Edmund Simons
@tunky-pig.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Heritage Management, Buildings Archaeologist, Oldthingologist, Anthropospelæologist
All opinions my own
All opinions my own
Easy LB description to AI any guesses?
June 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Easy LB description to AI any guesses?
Enjoying putting listed building descriptions into AI. It’s not bad, but can’t get phasing or weathering, everything looks 19th c (too much American data?).
Easy one, what building is this?
Easy one, what building is this?
June 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Enjoying putting listed building descriptions into AI. It’s not bad, but can’t get phasing or weathering, everything looks 19th c (too much American data?).
Easy one, what building is this?
Easy one, what building is this?
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Pleased to announce the launch of another book in The North Atlantic World Series. ‘Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c900-1300’
@brepols.net @thinkuhi.bsky.social
See blog institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/05/29/n...
@brepols.net @thinkuhi.bsky.social
See blog institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/05/29/n...
New Book Launched in the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Hosted North Atlantic World Series
The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is pleased to announce the launch of another book in The North Atlantic World Series. ‘Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c900-1300…
institutefornorthernstudies.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Pleased to announce the launch of another book in The North Atlantic World Series. ‘Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c900-1300’
@brepols.net @thinkuhi.bsky.social
See blog institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/05/29/n...
@brepols.net @thinkuhi.bsky.social
See blog institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/05/29/n...
Beautiful, early 16thc linenfold doors, falling apart and being eaten by beasties! I won’t say where to save the blushes of the parishioners…. But really! #AdoorableThursday
May 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Beautiful, early 16thc linenfold doors, falling apart and being eaten by beasties! I won’t say where to save the blushes of the parishioners…. But really! #AdoorableThursday
Nordy Bank hillfort, Clee Hill, Shropshire, you can see about a billion other hillforts from here
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
May 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Nordy Bank hillfort, Clee Hill, Shropshire, you can see about a billion other hillforts from here
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
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....it a truly unique object.
On display at Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz.
🧵2/2
On display at Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz.
🧵2/2
May 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
....it a truly unique object.
On display at Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz.
🧵2/2
On display at Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz.
🧵2/2
Wise words from behind the organ
May 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Wise words from behind the organ
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Covid in the landscape. This double path never existed until Covid and we were asked to walk a metre apart. People switch between paths now. How long will it take for those two paths to fade back into the landscape.
April 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Covid in the landscape. This double path never existed until Covid and we were asked to walk a metre apart. People switch between paths now. How long will it take for those two paths to fade back into the landscape.
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This is maybe a timely reminder that not everyone working in heritage has the same levels of access to academic resources & archives. As much as we'd want it to be - the heritage sector is NOT a level playing field.
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Reduce the barriers to open archaeological research and advance knowledge of our shared human past.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is maybe a timely reminder that not everyone working in heritage has the same levels of access to academic resources & archives. As much as we'd want it to be - the heritage sector is NOT a level playing field.
Support open access in archaeology, reduce barriers to research (see link below).
Support open access in archaeology, reduce barriers to research (see link below).
I’m slightly obsessed with decaying medieval churches, but sometimes the scale and rate of loss becomes all too apparent.
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’m slightly obsessed with decaying medieval churches, but sometimes the scale and rate of loss becomes all too apparent.
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Feeling immensely reassured that AI won't take all our jobs.
March 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Feeling immensely reassured that AI won't take all our jobs.
Indeed!
I do wish "journalists" would stop describing Tom Holland as an "historian". AFAIK, he's never produced a single piece of original peer-reviewed research. Publishing books drawing on other people's original research does not make you "an historian", it makes you a writer. See also, Dan Snow.
British Museum is right to keep Parthenon marbles, says new trustee
Historian Dr Tiffany Jenkins is one of the lineup of new appointees that has raised cultural and historical hackles
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Indeed!
This is a VERY exciting photo! Beavers! After a gap of 800 years
March 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is a VERY exciting photo! Beavers! After a gap of 800 years
Now a Wetherspoons, so still providing bizarre entertainments
Can we interest you in a sample of Mr Ingleby's pancakes for #ShroveTuesday which are fit for any Gentleman's table?
March 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Now a Wetherspoons, so still providing bizarre entertainments
Saint Non’s Bay, next to the birthplace of David, monastic pioneer and a link between the Christian Roman world and the Middle Ages. Happy Saint David’s Day
March 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Saint Non’s Bay, next to the birthplace of David, monastic pioneer and a link between the Christian Roman world and the Middle Ages. Happy Saint David’s Day
A site I haven’t been to in ages, but which retains its appeal. Bit modern, (18thc) but with some amazing literary associations (not the one you would think).
February 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A site I haven’t been to in ages, but which retains its appeal. Bit modern, (18thc) but with some amazing literary associations (not the one you would think).
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Vi starter tråden op igen her med den gamle kirkeportal fra Ål stavkirke, som dateres til 1100-tallet. Kirken blev revet i 1880, mens portalen blev flyttet til museet i Oslo.
January 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Vi starter tråden op igen her med den gamle kirkeportal fra Ål stavkirke, som dateres til 1100-tallet. Kirken blev revet i 1880, mens portalen blev flyttet til museet i Oslo.
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I am afraid that culture-historical archaeology’s “pots=people” is being transformed into “genes=people”. We need more critical handling of the data. Story telling yes, but not every story has a good background.
January 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I am afraid that culture-historical archaeology’s “pots=people” is being transformed into “genes=people”. We need more critical handling of the data. Story telling yes, but not every story has a good background.
helmet, with eyebrow ridges and nasal, but Iron Age and from Britain…. Ermmm… not Late Roman or vendel, Sassanid or even bloody Saxon! This is superbly, beautifully weird. Funny ear vent too, like Late Roman, is the dating right?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare Iron Age helmet revealed among Snettisham Hoards finds
Fewer than 10 Iron Age helmets have been found in Britain, so the discovery delights experts.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
helmet, with eyebrow ridges and nasal, but Iron Age and from Britain…. Ermmm… not Late Roman or vendel, Sassanid or even bloody Saxon! This is superbly, beautifully weird. Funny ear vent too, like Late Roman, is the dating right?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tenbury Wells wonderful 19th century round market hall for #Adoorable Thursday
January 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tenbury Wells wonderful 19th century round market hall for #Adoorable Thursday
A beautifully creepy weird frost day.
January 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A beautifully creepy weird frost day.
What’s the origin of this idea that people believed that the sun might not come back, so had they had to have fires at midwinter? It seems awfully condescending.
Is the origin of the story the horrors of 536? Or is it some classical author sneering at barbarians, or some 19th century conceit?
Is the origin of the story the horrors of 536? Or is it some classical author sneering at barbarians, or some 19th century conceit?
December 21, 2024 at 9:48 AM
What’s the origin of this idea that people believed that the sun might not come back, so had they had to have fires at midwinter? It seems awfully condescending.
Is the origin of the story the horrors of 536? Or is it some classical author sneering at barbarians, or some 19th century conceit?
Is the origin of the story the horrors of 536? Or is it some classical author sneering at barbarians, or some 19th century conceit?
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'Friedhöfe' #FotoVorschlag #TombTuesday
St.-Peters-Friedhof
Ringsum ist Felseneinsamkeit.
Des Todes bleiche Blumen schauern
Auf Gräbern, die im Dunkel trauern —
Doch diese Trauer hat kein Leid...
Trakl
St.-Peters-Friedhof
Ringsum ist Felseneinsamkeit.
Des Todes bleiche Blumen schauern
Auf Gräbern, die im Dunkel trauern —
Doch diese Trauer hat kein Leid...
Trakl
December 10, 2024 at 8:48 PM
'Friedhöfe' #FotoVorschlag #TombTuesday
St.-Peters-Friedhof
Ringsum ist Felseneinsamkeit.
Des Todes bleiche Blumen schauern
Auf Gräbern, die im Dunkel trauern —
Doch diese Trauer hat kein Leid...
Trakl
St.-Peters-Friedhof
Ringsum ist Felseneinsamkeit.
Des Todes bleiche Blumen schauern
Auf Gräbern, die im Dunkel trauern —
Doch diese Trauer hat kein Leid...
Trakl
I have the pleasure of working on the beautiful round market at Tenbury Wells. A glorious example of Victorian practicality.
December 10, 2024 at 7:09 PM
I have the pleasure of working on the beautiful round market at Tenbury Wells. A glorious example of Victorian practicality.
Underground places that have possible associations with Early Medieval saints are irresistible, so looking forward to exploring this enigmatic, eremitic probable souterrain in central Birmingham.
December 4, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Underground places that have possible associations with Early Medieval saints are irresistible, so looking forward to exploring this enigmatic, eremitic probable souterrain in central Birmingham.