Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
Archaeologist & Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology at UCL, where we run the PaPa MSc programme.
Researching Neanderthal archaeology in La Mancheland & Western Doggerland, from Boxgrove to La Cotte.
Provide Geoarch expertise to ASE.
He/Him 🏺
Researching Neanderthal archaeology in La Mancheland & Western Doggerland, from Boxgrove to La Cotte.
Provide Geoarch expertise to ASE.
He/Him 🏺
Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
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Yes I do own a copy of Elizabeth David and Larousse, but can't help keep on coming back to Floyd. 🍷
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Yes I do own a copy of Elizabeth David and Larousse, but can't help keep on coming back to Floyd. 🍷
It was wonderful to be in a positive & friendly @sussexpast.bsky.social conference with some of the best humans in Sussex Archaeology.
Also brilliant to see so many @archsoutheast.bsky.social colleagues and see our collective contribution making an impact. Terrible selfie, you had to be there. 🏺🦣
Also brilliant to see so many @archsoutheast.bsky.social colleagues and see our collective contribution making an impact. Terrible selfie, you had to be there. 🏺🦣
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It was wonderful to be in a positive & friendly @sussexpast.bsky.social conference with some of the best humans in Sussex Archaeology.
Also brilliant to see so many @archsoutheast.bsky.social colleagues and see our collective contribution making an impact. Terrible selfie, you had to be there. 🏺🦣
Also brilliant to see so many @archsoutheast.bsky.social colleagues and see our collective contribution making an impact. Terrible selfie, you had to be there. 🏺🦣
Getting ready to conference with @sussexpast.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Getting ready to conference with @sussexpast.bsky.social
I made it outside.
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I made it outside.
I normally start Sunday with a run, but I'm tired and it's raining so I've ended up starting with a Skyrim dungeon.
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I normally start Sunday with a run, but I'm tired and it's raining so I've ended up starting with a Skyrim dungeon.
For All Hallow's Eve. A witches bottle found buried just outside Michelham Priory.
It contained pins & remains of a wax effigy.
It was created as a magical act, either to curse someone or to protect from a malignant influence. Currently contained, and on display, in the main house. #FindsFriday
It contained pins & remains of a wax effigy.
It was created as a magical act, either to curse someone or to protect from a malignant influence. Currently contained, and on display, in the main house. #FindsFriday
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
For All Hallow's Eve. A witches bottle found buried just outside Michelham Priory.
It contained pins & remains of a wax effigy.
It was created as a magical act, either to curse someone or to protect from a malignant influence. Currently contained, and on display, in the main house. #FindsFriday
It contained pins & remains of a wax effigy.
It was created as a magical act, either to curse someone or to protect from a malignant influence. Currently contained, and on display, in the main house. #FindsFriday
I've been insulating the office I have in my garage, it now has the potential to be comfy through the winter. I won't have to work in hat and gloves. It's been a fun build, sobering to think it'll probably be ripped out in a few decades, but I hope someone enjoys the space after me for a bit.
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I've been insulating the office I have in my garage, it now has the potential to be comfy through the winter. I won't have to work in hat and gloves. It's been a fun build, sobering to think it'll probably be ripped out in a few decades, but I hope someone enjoys the space after me for a bit.
And we can be fairly certain that Palaeolithic people were not in fact preferring Holborn, Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Mayfair over Bayswater, Knightsbridge and Paddington. So what has given rise to this mapped distribution pattern? Recent historical geography I assume.🏺🦣
#PalaeoLondon
#PalaeoLondon
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
And we can be fairly certain that Palaeolithic people were not in fact preferring Holborn, Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Mayfair over Bayswater, Knightsbridge and Paddington. So what has given rise to this mapped distribution pattern? Recent historical geography I assume.🏺🦣
#PalaeoLondon
#PalaeoLondon
Another situation in Ealing. The mapped deposits aren't the limit of the potential. In fact it's simplistic to assume direct association of the artefacts mapped on the terrace with the fluvial deposits themselves.
October 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Another situation in Ealing. The mapped deposits aren't the limit of the potential. In fact it's simplistic to assume direct association of the artefacts mapped on the terrace with the fluvial deposits themselves.
Stoke Newington is a good example of the understandable limits of @bgs.ac.uk mapping. Beige polygons are mapped Ice Age sediments, red dot are stone artefacts from the Ice Age. We know Abney Park and Stanford Hill have these deposits, the artefacts help to map their presence.🦣🏺
#FindsFriday
#FindsFriday
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Stoke Newington is a good example of the understandable limits of @bgs.ac.uk mapping. Beige polygons are mapped Ice Age sediments, red dot are stone artefacts from the Ice Age. We know Abney Park and Stanford Hill have these deposits, the artefacts help to map their presence.🦣🏺
#FindsFriday
#FindsFriday
Rainbow over The Crick, The British Library and St Pancras station. 🌈
October 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Rainbow over The Crick, The British Library and St Pancras station. 🌈
Rainbow over The Crick, The British Library and St Pancras station. 🌈
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Rainbow over The Crick, The British Library and St Pancras station. 🌈
We couldn't do everything we do without a good wall planner. This time of year I get a new one, cut Oct, Nov and Dec off, and add the remainder to the last few months of this year. Ready to make plans for fieldwork, travel and other stuff in 2026 📆
October 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We couldn't do everything we do without a good wall planner. This time of year I get a new one, cut Oct, Nov and Dec off, and add the remainder to the last few months of this year. Ready to make plans for fieldwork, travel and other stuff in 2026 📆
To mark the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings here are four Sussex scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry:
1. Bosham Church.
2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey.
3. Castle built at Hastings
4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺
1. Bosham Church.
2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey.
3. Castle built at Hastings
4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
To mark the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings here are four Sussex scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry:
1. Bosham Church.
2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey.
3. Castle built at Hastings
4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺
1. Bosham Church.
2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey.
3. Castle built at Hastings
4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺
Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
October 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
October 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
Thank you to everyone who helped me with this but esp to the person who provided the key files that unlocked the correct symbiology 🙏. Some glitches but, behold, the Ice Age sedimentary coverage of Greater London. 🦣🏺
October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thank you to everyone who helped me with this but esp to the person who provided the key files that unlocked the correct symbiology 🙏. Some glitches but, behold, the Ice Age sedimentary coverage of Greater London. 🦣🏺
Asking in a little bit of desperation, does anyone know how to unify the colours for BGS mapping polygons or point me in the direction of some help? I've hit a wall, even though I know I've done it before. Is the a file I need to apply?
What I have now is funky but not helpful. @bgs.ac.uk? 🙏
What I have now is funky but not helpful. @bgs.ac.uk? 🙏
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Asking in a little bit of desperation, does anyone know how to unify the colours for BGS mapping polygons or point me in the direction of some help? I've hit a wall, even though I know I've done it before. Is the a file I need to apply?
What I have now is funky but not helpful. @bgs.ac.uk? 🙏
What I have now is funky but not helpful. @bgs.ac.uk? 🙏
Waning but still awesomely beautiful.
October 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Waning but still awesomely beautiful.
If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
I now but hadn't knowingly come across this book before. Authored by the anonymous OS Archaeology Division (does that still exist?), It's a fifth edition originating from Crawford's "Notes on Archaeology..."
The cover design is wonderful and its just begging to be adapted by @scarfolk.bsky.social 🏺
The cover design is wonderful and its just begging to be adapted by @scarfolk.bsky.social 🏺
October 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I now but hadn't knowingly come across this book before. Authored by the anonymous OS Archaeology Division (does that still exist?), It's a fifth edition originating from Crawford's "Notes on Archaeology..."
The cover design is wonderful and its just begging to be adapted by @scarfolk.bsky.social 🏺
The cover design is wonderful and its just begging to be adapted by @scarfolk.bsky.social 🏺
Able to get to Lewes tomorrow? It's you last chance to visit this evocative sound installation. It's celebrating the journey and history of early 20th century structures, and their role in the first world war, before they are lost for ever.
October 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Able to get to Lewes tomorrow? It's you last chance to visit this evocative sound installation. It's celebrating the journey and history of early 20th century structures, and their role in the first world war, before they are lost for ever.
It was the head of the fawn, ibex or chamois from the Maz d'Azil spear thrower.
Photo: Don Hiscock 2008
Photo: Don Hiscock 2008
October 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It was the head of the fawn, ibex or chamois from the Maz d'Azil spear thrower.
Photo: Don Hiscock 2008
Photo: Don Hiscock 2008