Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialPetra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Each generation inherits a little less nature and somehow learns to call it normal. Our grandparents remember rivers teeming with fish. Our parents remember trees filled with birds. Today, children grow up amidst concrete, plastic, smoke, heat, and silence. 523992
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Come explore an reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse with us You know you want to Based on evidence recovered from Glastonbury Lake Village Built by those wonderful people at SW Heritage Trust 📷 today whilst visiting Avalon Archaeology #Somerset 423666
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #womensart 122156452
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialDan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Mother Ludlam's Cauldron. A legendary white witch who lived in a cave near Waverley Abbeys and loaned things to locals, as long as they were returned within 2 days. www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Th... 2668
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 13/08/2026Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from north-east England suggestsnewscientist.comDNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain | New ScientistDescent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from north-east England suggests 14514
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Packing a zebra! #MuseumCollections #BehindTheScenes 040
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialWiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This Friday we are continuing our #FindsFriday work experience selection. In July we asked work experience students to pick their favourite item from the museums display, so today's Finds Friday is The Marlborough Bucket. 14415
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/08/2026They call them resurrection gates, call them lychgates – from the old Saxon word for corpse. They are ghost thresholds. Haunted by the dead who passed through to burial. Haunted by the ringing of invisible corpse bells. In their shade we feel sense of perpetual wake. – Dr. M. Benn 224131
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Simply beautiful: Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age flint daggers found in Saxony-Anhalt, 2300-1600 BC (Unétice-Culture). On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle. 📷️ me 424951
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It annoys me that I am such a fragile ninny during heatwaves. Anyone else suffering crippling headaches with just spending a few minutes outside? Its like the sun is beating my brain 😪 010
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology 141061243
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Heavenly birthday to my dear Mum. Miss you forever, love you forever 💔 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 22/07/2026On my birthday, I am thinking of my beloved departed Mum. This is the first birthday without her and its making me think about her giving birth to me 51 years ago. I know you're with me Mum, love you always, forever xx 020
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Hands up who else is NOT watching the World Cup? #MidsomerMurders #NiceCupOfTea #ChocolateHobnob 020
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Working on an archaeological archive that's going to the local museum brings you in contact with the most amazingly beautiful finds! I ❤️ my jobs. #archaeology #finds #brooch 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The Treasure exhibition at Dorset museum is stunning... 010
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialMuseums + Heritage @museumsandheritage.com · 20/05/2026Three heritage funding schemes have opened offering £48 million for places of worship and heritage sites in England, targeted at areas of high deprivation. museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post… 032
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Condition reporting a gorgeous Bronze Age beaker that I archived to the local museum and soon to be going on display in another museum. Love issuing loans like this. So many more people will engage with the object. #archaeology #Prehistoric #museums #exhibition #Worcestershire 031
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Little woolly dudes #Spring #Lambs 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 12/03/2026My day so far... reviewing care and conservation plans and researching whether there are any hazardous materials in collections... #Museums #MuseumCollections #Yikes 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Sunday morning lie in #LazySunday 010
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Saw this little box today. Made from bone, found under the head of a female burial in Broadway of late roman date. As the archaeological archivist, it will my job to get this & rest of the archive to the County Museum after all analysis & reporting has been completed. @profaliceroberts.bsky.social 292
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 11/01/2026A day out during the Christmas break while processing a major change in our family. Losing a parent is awful. We have become a closer family as we get together to support each other. #Grief #Talking 020
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Have had a really awful couple of months. The sort of experience that's changes you. I need to know I'm going to be ok. #Grief 130
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The season is in full riotous colour! #Autumn #Trees 060
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Plan for today... curl up to finish this with a bag of choc buttons, nap, walk, dinner, perhaps a bit of writing but early night. Didn't get home until just after 3 this morning and am knackered. Have a good Sunday folks. #SundayVibes #Relax 010
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Its October... know what that means... So far booked in 15 tours, 3 paranormal events, 1 talk as well as the 2 main jobs that I do. Give me all the coffee!! #ILoveItReally #October #Folklore #Autumn #Halloween 020
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialAnne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Under a thundery yellow sky, Mouse & Old Fox were picking blackberries on Gleydestow lane. Mouse accidentally dropped her basket & began to cry. I can't do anything, I'm such a fool. Old Fox took her little paw in his, you are one of the bravest souls I have ever met, he said. 820638
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Why do colleagues come to work and start eating their breakfasts at their desks? Doesn't matter what time of day they come in, they have to start eating. Also eating it with a teaspoon should be banned... #Monday 020
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University #Archaeology 371363386
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 13/09/2025#Standuptoracism London 229171
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Picked up Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte from the charity shop as its in my Gothic Reading list and happened upon the previous owners notes... love that ❤️ #RainyDay #Reading #Classics #Gothic 141
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Quitting putting effort into a WhatsApp group chat is an act of self preservation. Always being the one to initiate conversation and getting very few answers in return. Always excuses to meeting up. Well I am done. No more messages from me. 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Designing Discworld is coming to Worcester Museum and Art Gallery UK. Folklore played a huge part in Sir Terry Pratchetts popular Discworld series with creatures, beliefs and magic. Opens tomorrow and it looks gorgeous #FolkloreFriday 061
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Deputy Dave watching over me while I do my work. I can ask him anything apparently! #ColleaguesHoilday #Museums #Prop 010
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Who doesn't love a duck? #FindsFriday 0194
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Giving up whats going on in the world. Its too stressful so I shall be out in the garden with Hwaet!, Myths and Legend edition. #FolkloreSunday 080
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Oooh now then. Look what I found while mooching around in our museum stores... earmarked to look at later. 😁 An Account of the Discovery of the body of King John 17th July 1797. #WorcesterCathedral #History #HistoricalText 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Driving home from my archaeology job and what comes onto Classic FM on the radio? The theme tune to Indiana Jones... 😂 020
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Will be launching myself into this, this weekend. I ordered a bundle of 3 of the issues as I've heard great things. Looking forward to it! #Folklore #Zine 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I'm really craving some sort of ginger cakey thing... I need to do some baking this weekend. 000
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialThe English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025This is Tryfan In Welsh folklore the burial site of Sir Bedivere, who returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake after Arthur's last battle The lake that holds Excalibur is Llyn Ogwen, to the left off camera The lake on the right is Llyn Idwal in Cwm Idwal 1/2 818122
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialSelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Corn Grinding Dance steps. In ceremonies such as in the Tatéi Niwestsika ‘Etsixa (“Cultivation Ceremony”), children perform a series of dances to embody all Corn maids #Folklore www.inquiry.net/outdoor/nati... 0266
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Opened emails this morning to one from our company health care system telling us that July is UV Safety Month... sent on the 1st of August... Blessed Lughnasadh everyone! 000
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I made it... they're all still there 😍 #Prehistoric #StandingStones #Avebury 020
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Having the week off as its one of those "milestone" birthdays this week. First morning of first day off and I'm collapsed on the bed after a manic deep clean session. Im not doing 'holiday' right am I? 010
Reposted by @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.socialThe Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This striking account from August 1872 tells of a colliery "ghost." This report comes from near Wrexham, but colliery ghosts are a common theme across Britain. Reports often feature ghostly miners, eerie sounds, and apparitions warning of impending doom. #Ghosts #Folklore #History #hauntings 0145
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Will be making a pilgrimage next week... 130
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 16/07/2025One of my books from a small haul I gathered while on holiday in Dorset a couple of weeks ago. Started it yesterday and I'm halfway through already! Enjoying it immensely! #Folklore #CunningFolk #Magic 140
mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social @mysteriousmaven01.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Going to perch on my swing seat for half an hour before it gets unbearable #ukheatwave 020