Morning all. Week two of the fight back:

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... this is not good. Please consider writing to your MP wherever you are.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Excitingly, they describe finding 2 solstice aligned post holes….. not a stone or wooden circle, nor a henge monument.

Field school and Year 1 @exeter.ac.uk Archaeology over. Time for a break

Oh it's #MosaicMonday? Well here is the one being uncovered at Halberton, Devon as part of our SHARE fieldschool and community excavation project. Next open day, when the mosaic will be fully uncovered, is 11 July!

First dig over - huge thanks to all the team @exeter.ac.uk and Cotswolds Archaeology for a fantastic experience. Not every day you help excavate a Roman Villa.

The stunning so-called Battersea shield is actually not a complete shield, it's a bronze and enamel facing that was attached to the front of a wooden shield. The elaborate La Tène-style decoration is an extraordinary example of Iron Age metalwork. The shield was dredged from ...🧵1/2 📷me

547 in total!

It has poured with rain, our marquee blew away overnight, the car park has become a quagmire, and yet over 500 people still came to visit our Roman villa excavations 😯

Very exciting and disorientating to see this important (re) discovery from Nash et al. Important implications come with this. Why was it so comprehensively dismissed? Was late glacial recolonisation possible earlier than thought? What else are we missing? 🦣🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Fieldschool 2026 has started! This year we're excavating a Roman villa near Halberton, Devon. It's part of the bigger SHARE project, partly funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund.

learngerman.dw.com/en/learn-ger... useful to see. Duolingo working for me so far but will Look at this as well

A Joint Declaration of Intent between Hamburg 🇩🇪 and Liverpool 🇬🇧 for closer cooperation in areas such as research, logistics and tourism has been signed by Mayors Peter Tschentscher and Steve Rotheram. Liverpool was partner at the Hamburg Port Anniversary (Hafengeburtstag), held at the weekend.

✍️🪦The Anglo-Saxon Athelmund Stone dating to c.600 AD. The first evidence of writing in Old English runes, proving the community there were cultured and literate prehistoricwirral.com/overchurch-s... The original stone is in the Grosvenor Museum. #MuseumMonday #AngloSaxon #Wirral #Medieval

🏺🧪Preprint of 1039(!) whole ancient human genomes from Britain, mainly dating to 1st Millennium CE, representing the best part of 7 years of my life. Herculean effort by @marinasdsilva.bsky.social to get this over the line. 'Migration Period' is more migrationy than we could have possibly imagined.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... a quiet change

This plan of Exeter by John Rapkin dates back to c 1851-1854, and features illustrations of landmarks by Henry Winkles. Which landmarks do you recognise? What has changed? 📷 Townsend Maps T19f; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #MapMonday #MondayMaps #Maps #MappingOurExeter #Exeter #Devon

And at long last! This paper is finally live. It's been a labour of love, with thanks to so many @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @micireland.bsky.social @ulstermuseum.org @nmireland.bsky.social and so many more! And it's open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Katie Crosson writes: "Based at the University of Exeter in the Curation Strand, I am working on a script collection donated to the @bdcmuseum.bsky.social by Pinewood Studios, analysing screenplays written, conceived and developed by women. (1/8)

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to multimorbidity and chronic pain, possibly through altered sensory processing. Assessing sensory processing in relation to ACEs appears feasible and acceptable #OpenAccess https://www.bjaopen.org/article/S2772-6096(26)00019-5/fulltext

🌿 Happy Easter! 🐇 Hares roamed #IronAge Britain—Caesar noted that eating them was taboo. Rabbits, from Iberia, were farmed by Romans but stayed rare in Britain until medieval times. The Easter Bunny appears much later, linking hares to spring & eggs. #Hare & Cupid on Samian Ware, Trimontium.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Happy Easter All

Brilliant post below about Maiden Castle. Good timing as I have just finished my first painting of it. It will be on show at our Oxfordshire Artweeks exhibition in May with @hedleythorne.bsky.social and Rebecca Carrozza.

Last week of term2, time is flying by in Archaeology, which seems a bit of a contradiction 😉

We have two fantastic new student-curated exhibitions available for you to explore in the Forum Library! Level 0: 'Protesting Apartheid: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group' by Alice A Level -1: 'A Celebration of Dartmoor’s Culture' by Alice S

Catch up on our latest webinar and learn more about the Bell Beaker phenomenon: oxfordcotswoldarchaeology.org.uk/news/beaker-period-szc/ @cotswoldarch.bsky.social #OCAArchTeam

Woop! Our department has gone up in the world. From 70th in 23/4, to 44th in 24/5 to 34th this year.