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Kayt Hawkins
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Archaeologist #roman #pottery #childhood. Co-founder BAJR RESPECT. Author of 50 Finds From #Childhood. Join a union. My own musings. She/Her. Looking for more of these pots⬇️
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17585716.2025.2478734#abstract
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Back to the sherdface after a spell of writting, how about these for some rsther lovely, if fragmentary, late Iron Age, grog-tempered pedestal jar 'trumpet' bases! #pottery 🏺
Joining sherds of a grog-tempered late Iron Age pedestal jar base, known as a trumpet base due its hollow high foot. This base has two decorative cordons. Single sherd from a grog-tempered late Iron Age pedestal jar base, known as a trumpet base due its hollow high foot.
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I can't remember who on here recommended reading this, but thank you!
September 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Connecting with people doing amazing & important (usually voluntarily) work aimed at making archaeology safer for all has been such an incredibly inspiring process. Hugest thanks to @archaeocobb.bsky.social & also to all contributors! Out soon www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
Discount book flyer for Documenting Activism, Creating Change, Archaeology and the legacy of MeToo. Code 006120.
July 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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How's this for a lovely little #roman pot for #FindsFriday #archaeology. Looks like a possible finger print just above the base? #sherdnerd
Image of a minature roman cermic pot, held between my finger and thumb. The pot is incomplete but does show the complete profile from rim to base. The pot is grey in colour, with an oxidised core, and there is a possible trace of the makers finger print just above the base on the outside vessel wall.
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Treated to a wander around RHS Chelsea Flower Show yesterday. All the gardens were beautiful in their own way but particularly liked the British Red Cross 'Here for Humanity' garden & the Hospitalfield Arts Garden.
Garden made of interlocking stone planters, reminiscent of the Giants Causeway, filled with alpine plants. Image of a costal themed garden with sand dunes and planting and a metal silver-coloured watering can on which is written in blue paint All Schools Should Be Art Schools Close up of an silver coloured metal bucket placed on a path which is surrounded by plants. Written on the bucket in blue paint are the words Achos should be gardens nurtuing every child with art, music, dance and poetry. Three large upright metal letters spelling R H S, each filled with orange and red flowers.
May 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Really enjoyable evening at the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social Gordon Childe lecture last night, given by the amazing @livnstutz.bsky.social - a fascinating and thought-provoking interlinking of theory, practice & #archaeology of death in the Mesolithic.
Large screen showing the tittle slide of Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz's presentation, a black and white photograph of archaeologists sitting on the ground in a group chatting, next to black writting on a white background which says 'Piercing Together Past Human Encounters with Death: a theory and practice of archaeology'
May 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Bit late to the party here but finally have a copy & it's a fabulous read! 50 LGBTQ+ Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by @benpaites.bsky.social, copies available from www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-fin... #archaeology
Front cover of Ben Paite's book which has a black background with the title 50 LGBTQ+ Finds in white and gold lettering, and underneath an image of a copper alloy bust of Antinous.
May 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Really enjoyed #CIfA2025 and especially the 'Crossing the Divide' session where it was great to represent the Study Group for Roman Pottery www.romanpotterystudy.org.uk (on FB and IG, not here yet) #archaeology #pottery #roman @cifa-ec.bsky.social
Auditorium stage with 7 panel members and large display screen showing the opening slide of the Study Group for Roman Pottery presentation with the title, Crossing the Divide: not just empty vessels but the glue that binds a fragmented profession?
May 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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...baby bells do have the added advantage of a strenghening outer wax layer, so having luckily purchased a bag of spares, anticipating some teething problems, I give you a sort-of edible #DodechaBakeOff entry in cheese, with added inverted ice-gems for the knobs.
Baby bell cheeses still in wax wrappers, assembled in a dodechahedron shape, with inverted iced-gem biscuits for decoration.
April 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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But quickly led to frustration...in hindsight cheese was probably not the best medium to choose, and baby belles were frankly the lazy choice. However....
Collapased pile of unwrapped babybell cheeses, each with a hole through the centre and many protruding cocktail sticks
April 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Ok @tessmachling.bsky.social you asked...the learning cycle was extreme with this entry for the #DodechaBakeOff - it started so promisingly well....
Twelve unwrapped baby bell cheeses laid out in a flat dodechahedron pattern
April 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Todays reading (long train journey) - love my research topic 🥰 #roman #childhood #archaeology #pottery #breastfeeding #mothers
Two books are shown, the first is Eating and drinking in roman Britain by Hilary Cool and the second book is Milk, an intimate bistory of humanity's first food by Joanna Wolfarth.
January 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Annual Winter Solstice/Saturnalia celebrations with the wonderful folks at @butserancientfarm.co.uk
Image is of woodfire in a hearth Man dressed as a Roman, with festive headress and glassnof wine i side a replica Roman villa Windowsil in replica Roman villa, wooden shutters are closed, ivy and foliage on windowsil surrounding a lantern light by candlelight
December 21, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Ok #roman #pottery people, any ideas pls as to whats caused the dimple impressions on these clay plates from a kiln site? They sort of look like hobnail impressions? On more than one plate so not accidental? If not accidental then why? Any ideas @sherdnerd.bsky.social @pottedhistory.bsky.social ?
Image shows a fragment of fired clay used in a roman kiln. The fragment has small round dimple impressions on one surface.
December 4, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Well these finger smears preserved in the clay lining by a roman potter when constructing their kiln c.AD270 are rather lovely #pottery #archaeology
Framents of fired clay used to line a roman pottery kiln in Britain, dated to AD270 to 300. The fragments show deep smoothed grooves on one surface where someone pulled their fingers through the wet clay when lining the kiln.
November 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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Another day, another pile of sherds with varying degrees of flint, with varying degrees of sand....not a diagnostic sherd in sight! How are other #sherdnerds faring today 😂 #archaeology
November 20, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Something beautiful and shiny to brighten up a cold wet day here in the UK...these lovelies were made by @tessmachling.bsky.social a women of many talents & I am so looking forward to displaying them, they make me smile just looking at them!
Image shows a small box containing a number of replic arrow heads, painted in a variety of bright metallic colours, with matching ribbons attached so they can be hung up as decorations.
November 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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The samian sherd that had been repaired using glue AND lead can be seen here, top right. To read more see: Marter Brown, K & Seager Smith R 'What did the apocrypha know? Glued pottery vessels from Springhead and other Romano-British sites in south and eastern England.'
Slide image of four roman pottery sherds that have each been repaired in antiquity using birch bark glue. The glue is seen adhering to the broken edge of the sherds. The slide is from a presentation by Kayt Brown (now Hawkins) and Rachael Seager Smith given at the Theoretical Archaeology Conferene in 2010
November 18, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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This was a nice suprise this morning, '50 Finds from Childhood' in the window at P&G Wells with fellow local authors Alice Hunt & @iandunt.bsky.social ☺️
Photograph of bookshop window display of three books, How Westminster Works by Ian Dunt, 50 Finds of Childhood by Kayt Hawkins, and Republic by Alice Hunt.
November 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Wonderful day with pottery colleagues at the Study Group for Roman Pottery annual conference! Feeling inspired and have a list of questions to follow up on Monday 🤣
Photo of the Study Group for Roman Pottery president welcoming all the delegates to Mikton Keynes, UK
October 14, 2023 at 6:37 PM
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How's your day going? #catsatwork #archaeologycats
Photo of tabby cat lying in an empty archaeological finds cardboard box lid
September 27, 2023 at 10:28 AM
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Went to see A Haunting in Venice when it opened on Friday and its still popping into my head. Grew up watching Poirot, uncertain of Brannagh, but this, this was wonderfully atmospheric & creepy & perfect for autumn. Now I want to go back to Venice even more (despite the spookiness).
Film advertising photo for A Haunting in Venice. Image has black background with the five main characters each holding a single candle to illuminate their faces.
September 22, 2023 at 8:39 AM