Very exciting to evidence of lead extraction/trading & use in the Bronze Age - a great find from Norfolk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the excavating neolithic long cairns last week, it’s back to industrial landscape surveys this week
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Another great season at Arthur’s Stone has finished - some great discoveries made this year, including evidence of quarrying within the avenue leading to the monument. Is this where the capstone has come from?
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A wet and stormy day at Arthur’s Stone - tracking the avenue and quarrying near to the monument in this trench straight onto bedrock
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New trench opened at Arthur’s Stone looking for the continuation of the timber and stone avenue

Deturfing begins at Arthur’s Stone for the 2025 season

A small gunnis on the Tin Coast leading to some primitive stoping

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Stratigraphy of the bank of an eluvial streamwork on East Moor, Altarnun
#archaeology #bodminmoor #industriallandscape

Boswens Menhir, West Penwith

Featured in #Enysmen by Mark Jenkin

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Oh. My. Goodness.

This is TRULY stunning! A Bronze Age goldworker's hoard.... and will you *look* at that anvil!!! 😍

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(P.S. Well done to the detectorist who stopped immediately, called the specialists, which meant the whole hoard was lifted in a block)

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The ramparts of Kenidjack Head coastal promontory fort in West Penwith

4 days surveying, 2 computer crashes, and a full hard-drive; my East Pool boiler house survey is complete!

Second day surveying the Boiler House at East Pool Mine - plan beginning to come together now

West Wheal Owles taken on Harman Phoenix 200