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Cat Lodge

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Archaeologist in South West England. Dog owner, gardener, baker, walker, book lover. Views my own.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BTW, If I hit 10k followers I'll drop one of my classic 1994 Toby the Trowel cartoons... You have been warned 🫣🧐 (ahem...not new AI but old Adobe Illustrator 😉)
Cartoon showing a happy Trowel with eyes
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have I ever said how much I love my job?! 🥰
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📣Young Voices for Heritage – Pathways to Action & Advocacy📣 We invite people aged 18 to 30 who work or volunteer in heritage or environmental sector to take part in some online creative research workshops as part of the Historic England and National Trust ‘Youth Voices in Heritage’ project. 🧵
A poster detailing three creative workshops for people aged 18-30 working in the heritage or environmental sectors with a QR code and link
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 13/08/2026
🧵 Wildfires have burned across the UK, drought has been declared across the whole of Wales and two-thirds of England, while rivers continue to run low...
An image from above, the charred landscape where heathland once stood
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There you go, little one ❤️
A pink and white cosmos flower with a beed on it, and a lawn in the background
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 07/08/2026
🧵 The ancient landscape at Dunwich Heath was devastated by wildfire in a matter of hours last week, but this was not an isolated incident.
A member of the Fire Service directs a fire hose towards flames emerging from burning heathland
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We're into the second week of this year's #FestivalofArchaeology, and what brilliant fun we've had so far! If you haven't had a chance to visit any of our events and activities, there's still plenty to get involved with this week, including: 🏺Artefacts Day at Tattershall Castle - 28 July 🧵
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 24/07/2026
Get your questions in to our team for #AskAnArchaeologist today!
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
*NEWS* Georgian treasures unearthed beneath Bath Assembly Rooms @nationaltrust.org.uk is transforming Bath Assembly Rooms & as part of this work, investigations overseen by Wessex Archaeology have uncovered a fascinating collection of objects hidden beneath the building, which first opened in 1771.
A near complete Georgian ointment pot (NT / James Beck)Rehearsing a Cotilion by Cruickshank (NT / Christopher Warleigh-Lack)Bath Assembly Rooms (NT / James Beck)
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Tomorrow (Friday 24th) National Trust archaeologists will be on hand to answer your questions for #AskAnArchaeologist as part of the #FestivalofArchaeology. It's probably one of our favourite days of the year! Join us here between 9.15am and 4pm. @nationaltrust.org.uk @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Two people digging in a trench with yellow and black tape around the edge which reads 'archaeology'
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 18/07/2026
It’s that time of year we shine a spotlight on the stories often hidden beneath our feet: buff.ly/ARbB1jt The Festival of Archaeology, organised by @archaeologyuk.bsky.social, is here! If you’re curious about finds from your garden or have a desire to dig, you're sure to find an event near you.
An archaeologist helps a child test geophysics equipment on a patch of grass at a National Trust site on a sunny day
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The #FestivalofArchaeology starts tomorrow, Saturday 18 July and runs until Sunday 2 August. Lots of @nationaltrust.org.uk properties are taking part, with staff and volunteers offering a huge range of activities including guided walks, mini excavations, heritage spotter trails and finds handling.
A group of people stood around a table in front of a National Trust property looking at a display of archaeological finds
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Day 1 of #FestivalofArchaeology complete! I spent a few hours earlier today giving guided tours of Stoke-sub-Hamdon Priory and the chantry college complex, and made some new friends! A huge thank you to everyone who came along. @nattrustarch.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
A honey coloured stone building at the back of a gardenA honey coloured stone Medieval building with a chapel, behind a wall and up some stepsA sheep and two goats behind a wire fence, in front of a honey coloured stone barn
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is so wonderful and hopeful. Makes me proud to be an NT member
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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This has been a bit of time coming but so glad its now out in time for #FestivalofArchaeology. A call to #Archaeologists to help tackle the nature crisis. Share your examples of how archaeology has helped nature restoration? @nattrustarch.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
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Press Release | Media
The National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate have launched the ‘Knepp Accord’, a new framework to tackle the nature and climate crisis.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 17/07/2026
"What do we know about a place that could help us make better decisions for nature, climate and people?" This is the question we're asking @nattrustarch.bsky.social because uniting historic landscape knowledge and nature conservation will help tackle the nature and climate crisis. 📷James Dobson
Wide landscape photograph of a large, mature tree with a thick, textured trunk standing in a sunlit meadow of tall golden grass. The tree’s broad green canopy frames the top of the image, while a grassy mound rises in the background with a small figure standing on its crest. Bright sunlight creates patches of shade beneath the tree, with surrounding woodland and a blue-grey sky completing the rural scene.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
'Several disciplines including Arab & Islamic Studies, drama, education, modern languages, English, history, film, politics, philosophy, religion and theology could all see teaching staff reduced by up to a quarter. Anthropology teaching provision could halve.'
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Exeter UCU declares trade dispute over University of Exeter job cuts plan - Exeter Observer
Union threatens strike action if university does not abandon scheme to make 150 academic staff redundant while putting more than 500 staff at risk and jeopardising 85% of humanities, arts and social s...
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Early morning woodland walks are the only option at the moment! Nice to have a decent breeze accompanying us, too!
A small cream dog walking along a woodland path
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In Glasgow for a few days, and whilst visiting Kelvingrove Museum and wandering around the park, we thought we'd see if we could find the site of the Kelvin Wheelies skate park - success! You wouldn't know you'd been here @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social!
A grassed area with railings and tarmac and trees either side, the site of a former skate park in Kelvingrove ParkThe site of a former skate park in Kelvingrove Park, with trees and other vegetation, and also some stone kerbs
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very happy to have met Duke and Baron for the first time yesterday. I've waited a long time for that!
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📣 Britain’s oldest cave art found📣 New research confirms that the earliest known rock art in Britain can be found in Wales, at Bacon Hole, a cave cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk on Gower. 🧵 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
Cave art in Bacon Hole Cave - Credit George Nash
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s #DorsetDay, and what better way to celebrate than exploring Britain’s largest and most iconic chalk figure, the Cerne Abbas Giant, whose origins have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries! 🧵
The iconic Cerne Abbas Giant cut into the chalk hillside
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Really looking forward to delivering the lecture on behalf of @nattrustarch.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This a very exciting job for someone... a cultural heritage landscape curator covering NT places in the North including the Lake District... careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/#/...
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A tantalisingly small fragment of tree root-damaged #Roman floor for #MosaicMonday Part of the entrance to a late 2nd century AD temple at Chanctonbury Ring in West #Sussex Partially revealed and recorded, prior to tree replanting, during a very (very) cold winter 🥶 📷 December 1990
Archaeological excavation revealing part of a damaged Roman mosaic floor with flint wall to the left and top of photo. Black and white metric scale in foreground
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
And I would add: archives, museums
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tag26exeter.bsky.social @tag26exeter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thanks to those who have already submitted session proposals! We have extended the deadline for submission of session proposals to 5 pm, Friday 22nd May, to give time for a few final proposals to come in. Submit your proposals using the form link here: tag2026.square.site/sessions
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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Amazing PhD opportunity working on the archaeology and landscape of Fair Isle. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Snettisham finds in Norwich Castle are mainly from the first discoveries from 1948 ploughing - hoards A (the tubular torcs), B and C (which were mixed hoards of broken material). You can read about the torc finders here: bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/t... 1/2 #Archaeology 🏺
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The torc finders of Snettisham
Since we started working with Iron Age torcs, we’ve always been fascinated by Ray Williamson and Tom Rout, the two East Anglian ploughmen who first found torcs at Snettisham. Usually mentione…
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We’re continuing our theme of #NationalWalkingMonth but combining it with #SomersetDay today! On Saturday 24th and 30th May you can discover thousands of years of history on a free guided walk at Brean Down. Choose from a shorter or longer walk – find out more here: bit.ly/4tnGQES
Brean Down and Brean beach | © National Trust Images/Mike HentonPalmerston Fort at Brean Down | © National Trust Images/John Miller
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
David Attenborough and one of his creations.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I have written a novel! I really hope you like it. It's about Cleopatra and Marcus Antonius - their two stories intertwined - from the blood and mud of the Gallic Wars to the glittering splendour of ancient Alexandria. And you can pre-order it from TODAY linktr.ee/thegoddessqu...
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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · 03/05/2026
**WEBINAR** Photographing Old Buildings - Part Two: Indoor Situations Tony Harding Thursday 14th May - 7.30pm Full details and how to book your place: sanhs.org/event/photog...
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Photographing Old Buildings (Indoor Situations) Part 2: Webinar Lecture by Tony Harding -
In this, the 2nd part of Tony’s webinar on photographing old buildings, he ventures indoors and explores the challenges of working with different types of lighting, capturing essential clues to […]
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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · 04/05/2026
🌿🦊🌼🌳 Discovering the Wildlife of Churches 🌳🌼🦊🌿 Saturday 23rd May - 2.30pm Steve Parker will introduce an exciting two year project by SANHS, to discover more about the wildlife of Somerset’s wonderful churchyards. Join us at the Wyndham Hall, Taunton to find out how to get involved!
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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · 05/05/2026
SANHS Archaeology Committee presents: *Withypool Guided Walk* Saturday 23rd May (10.30am - 12pm) Join Exmoor National Park's HER Officer Lucy Shipley on a walk to one of Exmoor’s stone circles. Booking is advisable. Full details: sanhs.org/event/guided...
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Europa conference will be held in York, 6th June, focused on Neanderthals in honour of Prof Penny Spikins. Details and booking here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2026-...
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What can we learn from Neanderthals? | The Prehistoric Society
Professor Penny Spikins, Professor of the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of York, will be honoured with the Europa prize for her contributions to European prehistory, and the conferenc...
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Our favourite place in Spring. Bliss.
A mossy tree trunk with bluebellsWild garlic and bluebells in a woodlandMoss covered treeWild garlic and bluebells in a woodland
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Really proud to be involved with this project, and to work with such an amazing team at Killerton!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Christina Koch is the only member of the Artemis II crew that does not come from a military background. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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Christina Koch - Wikipedia
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What I'm looking for from Artemis II is a not a new Earth. It's a new revelation of the Moon - or at least the start of one. 🧪
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From Earthrise to Artemis II: new ways of seeing the Moon
The Apollo 8 mission in 1968, the first time humans had orbited the Moon, is most famous for producing the Earthrise photo credited with ki...
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm looking for suggestions of museum/heritage education consultants for a small project, ideally south-west based. Any ideas or recommendations greatly received!
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Spring delights at Killerton today. What a privilege to have a team meeting which included a lunchtime nature/spring scavenger hunt to cleanse the soul! ❤️ #Nature=Future @nationaltrust.org.uk
Bright pink blooms of a Magnolia tree with a lawned area behindClusters of yellow flowers of winter hazelBright pink cyclamen in a bed of leaves and grass
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Get out and about this spring and explore some of our historic landscapes! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/our-cause/hi... #HillfortsWednesday
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What historic landscapes mean to us
Find out more about the archaeological work we do on all the sites in our care, and why it's so important.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
TAG 2026 is go! Excited to be hosting in Exeter this year, 14-16 December. Get those session proposal thinking caps on!
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
There are still tickets available!
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Cat Lodge @catlodge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Very much enjoying our time on the Isle of Wight. Having a slower start this morning now the weather has improved - we can sit outside and enjoy a late breakfast! Also means I can indulge in some more of @profaliceroberts.bsky.social brilliant new book #Domination!
A mug of tea and buttery hot cross buns on a plate on a glass table, and an open book being read by the photographer
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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · 05/03/2026
SANHS Annual Archaeology Day Saturday 28th March 10am - 4pm Stanton Drew A morning of talks with guided tours of the Stanton Drew stone circles in the afternoon. Tickets £25 (including refreshments and buffet lunch) Booking essential - please email office@sanhs.org or call 01823 272429
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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · 06/03/2026
* SANHS Archaeology Webinar * "The Portable Antiquites Scheme – Recent Finds from Somerset" Laura Beckwith - Finds Liaison Officer for Somerset 7.30pm - Thursday 19th March To register please use this link us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... or email: webinars@sanhs.org Full details: bit.ly/4kZJzSu
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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · 20/02/2026
*SAVE THE DATE* Annual Archaeology Day Saturday 28th March 10am - 4pm Stanton Drew A morning of talks with guided tours of the Stanton Drew stone circles in the afternoon. Tickets £25 (including refreshments and buffet lunch) Booking essential - please email office@sanhs.org or call 01823 272429
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
*Academic sells history off to the highest bidder* There, BBC, we sorted that headline for you If he truly feels *a connection* to the find, as the article claims, would he not have donated it to a museum? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Professor finds Iron Age coin hoard near Bury St Edmunds
Tom Licence says he feels a personal connection to the coins, which are to be auctioned.
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