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Tansy Branscombe
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📚Editor of archaeology books at BAR Publishing. Send me a DM to chat about new book ideas or proposals!

🏺Dr of Archaeological Science - archaeological marine carbonates and palaeothermometry.
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More molluscs! 🐚🎊 @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social #Europa2025Reading
Photo of Martin Bell presenting PowerPoint slide including a diagram of terrestrial mollusc presence/absence over time at Lyminge, alongside absolute dating on those molluscs.
June 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It's time for Martin Bell's Europa Lecture! Looking forward to learning all about landscape connectivity in Prehistory 🏺 @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social #Europa2025Reading
Martin Bell presents a PowerPoint slide. On the left is a photo of a woodland path and on the right is a map showing an entangled connection of routes.
June 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Very excited to see some molluscan representation at the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social's Europa conference! Nick Barton is presenting on connectivity in the Mesolithic landscape, including shell beads from Mesolithic sites in South Wales 🐚🏺 #Europa2025Reading
Photo of lecture theatre, including the back of some heads in front of a screen showing a photo of King Arthur's cave with images of cowrie and periwinkle artefacts. Nick Barton stands behind a lectern on the left of the photo.
June 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Isles of Scilly/St Ives
A warm coloured bouldery rock face, with craggy rounded surfaces and lots of lichen. The top of a lighthouse poke out behind the rocks. A residential alleyway in St Ives. The houses are old and traditional, and a mix of stone and lime wash. The photo looks down the alley with houses either side, and there is a lot of sand on the cobbles which has blown in from the beach.
February 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Almost left it too late for a Christmas #HillfortsWednesday! I give you Castell Nadolig (Christmas Castle), an #IronAge Hillfort in Ceredigion and home of the Penbryn Spoons 🎄🏰🏺
rcahmw.gov.uk/castell-nado...
📸: Crown copyright RCAHMW
Aerial image of a hill fort. A central circular field enclosure on top of the hill is surrounded by a wider circle of fields. Fields are all green grass, and a road cuts through the bottom of the hill towards the bottom of the picture.
December 25, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁🐾
A black greyhound wearing a very large red and green sequined Christmas bow on her head.
December 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Waiting in Lands End airport in the hopes that some flights may eventually leave today. Keep your fingers crossed and pray to Boreas for me! 🎄🤞🏻
Small SkyBus plane stationary from the airport window.
December 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Some great auk representation at the Association for Environmental Archaeology conference today!
#archaeology 🏺
Conference presentation being given. Screen shows a picture of each of the British auk species in ascending size order.
December 13, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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A #MosaicMonday from Chedworth Roman villa 🏺

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Patterned Roman mosaic. There is a grid of meandering geometric pattern, alternating with squares of knotwork. On one side there is a border of leafy swirls on either side of a central vase full of leaves. Closer to the camera there are various knotwork and geometric borders.
December 2, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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A lovely (if very wet) archaeological tour around Chester this afternoon, courtesy of Peter Carrington @chesterarchsoc.bsky.social 🏺
Black and white timber framed buildings in Chester city centre. Photo taken in the late afternoon when the light was fading so the Christmas lights are on overhead and the shop windows are warm and glowing. Circular mosaic on the Roman gardens in Chester. Details of the mosaic aren't quite visible, but the mosaic is surrounded by autumnal orange leaves. Photo of the Roman amphitheatre in Chester taken from the city walls. You can see the curve of the outer and inner walls, with red brick Victorian buildings behind. Photo of the steps leading up to Eastgate clock in Chester. Tightly framed by historic buildings on either side. The clock is elaborate with a copper roof and red backing, with gold letters that read VR 1897.
November 22, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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#findsfriday 🏺 I'm on the way to Chester for Reconnecting Roman Britain, so a find held in the Grosvenor seems appropriate! Carnelian intaglio in a later Roman or Early Medieval silver pendant setting. The image shows a fallen gladiator fending off a big cat. 📷: @findsorguk.bsky.social
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Oval orange gem intaglio with a crude depiction of a fallen soldier. The soldier is sitting on the ground, wearing a helmet and holding up a shield. To the right, a big cat - possibly a panther - rears up towards the shield. It is held in a silver setting with an intact bail or loop for suspending as a pendant.
November 22, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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I'm very much looking forward to catching up with all the #romanbritain folks at the Reconnecting Roman Britain conference in Chester this weekend. I have my promo leaflets all ready for @clairemillington.bsky.social's new book! Come find me or Claire for a special 25% off pre-order 🏺
Hand holding a pile of marketing flyer for the forthcoming title 'Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa: Latin inscriptions, Vindolanda letters, and praetorium archaeology.'
November 21, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Got my trusty @traj-journal.bsky.social bookmark for my evening read 📖
A book open to chapter 12 with a book mark lying on top. The Bookmark has a black and white picture of some classical columns, and below reads TRAJ Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, along with a short paragraph of information on the journal.
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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This morning in Oxford ❄️
Photo of light show, maybe a couple cm, over the college buildings and gardens by Christchurch meadow.
November 19, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Thank you @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social for being the kind of museum that actually makes me want to learn new things again! 🏺
Photo of the Mary Rose shipwreck indoors in the Mary Rose museum hall. Around half of the ship is preserved. It is all made of wooden planks. Three decks can be seen in cross section.
November 18, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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I bought this ruler at the @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social a few weeks ago, and now I can name all the English monarchs in order from 1066 onwards. No one in my life (outside my husband) is very excited about this new knowledge, but my inner history-obsessed child is so very happy!
Hand holding a British history wooden ruler. On the ruler is a list of English monarchs and their ruling dates.
November 18, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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Hello bluesky! I am an archaeologist and editor at @bar-publishing.bsky.social. Looking forward to finding some new people here, mostly around #archaeology. You can expect sporadic-at-best interaction, and occasional dog photos (say hello to my greyhound Gwyn, pics below!)
November 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM