Dr Tom Elliot
@t-elliot.bsky.social
Historic England Science Advisor for the West Mids, Gloucs, S. Gloucs and Bristol. LA-ICP-MS, Lithic Sourcing, Machine Learning, and the Mesolithic.
Hi Sue, we're off today but please feel free to come tomorrow if you're about!
July 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hi Sue, we're off today but please feel free to come tomorrow if you're about!
Please do! Feel free to call in if you're about too!
June 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Please do! Feel free to call in if you're about too!
We're lucky this year (so far) - the breeze is offering more respite than the 2023 heat wave. We finished at half 3 today so definitely solving the looking parched bit 🍻! Feel free to call in!
June 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We're lucky this year (so far) - the breeze is offering more respite than the 2023 heat wave. We finished at half 3 today so definitely solving the looking parched bit 🍻! Feel free to call in!
I hope you don't mind Chris, but there is a fundraiser for conservation efforts (plus loads of photos from the cave) here:
fodccag.org.uk/redhouse-con...
fodccag.org.uk/redhouse-con...
Forest of Dean Cave Conservation and Access Group
fodccag.org.uk
May 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I hope you don't mind Chris, but there is a fundraiser for conservation efforts (plus loads of photos from the cave) here:
fodccag.org.uk/redhouse-con...
fodccag.org.uk/redhouse-con...
Donation drive for funding conservation measure: fodccag.org.uk/redhouse-con...
Forest of Dean Cave Conservation and Access Group
fodccag.org.uk
May 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Donation drive for funding conservation measure: fodccag.org.uk/redhouse-con...
I was just about to say when I saw your first post - please feel free to message about this - I've been having similar conversations with other colleagues in the region.
April 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I was just about to say when I saw your first post - please feel free to message about this - I've been having similar conversations with other colleagues in the region.
Oh I see what you mean now. Maybe a tool for taking the pith out of nettles or similar? That might explain the diagonal/ transverse wear marks. Then perhaps it was also used with the nettle stems going along the grooves, causing the rounding at the groove ends?
January 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Oh I see what you mean now. Maybe a tool for taking the pith out of nettles or similar? That might explain the diagonal/ transverse wear marks. Then perhaps it was also used with the nettle stems going along the grooves, causing the rounding at the groove ends?