If you're in the Anglo-Welsh borderland and are looking for opportunities to get involved with local heritage The Judge's Lodging Trust in Presteigne are looking for new trustees. As a trustee of the Offa's Dyke Association I can attest to how rewarding these posts can be

In another useful share from @museumsandheritage.com if you're involved in a heritage organisation that's using, or is considering using, augmented reality here's an invitation to participate in a survey run by the people behind the new virtual exhibitions at the National Museums Liverpool

Thank you to @museumsandheritage.com for this post with good news for heritage and nature in Gloucestershire

✨ #RowvemberChester Day 6 37 Watergate Street. The OLDEST! Grade I with undercroft fabric from 1180-1280. The twist? Its undercroft extends under the Row walkway - showing this medieval building originally jutted into the street before continuous walkways existed! Image: @Stuartrobphoto

Updates on the sites added to and removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register with #Gloucestershire featuring on both

And whilst we’re on the subject of stunning hillforts in our region - here is Old Oswestry in all its glory. We have some of the earliest, highest, most spectacular examples of these monuments in the Anglo-Welsh borderland.

Thank you @forestcollectiv.bsky.social for these amazing images of the absolutely stunning British Camp hillfort. Definitely one of my favourite sites in the Anglo-Welsh borderland

We're hiring an Interactive Visitor Operations Host at JORVIK Viking Centre! The key purpose of the role is to act as a costumed Viking to engage and inspire visitors in Viking Life and Archaeology. More information via the link in our bio 🔗 #Hiring #History #Jobs #JORVIK #Vacancies

Wise words from the wonderful Roger Allam “Art and music, drama – these are the things we do best. And we don’t kill each other in our millions over it.”

Takes me back to my early days as a HND student and our Head of Department, Bill Putnam, telling us all that once you start with landscape archaeology you never stop wondering why our surroundings are the way they are. Good luck @chrisseddon.bsky.social

If you’ve an interest in the Anglo-Welsh borderland and haven’t yet discovered @sabrinariverfolk.bsky.social you’re missing a gem 👇

I had cause to do some digging around Herefordshire's early medieval charters this afternoon. I mostly deal with macro-scale landscapes of regional landscapes, but the details in these documents are wonderful insights into how these places looked and were understood by those who knew them intimately

“We have a ghost book so that when people say we’ve just had a strange experience, we record it and sometimes people put drawings in.” Bumps in the night at English Heritage sites featuring Chester Castle

How did I miss this from @archaeobruja.bsky.social? A piggy bank may need to be raided. . .

With the good news about the legal action going forward on the state of the rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk it seems like a good time to promote the upcoming 'Barging up the Wye' from the excellent @logastonpress.bsky.social that charts the history of this much loved river from Roman times

There you go, even more proof that degrees in archaeology can take you all kinds of places. The Computing Service at Cambridge used to be full of us

Absolutely this from @claireboardman.bsky.social As someone who came through an equally non-traditional route via the Manpower Services Commission and an HND in Practical Archaeology I can attest to their value. This route doesn’t exist any more, but others should

Thank you to @inkcapjournal.bsky.social for this link on the joint project between the @openuniversity.bsky.social and the @nationaltrust.org.uk on the restoration of the floodplains at Attingham, #Shropshire that demonstrates the best of what can be achieved by the arts and sciences together

“In the stories of these creatures, we glimpse both our fear of the wild past and our responsibility for the future.” Wise words indeed

I’m a big fan of @butserancientfarm.co.uk and it looks like @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social had a grand time. Experimental archaeology teaches you so much and is brilliant fun. As a former mum of a much-loved German Wirehaired Pointer I thoroughly approve of Pawfessor Kenta as judge too.

Good news for #Gloucestershire heritage

I really enjoyed reading “Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees” by @francescasimon.bsky.social I remember being told my archaeology degree would be useless, but I’ve been lucky enough to have had a career in technology and always worked. Humanities degrees give you all kinds of life skills

Why the past matters. Chilling testimony from Hannah Arendt writing in the middle of the last century on how darkness thrives when we stop listening to each other’s stories

Thank you to @iwm21.bsky.social for this link. I have to confess I love a good graveyard. You can learn so much about peoples’ lives who didn’t make it into the history books, about attitudes to death and burial and headstones are wonderful microcosms of nature too

It was a day for magazines in the post. We also got our latest update from @englishheritage.bsky.social including an account of the varied uses of castles featuring Stokesay Castle in #Shropshire. It’s a truly magical setting and a wonderful haven for wildlife too

We’ve just received our latest newsletter from @shared-interest.bsky.social following on from Fairtrade Fortnight. The magazine prompts current members to help to grow the community, so if you’re interested in taking out the middle men and directly supporting farmers in the global south 👇

The curious case of the tombstone of Sextus Congenius Veras and it’s journey to a New Orleans yard

This from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social on possible means of human extinctions past and future "If Slimak is right, then it may not be our consumption of fossil fuels that ultimately results in the demise of Homo sapiens; it will, rather, be our annihilation of meaning that annihilates us."

“Embrace autumn! 20 reasons to be cheerful – from red wine to sensational star-gazing” featuring Worcester’s two day October light festival

It used to be that reflecting on life choices ‘Nobody wishes they’d spent more time in the office’ was the go to. Maybe we should move on to ‘Nobody wishes they’d spent more time shouting at people online who they’ve never met’. Spawned from this excellent @theguardian.com article on enshitification

If you're near Bishop's Castle in Shropshire this event in early October organised by the Middle Marches Community Land Trust in support of their White Grit Meadows appeal sounds wonderful

A rare good news story. Proof that investing time and energy as well as money in young people can turn lives around. Your access to university should not be predicated on your ability to pay

“I would say that Malvern pudding is most worthy of rehabilitation” Worcestershire crème brûlée! A pudding worth saving - unlike some others 👇 from @timdowling.bsky.social

A Lively Medieval Tavern Cover of Green Day’s ‘Basket Case’ Played on Instruments From the Middle Ages laughingsquid.com/green-day-ba...

I very much enjoyed reading and reflecting on this recent free-to-read post from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social on Upon a White Horse by @peteralanross.bsky.social For archaeologists context is everything and the book and the review provide many thought-provoking prompts. Looking forward to my copy.

This kind of trauma speaks through the ages. 'Records of deadly 1934 pit explosion in Wrexham to be displayed near site'

Something to lift our Sundays. Three Austrian nuns have broken out of their nursing home and returned to their convent. They have started an Instagram account @nonnen_goldenstein and are crowdfunding for supplies. Go sisters Regina (86), Rita (81) and Bernadette (88)!

The skills in creating this piece from #Shropshire are all the more remarkable in light of its being just 3.6 x 4.7 cm! Thank you for sharing @drnwillburger.bsky.social

““All this cannot come in so fast on a duck’s bottom,” Ancient seeds and their potential for pond restoration

I've been reminded of the campaign that the Woodland Trust are running to rescue the ancient forests hidden in modern plantations in Cymru and England. Please consider helping to support their campaign to protect these precious resources www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-t...

Fun fact; my Dad’s family are Lancashire Edges and therefore my surname likely derives from Alderley Edge. Mythic history indeed.

It's exciting to see these older design essays online for the first time. I wonder what ideas or lessons they have for us?

This free online event in October from Dig Ventures looks like a wonderful opportunity for anyone with an interest in archaeology, gaming or technology in general 👇 digventures.com/product/reim...

Congratulations @justrena.bsky.social

So excited to receive a copy of the first Annual Review of the Offa’s Dyke Association. There is so much going on. Conservation work, conferences and research all feature!

Woo hoo @repaircafeworcs.bsky.social are on here! This post has reminded me we both need to take our teddies in. In my case, my ancient pal had his nose chewed off by my much-loved English Mastiff, Luggage - so more pet-related attempted ‘teddycide’ I’m sure they can help ❤️

A big thank you to the Middle Marches Community Land Trust for the link to the call to contribute to the Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Local Nature Recovery Strategy 👇

“The people who took us pass away, and we ourselves grow up and change, but the stones stay the same”

Opportunities to get involved with the Herefordshire Hoard are available across the county 👇

Anyone with an interest in archaeology and gaming needs to read this excellent piece from @florencesn.bsky.social 👇