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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
#Solstice #SummerSolstice #Shropshire #BronzeAge
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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
Having the likes of the Somerset HERs and Archwilio as readily available public interfaces as they are has made doing my PhD SO much easier in places. Neither are perfect, but they're pretty close!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In an ideal world the entire HER for England would be homogenised and be fully interactive with a public interface. I know some individual county/regional HERs have managed this to varying degrees of success, but HeritageGateway can be a nightmare to navigate.
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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
Normally I'd agree, but the perfect, warm, still conditions, with church bells peeling and yellowhammers, black caps, blackbirds, thrushes (and the rest) singing away... the quiet was quite something. A quintessential Englishness that even this Welshman could give in to!
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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
"Don't attempt anything without the gloves!"
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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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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The stone at the end of the world!
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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
@drclairenolan.bsky.social, I got about a quarter of the way through A Crown of Lights, was really enjoying it, then got distracted with working away and have yet to pick it back up (I did say I was crap at reading fiction!) but I'll finish it one day, I promise!
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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
She was very well behaved, let's put it that way!
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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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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Still high on my to-do list, there was a soundscape installation a few years ago but I got caught up in other events elsewhere - one day!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This was one of the books given to me after I finished my high school work experience placement with my local archaeology office! A must have
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Do you ever get people pretending they're Pink Floyd?
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Sometimes all you can do is wave from a distance!
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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
Just checked - not on the HER
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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 · 12/03/2025
Never been to the top of any of the Clees!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Oooh, tricky... I want to say Corndon but I'm not so sure
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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
Ah, I forgot you were on here too!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
And lastly Jessica Domiczew on recent works as part of the redevelopment of Aberystwyth University's Old College on the seafront. All will be available on YouTube on the Heneb and RCAHMW channels soon!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Next, Luke Jenkins on the joint Dyfed Arch Trust - RCAHMW runaway success community project at Pen Dinas hillfort outside Aberystwyth
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
And now an afternoon from @henebtwa.bsky.social's Dyfed office (top bunch!), with Ken Murphy on 40 years of archaeological works at Gogerddan near Aberystwyth
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More from RCAHMW, with James January-McCann and his work on Historic Welsh Placenames
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Next Louise Barker of RCAHMW on Coastal Lime Kilns of Ceredigion
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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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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There are some incredible photos of the excavation of the one on Pen y Fan in 1992 on Archwilio. CPAT enlisted the help of the army, using a helicopter to transport all their equipment and a shed up to the top!
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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
Well, I didn't know that!
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Jack Rowe @archaeorowe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Never seen site written as scite before!
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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 · 18/02/2025
I was about to comment, a bit mad that a breed remain so recognisable 2,000 years later!
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