Here's another one of my new paintings inspired by folk art and ancient megaliths. This one is entitled 'Sun and Dolmen' and is watercolour and gold ink on cotton rag paper. See more of my work on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI #TombTuesday

Our Survey Group were carrying our geophysics in the walled garden of Mount Stewart looking for evidence of a previous garden in what is now an orchard (those are grape vines in the background) @nationaltrust.org.uk

While I was out with the @ulster-archaeology.bsky.social doing geophysics at Mount Stewart I got a quick glimpse of an amazing dovecote @nationaltrust.org.uk @nattrustarch.bsky.social

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️ More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

So the DFS sale really has been going on as long as we thought

Come and meet the team from the National Museum of Ireland at the National Ploughing Championships, Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, taking place from 16th to 18th September 2025. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...

Amazing news for one of our #HeritageDevelopmentTrusts, Inner City Trust! They have been awarded funding from @heritagefunduk.bsky.social to begin work to rescue, restore and reimagine the iconic former Austins department store. Congratulations. 🎉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A mere 5 days to go! Send in your proposals!

Oh hey, thanks to Kobo's September Weekend sale, the ebook of From Unseen Fire: Book One of the Aven Cycle is currently only $0.99! Need some holiday reading? Step into an alternate version of ancient Rome, re-imagined with elemental magic: books2read.com/b/from-unsee...

My academic grandmother, Barbara Harvey, died earlier this month; there's a short tribute to her from @somervillecollege.bsky.social here: www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/barbara...

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to a villa beneath the Church of Santa Maria Assunta at Positano with its amazing paintings in the triclinium (dining room). The luxurious maritime villa was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It presumably covered an area...🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Scottish Archaeology Month begins in just three days! 🥳 View the programme and start planning your SAM here: www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/events/ #Hesfunded #scotarchmonth #archaeologyscotland

It’s publication day!!! Domination is officially out in the world, in all good bookshops! www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Domina...

🏆 Nominations are open for the @ArchaeologyUK #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards! Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT

Happy feast day of Saint Augustine, whose mind was so blown by the sight of his friend and mentor Saint Ambrose reading silently (instead of out loud, the norm of the time) that he devoted a whole passage to it in his Confessions

People keep blaming the rise of fascism on the books women are reading but you know what I think the real cause is? Giving stupid people's opinions the same merit and consideration as the experts.

Interested in the historic environment? Want to help research, support and develop histories of place with the oldest and most ambitious (arguably) national local history project anywhere? Come and work with us!

We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.

The lovely details of 14th century Fiddleford Manor, Dorset.

Not sure what today's #marginal #musician is playing. I'd have said #TrombaMarina, but it has more than one string and is plucked. Also, he looks a bit like a #snowman... From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80 BNF Français 1654 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday

5000 archives is quite a milestone - and no better way to celebrate it than the publication of the new permanent home for the 'Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi' - a stunning collection of 28,000 images of stained glass - especially for those who thought we were just about holes in the ground.

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens

Happy National Heritage week, all! Great to be asked to select my favourites in this piece… so many to choose from! Do check out what’s on in your area and enjoy!! @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

Medieval bearcubs It was commonly believed in the medieval period that bearcubs had no actually shape but were born as just bundles of fur. They only took shape later when their mothers licked them into bear-form.

One of my current research projects is finding the old postal paths walked by postmen and women around Forest-in-Teesdale (County Durham). This is the old post office pictured in 1906 with the Redfearn family standing outside...

The sheer pointlessness of the destruction is really hard to match. Like, even the Romans gave the Cathaginian library away rather than burn it, and they hated Carthage for centuries after they'd destroyed it.

Publishing next month, 'Folklore' by @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social is a gripping new guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore. As two leading experts they provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present. #FolkloreThursday #booksky

#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.

The stunningly intricately painted nave ceiling of Peterborough Cathedral dates to the 13th century 😍🤩 It is constructed of wooden boards nailed directly onto the structure above and is the only one of its type in Britain. More info: peterborougharchaeology.org/peterborough...

31 July is #unusualinstrumentday, so here is a marginal creature (part man, part something else, and with wings on his ears) playing a pair of #bellows with a #woodenspoon for a bow... From a #15thCentury #missal (use of Cambrai) Le Labo - Cambrai 146 #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

Great to see this news and I cant wait to see it go on permanent display. We are long overdue a blockbuster exhibition on the Iron Age in Yorkshire @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The manuscript of the week is the Annals of Connacht (RIA MS C iii 1). www.ria.ie/collections/...

Interested in Listed Buildings or buildings archaeology? We have some training materials and guidance on buildings archaeology here you can do some free online learning #AskAnArchaeologist 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/listed-build...

One of our Early Career Fellows Dr Thea Sommerschield getting lots of attention for her AI tool to read ancient inscriptions @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast! In this episode I visit the @nmireland.bsky.social, where Maeve Sikora & Matthew Seaver discuss the wonderful Words on the Wave exhibition and the incredible Irish manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #SpéirGhorm

I really enjoyed my visit to @nmireland.bsky.social Kildare Street to see the Words on the Wave exhibition!

A link to save: The Archaeologist's Guide to Good Practice: archgoodpractice.com The best and perhaps the only post-excavation stratigraphic analysis--principle developer is York's James Taylor, Keith May, Kenneth Aitchison, & Doug Rocks-Macqueen, funded by AHRC.

Event tickets - Sold out ! 😳 (And also All-Ireland Hurling Final tickets sold out) But if you join @tuatha.ie - they’ll have the lecture on their members website afterwards

Join us for our Tuatha Talk Webinar: The Early Medieval Origins of Hurling & Camogie with Professor Aidan O'Sullivan In this richly illustrated lecture, Professor @aidanosullivan.bsky.social of @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social will explore the evidence for the origins of hurling and its development.

The "Words on the Wave" exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social The article explores medieval marginalia—scribbled notes and doodles left by monks over a millennium ago. Visit in person at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Go ASAP. Its where all the cool kids are this summer. Kinda hot monk summer;)

Kneecap at Glastonbury don't RT they are supposed to be terrorists or something.

I've found the artist creating the backdrops for #Kneecap. He's called Emmett Walsh... ... and, from several of his other images, I think he knows rather a lot about 'Celtic' art and particularly what comes from where and when!! ❤️ #Archaeology #Torcs #Gold ⚱️

This week on Wonkhe: Hailie Pentleton explores how reforms to the welfare system will create impossible choices for disabled students trying to access and thrive in higher education

Thanks to everyone who supported our launch event today for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. If you missed it, you can catch up here: shorturl.at/IBk0m Scan the QR code below to access the project website and mobile app to start collecting bench marks in County Limerick!

#AdoorableThursday. Manor Farm, Upper Midhope. Doorhead dated 1671 with decorative hood mould stops, but earlier cruck frame inside the house.

I'm doing an online fundraiser @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social next week, Wed 2 July. I'll look at the folklore of burn marks in ancient buildings inc experimental archaeology that shows these marks were done deliberately as protection from evil. More info: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

New Joy Division single just dropped.