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Spencer Carter

@microburin.bsky.social
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Mesolithic & community archaeologist, FSA Scot, Hon Research Fellow at Durham University Archaeology, Long Covid since 2020. timevista.co.uk | clevelandarchaeology.com

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hear hear.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BREATH-TAKING!!
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No sentient adults present. Simply prejudice, self-interest, and a lack of collective vision. Terribly sad.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Add in please #LongCOVID. It's equally as horrifying. From neglect to proposed therapies that do severe harm. There's no systematic medical-side training, simply a lottery, and no meds as yet, simpy ongoing research. Meanwhile, or lives switched off, disabled, and politically ignored.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mam used to perm his mam's hair.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ThrowbackThursday #Archaeology to 2014 and the Street House Before The Saxons temp exhibition at Kirkleatham Museum with mum, and me on a video. It was the month my ex walked away after 15yrs (to make more money in Dubai), so a rough time. The Saxon Princess exhibition is permanent.
A compilation of images. Director Steve top L, Mum bottom L looking at our local Society banner, me on video in the middle, and one of the posters on the R. No pics of finds here.
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Land of Iron @landofiron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🪨 What has been uncovered at Street House? Dr Steve Sherlock returns to Land of Iron to reveal the latest from the 2026 excavations, including a huge Neolithic–Early Bronze Age cairn, 150+ flint tools and new Roman finds. 📅 16 Oct | 6.30pm | £5 buff.ly/W3Q3K5j
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@davidpetts1.bsky.social does the handle bottom look like your wossit from Binchester?
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This looks excellent (Thu 12 Nov, York) #Archaeology FREE, also online. www.sal.org.uk/events/melso...
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The Melsonby hoards in context: Stanwick and landscapes of power in later Iron Age north-east England - Society of Antiquaries of London
The annual York Regional Group Ordinary Meeting, this year examining the Melsonby Hoards in North Yorkshire. This event takes place in York.
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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 · 27/09/2026
Was this the TAG fieldwalking?
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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
Bad fashion choices, poor pensions, healthcare-by-wealth, and toxic/plastic pollution. Alongside a hunger for oil. I ponder on voyeurism. As well as my Oxford comma.
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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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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now then. Maurice was part of my "coming out". Rupert Graves (and we saw his willy in Room w/a View too :-). Now, Robbie Williams did I think a satirical eulogy thing in BBC Comic Relief. "Just an 'ole sir'. hhh Scudder (and a boathouse) 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=znCS...
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Fast Show meet Robbie Williams - Classic Comic Relief
YouTube video by Comic Relief
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every good and positive wish I can hope for you both x
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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.
thornboroughag.org
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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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Al punto. Very good.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I only watched the US version, much better. Sharon Gless was fab.
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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 · 09/09/2026
4am Mood Insomnia (also name of my ex). www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntv...
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The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO
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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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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Roman Scotch Corner on the A1(M) Durham/N Yorks #Archaeology www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2650912...
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What archaeologists found buried beside famous A1(M) junction near Darlington
Archaeologists working beside Scotch Corner uncovered a huge Roman settlement, rare treasures and evidence of ancient coin production near the A1(M).
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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 · 06/09/2026
Awww, I've got fond memories of it way back. And there are bosses since that I would do that too. Thought it was fun.
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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
the other corporate vernacular is that divisions are oft' called Theatres (of operation), geo & functional. And in a strange dystopian way, they are just that, with malignant & sociopathic characters not out of place on a Shakespearean stage. The worst one could ever do is be outspoken or honest.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
in 2010, major corp, I performed voluntary deletion (which delivered a bit more deletion money than simple deletion). My boss was trying to delete me. I had an inkling our entire division (1000s) was going to be deleted. And it was a year later. Or did I metamorphose? :-)
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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 · 02/09/2026
Housebound since 2020 with Long Covid, stuck in London. Images as and when please! All power
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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 · 29/08/2026
Personally, the epidemiological evidence pointed to a truly filthy live food supply chain, all the right zoonotic components, where the first victims occured, and not in lab staff. Plus, no genetic evidence for meddling with the viral sequence. None 100%, but zoonotic (like SARS1) most credible.
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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 · 22/08/2026
Adding: satire, sarcasm and understatement
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Christmas cake with Wensleydale cheese And a sherry trifle Alongside crumble & custard All after battered fish & chips with mushies
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Central London "storms" forecast by met office (66%). Sky got angry couple of times. Eight small droplets of water which immediately evaporated. I shan't be readying the stirrup pumps, not yet.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fußbodenheizungssystem might catch on. On the other foot... hmmm, and still banned. What's the suffix? Tor, Gatter or Pforte? I like Fußbodenheizungssystemgatter.
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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 · 17/08/2026
Entirely enthralling.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
5545 is stunning.
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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"spiritual" but original works too.
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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?
rain drops
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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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