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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A day late for #FolkloreThursday but if you want to read my review of Imogen Corrigan's book The Green Man, it's here. It's not perfect but I really enjoyed the book and found some useful insights, particularly about the possible origins of the phenomenon. www.archaeologists.net/publications...

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The Green Man: Myth and Reality

This readable book challenges preconcpetions. It may surprise some readers, but the Green Man isn’t green, and they aren’t all men. The foliate head is only known as the Green Man in the Anglophone wo...

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The circle also sits immediately above active springs in a verdant, even fecund, re-entrant. Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is the sort of thing we all need in our lives.

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

If the Metropolitan Police did indeed break open the doors of the Grade II Listed Friends Meeting House, they may have committed a #HeritageCrime and should not be above the law @mayoroflondon.bsky.social #Quakers @quaker.org.uk do report to Historic England

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As it's #HillfortsWednesday, here are a few from a recent site visit that involved a trip up Old Sarum, #Wiltshire.

Earthworks at Old Sarum hillfort, looking toward the former RAF Old Sarum airfield.

Old Sarum, looking from the Iron Age rampart toward the medieval motte.

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm sure I know people who will take no pleasure in seeing this... eh, @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social ?

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I've sung these words on The Fifth when the National Anthem is played in #Lewes as part of #Bonfire. My Society's HQ is next to Bull House.

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Happy birthday to the only Civil War General to have a Morris dance named after him. Shame how he turned out, mind. @efdss.bsky.social

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Meanwhile, there's been some interesting archival footage discovered by @bwzuk.bsky.social in the library of the Hookland Folk Dance and Song Society #Hookland youtube.com/shorts/SQprI...

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Folklore

YouTube video by bwzuk

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Day 4 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We drape the Bell Hill Worm, remember legends of dragon-carved paths. The stuffed felt snake is an old friend. Its silver stitches glitter, its scales bounce faery light colours. When we turn away, it seems to slither to a different branch.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 24/11/2024

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

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Storyville Books Bookshop UK

Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Such a big loss. RIP Colin Renfrew

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Sue Hagley @suehagley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Avoid Amazon always!

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just a few images for November from #Lewes on The Fifth. #Bonfire

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Here's some rather lovely graffiti from the porch of the parish church in Welbourn, Lincolnshire.

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

That's me and the incomparable John Tams, folk singer and song maker extraordinaire. Taken after his set at #Banterfest last weekend. Yes, reader, I fangirled him.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

If you're a Nigel Kneale fan then you must listen to 'You Must Listen', a new adaptation of Kneale's lost 1952 radio drama, on Radio 4 tomorrow at 2:15pm or later on catch up. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, You Must Listen

A new adaptation of a lost 1952 radio drama by science-fiction legend Nigel Kneale.

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Martin Brown @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Good morning. Thanks to @danherb10.bsky.social I am here. First posting includes a picture that neatly combines many of my interests.

Devizes Jubilee Morris at Avebury, Midsummer 2023.

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