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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Starting to enjoy field sketching again, making oak gall inks and reed pens, listening to birds and scratching away in a sketchbook. Learning to live with imperfect results. Feels cathartic.

Photo of a Page from a sketchbook: scruffy ink 3-panel sketch of a bridge, with a list of birds heard whilst sketching. Text reads:

Diglis Bridge 28.9.26
18:54-19:17
RH 26
Carrión crow • Jackdaw• Robin • Wren• Dunnock• Sparrow Kingfisher Magpie Blackbird Mallard• Cetti’s Warbler. Chiffchaff Starling Two Pipistrelles on the walk back. Sweet smell of Himalayan balsam.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SO excited about the forthcoming essays that we have coming out in this special issue!!! 😄 They make a brilliant case for reading, writing, & living *creatively* in the humanities 🥳

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We've decided to start a discussion series. Lunchtimes once a month, to remember why we 'do heritage' all welcome, please share with students and networks.

Poster for a discussion series. Text reads:

ButCH/*

Bureau for the Contemporary & Historic

Bureau Bites!

JOIN US AT THE BUREAU FOR A MONTHLY LUNCHTIME BITE

13.15-14.00

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/353204848682706?p=kTQLxkqUay7odEGmUi

Meeting ID: 353 204 848 682 706

Passcode: 72My9df2

Start your week with us in the Bureau for our new series, Bureau Bites. These informal, 45min online gatherings are open to all, whether you're a postgraduate student, a heritage manager or a senior consultant. Keep an eye on our LinkedIn account where we'll post a link to a short text (30 min read) the week before we meet. We understand how dynamic, energetic and enterprising (ie busy) we all are so please join the conversation even you haven't been able to make time to read and reflect in advance. Readings will be a mix of websites, blogs, reports, excerpts from academic papers.

The aim is to reconnect us with our communities of practice and to create space for the kind of thinking we might not be able to do on the daily grind. We invite participants to start a light-touch reflective journal to help document these conversations, which you may find useful in your work.

These gatherings also mark the start of ButCH's journey towards being a business partnership and launch of our redesigned website https://37looestreet.org/home/butch/

Monday, 12 October: Does heritage really matter?

Monday, 9 November: When loss is more!

Monday, 7 December: Beyond engagement? Art, heritage and placemaking

Monday, 11 January: Strategies, frameworks and plans why have them?

Monday, 8 February: Nothing ages faster than the future

Monday, 8 March: Place, land and more-than-human interve

Monday, 5 April: 'No, I don't want to do workshops with NEETs! Beyond instrumentalising heritage

Monday, 10 May: Not another toolkit! Working with creative approaches to unblock cross-sector heritage research, management and policy

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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Extended deadline for the Institute for Names studies sponsored Medieval Onomastics panels at Leeds IMC 2027 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC27 ! Get your abstracts in to Tristan and Rachel ASAP, but no later than the 25th September. Please share with colleagues, students, friends, enemies etc

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The Green Runners @thegreenrunners.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rob ran a great race and wants to get more life from his daps. We provided a few pointers in reply to his post. Check out the YouTube videos we shared for great advice. #HowWeKitUp

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really enjoyed yesterday’s Worcester City Runs 10k; brilliant to run through the heart of the city, great crowds and atmosphere despite the weather: muggy then soggy! Bagged a PB despite less than optimal prep. 😬🏃‍♂️

Photo of three runners mid-race on a riverside path.

Photo of a runner in blue kit crossing the finish line, just behind a shirtless man who turns to high-five? Hug? Wave? 🤷

Photo of a runner - a middle-aged white man in blue running kit and a purple jacket - with a medal round their neck, ringing a PB bell in the rain

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wrapping up the series and the summer watching England vs Ireland at New Road. And proudly cheering on our little club’s own emerging star, Charis Pavely #cricket 🏏

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Terrific animation by Imogen Taylor!

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New theory on drivers for Icelandic deforestation just dropped: medieval Norse desire for endogenous Cricket bat production, coupled with high breakage rates due to the inherent unsuitability of native birchwood. 🏏🗃️

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PhD thesis submitted at the end of last month and now feeling weirdly flat and restless. Sharing a little zine I made at the end of the project as a nod to hopefully doing more creative things in archaeology soon! Last few pages to follow

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Now the dust is settling on the Women’s T20 #cricket World Cup… it’s been terrific. Took family to Edgbaston to see Bangladesh vs Netherlands and India vs Pakistan. Just incredible for the children to feel the atmosphere, the noise, the joy. To see women’s sport lift the roof. 🏏

Photograph of two adults and two children standing in front of Edgbaston cricket stadium. The children wear purple foam fingers.

Photograph of play between Bangladesh and Netherlands in Women’s T20 cricket World Cup: Dutch batter Sterre Kalis steers the ball backward of square.

Photograph of India supporters at Edgbaston for India vs Pakistan women’s cricket match, 14 June 2026

Photograph of India supporters at Edgbaston for India vs Pakistan cricket match, 14 June 2026

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The deadline for the MSRG John Hurst Memorial Prize is fast approaching! Open to any current/recent postgraduate students. Submit abstract by 30th June. £200 prize for best paper; presenters eligible for travel bursary. Details/forms at: medieval-settlement.com/grant.../dis... 🏛️🗃️🏺 #medievalsky

Medieval
Settlement
Research Group M.S.R.c.
John Hurst Memorial Prize
Open to all postgraduate students
Present a 15-minute paper on any theme related to medieval landscape and settlement in the British Isles or Europe To be delivered at the MSRGWinter Seminar, December 5th 2026
in person or online
The author of the winning paper recieves £200 and can submit a short article based on their paper for inclusion in our journal, Medieval Settlement Research.
Image by Rob Hedge. Inspired by MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 109v
Current postgraduate students (or those within 1 year of completion) of landscape archaeology, history, geography and other cognate subject areas, whose research relates to medieval rural landscapes and settlements, are warmly encouraged to apply Applicants should complete the regulations and application forms with an abstract (max 500 words), to be returned to the Hon. Secretary: secretarymsrg@gmail.com
The closing date for abstracts is 30th June 2026. Up to four shortlisted speakers will be invited to present either in person or online on 5th December 2026. Finalists are eligible to apply for a bursary to offset travel expenses. Full details can be found at:
https://medieval-settlement.com/grants-awards/dissertation-award/

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If you’d like to take a minute out of your Friday afternoon, here’s a time-lapse video in which I colour my live sketches from the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists conference in Edinburgh this week. (🔈 for commentary) #archaeology #illustration

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

On my way back after a fine CIfA archaeology conference in Edinburgh. And yes, I’ve been scribbling - will get my illustrations coloured and posted soon… 🏺🏛️🗃️

Selfie of a man in purple running top and green cap on top of a large hill, with Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth in the background.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I suppose it was inevitable… after scoring, then coaching, I played my first game of competitive cricket in 17 years yesterday. The less said about my bowling the better… but I did manage 42no and a last-wicket 50 partnership to win. And I felt the joy of being out in the middle on a glorious day. 🏏

Photograph of a cricketer in whites playing a shot on the front foot, with the wicketkeeper standing up to the stumps. In the background is a fence topped with flowering hawthorn

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A little time-lapse video, colouring my live conference sketches from the weekend’s Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring conference in Lincoln. #medievalsky 🏺🏛️🗃️ #sketchbook #illustration #skystorians (🔈for commentary)

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Don't forget to come and see us today between 12-4! We have #OSL and #Pollen data which gives us a tremendous record of #Medieval farming! Sheen village hall SK17 0ES ///soap.social.cosmic

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A cartoon to illustrate Ellen Durbin's excellent Diggers' Forum article on the awkward disconnect, raised by @sarahmay1.bsky.social, between the impact of archaeology and the impact on archaeologists. There'll be more from me in future issues of British Archaeology. 🏺

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Enjoying that ‘first page of a new sketchbook’ feeling. Bishop’s Palace, St Davids, Pembrokeshire.

Photograph of a sketchbook page with a pencil and ink sketch of a ruined medieval building.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Porth Mawr. 11/04/2026 North #Pembrokeshire #surfing 🌊🏄‍♂️

A windswept 3-legged dog on the beach watches the surf with a stick in her mouth

Photo: Two surfers in black wetsuit, hats, gloves and boots carry swallow-tail surfboards across the beach.

Goofy-footed Surfer on swallow-tail board making the most of mushy side-shore conditions, with rocks in the background

Goofy-footed surfer floats the lip of a mushy wave at Porth Mawr

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Restorative Pembrokeshire Easter weekend with familiar faces. Not pictured (because they were too quick), the first swallows. One on Friday 3rd, then two pairs on Sunday 5th above Aberfelin, Trefin.

Photograph of a sunlit sea against dark cliffs

Photograph of Ynys-Fach, coastline near Porthgain with steep cliffs; with the hills of Strumble Head in background

Photograph of Carreg Samson, Neolithic burial chamber at Longhouse, Abercastell

Photograph of a scruffy wiry-haired dog on the beach at Solva.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Not felt like there’s been much to celebrate of late, but today as the mist cleared and the sun appeared, I shaved 18 seconds off my #Parkrun PB.

Photograph of a tired-looking man in purple sports kit standing next to a sign saying ‘Worcester Pitchcroft Parkrun PB Bell’, underneath which is a brass cowbell.

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Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🏺🗃️ The #Historians of #Archaeology group website launches soon! historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com We welcome submissions for the blog from everyone working on any aspect of the history of archaeology (excavations, object provenance, community, popular histories, histories of science...) 1/2

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

#Parkrun at Worcester Woods this morning, with Millie’s customary post-run scamper through Nunnery Wood. My journey up there probably follows the route once taken by medieval nuns of Worcester’s Whiston nunnery on the Tything, who farmed the land and after whom it’s named.

Selfie of a man in a blue coat and glasses, crouching next to a scruffy dog, on a woodland path

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Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A nice surprise this morning: my article on prison reform from below is out! I believe it’s open access but let me know if you can’t get a copy and would like one. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

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Prison reform from below: London, c.1780–1830*

Abstract. This article explores the history of the English prison reform movement from ‘below’ – that is, from the perspective of prison inmates. By highli

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Cheers Tess. I’ve been remiss of late in advertising, but some of my illustrations are available on sustainable clothing and gifts. And if you’d like a design in a different colour/garment, give me a shout. Tomorrow is last day for 1st class Christmas postage 👍 incurablearchaeologist.teemill.com

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

By strange coincidence, I’m wearing my Cirencester Roman Cockerel T-shirt today! I love Tess’s chocolate version. Any other representations out there? 🏺🏛️

Selfie of a man standing against a wooden wall and bookshelves, wearing a black T-shirt with the image of a Roman copper alloy statuette of a cockerel, with coloured enamel inlay on its wings and chest

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Completed my ECB Level 2 Core Coach qualification yesterday! 🎉 A great course: participants from current 1st class / England U19 pros all the way down to parent volunteers. Pride slightly tempered by aches in muscles I’d forgotten I even had, after yesterday’s pace bowling session. 🏏😬🤕 #cricket

Selfie of a bespectacled man in sports kit in a sports hall, next to a black banner that reads ‘Worcestershire Cricket Foundation #CricketForAll

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Tom Fairfax @tcfairfax.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I had a great time giving this talk yesterday! And it's already available to watch in YouTube! Huge thanks to @insuhi.bsky.social for having me!

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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Just sharing this again - a piece in @uk.theconversation.com that Alex Brown and I wrote about peasants and the surprising amount of 'sick leave' they were given in the middle ages #medievalsky #history #medieval theconversation.com/medieval-pea...

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Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits

Some peasants were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave if they were sick.

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

📣Join us on 2 Dec, 5.30pm for our hybrid SBC lecture and reception with Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall' - Please register for in-person or online attendance. Eventbrite links below

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Ventured over to Worcester Woods for #Parkrun. Millie likes to bark encouragement on the home straight. The woods seem eternal, but the undulations underfoot are what remains of medieval ridge and furrow created by ploughing: once upon a time, all this was open fields… 🏺🗃️

Photograph of a wiry-haired Irish terrier in a faded red harness, watching runners come up the hill at Worcester Woods Parkrun

Selfie of a sweaty bespectacled fair-haired man in a blue coat next to the face of a scruffy dog enjoying herself in the woods

Photograph of a path through woodland: the ground undulates slightly: the remains of medieval ridge and furrow ploughing, when Worcester Woods was open farmland owned by the nuns of the Whiteladies nunnery, Worcester.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I am currently reading 'Hild', a fabulous novel by @nicolaz.bsky.social that explores her early life, immersing the curious reader in the rhythms of 7th century life. Would heartily recommend it to anyone curious about Hild and her achievements. nicolagriffith.com/2023/11/17/h...

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Hild—A Historical Note

Today is the Feast Day of St Hilda of Whitby, that is, Hild—the protagonist of my novels HILD and MENEWOOD. Why does a 21st-C queer crip celebrate the life of a saintly Early Medieval abbess? It mi…

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Spent the morning turning this into a tiny zine. Printing, cutting, folding - a tiny analogue act of resistance to the news we’ve had this week about cuts to History at Leicester. I’ll bring them along to the @leicesterucu.bsky.social demo on Weds 12th November if you’d like your own copy.

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Rachel Maloney @raem30.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Less than a month to go for submission of abstracts! Papers invited for the Life and Landscape Research Showcase at the University of Nottingham.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Doing my ECB level 2 cricket coaching qualification. It’s great… … but yesterday’s enthusiasm (“wicket keeping is great fun, why did I never do it… maybe it’s not too late?”) has been tempered by today’s bruises and aches. Newfound respect for all you ‘keepers.🫡

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve* Parkrun this weekend was an excellent opportunity to pay a Samhain visit to an old friend. *yes, it is lovely. But yes, the hill at the end is every bit as horrible as they warn you.

Photograph of a sign on a bench saying “Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve Parkrun”, with the nature reserve in the background

Photograph of Pentre Ifan, a Neolithic dolmen. It is taken on 1st November. Someone has lain a wreath hanging from the northern stone, presumably to mark Samhain.

Photograph of Pentre Ifan from the west.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I recently went back to @maacambridge.bsky.social for the first time in years. I love the direction the museum is taking, but was delighted to see this familiar old friend! My illustration of it is available on T-shirts etc in my Teemill shop: incurablearchaeologist.teemill.com/search/?sear... 🏺

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Both in our collections. A researcher from Paris said that they didn't think the arrowhead was French, but made by someone very skilled who had seen French arrowheads.

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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Researchers from Athens say that the ones like the gold-studded Bush Barrow dagger (a later version of the one in this drawing) inspired Mycenaean gold-workers. Lots of European links in the Bronze Age - Cunnington and Colt Hoare were right!

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#ArchInk 4: bronze; 5: flint; 9: ivory #archaeology #illustration 🏺🏛️🗃️ Combining three prompts to look at early-19th century views of early Bronze Age artefacts.

Ink and graphite sketch of a dagger and arrowhead. Text reads: #ArchInk
The early Bronze Age was a time of remarkable transformation in material and social lives. People and materials came together in new ways.
I’m interested in how early observers interpreted these changes. The early-19th century excavators of these artefacts, Colt Hoare and Cunnington, were not afraid to draw parallels with continental Europe.
“Some may think it derogates from the dignity of our country to allow a Gaulish (i.e. foreign) original; but, be the consequences what they will, whenever we are in search of truth, although we discover her in ruins and rubbish, we must acknowledge and revere her.” Richard Colt Hoare, 1812
*Colt Hoare and Cunnington were, by the standards of the day, pretty good at recording. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussion of barrows in the severely area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits that he’s not sure which of the barrows this dagger came from!
#5 flint One of four arrowheads within a burial in a bowl barrow: Which Show affinity with those from Armorica, NW France.
FLINT ARROWHEAD, WIMBORNE ST GILES.
4: Bronze BRONZE DAGGER, SILK HILL MILSTON*
9: ivory The pommel is ivory from a marine mannal, possibly a walrus. It is very worn, suggesting it might have adorned other artefacts before this dagger
The wooden handle was re-constructed based onCunnington's dig notes.
* Or is it ? Colt Hoare and Cunnington - and their illustrator /surveyor Philip Crocker- were pretty good at recording their f, by the standards of the day. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussions of barrow-digging in the Everley area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits the dagger was "in one of these, but I cannot specify which!'

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#ArchInk 2: shell; 3: residue; 6: horn; 7: textile; 8: stratigraphy #inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️ Combining a few prompts to tell the story of Worcester Cathedral’s Cockleshell Pilgrim.

#ArchInk
Ink and graphite sketch of a grave. Accompanying text labels read:

The Cockleshell Pilgrim
In 1986-7, Excavations within Worcester Cathedral uncovered the body of a man wearing woollen clothing and leather boots, and artefacts suggesting an association with pilgrimage. Research by Katherine lack points to his identity: Robert Sutton, c15th Worcester dyer

6: horn
Decayed remnants of a horn tip were found at the top of a 1.55m wooden staff buried next to the body.

8:stratigraphy
The burial post-dates construction of the choir wall in 1374. The head and neck were missing: cut by a brick wall that truncated the west end of the grave.

3: residue
Remnants of soft tissue, skin, spinal cord, ligaments and muscle were found on the spine and pelvis.

2: Shell
Next to the Staff, and a bronze lace end, was a 5cm cockle shell, pierced at the top. Shells were a common Symbol of
pilgrimage, but usually Scallop Shells
associated with St James'Shrine at Santago de Compostela.
The cockle is therefore odd - it may have been intended as a general SymboLof pilgrimage

7: textile
He was buried wearing an undershirt and a fine cloak made from a type of woollen cloth called 'worsted'
They were of good quality, but plain and undyed -Befitting a pilgrim.

Sutton's 1454 will contained a wish to be buried “before the image of StJames in the cathedral.”
The man was in his sixties, at least - but had been fit and active before arthritis set in.

After anillustration by Helen Lubin, 1990

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#ArchInk 1: pigment #inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️ Not sure how much I’ll be able to contribute this year, but I’ll try to chip in when I can.

Ink and graphite sketch showing a woman in medieval dress, holding writing implements in each hand and an expression of intense focus, sat in front of a writing desk with an open manuscript.
Text reads:

# archink I: pigment
Medieval writers and artists used a huge range of compounds & colours - you can find out more abort their techniques at fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/illuminated. The staple of the medieval manuscript was the deep purple-black of iron gall ink, made by mixing iron sulfate with tannic acid, usually sourced from fermented oak galls.

MARIE DE FRANCE, LATE CI2th WRITER
After a late c13th illustration of her from BnF Arsenal Library, MS 3142 fol 256

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Had a grand time this afternoon chatting to students in Orlando, Florida about the advantages and limitations of tech in #archaeology. Give ‘em a few years and I’m sure one of them will crack my request for a portable C14 robot… Enthusiastic kids & doesn’t take too much of your time… get involved! 🏺

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A new comic: A brief history of History at the University of Leicester. You can download the originals and find links to further reading on my blog: incurablearchaeologist.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/l... #skystorians 🏛️🏺🗃️ Individual panels are threaded below:

An 8-panel comic illustrating the history of teaching and research in History at the University of Leicester since the university's foundation in 1921

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Brian Patten has died. Thawing Frozen Frogs was given to me as a small child: the first poetry I really *got*. The fact that I had to fish this dog-eared volume out of my son’s bedroom is testament to his gift: surreal, silly, funny, and moving. Sometimes all at once.

Photograph of a tattered Puffin paperback edition of Brian Patten’s ‘thawing frozen frogs’.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Family walk around NT Croome yesterday. “What are those birds, daddy?” Glossy ibis, right in front of us! Inevitably, I’d left my camera at home… #worcsbirds

Photograph showing back of head of small child standing on a path at bottom right. In centre left of image are two glossy ibis feeding in the shallow margins of a lake. One is just taking off.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Still buzzing from Worcestershire’s #OneDayCup triumph last night. Took the boy to Trent Bridge, spent the day dodging the rain. Skies cleared for just long enough to witness an all-time classic. Stands full of friends, family and the grassroots #cricket community 🏏

Two small girls in Worcestershire cricket shirts. One holds aloft a home-made sign reading ‘Go Rapids’.

Photograph of a cricket pitch. Hampshire Bowler is in his follow-through. Worcestershire batter Ethan Brooks punches the ball square on the off-side

Photograph of Worcestershire batter Henry Cullen hitting his first ball behind square on the leg side to win the match.

Photograph of a celebrating group of Worcestershire players: Henry Cullen and Ben Allison, wearing blue match shirts, applauding. In front of them, injured club captain Brett D’Olivera wearing green training kit applauds, crutches dangling from his forearms.

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