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Jack Rowe

@archaeorowe.bsky.social
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#Archaeology PhD, 'Exploring human movement on and around #Neolithic landscapes in western Britain' @UniversityofBradford c. 2 years experience as Community Archaeologist #Mendip #WaltonBasin he/him Quotes Withnail and I a little too often

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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
With the start of the new academic year, a topical way of showing first years the distinction between Terminus Post Quem and Terminus Ante Quem. (Source: Middle England Male, Facebook)
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Did anybody else in the Mid Wales - Shropshire area feel an earth tremor last night at about 00:40? Was as if my neighbours were slamming a barn door at the far end of our semi-detached houses!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Haven't done a #HillfortsWednesday for ages got up to Ffridd Faldwyn overlooking the upper Severn Valley by Montgomery yesterday. The views north to Y Gaer, the Breidden, Beacon Ring etc were expected, but not west to Cefn Carnedd further up the Severn by Caersws, really reaching into Wales.
Outer ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort in Wales overlooking the dry valley of Llandyssil.  It's an overcast day, as usual.A zoomed in and cropped portion of the same photo - rolling fields leading to wooded valley slopes with a looming dark dome-shaped hill micu further in the distance, the location of Cefn Carnedd hillfort
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Belated Solsticemas from Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle yesterday morning. Never thought of Mitchell's Fold as having any solar alignments but the way the sun rose perfectly behind the cairn on the southern peak of nearby Stapeley Hill... I'm sold. Shared with curlews, skylarks, people, and dogs.
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
80 years ago today. And the sun is shining!!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Forgot I had this! Hope Basil and Joan enjoyed many long years together on Mendip
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Repost thys to celebrate the Birthedaye of the lovelye Will Shaksper
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Remembering sunnier days watching the 2022 Summer Solstice sunset from Hambledon Hill, on my way back from the Prehistoric Society conference in Bournemouth. Still the most incredible hillfort (and causewayed enclosure) I've visited! The scale of the ramparts is just bonkers. #HillfortsWednesday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Liz Truss, our most useless and inept PM, met with Queen Elizabeth II, who promptly popped it two days later. JD Vance, who continues to show himself up for his ineptitude, met Pope Francis only YESTERDAY, and the pontiff has popped it today. Are these people not washing their hands or something?!
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
#StandingStoneSunday the magnificent entrance stones of the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age Swinside stone circle in the Lake District The great circle occupies a levelled terrace on a hillside & commands spectacular landscape views 📷 My own 2023
Two large brown stones stand either side of an entrance gap, with hills beyond
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Looking up along a prehistoric highway with the Walton Basin #Neolithic landscape tucked just behind the imposing Burfa Bank hillfort, the dark rounded hill right of centre, in last week's glorious sun. #HillfortsWednesday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
At a glance, instead of my brain going straight to chocolate as it would any normal person with this week's Guardian insert, mine went to the Porcellanite #Neolithic polished stone axes from Tievebulliagh, Northern Ireland.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Just another average Sunday at the amphitheatre in Dorchester #Dorset 👍 #Gladiators #RomanWeekend
Gladiators in Maumbury Rings Dorchester Dorset April 2025
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Dotty saying hello to her first stone circle, Mitchell's Fold #StandingStoneSunday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Spotted this interesting looking stone on the far side of the Ogwen Valley from the A5 yesterday - not been able to check Archwilio yet, could be an old gatepost stone given the gap just along from it, but, possible standing stone? #StandingStoneSunday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Bloody foreign birds, comin over ere, eating our... worms... and....... grubs... www.birdguides.com/news/major-h... (Actually I remember seeing one on holiday in Britanny as a kid and being dead excited!)
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Major Hoopoe influx hits Britain and Ireland
Extraordinary numbers of the colourful bird have been recorded during recent days.
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Oh happy day!! Always a welcome arrival through the post
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Managed to check out Tan-y-Coed #Neolithic tomb in the upper Dee valley over the weekend as I happened to be passing by. Smells suspiciously of Cotswold-Severn type... maybe Capel Garmon isn't the only outlier in North Wales... #TombTuesday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
One of the two Caebetin round barrows, below the Kerry Ridgeway, Mid Wales. Excavations in the 1930s were led by local antiquarian Noel Jarman and found to have a circle of small stakeholes around its perimeter. Not quite a timber circle, but certainly some sort of embellishment. #TombTuesday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
At the National Library of Wales for the #Archaeology open day, with @drtobydriver.bsky.social kicking off with Castell Nadolig #hillfort and the divination spoons
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
He's getting scared he knows the mass protests are coming.
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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I have read #GeraldOfWales account of giant trees off the south coast but #StowsSurvey claims there were about 17 feet below London streets. #history #archaeology
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Jumping on a #MedievalMonday to ask about this section of wall at Castell Dinas Bran above Llangollen, Denbighshire. Why does this left wall have vertically-laid stones? Is it a bit of collapsed or fallen wall that's stuck? None other like it up there, pretty odd, can't work it out.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#HillfortsMonday Always good to be back in mid Wales, passing local landmarks like the remote Dinas hillfort (centre), Ponterwyd, which once overlooked mountain trade routes in prehistoric metal ores
A brown moorland hill in evening light and blue sky beyond
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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hello Archaeologists! Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference! Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions! Find us on: Facebook at TAG 2025 at York X at @TAG2025_York Instagram @tag2025_york #tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Iron Age tribal names Given that the names are latinised versions, does anyone know of anyone who's had a go at attempting to 'celticise' the names back? Obviously ancient language reconstruction is very tricky, but can we get closer? A cheaty #HillfortsWednesday
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Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Research Student Symposium @nebarss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Still thinking of submitting an abstract for our next gathering in April? You have until THIS FRIDAY!! nebarss.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/c...
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Call for Papers 2025
We would very much like to invite you to submit a presentation for NEBARSS 2025, to be held at the University of Bradford on 11th and 12th April (you can find a download link for the submission for…
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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#StandingStoneSunday against fascism… This monolith in Vigo by Francisco Pazos, entitled 'Fiestra á liberdade', stands at the place where barricades were erected in July 1936 to oppose the military uprising against the Spanish republic, in tribute to all who gave their lives in defence of freedom
Night-time view of a standing stone in a city street. The granite monolith has two handprints below a small 'window' at the top.
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The lovely Maen Llia, 4m tall, at the end of the world above Ystradfellte in #BannauBrycheiniog. #StandingStoneSunday
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Oops 😬
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Hint: there's regionally-important archaeological built heritage inspiration here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv... @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social, maybe one for you too
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Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers?
YouTube video by Chris Spargo
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hive mind, a word: Sequencing of the Sanctuary, #Avebury, #Wiltshire (Pollard, 1992) suggests that the central stone (represented by the concrete block here) was *contemporary*, or *concurrent* with the outer two, which represent the end of the West Kennet Avenue. Contemporary, or Concurrent?
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Remember, it pays to open the drawers under display cabinets in museums. Absolute Unit found at @themerl.bsky.social !
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Gwal-y-Filiast chambered tomb, or the She-Wolf's Lair in English, near the Carmarthenshire-Pembrokeshire border, in its wooded setting. So often these monuments are on bare, windswept moors, so it's a great example of how such monuments may have emerged in woodland clearings #StandingStoneSunday
A Neolithic chambered tomb, comprising four orthostats supporting a large capstone, on a slope next to a path (right) in a small clearing in a deciduous woodland setting
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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Heading down to Essex for a few days' work, are there any #Neolithic or #BronzeAge sites worth checking out? I know of Grimes Graves (pictured) but closer to Chelmsford-Colchester area would be ideal! (Image: English Heritage) @peterreavill.bsky.social not too far from your old stomping ground?
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The remaining chamber of the lesser known Penywyrlod long cairn overlooking Hay on Wye, on the Black Mountain range. The better known and better excavated Penywyrlod long cairn is above Talgarth, near Trewalkin, on the cover of Britnell and Whittle's "The First Stones". #StandingStoneSunday
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
theconversation.com/the-yolks-on...
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The yolk’s on you: a brief history of throwing food and drink on people as protest
There is a long history of tossing food at politicians and other controversial figures as a deliciously defiant symbol of objection to their politics and presence in public spaces.
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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 09/01/2025
Calling all experimental archaeologists, experimental research orgs like us, and people who whack rocks and set things on fire, we're making an experimental archaeology starter pack! We know a lot of you but just in case chuck us a reply if you want in 😊
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A screenshot of one of the updates from the Dakar Rally, where a bivouac has been set up - Roman fort, anyone?!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My only ever visit up to #MitchellsFold, #Shropshire, in the snow, a couple of years ago. The only footprints there were my own. #StandingStoneSunday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
When that present you bought for you 6 year old niece wasn't really for your 6 year old niece. To be fair though she was the one who asked me how to build a cathedral!
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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
For #standingstonesunday; a day late solstice trip to Stonehenge
The view of stonehenge from the heel stone with the sun setting behind
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Enough of all this Stonehenge stuff, here's the bigguns at the big site. The Cove, Avebury, last week on my long journey back from TAG. Pretty sure the western stone (right) has been estimated to be the heaviest in Britain at c. 100 tons? #StandingStoneSunday
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In other news... Name That Pub
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Re: TAG, Hodder. I have something to say which I feel is important from this weekend’s #TAG45. It is not about the event itself – the team did an amazing job and it felt so great to be back at TAG for the first time since Chester in 2018. However…
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Loving being at #TAG45 after 6 years since my last one! Touching tributes to two huge losses to our field from Julian Thomas and Win Scutt, and Ian Hodder's riveting keynote on current theoretical approaches to archaeology
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Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Research Student Symposium @nebarss.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We're at #TAG45! Pamphlets are around, if you have any questions or fancy a chat, look out for Jack @archaeorowe.bsky.social who will be around all weekend.
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Late night browsing may have just found me my all time favourite Wikipedia page. And no, not just for the picture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangwn...
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Llangwnnadl - Wikipedia
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
My 5 year old niece's first visit to The Four Stones in the #WaltonBasin. Responding appropriately. #StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic
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