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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just found some 1986 rates for archaeologists. Supervisors get £7481, the equiv. of c.£29,302 today. That’s almost exactly the same as the min. rate for G4 supervisors recommended by BAJR today -£29,858! Pay increases have been hard fought in recent times, but it was it just for it to stay the same!

A printed list of rates, from £7481 p.a. for supervisors to £44.38 per week subsistence for volunteers.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I am looking through old archaeological archives at the moment, mostly from the 90s, and feeling intense pangs of sadness every time I see Sheffield mentioned. An absolute power house of archaeological science then… only to have its heart ripped out in recent times. Ugh.

1990s hand filled sheets for animal bone data, University of Sheffield address in the corner.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New Doctor Who villain just dropped:

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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🚨 The call for submissions for the next issue of Geological Curator, titled 'Moving towards equitable Geoscience collections', is now open! 🚨 The purpose is to consolidate current research and initiatives that aim to improve the environment, accessibility, and future of geological collections.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Am I the only one who finds blocked up doorways and windows really pleasing? Look at the archaeology of this! (I started a new job at Fort Cumberland, it is aesthetically very enjoyable!)

A blocked up archway in a ramp, showing two episodes of red brick on a sunny day at Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hail hail the Queen of the May!

A woodland on May Day, it is green and beautiful.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What a fun question! 🪨 I usually lay my hands on them and close my eyes (I largely do this in the vague hope a time slip will trigger and I’ll find myself somewhen else… 🤷🏼‍♀️)

A slightly ginger woman stands next to a standing stone looking up at it, one hand resting on the stone. Taken at Waylands Smithy.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Had a real influx of followers in past couple of days… no idea why, but… hi! 👋 I am still finding my groove here, but suffice to say it’s mostly archaeology and screaming into the void. Occasionally both at same time.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I wrote a brief article on the challenge that AI presents to archaeological visualisation. Check it out here: theconversation.com/how-ai-image... Though I have done a lot of scicomm, it was the first time I'd written for The Conversation. 🏺 +

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How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology

Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with caution.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Is it #TileTuesday? No. Am I going to post the 13th century tiles I saw at Titchfield Abbey at the weekend anyway? Yes! (They are mostly covered by burlap and sandbags at the moment, but whatever was covering this section had flipped up in the wind so… behold!)

Red and white tiles, set into dirt. A pattern of shields and emblems.

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Dr Lauren McIntyre 🏳️‍🌈 @noddinggoth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Super interesting study on facial piercing and stretching in early prehistory! #archaeology #bodymodification

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

You know what’s a joy? Listening to the dulcet tones of @noddinggoth.bsky.social talking about archaeology & the mid-COVID excavation of the Castle Street burial ground in Hull. What a challenging project for @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social & everyone who worked on it shows.acast.com/627bb65a6cf5...

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Ep 15 the A63 and Castle Street Burial Ground with Osteoarchaeologist Dr Lauren McIntyre | ROYSCast

The process and some of the stories of the largest excavation of a post-medieval burial ground in the North of England.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here are the late Bronze Age ramparts of Chanctonbury Ring in the snow last weekend. It's weathered way over 2000 years of winters but the white stuff is now a much rarer visitor to the hill. #HillfortsWednesday 🏺

Beech trees crown a bank, the remains of a rampart, the encircling ditech and possible outer bank are visible. A snow covers the ground, a cloudy sky reveals cracks of blue, weak winter sun hangs in the trees at the left of shot.

Beech trees crown a bank, the remains of a rampart. Snow covers the ground, a sky of blue and cloud over the vale beyond.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Tom Booth and Pontus skoglund sampling the human remains from the Poulton project for aDnA data. Both young boys, probably brothers and may well have died from the Black Dearh Incredible what we can now learn #diggingforbritain #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

Drawing of two human skulls facing one another

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What an incredible object. Showed how even the periphery could be an intersection

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This carved whale bone box was one of wonderful things in the #SilkRoads exhibition at the British Museum… 8th century, made in Northumbria, depicting Wayland the Smith, the Adoration of the Magi from New Testament along with an Old English rune dedication to the dead whale! 😍

Front of a carved whale bone box, on display in the Silk Roads exhibition. Wayland on the left, Magi to the right (here I am)
British Museum, 1867,0120.1

Back of a carved whale bone box, on display in the Silk Roads exhibition. Scenes from Northern European mythology.
British Museum, 1867,0120.1

Front of a carved whale bone box, on display in the Silk Roads exhibition. Detail of Wayland at his Smithy… look at the tiny tongs!
British Museum, 1867,0120.1

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If you listen to Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of The Moon’ on repeat and put on BBC2 at 8pm I will eerily appear on your screen accompanied by the maniacal laughter from ‘On The Run’. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 12, Roman Crime and Ancient DNA

A Roman crime is uncovered, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Not the best Tripadvisor review we've ever had. We're thinking of updating our Bio, though... 🤔

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Sometimes you look at a stone and it’s kind of unassuming… until you hold it and it falls perfectly into to your grip and suddenly it’s all HOW IS THIS SO PERFECT IN MY HAND??* *I can’t be the only person who picks up stone tools and is astounded by their ergonomics every time, right?

A roundish and unassuming end of a flint of a flint nodule sits in an outstretched hand wearing blue gloves.
Sutton Hoo / Topsoil find / 1970,1212.214
Image courtesy of the British Museum

The same blue glove wearing hand now holds the beautiful side and end scraper tool as if to use it. It fits perfectly 😍

Sutton Hoo / Topsoil find / 1970,1212.214
Image courtesy of the British Museum

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Yesterday Curator James Sainsbury was kind enough to show me the small biface currently on display in Worthing Museum. The story of it's discovery, found on the beach at Shoreham-by-Sea by then six year old Ben Witten, has travelled the world. 🧵 1/3 #FlintFriday #FindsFriday

Stone artefact 10 x 6 cm in size, resting in the palm of my hand. It is wide at the base and narrows to a gently curved tip. It preserves the scars of flakes over it. It is glossy and coloured from black to milky white and yellow ochre

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Prof Hannah Cobb @archaeocobb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Happy New Year! If you are interesting in teaching & learning about #Archaeology 🏺 #Heritage #TeachLearnSky #AcademicSky come & join our online global roundtables! archaeologytandl.wordpress.com Our first 2025 session is on "Enhancing educational practices in archaeology" Tues 21st Jan 2-3pm GMT.

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Teaching and Learning in Archaeology & Heritage

Virtual round table discussions

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

When life gives you unspeakable, eldritch lemons… make fhtaganade! 🍋 🐙

A lemon tree in a garden centre. The lemons have tentacles. Like, seriously.

A detail of the nightmarish cephalopodic fruit.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

#TombTuesday -Incredible Callanish, a prehistoric monument so unusual & exhilarating that it has a chambered tomb crammed into it's central circle I found the tall stones & avenues here weather-beaten, mesmerising & disorientating. Just an incredible place in the Outer Hebrides 📷 My own, June 24

A view from inside a ring of gnarly, tall standing stones with a sunken area in the middle filled with a prehistoric tomb. Scottish moorland beyond

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Another day, another all encompassing urge to go admire a massive rock. Or walk around a hillfort.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

You… you left what on the tube?! 💀 A rather throwaway sentence from this 1995 monograph on archaeological human remains being lost on the London Underground!

A excerpt from a publication reading ‘Unfortunately the cranial fragments were mislaid on the London Underground before arrival at the British Museum (Natural History)’ from ‘A late Neolithic, Saxon and Medieval Site at Middle Harling, Norfolk’ EAA/BM 1995

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Showing some love (at a respectful distance) to some big rocks 🪨

Stonehenge between green grass and cloudy skies.

A ginger woman pretends to kiss the Heel stone, the rest of Stonehenge in the background 🪨

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Sure, Sutton Hoo had some cool treasure and stuff, but look at this way more fun archaeological anomaly which could only really be appreciated in section - a 'stone-roll' lens of pebbles, thickening downwards, the result of rolling pebbles on the slope of the burial mound.

Sutton Hoo. A black and white site photograph, showing a section through Mound 6, a distinct curved lens of white stones and pebbles that outline the original shape of a burial mound. The lens is truncated, presumably by later disturbance.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

For #FlintFriday an Acheulean handaxe from Slindon Bottom Sussex. Part of the Boxgrove palaeolandscape. Maybe more than 420,000 years old. On the limit of how heavy a tool my hand could handle, this was confidently made to undertake cutting and processing tasks, but did it play social roles too?

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Every so often you read things and wish, sincerely, for another asteroid to hit. I’m happy to give something else a chance. Mammals haven’t done a good job of it, at all.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Extremely pleased & excited for Dr Brenna Hassett's lecture for World Menopause Day today at 18.15 BST: "Past It? Digging up the radical evolution of menopause and the archaeology of women"🏺 It's sold out, but you can join via zoom link in the invite page below. www.eventbrite.com/e/talk-by-dr...

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Talk by Dr Brenna Hassett to mark World Menopause Day

Past It? Digging up the radical evolution of menopause and the archaeology of women

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

A perfect bird strike, moments before the windows were cleaned at work. A temporary natural artwork, gone now, as is the bird. (Consider this my vow to use this platform more, the other place is too bleak. I hope it’s better here.)

A dusty winged outline on a window, against a blue sky.

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Finally got my grubby mitts on a physical copy of The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology & the Media in the 21st Century! It’s a really hefty weight, packed with public archaeology goodness & enriched by incredible authors (shame our data has been sold to LLMs)

Photo of a couple of hardback copies of the Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and the Media in the 21st Century on my desk. The cover is black with white text and a photo of a broken laptop

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

A beloved colleague left last week and I made this cake for her - it’s a hillfort! I wanted it to have more than one rampart, but didn’t have enough real estate for multiple ditches (a problem I’m sure some early builders had with them too 😆)

A univallate hillfort in chocolate cake and green fondant, with little fondant roundhouse, a chocolate palisade and icing sheep. It’s autumn. The ditch is wet and full of (chocolate sprinkle) leaves. The pathways are muddy with crumbled chocolate.

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

One year tinsel stopped smelling like proper tinsel and I’ve been vaguely sad about it every Christmas since.

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Dr Lauren McIntyre 🏳️‍🌈 @noddinggoth.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Nice to see this Sexton was spending money on the important things

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

20+ years in an industry & I still find myself thinking “But who even am I to have any opinions on this [insert basic archaeological query]?” 😒 What more do I need to trust my own reasoning? Another 20 years? 40? Finally on my deathbed admit I probably had a good idea about mitigation strategies?

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Both my 4 year old and I had nightmares last night… him of a wolf outside the house, and me of seeing something in his room through the monitor that was not-quite-human. I don’t believe dreams mean anything much, but this double nightmare thing is sticking with me!

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Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Funded #Folklore PhD alert. Healthy Folk – The role of vernacular knowledge in health-related decision-making, project funded at the OU in partnership with the Folklore Society Excellent supervision team - Victoria Newton (OU) and Richard Jenkins (FLS) www.oocdtp.ac.uk/healthy-folk...

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Healthy Folk – The role of vernacular knowledge in health-related decision-making

In partnership with the Folklore Society

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Harvey @harveyarchaeo.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

A tree in my local churchyard… it uh… has a butt. Right? That’s not just me that can see that? 🍑

An old tree in a churchyard, seen through a wire fence, has the definite swell of a shapely bottom, and a right leg disappearing into the ground. Definite trapped maiden vibes…

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