Why is nobody raising a UK Gov & Parliament petition to mend England's archaic treasure (and metal detecting) laws? CBA, CIfA, Soc Ant, etc. Mindful of the differences between UK nations, England a laggard, better situation in Ireland. Do we not have a heritage champion voice in Parliament?

Is this true, forgive me asking? Very exciting if so but have I missed coverage?

Hey, y'all! Like me, Spencer is an archaeologist who got sick in the first wave and developed long COVID. The US is abysmal for support, but the UK has its problems as well. We need to keep Spencer housed. So many of you watched me as I tried to get back into housing. Let's make this easier for him!

Aww, bless you. Every penny still helps. 7th anniversary of hell this April, housebound since 2020 and fractured my pelvis (vertigo) the other week. www.gofundme.com/f/long-covid...

Pension letter today, short because there aren't many numbers and they are small. I retired on 9-Feb-2026 age 59 (due to disability, the #LongCovid life-upside-down mess). Very strange feeling. Cash runs out in 7 years, state pension age in 2033, but hey ho for now. Housebound & fractured pelvis.

Plus greater than 220 thousand *avoidable* Covid-19 deaths (UK) and millions more disabled by the consequences. "Wash your hands" and "Herd immunity". Governmental Criminal Negligence And Incompetency #LongCovid

What a wonderful poster! Well done. Even the pointing on the R. Love it. @durotrigesdig.bsky.social - Yorkshire pointing :-)

And a bit of #Hypocaustgate for @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour *out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed

#MosaicMonday #Archaeology pop yer big coat on for a trip to Beadlam Roman Villa nr Helmsley North Yorkshire. Most of the mosaic is now in the English Heritage store in Helmsley (you can visit). One wing of the 3rd-4th cent villa is still viewable in accessible pasture, orginally 3 w/ a bathhouse.

At least in prehistory we merely had to contend with burnt mounds, sauna barrows, occasional steam scalds (possible chaffing), hop brewing and saline reduction. Then a dip in a Holocene lake. Get a grip, pull a pint. #HypocaustGate

Brava bravo. Al punto. PS Mandy next? "But I'm gay and got sacked again"? And Blair "call me Jesus"? Faragerine "they won't let me into Chagos, I'm from Clacton, sea?".

Mike Pitts on the latest failure of the metal detecting regime in England and Wales. It would be a irony richly deserved if the closest England's metal detectorists got to licensing were to be the name of the latest of their number to cash in their casino chips, at Noonans, one coin at a time.

You've got replies switched off here? Suspect you have to find a specialist contractor. Some might do it for free for some good PR.

SIX DAYS LATER. After the big backwards vertigo fall last weekend, a few things I can do without screaming too much. Bed - gas - toilet - sneezing - coughing. Stairs are mountains, still daren't shower. Tiny progress. Pelvic fracture probable (NHS 111 doctor). #LongCovid

#FlintFriday #FindsFriday #Archaeology You may have Romans everywhere (dead) especially during the Roman period (sic) but flints still pop up: - Late Neolithic oblique arrowhead 3000 BCE - Early Bronze Age thumbnail scraper 2500 BCE - Post-Medieval gunflint 1800 ACE Norton, North Yorkshire, England

Breath-taking. I've laid in the grass of Hod Hill a few times, amongst cow pats. Plus the detail inside the Roman fortlet top L. Outstanding. Was Vespasian here?

Ooo, got one of those from your fair hands. Used to be two but one broke. Use them and Neo pots for teaching (or did before covid).

This is true (UK). I was discharged from #LongCovid Hospital Clinic in 2022, a 2yr wait since 2020 infection, with myriad ongoing symptoms. Offered only Talking Therapy in 2024. There's zero support, nothing joined up, government sweeping us under a carpet. Life is upside down, frightening. I cry.

And if you want a fun adventure read, here's a novel not too far removed in time www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Arrows...

I think this is good news (Binchester Roman fort and vicus) #Archaeology www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2585241...

Exciting news! I'm the incoming Executive Editor for 'World Archaeology' and here is my first CfP! Call for Papers for ‘World Archaeology’: Debates and Emerging Issues in Archaeology howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/c... Direct link here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Was he drug-tested or IQ-tested? QED. Lavatory seats, germs and the rest he said himself. Keep the receipts.

#FlintFriday #FindsFriday #Archaeology Apprentice at work? Late Mesolithic triangular flint. Conjecture, but sense of somebody working to a visual shape (triangular microlith) but not by the usual rules (more info in the pic). Other microliths on the rescue site are perfect. Somebody trying hard?

The evidence of zero education. I can hear his head rattling with nuts. Obscene prejudice and utter lack of self-awareness.

Talk to an archaeologist. We can take you back 1500 years, 2000 years (with Africans), 3000, 5000, 12,000, 30,000 and if you can keep up 950,000 in bleedin' Norfolk footprints on the beach. All evidenced. And some people were black. Shocking I know. All forrins. No flags.

Here's one with a fly-drone for scale (to the right). The moss covers the upland landscape in wet areas. In summer it's like laying on a soft spongey mattrass. Romans and earlier ancestors used it for bottom-wiping after an - excuse me - poo.

Timeline cleanse. This is Sphagnum moss, North York Moors (in February). Getty charge £275 for a similar image. No Epstein, no Trump, no political rubbish, no war, no hostility, no ex-royals, no money or greed, no cruelty or exploitation. Simply wet moss in my own bog. -SCx

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

With all the sh*t going on in the world, here's some grouse poo from Yorkshire. Not seen in the Epstein files. That's all.

Even stone tools. I laid out a Mesolithic excavation plan & finds 1:1 in an office. You can see the hearths "of gossip", where people sat, knapped flints, maybe a kids' area, moved around, the swept tepee circle, rubbish dumps, food prep, arrow repairs, and a stone anvil seat. Spookily intimate.

Straight out of the classic Malignant Narcissist's playbook. Play the victim.

Tales From London W10: Forty Days & Forty Nights it is *NOT* raining! Clear sky. I can see the Grenfell Tower memorial lights, every night, overhead. Nine years now, 2017, since 72 innocent people died. Huge Inquiry. Nobody prosecuted yet. How they sleep at night, gods only know.

Important milestone, huge relief. 25yr defaulted mortgage paid off with Equity Release. I used SAGA-HUB-Just Retirement, Trustpilot 4.3 Excellent. They are. If anybody wants a referral, would be a pleasure. www.wearejust.co.uk PS I'm also #LongCovid disabled since 2020 so this is crucial.

2.30am London, it's stopped raining for 10 mins, every day since December. WTF is going on? Forrins?

Yep. And utterly bizarre to experience. Frightening...

I get £0 in benefits after contracting Covid-19 in 2020, but I want to work. Government & Heathcare incompetence & negligence is now proven. Hand santizer really worked. SEISS (taxable) gave me £1400 to last 2yrs. Housebound, often bedbound nearly 7yrs. I've lost everything, almost my home.

This does cheer me up. Young Archaeologists’ Club has a brand new look and website! The Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) is the only UK-wide club where 8–16 year olds can participate in real archaeology and discover why it matters. www.yac-uk.org

Perfect.

Coughs... and what about Boris Johnson and the drunken Italian affair without security cover at a Russian's castle (Lebedev who oddly became a peer courtesy of the former, for "philanthropy"). Coughs again. It's all treasonable.

CHANGE THE LAW. We've had enough of Machiavellian darkness.

Cc @northyorkmoors.org.uk timevista.co.uk/about/resear...

🔵Today is #WorldWetlandsDay The North York Moors, England, hosts special peatlands which also capture #archaeology as well as fauna & flora. From post-glacial tundra 12k yrs ago, Stoneage dense woodlands & hunters, first farmers, climate change, flint tools as ancient evidence, now grouse moors.

The ‘Wall of Tears’ in New York: when the names of Gaza's children become testimony that refutes Israel In NYC the ‘Wall of Tears’ has emerged, documenting the names of thousands of Palestinian children Israel has killed in the Gaza Strip www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Important. However, I would contest 2 things, as an ongoing #LONGCOVID sufferer >6.5 years: 1) Strongly suggest that gut/abdominal issues are not just from severe Covid -19 infections; mild-to-moderate too. 2) The gastric, infmammatory & immune-based dysfunctions persist long after 2yrs

Mood. My brain is doing very strange things, new meds, into the unknown. #LONGCOVID 6.5 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXn...

I adore this. Settles me down between Life yesterday - the horrific nightmares overnight - and the Dawn. #LongCovid. Old enough to remember the original in the 1980s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbjO...

5min gap in clouds & rain at 21:30, biggest meteor/meteorite I think I've ever seen, NE to SW over London. Maybe I was the only person to see? You almost expect a sonic boom bang. Now raining again. 🌠

It's surely called impeachment? And Epstein accountability? He's already convicted of rape. We know what's redacted next. (He'll bomb Iran).