✍️🪦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.

🪨From the toolmakers tool kit: a well used fine grained yellow sandstone sharpener 45x29mm, dating to the Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. Used to sharpen stone and/or metal arrowheads. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory

🏛️ #OTD – 17 March AD 180The Romans said farewell to #MarcusAurelius, philosopher-emperor, who died aged 58 at Vindobona (modern Vienna). He ruled AD 161–180 during wars on Rome’s northern frontiers and left his famous #Stoic reflections in Meditations.

For the benefit of my medical colleagues, educational case from the @facultypainmed.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In 1980 the average UK household purchased 128g of sheep meat (lamb and mutton) per person, per week. In 2024 that same measure was down to 23g per person, per week.

Sometimes we need to deal with the dragons in our minds

GWR to Exeter St.Davids

"Underneath the prints, the archaeologists found a layer of charred plant remains. They carbon-dated the plants to 2,000 years ago, during the late Iron Age."

Familiar sight growing up

Shaldon from the GWR London Paddington Express heading to Exeter St.Davids

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... let’s hope the awful weather we have been having improves

The event will be hybrid, with both in-person attendance and a Zoom option. Please register via the SAL website: it is required to join online. You can catch the livestream on the SAL YouTube channel with no registration needed. 🍽️ Catering will be available afterwards, so stay and mingle!