Chestnut foraging! 🍂 #autumn

How much historic colour are we missing colour from our streets? #history #colour #paint #LFG #archaeology

Fresh out the kiln! Mousey butter/ cheese dishes. Am taking orders for Xmas (🫣), DM if you’d like one! #clay #claydesign #ceramics #pottery #christmas2025

My fave feature from today & a nice follow on from last night LFG talk by Joe Thompson. This is an inserted/altered stack with 17thc repurposed beam, flipped & incised in the 18thc to mimic a brick segmental lintel. Love spotting cheap, resourceful upgrades #buildingsarchaeology #archaeology #LFG

Historic graffiti recording yesterday, out of all of it, this I found most stirring. Couple of youngsters up the tower scratched their names into the lead of church roof, alongside their evacuation year. One of them I found is a new find #archaeology #history #WWII #graffiti #church #London #Devon

At a time when we are losing hand skills, I can’t figure out why the uptake for this course is so poor. Robbie is a world class class cutter, great teacher and lovely man and of course Cromarty is the best place in Scotland. Contact the Cromarty Arts Trust and book your place 👌👍

These wall paintings in the church of San Martín de Arbulo were under 4 layers of paint and are believed to be from around the 12th & 13th centuries. The article links to another from 2018 on the website for Álava Medieval/Erdi Aroko Araba with more images, here: alavamedieval.com/las-misterio...

Image of a luggage porter St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. I found lots of evidence of limewashed granite buildings when I was last there a couple of summers ago. At this point the wash is fading (c.1900), with a more prominent pointing standing proud. #archaeology #LFG

Archaeology meets ecology! Drawing up a section at Stowey Castle and this little fella kept zooming through my grid, tumbling in & out of the stone courses. He is a common shrew, a species protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981! 🦉 🐭 #archaeology #ecology #castle #historicbuildings

Hacked 17thc panelling with grooved detailing, partially reset within an altered 19thc partition. Resourcefulness or brutality? #archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #historicbuildings

Just gotta share Babushka Scarecrow! #allotment #scarecrow #gyo

Made some paint using foraged ochre. After processing the material, this batch was mixed with gum arabic, though keen to experiment with other oils. #geology #ochre #earthtones #archaeology #art

Ahhhh prepare for puppy spam 😍 this is Mango 🥭 my bros pup. #mango #puppy #dog #toebeans

You’re a funny looking squash! Just been up to water and found the friendly allotment cat Chase snoozin in the squash patch! #allotment #cat #squash #gyo

Super find - c.18thc vertical timber panelling left in situ, which has actually been painted to mimic marbling with blue, red, white, gold & black pigment! Very vernacular take on worldly inspiration from places like Pompeii, which during this period was really starting to be realised #archaeology

7yrs ago I began my arch journey, after years roaming. Archaeology saved me, no doubt about it. I love what I do & believe it’s vital for our future, in many ways. I’m so thankful to those i have met so far, I have learnt so much about life, death & all stratigraphy between: vertical & below-ground

Significant element of a 19thc cider press. Nice to find, though most are found like this, disassembled and reused as planters/ troughs. #history #cider #devon #historicbuildings #archaeology

Evening glow on brickwork ☀️ #exeter #historicbuildings

@limefinishes.bsky.social !!!

There is a brilliant windrush exhibition currently on at Positive Lights Studio, Sidwell St. Pop along to find out more! #devon #exeter #windrush #art #culture #exhibition #events #whatsonexeter

Happy Monday 😃 #pooch

My first intact clay pipe bowl, and it was decorated with Masonic seals, late 18th/ early 19thc piece. What a day! #archaeology #buildingsarchaeology #history

Love finding craftmanship hidden within walls, between joists and within blocked openings, particularly carpentry! #buildingsarchaeology

"Madam, no more, my men are exhausted carting the Lime Finishes Group from one building to the next on their long weekend, on the 6th of June" Our thanks to @curatorkate.bsky.social for all her hard work setting this up and looking forward meeting old friends and new. #Limefinishes #Lime #Heritage

Spotting protective marks, runes and letters at historic Bryggen. #Norway #Bergen #UNESCO #history #graffiti

Loved the majestic waterfall stops in Norway 🇳🇴 Such a beautiful country in every way. #norway #travel #waterfall

Historic Bryggen wharf. Colourful now, and historically so, however in the 19thc these facades were ordered whitewashed by the King. The colour white was a more expensive choice. An expression which altered colour choices throughout Norway in later 19th & 20thc #colour #historic #historyiscolourful

Without planning it, managed to drop in on Norway Day 2025 in Bergen. What a treat it was! #NorwayDay2025 #norway #bergen #travel

Scarf repair for early 20thc timber ladder. People were in 2 minds about throwing this out - I hate that we’re so quick to replace. We need to reevaluate our ideas of time & skill. Learnt lots from dad, the timber maestro, & in many ways am regretting not pursing a trade #reflection #heritageskills

Lottie evenings ☀️ #allotment #gyo #garden

Myself & Pa helped limewash this fabulous house Saturday, Cullacott, Yeolmbridge. Owners had been finding it all a struggle, and I’m so glad we could help them and the building itself too. Photos before during & after! Imagine how spectacular these buildings would have been in their landscapes!

My asapargoooseee have popped up finally 😃 #allotment #gyo #garden

About as vernacular as it gets! The turf and creel house at Glencoe, built informed by archaeological evidence, recreating a snippet of the former MacDonald settlement. A must visit! #scotland #glencoe #archaeology #turfhouse #vernacular #history

Went pigment foraging this weekend for some experiments. Look at this natural formation with several ochre variations, found along the north Devon coast. Geology rocks 🪨 (no pun intended) #geology #pigment #ochre #art #design

First pick of the season! Cherry belle radish. #allotment #garden #gyo

Happy weekend folks. No filter here 👀 #photography #sunset

Puffin spotting last week. Love these little birds. This one was keeping a keen eye out for their mate who joined shortly after taking this shot. #puffin #wildlife #photography #bird #scotland #rspb

Stained glass reflections = perfection. #archaeology #art #stainedglass #colour

Believe it or not, this is a natural colour, found in south-west UK! Ground, the material has an abundance of mica fragments giving it that sparkly appearance. Amazing. #natural #pigment #archaeology #geology #paint #colour

Can we return to the simplicity of earth as a material? The colour, the texture, the finish. I am trying to understand why we dropped it… #earth #clay #design #architecture #plaster #photography

The sublime art of dorodango. A sideline from a fantastic earth building course I attended in Fife this weekend, with artist and builder Becky Little, and experiential archaeologist Caroline Nicolay. Fully recommend. #art #japaneseart #history #archaeology #clay #pigment #design

It’s been a pretty rough week, but I was very happy to collect my first secondhand kiln yesterday. Really looking forward to being able to create so freely now! Anyone else use a Kittec? Any advice? #ceramics #pottery #kiln #clay #creative

Had an absolute blast at Hidden Charms 5 - first one for me and it was brilliant. Highlight - meeting the Inckeny. Thank you @folkmagicman.bsky.social for a brilliant event. #Oss #tradition #culture #magic #archaeology #history

Please help me share this fundraiser. I am helping my sisters raise funds for Animal Cancer Trust and some ongoing treatments for her golden Max. I would be forever grateful if you could read her story, share and support if you can. #TeamMax #Fkcancer www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Inlaying white slip into my moon jar of crank clay. Really enjoyed working with a groggy material, very forgiving. The lines represent my ceramic journey 👀 this will now be bisque fired for glazing later. 😊 #clay #design #pottery #ceramics #throwdown

My lovely new stamp my sister organised for me, so satisfying to print into leather dry clay #pottery #clay #ceramics #studio

Happy Monday - this chap getting me through the day. #goberian #dog #no1fan

The wonderful Michael Pearce directed me to this letter of 1790. In it Stewart William is complaining to John Adam, that the newly painted room in the Governor's House is spoiled because the external walls haven't been rough cast and the rain is getting in. 235 years later and nowt much has changed.

#FridayFinds Yesterday I visited this absolutely remarkable survival of a building, all carefully restored in late 90s. It is absolutely wonderful, with so much layered social history installed within its fabric- will discuss more over following posts. You can visit & stay here link below. #history