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@nancesw.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, birder and crafter

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Blimey! Fame at last 😵‍💫 only took 46 years of digging holes 😉😆
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And as we have another record breaking hot day, the BBC leads the PM headlines with news that the price of Oil has dropped.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Disputed lyrics no. 73 *Car Wash* by Rose Royce (1976): "You might not ever get rich" (True) ✅️ "But let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch" (False) ❌️ Whatever *it* is, digging an Iron Age ditch at #Durotriges26 is so much better
Archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests clean the line of a prehistoric ditch, filled with brown soil, cut into the white geological chalk natural of Dorset
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Colins field guide to archaeology in Britain, so full of exciting places, sites, objects, info on everything just stuff 😊
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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Looking for a Christmas gift that actually feels different? Give the gift of discovery with a CBA Membership. 🎁 Perfect for anyone who loves the past, stories or exploring places. Membership unlocks a world of archaeology all year round 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/gift-subscriptions.html
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Gift CBA Membership
Why not feed someone’s passion for the past by gifting them a CBA membership. A membership is the ideal present for any archaeology professional, student, or enthusiast in your life.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
[Warning - human remains] Iron Age #archaeology on TV tonight, Tuesday 4th Nov 9pm #More4 Available for download later on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD #Prehistory #Durotriges 👇👇
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Simply the best
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
You are spoiling us Ambassador ☺️
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Bronwen Russell @curious-bronwen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Great day out in Dorchester celebrating #maidencastle 40 years on -catching up with some friends and colleagues old and new! This guy wasn’t bad @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Dr Miles Russell Stands in front of a screen showing the title slide of his talk, Beyond the ‘Castle’ Maiden Castle - 40 years on programme of abstracts from the day
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Utagawa Kuniyoshi's "Self-portrait as a cat lover", mid 19th c, Japan, depicts the artist surrounded by cats. Kuniyoshi was known for his love of felines, and his studio was reportedly filled with them; he placed them into many of his works, often as a form of satire to cleverly evade censorship
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thank you, we enjoyed every minute, reminiscing and archive diving is always a pleasure never a chore 😉☺️❤️
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
🤣 miracle we survived!
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The ridgeway is a magic place everyone loved your talk and the sink hole info ☺️
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thank you ☺️ it was a great event, ☺️ we are still going in the pub - now there's a surprise! 😄
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
❤️ will do it again for the 50th! 😉☺️
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Miles turn now at the Maiden Castle 40 year later day school
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Maiden Castle Archive display with even my 40 year old t shirt from the dig ☺️ no way it would fit me now 😄
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Maiden Castle 40 years on day school going well ☺️
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
😍
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Some absolutely fantastic archaeology coming to a TV near you soon 😀 👇👇
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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We all love a new hillfort, or in this case fortlet. Identified recently in #Herefordshire from LiDAR as part of work for Forestry Commission. A multi-vallate fort overlooking a blind valley. More information here: htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/media/1187/h... #HillfortsWednesday
A hillfort looking across the Teme Valley shown through LiDAR comprising at least two external banks and ditches
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#HillfortsWednesday Castle Ditches Llancarfan - A substantial univallate enclosure, set along a steep-sided east-west ridge defined by a single bank, and counterscarped. Occupation is attested from the Iron Age through to the Romano-British period. #AncientBlueSky🏺 #Archaeology #History
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Will do I will be maning the display 😄
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
See you there 😄
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.
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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Yew tree at Marston House, Somerset estimated to be 3,000 years old.
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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Tomorrow we embark on the last Op Nightingale fieldwork for 2025, back to the sacred lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey, last refuge of the druids. Will we find more of this incredible Celtic assemblage as we did in 2024? Watch this space….! #archaeology #celtic #anglesey #veterans #wellbeing
Display boards talking about the discovery of the hoard at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey A lake with reeds A hand holding a bronze terret ringA pair of hands holding a horse bridle
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Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hi BlueSky! Jumping in with my first post to play #findsfriday and this lovely little spindle whorl found during excavations at Caerfai promontory fort in 2022. 📸 my own from the Cherish project with DigVentures
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
You are right, your not wrong 😁 as my Dad used to say ❤️ ours are called Jack and Stella and hit the spot everytime ☺️ hugs back at you xxcx
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 10/10/2025
It is #worldmentalhealthday today (we'd argue that's every day). We love you all very much so this is for you...
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Definitely need hugs and a big one for @portlandmuseum.bsky.social where we have had to have many closed days due to our one staff member and a lot of volunteers succumb to Covid 😥 we have deployed our secret weapons We will be back!
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
As the once manager of a historic former flour mill, I’m always drawn to places where the tradition still thrives. One such gem is Worsbrough Mill near Barnsley, a working watermill on the River Dove producing premium organic flours. Milling here goes back to Norman times. The
The Worsbrough historic flour Mill complex of buildings.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The Dentalux toothbrush shown here and found last week is from the cargo ship Wec Van Eyck, which lost a container of Lidl goods bound for Spain in Feb 22. Many years ago, a friend found 100s of unused toothbrushes washed up. He told us he had a lifetime's supply for his family.
Unused dentalux toothbrush from a cargo spill pictured among an array of brightly coloured plastic objects picked up from the beach
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 01/10/2025
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Used to be called Shedworth untill 2012 😉
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Escaping back into the Iron Age @butserancientfarm.co.uk A day spent investigating roundhouses and pondering mosaics with @curious-bronwen.bsky.social @tessmachling.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @experimentalkearns.bsky.social 😊👍 #Archaeology
Archaeologists Assemble (in the doorway of an Iron Age house)A recreation of an thatched roof, daub wall Iron Age roundhouse Two archaeologists ponder a recreation Roman mosaicArchaeologists Assemble outside a Roman villa
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Snap 😊
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
...aaaand Richard Tice, from a party with five MPs, is on BBC Question Time for the fourth time in less than 18 months. The Greens? Don't be silly...
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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Here's happy team shot with carved stone. #Priorwood Garden @n-t-s.bsky.social
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"The IEA estimates that datacentres’ total electricity consumption could double from 2022 levels to 1K TWh in 2026, approximately Japan’s level of electricity demand" What little progress we make to stem the tide of climate change is being squandered on AI. The whole enterprise should be dismantled
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NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Find of the dig so far! Fantastic medieval carved boss from ribbed vaulting of Melrose Abbey. What a cracker! #Priorwood Garden @n-t-s.bsky.social
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The meanest two archaeologists in Norwich tonight. If anyone comes into this pub shouting about reused ship’s timbers or what the Romans did for us, they’re going to GET SOME. @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social #NotHavingIt
Duncan Mackay and James Wright sitting in a pub looking hard.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Start your day the Iron Age way* (*In a pit full of animal body parts)
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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳 Here's Hollingbury Camp, a wonderful univallate Early Iron Age subsquare hillfort at the NE edge of Brighton East #Sussex Aerial 📷 © 1948 K-D100 from the excellent CUCAP archive @camdiglib.bsky.social cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...
The rampart and ditch of an Iron Age hillfort, rampart worn down to the chalk by visitors, from the air. The interior of the hillfort is partially covered with gorse, the exterior by trees to the lower left and the bunkers and green of a golf course
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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Went down with covid last week I got tests and did one as soon as I felt unwell. I have stayed off work and as I am feeling a bit better am working from home. I have colleagues who have health issues so didnt want to spread it. Mad that gov site says to go into work if you feel OK!
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Glass furnace alert! 🔥🍷 We did it! We finished building our glass furnace @butserancientfarm.co.uk!! And what a handsome creature it is too. 😍 We can't wait to fire it... In other news, if anyone has a *normal* curator and would like to swap, please DM us.
A big clay Roman style glass furnace, viewed form the side. You can see a stoke hole on the left, chimney on top and glory hole and shelf in the side. A big clay Roman style glass furnace. on the left is an annealing oven. The chmney is on topand in the side is a gathering hole and tool-warming port. On the right you can see the stoke holeA clay Roman style glass furnace, viewed looking down the stoke hole. Some boots are arranged in the stoke hole so that it appears that someones legs are sticking out of it. An itiot is crouched behind the furnace so that it looks like his head is poking out of the chimney.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I remember when I were a lad, the Neolithic was peopled by peaceful hippies who grew crops, erected stones, and were generally nice to each other. Well not any more, sunshine 😁
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Archaeologists Discover 6,000 Year Old "Victory Pits" That Featured Mass Graves, Severed Limbs, and Torture
Ancient times weren't peaceful by any means.
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