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Im collecting pieces, I need the milk jug next.

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This one hasnt yet, it might be a good candidate

Its part of the Hornsea Bronte line, you are very welcome to a cuppa, but ill be keeping an eye on the cup!

you can do if the conditions are right

had you ever seen 9ne before?

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Its a FruitGum reflector, a 1930s to 40s ish safety device to protect the wall from cars

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Just encountered this mid-20th century piece of street furniture. I'm sure when I was a child these used to trigger Trypophobia. There are few surviving today, but they lurk, waiting to catch the unwary

metal disc about 15cm across with 13 inserted glass reflectors

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This has come up a few times today as ideas, I need to give it a go.

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That's a really interesting question as there is undoubtely some overlap between true unretouched Clactonian Notches and flaked flakes where the flake is a core for the product. But a retouched notch like this wouldn't have produced useable debitage I dont think?

I guess I should try a bunch of different barks but the roundwood I've tried it on (mainly hazel, ash and alder dont respond well). They help with some late stage abraision but the stripping is bettter with a flint flake

A really sensible idea, but the last specialist to look at associated bone couldn't see that kind of scraping, while some site with that scraping don't have notches

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A lovely little Clactonian notch, a specialised Lower Palaeolithic tool over 400,000 years old. At #Archaeotech26 I made one and tried to work wood with it, as I've done a few times before. And, as before, it seemed very ineffective. So what were these tools used for? #FlintFriday #FindsFriday 🦣🏺

A flint flake, about 6cm long, with a 2.5cm notch precisely knapped out of its side.

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Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 08/10/2026

I nominated her for an honorary degree. Apparently the Professor of Computing they asked to referee that said "who?" when he was asked, whick nuked that from orbit.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The inventory of wooden remains from Abric Romaní is extensive and represents a particularly unique case as it comes from a prehistoric domestic archaeological context." Important, cornerstone-paper from Saladie et al on Neanderthal wooden artefacts from Spain. 🦣🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context

Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wonder if CIFA have a view on this?

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The insidious creep of generative AI into our profession is heartbreaking. We've got to start investing in primary sources so at it isnt scraping slop into a death spiral, value human intelligence & creativity, & challenge Gen AI when we see it and it doesnt declare itself transparently to be so.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A curious Celtic conundrum for #HillfortsWednesday A male mustachioed head said to have been found at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset Is it Iron Age? 🤔 Part of the Rodney Legg collection 📷 © Trustees of the British Museum 2013.8017.106 Date unknown, importance unclear, investigation ongoing

A yellow block of limestone carved into a make face with moustache, flat nose and bulging eyes

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This was brilliant, thank you for sharing...

Working very long days catching up after organising and running the field, taking a few minutes around admin to enjoy the garde and stay centred.

a pslm teee in a walk3d garden with veg beds

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gosh, that brought me to attention, I was half expecting to hear about the collapse of another Eastern Bloc government

this was a really lovely watch

London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Today’s high temps the 24.2C at Heathrow is +6.7C above recent 30-year average for October 5th. The July average max is 23.9C!

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

RIP George Fenton, forget the prestigous movie themes and Oscar nominations. You gave us moody guitar noodling and accordians as our sunday evening soundtrack. youtu.be/1y5E63jGT2I?...

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Bergerac theme

YouTube video by UK Tune Archives

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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The menhir of Le Repaire in Esse (Charente) is 2.65m tall. An inventory from 1844 records that a follower of Charlemagne burned candles around it in 789. Card by Dupuis in Angoulême. #StandingStoneSunday.

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Plot Twist Daily @plot-twist-daily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Butser's most quietly influential result is a negative one: the roundhouses showed a central smoke hole is a mistake. Smoke percolates out through the thatch by itself, and cutting a vent turns the roof into a chimney — draught up, sparks into dry straw. A lot of reconstruction drawings got redrawn.

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hiring: Research Fellow in Spatial Modelling Fixed-term | Full time | Hybrid 🔗Find out more and apply: tinyurl.com/DREAMResearchF #archaeology #UCL #hiring #jobs #IoA

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The activities we are offering our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social students over the next four days #Archaeotech26

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Home for the next few days. Huge thanks to @butserancientfarm.co.uk for welcoming all of us from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social and @archsoutheast.bsky.social back for another year. Today our new first years start their journey with us on the Experimental Archaeology Course. #ArchaeoTech26 🏺🛖

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in #Palaeolunch we discussed: Will, M., Stock, J. T., Rathmann, H., Gordon, A. & Tennie, C. (2026). 'Human encephalization accelerated late & linked to cultural complexity'. doi.org/10.21203/rs.... Not a revolution but quite a step-change in the last 100k? Incl Neanderthals? #PaPa 🏺🦣

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Human encephalization accelerated late and linked to cultural complexity

Paleoanthropology and archaeology employ various proxy measures of hominin cognition, including endocranial volume, the complexity of material culture, or encephalization quotients (EQ). Competing sce...

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lovely pics, I love the use of brooms. Shame it's not published but hopefully the archive is around.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've never seen that before, amazing, where is it published?

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Such a good boy! Congrats from us!

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The shrub on Thundersbarrow Hill has been partially cleared, revealing the profile of the bank, the ditch and Thundersbarrow itself under the shrub. How old is the barrow and how does it relate to the enclosure and the 'pond' to the south? #Prehistory #SouthDowns #Adur

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pigs will do it. It must be so so frustrating to see

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So awful to hear of the passing of Dr Rena Maguire today. A huge loss, and gone far too soon. She had a unique understanding of prehistory as intimately tethered to cultural history. I will miss that insight. Rest in peace.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How very pointless and incredibly, movingly beautiful ...

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Simone @frauchen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Between Two Rivers is a charming introduction to ancient Mesopotamian history told by describing items found in a museum of sorts in ancient Ur. The archaeologists who unearthed the items 100 years ago were the Woolleys, upon whom Agatha Christie based her characters in Murder in Mesopotamia. 💡📚💙

A photograph of two books: the 2025 North American hardcover edition of Moudhy Al-Rashid’s Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History and a paperback edition of Agatha Christie’s Murder in Mesopotamia (first published in 1936; this “official authorised” edition was published by William Morrow in 2025). Al-Rashid’s history is very accessible and offers a relatable, personal kind of introduction to the wonders of ancient Mesopotamia. The Christie novel is very much of its time (misogyny, xenophobia, colonialism), but worth reading as a companion piece to Al-Rashid’s history, if only to flesh out the fascinating character of Louise Leidner, based on the real-life archaeologist Katharine Woolley who, with her husband, worked on the site in ancient Ur and uncovered the “museum” Al-Rashid describes in her book.

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Presenting the magnificently titled Thundersbarrow Hillfort. This much denuded Sussex hillfort has some very interesting earlier features. www.digitaldigging.net/thundersbarr... #HillfortsWednesday

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it will indeed, I love you lidar images of it

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had fully intended to go here for sunrise this morning. But I overslept 😥