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Mark Knight 🍉

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Archaeologist with a Fenland tendency. Happiest in the black, buttery depths seeking old land surfaces. You got them big dreams....

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 9h
#ancientbluesky #archaeology
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Palestinian archaeologists race against time to save Gaza’s heritage
A Palestinian team rescued Gaza's artefacts. The question now is where to store them.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 16h
George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Dutch auger was 'made' for the #FlagFenBasin - the largely soft, cohesive sediments of #Fenland made characterising the deposit sequence relatively straightforward and most of the auger holes located remnants of an old land surface buried beneath the silts and peat.
Image of the deposit sequence gained from the Flag Fen Basin. Chalk board shows Auger Hole 97 and nearby the hole left by the auger
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To gather the information needed to build a model the auger survey used a grid 1100m x 500m spaced at 50m intervals across the Flag Fen post alignment corridor. Starting at Fengate to the West and ending at Northey Island to the east a total of 200 points were hand augered. Photo: Emma Bothamley
A group of archaeologists carrying out an auger survey, removing the auger from the ground.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Old school analogue methodology, tons of enthusiasm and a simple research question: what was the topography and deposit sequence of the Flag Fen Basin at the time of the Flag Fen post alignment?
Badge: Flag Fen Auger Survey 2025 (green circle, white back ground and an image of a Dutch auger)
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Old school analogue methodology, tons of enthusiasm and a simple research question: what was the topography and deposit sequence of the Flag Fen Basin at the time of the Flag Fen post alignment?
Badge: Flag Fen Auger Survey 2025 (green circle, white back ground and an image of a Dutch auger)
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The map comes from the article on this link: archaeology.org/issues/march...
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Letter from Doggerland - Mapping a Vanished Landscape - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2022
Evidence of a lost Mesolithic world lies deep beneath the dark waters of the North Sea
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle.
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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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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Daily Rothno is The Sound and Isle of Arran #aofoto
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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
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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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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Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do you know @thescottishcrannog.bsky.social artefacts excavations of Oakbank Crannog have been recognised as Nationally Significant, including 2500 year old fabrics. Real privilege to present on behalf of @archscot.bsky.social on Why Archaeology Matters At This Time? as part of #ScotArchMonth
Crannog sitting at end of timber bridgeSide of crannog walkway overlooking Loch View out of crannog door to distant thatched buildings Sign with names and times of speakers
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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Project #FlintFinder is underway. Meanwhile we have documented the first batches of Doggerland lithics through standardised photography. Many more to come! #FlintFriday #FindsFriday
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.” ~Colin Sheridan
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bog oak, Woodwalton Fen #Fenland
Black and white photo of a bog oak - a preserved tree trunk pulled from the peat and left beside a newly cut drain. In the distance the spirit-level flat horizon is dotted with trees & farm buildings.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holme Post, Holme Fen #Fenland
Cast iron post, painted green and standing in birch woodland at -2.75m OD
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holme Post, Holme Fen #Fenland
Cast iron post, painted green and standing in birch woodland at -2.75m OD
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wear it with pride
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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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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
##BlueSkyArtShow #Undulating The Fen Basin (after Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures)
Black & white peak map of the Fen Basin, Eastern England

https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/?fbcl...#7.68/47.727/-122.574
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies - Birkbeck, University of London
The Carena Institute sets a global standard for community-centred and environmentally responsible archaeological practice.
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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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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm currently failing Norman Tebbit's cricket test - willingly willing on Pakistan 🇵🇰 to do a Headingly!
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This makes me so very, very angry. You're all a bunch of pathetic, cowardly bastards. And that includes you @andyburnham.bsky.social , Christians should have no say over the choices the rest of us make about our lives and deaths. Fuck you all.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Many feet make one path. I like to walk on a foot path. I walk over the grass and turn to see if I have made a path. Two feet once only is not enough. I return to the foot path to fill one of the bunch. I add my feet. I look back. What a path we made.' The Path by Ivor Cutler 1976
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Many feet make one path. I like to walk on a foot path. I walk over the grass and turn to see if I have made a path. Two feet once only is not enough. I return to the foot path to fill one of the bunch. I add my feet. I look back. What a path we made.' The Path by Ivor Cutler 1976
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Running across the middle of this image, above the scale, is a series of animal tracks from Must Farm. Travelling along the bottom of the Flag Fen Basin the tracks went to and from the wet hollow and were probably part of the daily route of small groups of animals moving between pastures.
An overhead view of an area of preserved animal tracks crossing an area of the excavation.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wet wood is good wood! #FlagFenBasin #Fenland #BronzeAge #MustFarm
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just in case you've lost the link to donate to the RNLI rnli.org. The sea does not discriminate, neither does the RNLI and nor should we.
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The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wet wood is good wood! #FlagFenBasin #Fenland #BronzeAge #MustFarm
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Daily Rothko
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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You can donate to the RNLI here: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And for the love of the people who seek hope in them!
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
For the love of small boats!
Small wooden boat marooned on a pebble beach. Sea and thinly clouded sky in the background
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Blackshirts on our streets! What're we going to do?
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After uncovering the second stake alignment we recorded each in situ before they were lifted, studied further and sampled.
An archaeologist with a drawing board making a scale drawing of an area of stakes with a tape measure and line level set up.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
More stakes on a plain! #FlagFenBasin #Fenland #EarlyBronzeAge #MustFarm
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
More stakes on a plain! #FlagFenBasin #Fenland #EarlyBronzeAge #MustFarm
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At Must Farm we also discovered a second stake alignment! These stakes are positioned around the edge of a what would have been a wet hollow and seem to have been managing access.
An overhead view of a group of five archaeologists working on a row of stakes.
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Look at the facet on that! #MustFarm #EarlyBronzeAge #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
Gloved hand holding the inverted end of an Early Bronze Age wooden stake. Florescent yellow PPE background
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Look at the facet on that! #MustFarm #EarlyBronzeAge #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
Gloved hand holding the inverted end of an Early Bronze Age wooden stake. Florescent yellow PPE background
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The stakes in the row at Must Farm were positioned close to the edge of the floodplain, which sat above the area of lower, waterlogged deposits. In places only the very tips of the stakes survived, like this alder example, limiting the amount of information we were able to get from the wood.
A close-up of the dark, degraded tip of a wooden stake.
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