Am I the only one who finds blocked up doorways and windows really pleasing? Look at the archaeology of this!

(I started a new job at Fort Cumberland, it is aesthetically very enjoyable!)

Hail hail the Queen of the May!

What a fun question! 🪨

I usually lay my hands on them and close my eyes (I largely do this in the vague hope a time slip will trigger and I’ll find myself somewhen else… 🤷🏼‍♀️)

*groans in archaeologist* 🦖

Is it #TileTuesday? No. Am I going to post the 13th century tiles I saw at Titchfield Abbey at the weekend anyway? Yes!

(They are mostly covered by burlap and sandbags at the moment, but whatever was covering this section had flipped up in the wind so… behold!)

This carved whale bone box was one of wonderful things in the #SilkRoads exhibition at the British Museum… 8th century, made in Northumbria, depicting Wayland the Smith, the Adoration of the Magi from New Testament along with an Old English rune dedication to the dead whale! 😍

Sometimes you look at a stone and it’s kind of unassuming… until you hold it and it falls perfectly into to your grip and suddenly it’s all HOW IS THIS SO PERFECT IN MY HAND??*

*I can’t be the only person who picks up stone tools and is astounded by their ergonomics every time, right?

When life gives you unspeakable, eldritch lemons… make fhtaganade! 🍋 🐙

You… you left what on the tube?! 💀 A rather throwaway sentence from this 1995 monograph on archaeological human remains being lost on the London Underground!

Showing some love (at a respectful distance) to some big rocks 🪨

Sure, Sutton Hoo had some cool treasure and stuff, but look at this way more fun archaeological anomaly which could only really be appreciated in section - a 'stone-roll' lens of pebbles, thickening downwards, the result of rolling pebbles on the slope of the burial mound.

A perfect bird strike, moments before the windows were cleaned at work. A temporary natural artwork, gone now, as is the bird.

(Consider this my vow to use this platform more, the other place is too bleak. I hope it’s better here.)

A beloved colleague left last week and I made this cake for her - it’s a hillfort! I wanted it to have more than one rampart, but didn’t have enough real estate for multiple ditches (a problem I’m sure some early builders had with them too 😆)

A tree in my local churchyard… it uh… has a butt.

Right? That’s not just me that can see that? 🍑