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stephen cogbill

@coggers.bsky.social
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Retired. Interests: photography, cycling, archaeology and hiking. Not necessarily in that order🙂

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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wasn’t planning to use one! 🙂
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Were chisels used for the graffiti on the sarsens? Night shot of allegedly Christopher Wren's effort below.
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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
I thought had an agile mind before seeing this
A map of Europe, but there’s something off
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A resource I hadn't come across (but based on the excellent Defence of Britain data - which recorded civil defence and anti-invasion structures from both World Wars), an interactive map of the data maintained by Steve Thompson. (to whom many thanks!):
edob.mattaldred.com
eDoB Online
Online viewer for the Extended Defence of Britain Database as maintained by Steve Thompson. View the interactive map, or search through the database for a particular record.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They used to paint them for visitors, but have stopped that and are removing paint from some.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
blast
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'll check out when the horse racing starts in case of interest!
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @joanavaldez.bsky.social Some of the brilliant World Heritage Site prehistoric rock-art in Alta from last month's Arctic Norway trip. Images of reindeer, hunting, boats, bears, bear-dens, fish, all in great profusion. The earliest panels are from around 5000 BCE.
wide shot showing a rock panel with inscribed prehistoric images painted red, overlooking Alta Fjord Hunting scene with reindeer, armed stick-like people, and bears mixed in towards the middle.Hunting scene with people on boats using bow and arrow, plus someone holding up what look a bit like snow-shoes, but may be large skin or cloth shapes to distract the animals.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love top left: looks like a studio shot👍🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
sound up!
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@richardosgood.bsky.social @martynjb.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social @mikegill.bsky.social @artefactual.eurosky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social SPTA: all quiet on my Robin Hood's Ball, Knighton Long Barrow cycle ride yesterday 'til 4 of these show up! They do appreciate you getting out the way🙂
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 23/09/2026
The Port of London Authority says that a pod of approximately 25 long-finned pilot whales has been reported within the River Thames east of Gravesend. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is monitoring them and keeping boats away.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I loved Father Ted !
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this fort appears to small for any plastic warriors. Is there a role for even smaller plastic warriors?🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
what are the vertical and horizontal creases all about?
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cnicht
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Jaq - Art &c @jaqarts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The opening of the International Surrealist Exhibition 11 June 1936; Dali in diving suit. With over 400 exhibits – paintings, sculptures and ‘surrealist objects’ and around 60 artists were represented, inc. 11 women (see alt), and names like Max Ernst, de Chirico, Picasso, Magritte, Miro and Klee.
* Women artists included in the exhibition were Eileen Agar, Jacqueline B., Leonor Fini, Dora Maar, Maruja Mallo, Meret Oppenheim, Grace Pailthorpe (hailed by Breton as ‘the best and most truly surrealist’ of British artists), Toyen,  Sophie Taueber-Arp, Margaret Nash, Gala Dali, Sheila Legge
image is a group of artists, a smaller group seated on the floor, others on chairs, the rest standing, Dali in diving suit and all around them are sculptures and paintings.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The archaeology is at St Fagans (if not stolen😢)
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
😀got me to read it! (but then I read all your aDNA posts)
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oh Gosh! Look and Learn....that rather dates me🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I loved seeing the original in Bristol City Museum when I was growing up. Not sure its ever been fully laser-scanned🤔
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
a stone-lined stage in a mountain amphitheatre
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social Kenny - Neither Prehistoric nor Urban! but I enjoyed your blog on the KLF and this involves Jimmy Cauty. I couldn't find the above video, but this one is on Vimeo vimeo.com/822783825
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The Gurdy Stone Part 1
To mark the 50,000 year return of the Green Comet and the release of Local Psycho's The Hurdy Gurdy Song on Heavenly Recordings Jimmy Cauty and Jem Finer have stood a 3.5 ton stone in a field in Susse...
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday Lunatronix - part of the 'The Sun and the Moon' exhib at the Saatchi Gallery. Music, video and putting up standing stones as performance.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hi Dan, Tuesday morning - between about 11am and 1pm - with a rest in a cafe and quick sprint around the RPS exhibtn
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On close inspection it’s described as more of a ‘companion book’ than a catalogue. The curators are listed here and may be able to help with documentation.🤞
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes, but i’m afraid I didn’t buy one - hoping they will flog them off when it closes. Enjoy the Lakes! saatchistore.com/product/sun-...
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Sun and Moon by Mark Holborn - Saatchi Store
Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Sun and Moon tells the story of that burning human need to comprehend the universe, from Neolithic observatories that mark the sol...
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@weborguk.bsky.social PLS let the sky re-appear.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@amandachadburn.bsky.social @reblambert.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social 'The Sun and the Moon' exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery is tasty (if rather large at 9 galleries) with some archaeology thrown in.👍 Closes 8th Sep.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Brill ! 🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Unfortunately, the land it is on is no longer a National Nature Reserve, so we must only hope that one of our longest running archaeological 'experiments' will be protected.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Unfortunately, the land it is on is no longer a National Nature Reserve, so we must only hope that one of our longest running archaeological 'experiments' will be protected.
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The BBC have gone too far employing Sith weather presenters.
A bbc weather presenter Chris Fawkes stands in front of the forecast screen which is showing a photo of lightning over a field. His hands are outstretched and it looks like the lightning is coming out of his fingers
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Does it👍
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@hedleythorne.bsky.social @annadillon.bsky.social Meanwhile back in Wiltshire...
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
perhaps the 'boys' underperform like at GCSE 🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Cheers👍
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hi Mark, is that a 50 cms scale or one of these weird 1m ones with 20 cms intervals?
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
do not try testing this😀
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
this is tragic.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
correction: half eaten.
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
great photo. They look as if it maybe something they've eaten.🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
he's deffo been on the lash😀
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wonderful realism. Can't have been a very long sitting as all appear sober 🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
After 8 weeks with 2mm we finally got a direct hit in Haxton!!!!💧💧💧 not forecast. Phew. 😀
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
everyone talks about big horizons from stone circles (inc Avebury and Stonehenge), but obvs also means you can view down to them from a large 'catchment'. Given good eyesight🙂
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Prehistoric politics🧐
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#art #ackroyd #SkelligMichael If you're a Norman Ackroyd fan, get thee to the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath by 6th Sep. Stunning show.
Norman Ackroyd's etching of the Skellig islands off SW Ireland in black and white looking very moody≥
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