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Lesley McFadyen

@lesleymcf.bsky.social
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archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please come and join Saffy Setohy, David Bennett and I on the 12th October at the Drumadoon Estate for a guided walk and landscape design workshop on An Archaeology of Trees. Part funded by the Carena Institute Of Sustainable Archaeologies.
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An Archaeology of Trees
An Archeology of Trees is a creative, outdoor workshop exploring temperate rainforest environments of Arran, led by Artist Saffy Setohy.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Archaeological Landscapes. Please consider applying for this short fixed term teaching position at Birkbeck.
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Associate Lecturer - Archaeology (Archaeological Landscapes) (2513) - Birkbeck, University of London
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Prehistorians, please consider applying for this short fixed term teaching position at Birkbeck.
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Associate Lecturer - Archaeology (Beginnings: The Archaeology of the Prehistory) (2517) - Birkbeck, University of London
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And Tasha Fullbrook on the importance of the Portable Antiquities Scheme!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a way to end the first week at the start of first year in archaeology at Birkbeck! The dynamics of hoarding with Eleanor Ghey, and handling and coin stories with Elina Screen! Archaeology, it’s important! Many thanks to such incredible colleagues at the British Museum. @eleanorghey.bsky.social
Looking at the Snettisham Jeweller’s Hoard in the British Museum. The pot surrounded by the rings, gems and clippings.Elina passing around a coin with Harold one way, and a coin with William the other, and telling us that Pax was stamped on the Harold coin.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sadly no longer posting here, but this from from the inspirational @mmcfadyen.bsky.social (h/t: @sarahmay1.bsky.social LinkedIn) weaves together key themes & topics that have occupied much of my thinking in recent years. If you read nothing else this week: mairimcfadyen.substack.com/p/cultural-d...
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Cultural Darning: Rewilding with People and Place
A talk given at ‘The Big Picture Conference,’ Scotland’s Rewilding Event, which took place in Perth Concert Hall on Saturday 19th September 2026
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Milk chocolate rich tea and ginger nuts feature for today’s Brew&Blether worshop on Ardeer in the Scottish Maritime Museum. Do Crimble’s count, Beccy?
Tea cups and biscuits on a table, all set up for a workshop.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yep, this morning’s commute.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Firth of Clyde, view from the other side for @richardmortimer.bsky.social
Sun through grey sky on a grey sea, with porpoise.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bamboo spatulas or digging sticks - ideal for digging later Bronze Age pile alignments and beautiful objects to boot! tasuki-japan.com
Archaeological tools: pile of machine finished bamboo spatulas with pointed and bevelled ends
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ardeer Nature - There are still some tickets left, come join us at the Scottish Maritime Museum this Sunday, guided walk and eco-poetry with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge. Get tickets here 👇 #Ardeer #Irvine #CommunityHeritage www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000318947...
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Ardeer Nature Creative Workshop
Take photos of nature on a guided walk overlooking Ardeer with photographer Alex Boyd and poet Gerry Cambridge. Site-writing and eco-poetry.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Memories of Ardeer - There are still some tickets left, come join us at the Scottish Maritime Museum this Saturday, morning drop-in or afternoon ticketed Brew&Blether with me and @linda83ross.bsky.social! #Ardeer #Ivine #CommunityHeritage www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000317866...
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Memories of Ardeer
Brew & Blether - A space to reminisce about family members and friends who worked at the Ardeer.
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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anyone fancy a job helping deliver for nature and climate in one of the most extraordinary historic landscapes in the NE of England? One of those once in a decade opportunities just came up at @NationalTrust Wallington/Heart of Northumberland estate www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/d9vU9N7C...
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General Manager - National Trust | Morpeth
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
LOVE, and LOVE that you and Tasha are there!
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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're hiring a (full-time, permanent) colleague to join us as Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage in @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY235/l...
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Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage at Birkbeck, University of London
Apply for the Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar this year is "Activating/Excavating Archives", and we're thrilled that @clmorgan.bsky.social will be kicking it off with Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity All welcome! Abstract and sign-up linked below!
Archival illustration of people positioning a megalith
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Memories of Ardeer
Brew & Blether - A space to reminisce about family members and friends who worked at the Ardeer.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Located at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine. Pre-booking your ticket is required for all but the drop-in events: www.eventbrite.com/e/2000317866... www.eventbrite.com/e/2000318947...
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Ardeer Nature Creative Workshop
Take photos of nature on a guided walk overlooking Ardeer with photographer Alex Boyd and poet Gerry Cambridge. Site-writing and eco-poetry.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*26th and 27th September* Come and share photographs and memories of Ardeer, drop-in and brew & blether, joined by historian @linda83ross.bsky.social! Or go on our guided walk and eco-poetry session on nature at Ardeer with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge!
Poster showing photographs of women hand mixing dynamite and the workers' canteen in the sunshine before the building was pulled down.Poster showing ruined factory brick building in the snow amongst important dune scrub habitats.Poster showing photographs of women hand mixing dynamite and the workers' canteen in the sunshine before the building was pulled down.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
From strategic approaches, community action and archaeology for all, to grass roots sustainability. And we got to celebrate the work of 30 years of Adopt-a-Monument. Archaeology, it’s important!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Two days of insightful and thought provoking work at the Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium and Workshop - @archscot.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies.
Opening presentation slide on Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies’ practice at Newbattle Abbey College.Practitioners and partners working on sustainable and community-focussed archaeology, together around a table workshopping on movement and action.
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lots of trees popped up in the wood peat deposits at Must Farm. It’s always satisfying uncovering them ready for recording and sampling.
Three archaeologists stand next to an exposed preserved trees with their shovels next to them.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The joy of digging at Must Farm is that it is less about orthodox archaeological features (pits, ditches, postholes) & more about old land surfaces, animal tracks, submerged forests, preserved fence lines. Past deposits are intact, articulated, & the distinction between natural & cultural is blurred
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hiba Alkhalaf @jenbaird.bsky.social and @drsadiewatson.bsky.social too!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
That’s great Claire!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Yes, I’ll be there giving a CISA talk! Come join us!!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/9454846861...
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Archaeology Scotland
Archaeology Scotland is the lead body for archaeology in Scotland, working for over 80 years to widen participation and make archaeology accessible to everyone. We support learning, wellbeing and empl...
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Day 2 is a smaller technical workshop with limited additional places available. Interested? Contact g.macgregor@archaeologyscotland.org.uk. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund through our Unearthing Better Futures Resilience Project and Historic Environment Scotland.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Explore how archaeology can help build a more sustainable future through two days of presentations, discussion and shared learning. Hear about projects from Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Laos, Paraguay and Syria, and help shape the future of sustainable archaeological practice.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Join @archscot.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies for the Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium, 10th and 11th September. Get your in person and online tickets for Day 1 here: lnkd.in/eRSCXhCa
Blue poster signposting the upcoming Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium from Archaeology Scotland and CISA.
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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the  North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
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Two Orkney-led PhDs available as part of North Sea Heritage project
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the  North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
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Floor Huisman @fjhuisman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1/3 My book ‘Wild wetlands and domestic drylands’ was published with @barpublishing.bsky.social last month! The book explores the relations between wetland and dryland communities in and around the later prehistoric East Anglian Fens. See final post for a link to Chapter 1!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Material Time. Listen!
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Illuminated - James Hutton and The Restless Earth - BBC Sounds
Plunge into the abyss of deep geological time with Karine Polwart.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 05/08/2026
Workers at the archaeological site of Dura-Europos, Syria, during 1920s-30s Yale-French Academy excavations. They were vital to the project, but were never named and local voices are largely absent from publications on the site. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #WaybackWednesday 🏺 #Archaeology
Black-and-white photograph of several people in headscarves, some holding shovels, excavating next to a stone wall.
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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's a Sign! come on in, you'll get a strange book if you pledge £25 , lots more on offer! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign...
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It's a Sign!
I will make an exhibition and publication about the found, defaced, debased, hilarious and incomprehensible floods of signage in our lives.
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Urban prehistory @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social!
Horse box converted into coffee place in the car park of the Machrie Moor standing stones.
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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’m very proud our amazing undergrad students have rated us so highly on the NSS: ranked first for archaeology teaching in the country. @lesleymcf.bsky.social’s leadership of our BAs combines incredible archaeology with real care for students, and it shows!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Archaeology, it's important!! Come join us!!!
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What's in a national survey? The brilliance of Birkbeck's BA Archaeology and BA Ancient History & Archaeology students, the incredible archaeologists (@jenbaird.bsky.social, Esther Breithoff, Tim Reynolds) and partners (MOLA Archaeology) that teach them, and the archaeology itself!
An image in purple - the colour of the Birkbeck owl and its banner - stating that archaeology at Birkbeck had been ranked 1st for teaching in England.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Chip-Friday! #Archaeology #FenEdge
Tray of chips, a blob of ketchup and a can of lemon Fanta
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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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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What is the long-term legacy of foreign excavations in places like Dura-Europos in Syria? Out today and open access in @antiquity.ac.uk with my colleague Adnan Almohamad: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
When people lived on the wetlands - the Late Bronze Age pile dwellers of Fenland #Fenland #Archaeology #Prehistory #MustFarm
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
‘This house is a thing both ancient and disjointed, an entity of addition and subtraction, a palimpsest of stone and wood and caulk and mud. Its existence here, on the peninsula, is proof that everything was once something else: nothing goes away.’ Maggie O’Farrell
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Eleanor Ghey @eleanorghey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What can hoards reveal about life in post-Roman Britain? A @ukri.org AHRC funded project exploring the last Roman hoards deposited in Britain is reshaping what we know about 5th century society. Discover the research and learn more about hoards in museums across the UK here blogs.kent.ac.uk/hoards
Silver coins on a pink background 
Image copyright The Trustees of the British Museum
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Dr Claire Harris @drclaireharris.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm exploring how @coastsinmind.bsky.social can help address the gap between formal evidence systems and the lived realities of those most affected by coastal change. Supported by Coast-R Network. #CoastsInMind #ArchiveToAction #CoastR www.ukcoastalresilience.org/project/arch..
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Archive to Action: Connecting Coastal Community Insights to Policy - Coast R Network
Archive to Action explores how coastal community archives can help policymakers use local knowledge in more inclusive, resilient coastal planning.
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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We are delighted to announce Prehistoric Society award & prize winners for 2026/7. 🎉 The Europa 2027 honouree is Prof. Mel Giles, Univ. of Manchester. I am sure Mel needs no introduction as a well known & respected researcher of the Iron Age. Congratulations Mel! #Archaeology 🏺 #Prehistory 1/6
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Awards & Prizes 2026/2027

The Europa Prize 2027:

Prof. Melanie Giles

The Sara Champion memorial lecture:

Dr Matthew Hitchcock

The President's Awards:

Dr James Dilley & Mr Dave Webb

The Peter Clark Award:

Dr Jacky Nowakowski

Baguley Award, P.P.S. Volume 90 (2024):

Prof. Chantal Conneller & Prof. Seren Griffiths

Baguley Award, P.P.S. Volume 91 (2025):

Prof. Clive Gamble
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This looks great, thank you Katy.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
For historians who are endlessly organising workshops on the "material turn" - please remember that archaeology is an entire discipline predicated on material culture and we might just have something to contribute #disciplinarymyopia
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