Hugo Anderson-Whymark
@hugowhymark.bsky.social
Passion for prehistory! Flint and stone tools | 3D modelling | monuments | flintknapping | all things Orkney. Senior Curator of Prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic), National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh | Visiting Associate Professor @ UHI
Great to see this story - a fantastic site I am proud to have excavated - but slightly confused by slide #5. The 'v' profile ditch shown is the LBA ditch, which was backfilled with the timber laced rampart built on top. It was the 'U' shaped IA ditch that contained saxon finds in its upper fills.
July 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Great to see this story - a fantastic site I am proud to have excavated - but slightly confused by slide #5. The 'v' profile ditch shown is the LBA ditch, which was backfilled with the timber laced rampart built on top. It was the 'U' shaped IA ditch that contained saxon finds in its upper fills.
Lovely. They're surprisingly common. I was once offered 3 for £30 each - a bargain but I chose my marriage!
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Lovely. They're surprisingly common. I was once offered 3 for £30 each - a bargain but I chose my marriage!
Well apparently we've been terribly woke at the museum too...
February 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Well apparently we've been terribly woke at the museum too...
They look great on a wall (Liz does not agree)
February 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
They look great on a wall (Liz does not agree)
Nice. I have on on my office wall at home. I'm currently in Tenerife and they used round basalt pebbles in their threshing sledges... often seen in restaurants too
February 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Nice. I have on on my office wall at home. I'm currently in Tenerife and they used round basalt pebbles in their threshing sledges... often seen in restaurants too
A threshing sledge (tribulum) with lovely flint teeth. Still made in parts of Turkey until the 1970s
February 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A threshing sledge (tribulum) with lovely flint teeth. Still made in parts of Turkey until the 1970s
I love your illustration!
January 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I love your illustration!
Digging for Britain do their own models for the show, but I do have some nice high resolution versions I'll release soon
January 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Digging for Britain do their own models for the show, but I do have some nice high resolution versions I'll release soon