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Helen J @helgaj.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In Ulverston, if your down that way 😀

Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Have been dabbling in making glass mosaics. First attempt was my tortoiseshell, Furnace. Thanks for suggesting this crafty activity @lucyh24.bsky.social !

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

At Greenlane Archaeology Ltd we also have a bookshop- mainly archaeology and history but also lots of local volumes, nature, gardens etc. Have a look at the catalogue on the website: www.greenlanearchaeology.co.uk/bookshop/ Get in touch if you find anything of interest!

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Should spend more time on here. Work is just keeping me mega busy! Don't know what's going on but definitely not complaining! Got lots of new books in and sample processing to do! Hello Bluesky!

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Memories of #Breitscheidplatz still raw, and here we are again 😔 BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1... Magdeburg market attack: At least one dead and dozens injured after car driven into crowd at German Christmas market, reports say - BBC News

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Magdeburg market attack: At least one dead and dozens injured after car driven into crowd at German Christmas market, reports say

Reports suggest the driver has been arrested and 60 to 80 people have been injured, according to German public broadcaster MDR.

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A broad-band silver armring with stamped decoration from the Galloway Hoard, deposited c. AD 900. Likely beaten out of silver ingots, they were produced, seemingly, in Hiberno-Scandinavian / Great Army contexts c. 870x930, following a 'prototype' form developed in Danish southern Scandinavia.

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Gail Boyle FMA FSA @boyleg.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I have always loved some of the portraiture on Roman coinage - here's a favourite from the Brislington Coin Hoard: a denarius of Septimius Severus with wonderful curly hair and beard detail. I also love the way the wavy edge shows how the silver has been squashed as it was struck. #FindsFriday

A small silver coin with the head of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus facing right, He wears a laurel wreath and has very curly hair and beard. Letters around the edge read Severus Pius Aug

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For #FindsFriday a neck ring found in a Jutish bog. The tradition of offering neck rings was common practice in the Bronze Age period in Jutland, Denmark, and still thrives in the first century of the Iron Age. Solid crown neck rings are of foreign design,with inspiration...1/2 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

Close-up of a bronze object in a museum display. The piece is circular and forms a ring that has a series of ribbed, wavy sections reminiscent of a crown. There is a hinge in the center of the structure.

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#Adventkalender Door 6: this is another find from our Millom Community Dig in the summer: a cap(?) badge with a boar's head left above a banner with the motto VIX EA NOSTRA VOCO (lat. "I scarcely call these things our own"). If anyone can shed any light on this, or give us a date we'd appreciate it!

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I captured the light shift over a day at Wells Cathedral and put it on my wall - a full day of light jam packed into my room. My image of Wells Cathedral in a day is now available as a digital print. 📍More info here🔗: andymarshallphotos.co.uk/products/wel...

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

West coast Oregon to 10 miles NW of Santa Cruz tsunami warning after 7.3 mag earthquake near Eureka. Northern California coastal folks review your tsunami plans!!!

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Also, my boss gets kudos today for his very awesome Adventkalender!

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#Adventkalender Door 5: Greenlane Archaeology supported Millom & District History Society last summer, excavating summer trenches near Millom Castle and Holy Trinity Church. We found some medieval 12h-14thC objects like this stirrup shaped strap fitting which came out in almost mint condition!!

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Dr Kay Sunahara @kaysunahara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

All ready to host visiting @molarchaeology.bsky.social researcher examining these Roman ceramic flue tiles @romtoronto.bsky.social today! Ancient #ceramic building materials still looking great. #TileTuesday 🏺 #archaeology

Ancient Roman flue tile, a roughly rectangular, box-like ceramic construction, with diamond patterned, roller stamped relief decoration, on a table padded with white ethafoam. Background of other tile fragments, yellow lab cabinets.

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Kayt Hawkins @kayth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ok #roman #pottery people, any ideas pls as to whats caused the dimple impressions on these clay plates from a kiln site? They sort of look like hobnail impressions? On more than one plate so not accidental? If not accidental then why? Any ideas @sherdnerd.bsky.social @pottedhistory.bsky.social ?

Image shows a fragment of fired clay used in a roman kiln. The fragment has small round dimple impressions on one surface.

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Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg @almbawue.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Der Stuhl aus einem frühmittelalterlichen Grab in Trossingen ist eines der über 1.600 Objekte in unserer Großen Landesausstellung "THE hidden LÄND". Bis 26. Januar im Kunstgebäude in #Stuttgart. www.thehiddenlaend.de

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Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Classifications for book reviewers: 192 pages or less: slim 256: brisk 320: detailed 384: richly detailed 448: ambitious 512: imposing 576: sprawling 640: magisterial 704+: heard it was good

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

That is a very cool post doc!

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

An American Murder Log and some wonderful shell beads made c. 700 years ago out of knobbed whelk along the Georgia coast #archaeology

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Sometimes nothing beats a good old family recipe. For this festive season, here's a mid-20th century one for gingerbread from our Burrows family recipe book. If you make it, do let us know! #ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveFeast #FoodHistory #Foodies

A handwritten recipe for gingerbread with black treacle
3oz flour- plain or self raising
1 teaspoon bircarbinate
1/4 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon ginger
Cream 2oz of fat with 4 dessert spoons (2oz) sugar. Do this in saucepan. Add 3 dessert spoons (3oz) black treacle. Mix & warm gently on cooker. Add one beaten egg, a little at a time. Mix in the flour mixture. Add 1/2 cup of raisins (2oz). Finally 8 dessert spoons of milk. Bake for 40 minutes.

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Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale) @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Dieser Schädel einer drei- bis vierjährigen Kuh stammt aus einem Grab der Baalberger Kultur (ca. 3900 bis 3400 v. Chr.), das 1951 in Weißenfels freigelegt wurde. Für die hiesigen jungsteinzeitlichen Gesellschaften waren Rinder die wertvollsten Nutztiere. © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J.Lipták.

Kuh-Schädel, skelettiert vor schwarzem Hintergrund. Frontalansicht. Unterer Teil des Gesichtes beschädigt.

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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 03/12/2024

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Found another fragment of the same plate- the complete pattern is that sort of thing: a pagoda on an island with shrubbery. I really like it!

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

#Adventkalender Door 4: in the last couple of years I was also introduced to underglaze blue painted earthenwares/tin glazed earthenwares, dating from late 18th-early 19th C. I love the painted Chinese pagoda patterns, definitely prefer them to transfer prints! This lovely sherd is from Lancaster.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

As we approach mid-winter, an illustration of cave art showing two Reindeer; from Font de Gaume cave, France. One is licking or smelling the other who appears to be sleeping? giving birth? dead or dying?. Originally rendered by someone of the Magdalenian culture, 16,000 years ago. #AncientSky 🦣🏺

Drawing of two Reindeer, outlined in black and unfilled with light brown colouring. One, large, bodly coloured with elaborate, forward facing antlers is, bending their neck down to sniff or lick the other. The other is large and appears to be laying down, head on one side?

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In 1892, a farmer discovers a Bronze Age grave at Hammer near Nürnberg in southern Germany. Fragments of a clay pot, two needles, a knife and a sword. The sword became the reason for still ongoing discussions. 1/2 #Archaeology

A museum display: a large greenish bronze sword with a mushroom-shaped pommel.

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#Adventkalender Door 3: Delftware. Over the last 2 1/2 I developed a soft spot for post medieval pottery, especially locally Delftware. There was a big Pothouse at the Quay in Lancaster (1754-c1786) and we found some of their products at a site near Watery Lane, Lancaster.

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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Day 3 of our Advent calendar. This beautiful blue glass bead is a particularly lovely object we found. Uncovered at our legacy project site Hinxton, dates to the middle Bronze Age and was one of several grave goods found buried, near a ring-ditch, with its owner. #archaeology #adventcalendar

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Dr. Chris Wakefield (CAU), shares details of the Must Farm fineware bowls and pottery expert Graham Taylor guides us through the process of making a fineware bowl and shares his insights as a potter into what they can tell us about the skill of these prehistoric potters youtu.be/ru2fRMbEzAE?...

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Making Must Farm (S2, E2): A Fineware Bowl from the Late Bronze Age

YouTube video by AncientCraftUK - Dr. James Dilley

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The vast mosaic from the early 5th c. AD bishop’s reception hall in Geneva, visitable today in the sprawling archaeological site under Geneva’s Cathédrale St-Pierre. (Love some good subterranean archaeology!) 📷 my own #MosaicMonday short 🧵

A multi-coloured geometric mosaic surrounded by low masonry walls stretches into the distance under a slanting concrete ceiling

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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A 13th Century Iranian Jar with decoration of fish painted in black under a turquoise glaze, about 30cm tall. 🏺🐟 #25DaysOfFishmas #fishmas collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85907/...

A ceramic turquoise jar, about 30 centimeters tall, with four strap handles at top, decorated with dozens of small, simple, black fish on a turquoise background.

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Though he be but little, he is fierce! 😉 Apologies Will S 🤭

A photo of an Everyman cinema listing that reads: Gladiator 2, Paddington 3. Above the picture is typed: massive away win for the little fella

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#Adventkalender Door 2 I always enjoyed working on local Late Bronze Age hoards like this one from Scotforth near Lancaster, Lancashire. Found by a metal detectorist and reported via @findsorguk.bsky.social it is now in Lancaster City Museum! The two harness rings have parallels in Scotland.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Remains of a Roman mosaic found at Bays Meadow Roman Villa, near Droitwich in Worcestershire. Now part of the collections at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Archaeology

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#Adventkalender Door 1 - not strictly speaking current work but probably what most people know me for best for - Early Iron Age socketed axes, this one from Llyn Fawr, Glamorgan, Wales! I was lucky enough to work on the axes from this famous hoard for my PhD:-)

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 13/11/2021

Trainspotting in Leeds. Got sidetracked by this beautiful design on the side of one of taller buildings.

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 20/11/2021

Where's all the birds gone!? 🙄

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Never seen him again sadly- although the family of jackdaws still visits us!

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 15/01/2022

Still my all time favourite Roman Bathhouse Site find from Carlisle Cricket Club - the tile with cat paw print 🥰❤️🐈 @TullieHouse @WA_LLP Meow❤️

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Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · 03/02/2022

Oh my word, it's finally here!! So much hard work, and in a pandemic, too! But it was a worthy cause, our dedication to our dear absent friend, David Wynn Williams. Many thanks to my partner in editing @Kayt_MB, & contributors as well as @surreyarch @SurreyHeritage @findsorguk ❤️

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’ve noticed this, too. (Post by @mmpadellan.bsky.social)

Post from Brooklyn Dad_Defiant

Did you know? If you treat Trump Supporters the way they treat everyone else, they get very upset.

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Shahrouz, PhD @parchmentwizard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

In 1348, a notary doodled this castle at the bottom of a merchant's will. The doodle had a purpose, though. Notaries in the Middle Ages created personalized symbols to authenticate the documents they drafted. This notary chose a castle because of his name: Johannes de Castello. #medievalsky

A 14th-century parchment manuscript with a doodle of a castle at the bottom. The Latin document is written in crabbed notarial hand.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This one never gets old 🏺 #archaeology

A book cover that is designed to resemble a vintage orange Penguin Pocket Book. The title is "The Desire to be an Archaeologist: And OtherDiseasesof the Brian" by Antique Christie.

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