Had a little furtle through the finds archive from Heslington East excavations in #York in a #YorkshireMuseum store. Tasty little small finds from a mostly Roman site. A tiny selection of the 157 boxes of finds from this site.

#spellingbee falling foul of poor image metadata here. That is a hoverfly, Eristalis tenax, not a bee (spelling or otherwise) It's a honeybee mimic so would surely be delighted at succeeding in this deception! #hoverfly #entomology 🐝🐞

If I wanted to host a free public online talk as part of a local natural history society, what platforms are folks using for this sort of thing now? Still Business zoom, Restream etc.?

Thoroughly wholesome Sunday morning taking the 3yo to marshall at the local Junior #Parkrun. She's too young to run but a rockstar at helping. Shout-out for Parkrun volunteering - it's easy, quick, has no long term obligations, and great outcomes for communities. 🫶

In the world post-PhD I've been doing various writing projects, some of which are about to see the light of day. Top of the list is Magic in Roman Britain, with Amberley. www.amberley-books.com/current-mont...

Oh wow, this looks terrific! I think I hit the order button so hard I broke my phone

Hey, Natural Science folks - come work with us in the #YorkshireMuseum Associate Collections Curator- Biology £26.7-£28.5k, FT, 6months www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/about-us/our... 🦆🦌🐒🍄🌿🌴🌷

At Far Ings NNR moth club this morning. Good result of 6 species. 1 knot grass, 1 ruby tiger, 1 Muslin, 2 clouded drab, 2 Hebrew character, and 14 Common Quaker. With the warm patch we are about a month ahead of last year's cold damp spring. @lincswildlife.bsky.social 🦋🐝🐛🦗🪲🪳

Still thinking about the #RomanEmpire umpteen times a day, and writing about it too. Exhibition review: Legion: Life in the Roman Army, British Museum and Women Doing Everything, Everywhere, all at Once, Verulamium Museum. doi.org/10.1017/eaa.... 🏺 #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

Sincere and heartfelt thanks to all who have donated to our cause already, via the crowfunder or in the museum, shared or liked the post ❤️ Momentum is on our side here!

It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it! 1/ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

The Melsonby Hoard was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021 & subsequently declared Treasure. The Yorkshire Museum aim to raise £500,000 to acquire & conserve the hoard, keeping it in a public collection. Help keep the hoard in Yorkshire & donate today at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

The heart of the Hall will always belong to @romanpalace.bsky.social ❤️ ❤️

The latest free talk at the #YorkshireMuseum in support of Star Carr: Life after the Ice will be held on 5th March 2025, 6-7pm. Dr Andy Needham will be presenting "Mesolithic art and personal ornamentation: Insights from Star Carr and beyond" www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/eve... 🏺⛏️

I have two non-fictction #archaeology books in UK public libraries. Love that. You paid for people lending them yoo. 76 loans this year at 11.76p per loan. £8 for people lending my books 😀 If you are published sign up for #PLR and the ALCS! @alcs-uk.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

It's a good day when two randoms from THE POT OF MANY SCREWS get drilled into a wall. The pot is pure potential. Pure chaos. And it provides!

I can't tell you how pleased I am with how TRULY awful my new work mug is. Art.

#Museum curators and removal companies- game gotta recognise game. This is an art work.

Tfw you work in a #museum and are moving house 🏛️

This is a late Iron Age harness fitting. MacGregor describes roundel fittings with loops as a "form unique in British Iron Age metalwork but also in Continental chariot burials". Similar fittings were discovered in the Stanwick & Heck Hoard from North Yorkshire. #FindsFriday https://buff.ly/3Br8R9A

Button and loop fasteners are multi-purpose used with harness equipment & clothing. They are thought to be military objects, though PAS examples tend to be found on rural sites not specifically related to military activity #FindsFriday #StarshipEnterprise #BoldlyGo https://buff.ly/41oT2el

Toddler's teddy bear picnic offerings are some real #BreathOfTheWild stuff. Strawberry and pizza? Of course. Toadstool and lemon? *Chefs kiss* #botw

An excellent Viking silver penny, hand of god type, dating to c.915. It's one of three surviving coins (in the #YorkshireMuseum) of the many hundreds discovered in the Bossal-Flaxton Hoard. Also featuring hacksilver and jewellery, mostly now lost. #ArchaeologyBlusky #VikingBluesky 🏛️🥄

If there was a moment I questioned my parenting it's when the toddler said, on approaching a cafe, "I just need a babycino". 😬

#York has some fun hidden archaeology. Like the Roman Bath in a pub basement. It's a small, private museum that does good things to advocate for the importance of heritage in the city. See also the gorgeous floor tile with three or four hobnails footprints on it. 🏛️🏺 #MuseumsBluesky #RomanBluesky

Free Mesolithic talk in #York tomorrow 👇👇 #ArchaeologyBluesky #PrehistoryBluesky 🏛️🏛️

My first week at work in York in December 2010. Working in an outbuilding cataloguing medieval stonework and assorted... things. Brrrr.

Doing some real #Archaeology stuff this afternoon playing with silver from the Bedale Hoard and a copper styca of King Osberht of Northumbria. Look at the shiny! #ArchaeologyBluesky 🏛️🏺 #YorkshireMuseum

A thing I wrote is out now. "Roman mosaics in the Yorkshire Museum" in the ASPROM journal. I explored a little about the history of collecting, conservation, and use of mosaics in the museum since it's foundation. As always, message me if a copy would be of interest.

Beautiful morning for a spot of urban #birding on #YorkWalls on my way to the museum. 15 species with Little Egret by the foss, and a Goldcrest on the walls the best of it. Also a FAR AWAY sparrowhawk in top of #YorkMinster. 🪶🦆🏺🏛️

#Lincolnshire has some weird traditions but this one I enjoy - the annual Christmas tractor runs. Hundred massive tractors covered in lights and Christmas trees is just great craic. Toddler loved it.

Welcome to the Blue Sky world of finds recording and identification in North & East Yorkshire. Here are the kind of things you can look forward to seeing on our feed. There will be a healthy dose of best practice, finds care and conservation, and exciting research projects too.

Do you have a thing you wrote that's just pure wild? Totally out of canon for the rest of your work? Mine is this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... (OA) "Finding love: The materialities of love-locks and geocaches", which is a material culture approach to #geocaching. Cos why TF not?

I know people keep saying it but it's so lovely to see friends,. acquaintances, colleagues and followers from the other place turning up here. May the migration continue.

Absolutely, unwaveringly, no. With a heartfelt ✨𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑✨ on top.

For the Romano-Britons among us, here's a lot of others you might like to follow. go.bsky.app/S7ESho8

In #wingspan rules there's a lot of zero points ducks here!

Finally able to set up and play #Wingspan. It's such a lovely, low stakes games with beautiful pieces and cards. And competitive enough for my partner to buy into it. 🦆🪶

Loved going to see the Leeds #museum Living with Death. It's not an expensive showstopper but it's so well thought out, emotive, relevant, current, and powerful. And has such good interventions for reflection. @leedsmuseums.bsky.social #Museumsbluesky #LeedsCityMuseum #Leeds

Oh get out! This is actually incredible. 😱

A quick request for all the archaeologists who've recently joined BlueSky -- consider signing up to be on my archaeo/anthro commenters list. 🏺 It's my personal, private, virtual rolodex of experts to bug about new research. (2/4) forms.gle/VDZ7Ajmmy3zj...

Free #Mesolithic talk? The next talk in support of Star Carr: Life after the Ice is at the Yorkshire Museum on Wednesday 4 December 2024, 6:00 pm-7:00 pm. In person, no booking necessary. Join Dr Sophy Charlton (@UniOfYork) for "Exploring Mesolithic lives using archaeological science"

The Roman fort at Ardoch in Perthshire. Originally built during the first invasion of Scotland, it was reoccupied and reduced in size during the second invasion.

Seems that we're doing requests now...

So, Gladiator II. There's much to like, but much to raise an eyebrow at. Here's my (mainly irreverent) review, with a little scholarship thrown in for good measure. Mild spoilers, but all clearly marked so don't say i didn't warn you. ancientbluesky ancientalexandra.weebly.com/gladiators/g...

Had a lot of new #archaeology followers this week. To all who landed on these shores recently, welcome. Here's a blog by the excellent Antony Lee about my favourite Roman altar recording a journey: www.lincolnmuseum.com/blog/view/pe... 🏺

Good news I've been able to get exactly 7 minutes of work done today. Bairn is still ill but mostly just signing Wheels on the Bus remixes "The cows on the bus go..."

I had a whole day of annual leave tomorrow to do some writing and research I've been needing to do for ages. So of course the toddler has hand foot and mouth so will be off nursery now. Hall hail Sod and his laws, for they are mighty.

I made an archaeology starter pack - please feel free to share and follow the folks on here, I'll definitely add people as they start to pop up on BlueSky! 🏺🧪 go.bsky.app/6g4xDfm