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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is such a sorry & infuriating tale. Via @davidpetts1.bsky.social from another place. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unveiling Kirk Hammerton’s Prehistoric Landscape Near York, North Yorkshire, England A curvilinear feature identified beneath and around the village, examples of flint artefact finds #Archaeology thornboroughag.org/unveiling-ki...

Large circular feature between the red arrows, lying under the village. Finds are Neolithic to Bronze Age. The diameter is similar to those of henge monuments to the north.

LiDAR view of the circular feature beneath the village.

Flint arrowheads dating to the earlier Neolithic (top) and late Neolithic-to-Early Bronze Age (bottom). The barbed-and-tanged arrowhead is particularly fine.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's something wrong with Trump's hands, yes? IV-don't know.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2/2 such as myself and Geoff Harris (the tall dude in the video) and some amazing professional advisers. Please check out thornboroughag.org for more info if you would like to get involved.

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Thornborough Archaeology Group

Visit the post for more.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thornborough Archaeology Group alongside @jimleary.bsky.social talking about his fantastic new paper on the Devil's Arrows in North Yorkshire. This TAG is managed by Dr Jan Harding, Dr Emma Watson, Dr Richard Lee and Professor Chris Scarre alongside non-professional committee members 1/2

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Mystery of where Yorkshire's Devil’s Arrows stones came from solved

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Absolutely shameful, and nobody charged after 9 years. 72 dead.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rubbish. Utterly. And insulting.

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Roman Pottery workshops ⚱️🏺 Samian Ware and Barbotine Hunt Cups, at Magna Roman Fort, are filling up fast. If you're thinking about joining us, don't wait too long! #AncientBluesky.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Intellectual and humanitarian capacity of vegetables. And that's pushing it, to a soup.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Somebody needs to have a very careful self-awareness think about themselves and decision-making. Millions of us are still disabled, barely functioning, six years later, zero help or support. Many more think SARS-CoV-2 Covid19 is all behind us. *The pandemic is NOT over*. I feel insulted. #LongCOVID

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lunchtime today St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, abdom ultrasound. 6yrs+ #LongCOVID. Amongst many ongoing symptoms, GI (gastrics) continue to worsen (blood results spooked GP). U/S is fine. Trauma is getting there & back. OBSERVATION: *Nobody* medics, staff nor public wearing a mask, except me! 😷

St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Main building, Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother, in a complex campus. Not pretty.

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Decaying Relationship? Stratigraphic Literacy in UK archaeology by Dr. Ellen Green is now published on BAJR. We would like to thank her for the work she did investigating the stratigraphic literacy of archaeologists within the UK. www.bajr.org/wp-content/u...

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1 min to go for a last #FindsFriday #Archaeology call. Bank hols digging at Windmill House, Thornborough Arch Group, N Yorks. A bit of flint (& features). I think edge of a Meso/Early Neo core, maybe to correct the knapping angles. thornboroughag.org (Also on Fb).

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Old enough to remember Gillam's work and his Roman pottery articles in Arch Aeliana, especially for Hadrian's Wall. Do we have a new epithet for C4th "Huntcliff ware". E.g. "like blackened hobnobs", or Crambeck as "malted milk biscuits" :-)

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favourite film(s) sound boring as possible without giving away the title: Running around an upside-down ship at Christmas after a big wave.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@bsky.app UK calling. Since early hrs logins using Chrome (Google) on laptop fail with error TypeError: URL.canParse is not a function Firefox seems to be OK (but don't like it). Passwd reset doesn't resolve.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

New Prehistoric Artefact Teaching Collection for Thornborough Archaeology Group (North Yorkshire) An exciting new addition to our displays: a remarkable collection of flint, stone, pottery and metal artefacts spanning the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. thornboroughag.org/new-prehisto...

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Explore Prehistoric Artefacts: Flint and Stone Collection Unveiled

Discover the stunning collection of prehistoric artefacts at Thornborough Archaeology Group, showcasing flint, stone, pottery, and metal tools.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Exact day when the young lady at local Tesco, looking feverish unwell, coughed straight in my face. No hand, elbow, distancing. When we were told "wash yer hands". A super-spreader. 6 years later? Housebound, disabled, my life is dead. No treatments or cure, no help or support. Millions of us.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

2.15 am Central London. A cloud. Heavy raindrops from the sky for 3mins. Extraordinary spritual presence. Just sat out back b/c still too hot to sleep. Water from the sky? Counted 728 drops around my throne. Whom do we blame?

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yay, big and very fast meteorite, central London NW to SE, long tail. #Perseid

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#Archaeology dates Aug - Sep at Loftus, North Yorkshire (East Cleveland TS13 4PU). Exhibition, meet the archaeologist (Dr Steve Sherlock), site tours & 2026 excavation open day. Dates in image Alt text

Archaeology Exhibition about the excavations at Street House, on show this summer at Loftus Studios and Gallery 15th August - 12th September. Meet the excavator in the Gallery on Saturday 15th August. There will be tours to the site on selected days and an open day on Saturday 12th September at the current excavation.

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Radiocarbon dating is fun! Nice short video of the RC process 🧪

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

and in #LongCOVID for those who succumb, I'm still housebound at 6yrs, the multisystemic malfunctions do not go away, no treatments. Add endothelial, GI, biome disregulation, gut leakage, organ damage, diabetes, long list.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Latest Thornborough Aerial Survey Completed | YAA Mapping in conjunction w/ EH and TAG have released the latest aerial survey images of the Thornborough Neolithic Henge complex, images taken end of July 2026 during the latest drought. (Near Ripon, North Yorkshire) thornboroughag.org/2026/07/31/l...

The three Thornborough henges, aligned to Orion's belt.

Twelve kilometres north of Ripon, North Yorkshire, is Britain’s best kept prehistoric secret — the three giant Thornborough henges, circular ritual earthworks each about 240m across. They represent one of the largest earthmoving episodes undertaken in Neolithic Britain and are at the heart of a remarkable ‘sacred landscape’ in use for over 2,000 years.

https://thornboroughag.org/about/

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Pete Savin @petesavin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A quick video of the Roman bath house uncovered at #Binchester Roman fort which is currently on display under a temporary building, at least half of the building remains to be excavated hopefully in when funds are available. #archaeology #RomanBritain

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

With an hour and a bit to go, I turned 60 today. Feels a bit heavy and slept most of it. Still desperately unwell, disabled, with #LongCOVID, life utterly unrecognisable. But now free prescriptions. 40yrs since graduation in #Archaeology @arcdurham.bsky.social. Glass of wine for tea?

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.

Guardian headline from Weds 22nd July reading:

“One billion plastic pellets spilled into River Tyne after two ships collide
Up to 25 tonnes of nurdles, the raw material for plastic manutacturing, have spread further than initially feared”

With an image of a beach covered in nurdles.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Clickbate bollocks. We do science.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

BBC's Kuenssberg is a shocking liability, I still allege a Tory asset. Badenoch remains a fifth-grader thug.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Diary dates for August: #Archaeology Exhibition (free) at Loftus, North Yorkshire, Neolithic to Anglo-Saxon

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don't follow football, but that's a pretty impressive 6-4 from England v France. A proud bronze.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We kicked off today (Sat 18th) at Thornborough Neolithic henges in N Yorkshire. I'm still stuck at home with Long Covid 6yrs, but they're using my prehistory teaching kits, mix of replica & original. Next up is Sat 25th Nature theme day. Glad to be involved if only distantly.

Prehistoric artefact teaching kits at our Festival of Archaeology event today, from Mesolithic - Neolithic - Bronze Age, mix of original artefacts and replicas, stone to metal and some antler too.

https://thornboroughag.org/

Three extraordinary henges, 250m diam, at Thornborough, North Yorkshire. The wonky line is because they are aligned to the Orion (star) belt at winter solstice. Close to the Devils Arrows standing stones.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Liar, liar, pants on fire. Baroness Mone bought a yaught.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's about every 2 weeks on my inner garden block in London W10, the early hours. The endless Covid lung-wrenching coughing. It's not gone.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

China has one of the filthiest, unregulated, and disgusting live-food supply chains in the world. It's where SARS1 and SARS2 (Covid19) originated. Bake the viral recipe and watch it hop over between species and to humans. That is proven.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

From Saltburn yarn bombers (Teesside / North Yorkshire coast). Fantastic...

Knitted summer characters on top of a post box. It's a huge local tradition.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Career Politicians" know how to avoid public scrutiny. It's reflexive. "Me not you". The missing words are "conviction", "principles" and "ethics". The principle of the societal good, equality & wellbeing. This is why the UK is f*cked.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Well, seems sensible. However, me aged 60 now, would it encompass the realms of "Political Theocracy" and the consequences of that as well as "religious cults", inclusion/exclusion and multifarious persecution & cruelty? We've a lifetime (hominin span of time) of evidence. We ain't doing well.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is probs well-intended, but try that with #LongCovid or #MECFS. That would probably mean days or weeks disabled, in bed. "PEM" is not just fatigue. Your body and brain simply run out of all energy due to mitochondrial damage, vascular etc. NHS IGNORE POST-VIRAL. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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NHS to reward people who walk 30 minutes a day

The "marathon a month" scheme, developed with former Olympic medallist Sir Brendan Foster, will launch early next year.

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