic Market Town: impact of the railways at Bishop Auckland. Page 74 – Curzon Street Station, Birmingham: Past, Present and Future. Page 82 – Roundup of our Railway Related Reports, Publications and Guidance.
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
earthworkbec.bsky.social
NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social!

Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR).

View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5
Colour screengrab of magazine’s contents page, 1 of 2: Page 6 – Early Railways in England. Page 11 – A Brief Overview of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Page 16 – An Aerial Perspective of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Page 24 – Exploring New Shildon, England’s First Modern Railway Town. Page 32 – The Stockton & Darlington Railway’s Coal Drops at Shildon. Page 39 – Protecting Railway Heritage: One of England’s Early Goods Depots. Colour screengrab of magazine’s contents page, 2 of 2: Page 47 – The S&DR Darlington Lime Depot. Page 53 – Early Bridges of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Page 59 – The Bridges of the Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway. Page 66 – Transforming a Historic Market Town: impact of the railways at Bishop Auckland. Page 74 – Curzon Street Station, Birmingham: Past, Present and Future. Page 82 – Roundup of our Railway Related Reports, Publications and Guidance.
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
The bees have discovered Brutalism
killhamster.bsky.social Satanic Manic @killhamster.bsky.social · Sep 28
Nature is healing
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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mark-walters.bsky.social
There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany
September 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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bsbibotany.bsky.social
Here's a great thread where @amandatuke.bsky.social tells us about her #PlantBased journey & how she got a #FISC level 5!
Find out more about Field Identification Skills Certificates (FISCs) here: bsbi.org/field-skills
Dates for FISCs in 2026 will go live in March.
September 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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hillfortian.bsky.social
Today I learned something amazingly new to me.
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲

Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo
Presentation slide showing results of survey
September 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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adamchapman.bsky.social
New #Skystorians job alert!

The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills.

Details in the link below. 1/2
Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust
An opportunity for an academic position as a Contributing Editors is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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cathfeely.bsky.social
Back at my printing night class (in-depth etching this time) and I will repeat my advice to academics: get a hobby. Preferably get a hobby that you can fail at and it doesn't matter. In facts it only makes it better.
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM