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Dr Hannah Fluck
@hannahfluck.bsky.social
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#Archaeology for a #biodiversitycrisis, #heritage for a #climate positive future. Optimist. #Pleistocene archaeologist, rugby coach, knitter, former public servant, now doing what I can in a large #conservation NGO with #landusechange and IRO research.
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I'm at a secondary school for my youngest football game and spotted this on the canteen wall. Such excellent #climate education and leadership. I wish more restaurants would do this.
Poster 'How much CO2 do you put on your plate?' With a giant carrot scale
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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New fav artefact is either this silk viking bonnet from York, or Alfred's cake fungus from Star Carr used to curate an ember 11,000 yrs ago - something I tried with Explorer Scouts a few weeks ago (it works amazingly well!). #YorkshireMuseum spoiling us with exhibitions at the moment, do go visit!
Two large fungus recognisable as a king Alfred's cake fungus and a bracket fungus. The king Alfred's cake fungus has a hole in the centre A beige coloured hood displayed next to a white line drawing on black of a person wearing a similar hood.
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Travelling north from King's Cross for @archaeologyuk.bsky.social. Something about station war memorials - ordinary men with ordinary jobs so far from conflict who found themselves thrust into the horror of war. Thinking of them & all those currently caught in conflict around the world.
A large red poppy on white lattice station structure. A memorial to those lost in 1914-18 and 1939-45 conflicts who worked on the railway at King's Cross. There are hundreds of names on many white panels, two are shown in this photo next to the brown stone memorial.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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That's what they are looking at!
A bright blue sea with Saltmarsh in the foreground. Boats float on the water in the distance. At the horizon the gentle hills of the South Downs are just about discernable. A few grey clouds meet them in an otherwise blue autumn sky.
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Today I found an Ent
An oak tree with two trunks like legs that grow together about halfway up before branching out into outstretched arms.
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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A brief visit to Hamford Water and Beaumont Quay today. Apparently these stones were once part of London Bridge, and now provide a pretty idyllic launch point for paddle boards and crab lines. buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/25/3...
Sarson stones along the edge of a beach with green grey water lined with trees against a blue cloudy sky A shingle shore runs along left of the photo with a line of stones separating it from water with threes and bushes to the right. A series of cuts filled with water amongst grasses,reeds and sedges.
August 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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A fab day out helping @rspbscotland.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social #Balmoral rangers survey for rare invertebrates today. Our 10 yr old was chuffed to find the first broken-belted bumblebee recorded on the estate, sadly no small scabious mining bees but several dark bordered beauty moths.
People walking along a grassy path with a net.
August 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I was trying to work out what tragedy this collection of memorials commemorated, an Internet search later & I now know these are from actual people for a fictional character shot in an episode of Peaky Blinders filmed here in Portsoy c.2021.
Which other memorials to fictional people are there?
Slate pieces fixed to a wall with words in white paint 'Peaky Blinders Memorial' Stone walls in a corned with a drainpipe and slate slabs with white writing fixed to the walls More messages in white paint on slate to Michael
August 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Today @nattrustarch.bsky.social colleagues gathered at the beautiful Barrington Court to learn how to use our GPR (ground penetrating radar) to see if we could find any evidence of an earlier house. Beautiful day for it! @catlodge.bsky.social
Person dressed in blue pushing a wheeled trolley across short grass in front of a stone elizabethan building Bill board reading 'what's happening here? Archaeology in action ' Two people stand smiling stood with ground penetrating radar machine that looks a but like a large wheeled lawnmower
July 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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An extra bonus of spending 2 days helping @archaeologyuk.bsky.social at #ChalkeHistoryFestival was catching up with @lemoustier.bsky.social mini Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins reunion.
Two smiling women in a field with tents to the left of them and a roundhouse to the right.
June 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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@archaeologyuk.bsky.social is at #ChalkeHistoryFestival this week. Find them in the Heritage Hub with the genius #geophysics plotting table cloth and other fun activities.
Two women leaning over a table spread with a big black and white plot of geophysical survey A man and a woman stand either side of a poster saying Council for British Archaeology outside a large white tent
June 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Anyone need a timeline cleanse? I recorded this on a walk in my local woods in the rain today. I didn't see another soul. You'll have to imagine the smell as the rain hit the ground.
Turn the sound on for full rainfall in English woodland sound.
June 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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A bit different to my view 10 days ago... spot the handstand!
Standing stones on green grass with a blue sky. People inside it, including one doing a headstand!
June 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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So Languard Point is pretty special. And another #HeritageNature mash up. Bird observatory in a G1 Listed Fort. Sadly we couldn't find the turtle doves listed on the recently seen board but we did get a rainbow.
Shingle beach, concrete pillbox, white radar tower and container port either side of a Fort that nestles between the land and sea. Railings run from the left of the foreground into the middle distance casting a shadow on the shingle. To the left are the cranes of a container port, to the right the 200 year old Fort. Speckled concrete blocks with rusted metal against a blue clouded sky with a rainbow
May 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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As if Sutton Hoo wasn't enough, the icing on the cake was a visit to the Hoo Ship Company construction site in Woodbridge where a replica of the #SuttonHoo ship is being coaxed lovingly into being from tree trunks. The smell, the sound and the sight is extraordinary. Do go and visit!
The Longshed. Grey industrial building with big logs in front A blond boy in a green and black coat watches two men with axes work a log into a plank next to a partly constructed Hull of a ship which is being inspected by a small group of people A partly constructed Hull of a wooden ship on the floor of a large industrial building. Black 'ribs' run across the Hull every few metres. On the white wall is a large photo of the reconstructed Sutton Hoo helmet A man works a plank, left handed, with an ax. In the background the partially built Hull and prow of a ship
May 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Really impressed by @nationaltrust.org.uk #SuttonHoo Now is the perfect time to visit w/ new exhibition 'The Dig' & @timeteam.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social excavations. One of the top archaeological visits in UK. Lovely attention to detail incl. dig themed cushions! #archaeoembroidery
Four cushions with embroidered line drawings of a hand tape. Bucket and spade, trowel and serve and wheelbarrow Boy counting squares over a gridded square to draw archaeological objects Anglo Saxon master makers exhibition. Child looking at objects in a display case Light blue gazebo with 'Sutton hoo' and image of a helmet and national trust logo.
May 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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@nationaltrust.org.uk #Archaeocakes at Sutton Hoo today. Delicious scone cake thingy inspired by Sutton Hoo treasure to celebrate the opening of the truely excellent new exhibition 'The Dig'. @nattrustarch.bsky.social
A scone covered in chocolate, drizzled with golden icing and studded with red cherries and a blueberry A chalk board with: 'The Sword Pyramid' scone. "Warming spices, dried fruits and sweet marzipan" To tie in with the launch of our new exhibition "the dig". Decorated to resemble the first piece of gold excavated on the site here at Sutton Hoo over 85 years ago! Decorated scones under a cake stand
May 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Love a plant with a story. This is 'hoary cress' @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social #Essex #Whetmead nature reserve, #Witham. Claimed to have been introduced in bedding of sick soldiers returning from fighting Napoleons troops in a miserable Netherlands campaign referred to as the Walcheren Debarcle.
White flowers clustered flower heads of small White flowers with dried spikey teasles against a blue clouded sky White speckled flowers against green vegetation
May 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This morning, before the long train ride back to the south, was people watching at Castlerigg stone circle. In the name of research. For more info heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...
I was delighted by the ice cream van selling books about the Lakes' stone circles
Yellow ice cream van 'Luchini's'. The usual array of stickers showing the ice cream options but centre place on the counter are books about stone circles Stone circle in a green grass field with people sitting and standinsife. If you zoom in you can see there is a person doing a headstand centre-right.
May 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Yesterday I took a stroll to see Force Cragg Mine for #OutandAboutArchaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk & open this very weekend for #HeritageOpenDays @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social walk for those wanting to visit www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/visiting/thi...
A woman in a light blue top and khaki trousers stands with a rucksack on a screen slope near som rusted buildings against a backdrop of bright blue sky and green hills A collection of buildings nestle in the slopes of a hill. They look like they are cobbled together from scraps of wood and metal
May 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A sneaky @nationaltrust.org.uk trip over the wall to #BordersForestTrust site #Carrifran. Fab woodland creation & even more extraordinary #RottonBottomBow - oldest bow in UK. 6000yr old yew bow found in 1990s - associated pollen record informed the planting. bordersforesttrust.org/wild-heart/c...
Photo of an information board entitled 'A Broken Bow' with a picture of and archer and a landscape with sheep/goatd and people with a bonfire.
May 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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A fine day to be in the big city for CBA @archaeologyuk.bsky.social trustees meeting with wonderful colleagues @boyleg.bsky.social and co.
A red door with brass handle and letter box and gold lettering 'The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings' A London street scene with glass tall builduildings against cloudy blue sky in the background and a union jack flag and golden toned stone buildidings in the foreground with pansies in a window bow on the right hand side of the image
May 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Every time our prize nature find is where the best archaeology is...
Glass lizard at Roman (and pre Roman) site of Asseria en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asseria
Glass lizard head Partially excavated ruins, square/rectilinear structures and arch. Stone walls set against a cloudy sky
April 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Can anyone tell me anything about the archaeological work that's been going on at the Vrana Old Town in Croatia? Looks like it's gridded out for recording and excavation. Such a great place, I'd live to know more!
Photo of a cobbled path that looks recently excavated/cleaned leading to a ruined wall with an archway. Rubble in the foreground wooden stakes evenly spaced across grass covered earth. Ruined walls in the background Archaeological excavated areas to the left of a cobbled path leading to ruined walls
April 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Love the sign at Vransko Jezero nature reserve, Vrna Lake, Croatia.
Vransko Jezero sign with silhouette of a heron and white writing on a blue background in croatian and English 'you are entering the world of birds, take a moment to quietly listen to wildlife around you. A photo of sunset sky over a reedbed A child walks over a boardwalk over water next yo reeds. There are sun tinged clouds in a blue sky and turquoise water speckled with yellow-brown reeds
April 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM