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Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

For over a millennium Holy Island has been known as the site of the creation of one of the masterpieces of world art, the Lindisfarne Gospels - but today, it has been witness to one of my students doing a karaoke version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels. O tempora, O mores!

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

My problems with "King and Conqueror" are not born out of pedantry, but the fact that the whole thing is a total fucking car crash - and so so so lazy... Would far rather watch Asterix and the Normans

This is going to get a lot worse if media & politicians don’t start portraying it as vandalism & intimidation rather than patriotism

"More than two thirds of the people arrested for disorder when an anti-immigration demonstration in Bristol turned violent last summer had previous contact with police over reports of domestic abuse." #FarageRiots #ReformUK www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂 But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thames barges - Ipswich - my grandpa remembered going up to London from Essex on these as a boy as his uncles were Thames bargemen running bricks up from the brickfields of Essex

Just pondering the bell-ends in Southwold last week making loud comments about 'refugee taxi services' whilst I was in the RNLI shop.... 😕

For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent

For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent

I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk

Despite OP's valid point, credit to the reporters of the news article for explicitly making the point about the burial practices signalling community inclusion, an important retort of people's efforts to impose modern assumptions onto past behaviours.

Nurse! She's got out of bed again!

Essential training in what should be on every heritage organisations To Do list.🏺

On holiday in Suffolk - currently distinguishing myself by being the only male holidaymaker not wearing a salmon-pink Joules polo shirt with the collar turned up and beige deck shoes

I am once again contemplating this banger.

The Lincolnshire Fens are like The Archers scripted by JG Ballard...

Independent MP Rupert Lowe has admitted mistaking a charity rowing crew for “illegal migrants”

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

Pleased to see some coverage by the BBC of our excavations at #CerneAbbey which concluded at the weekend! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the basis of this year's culinary trends, I'm looking forward to sitting down to a steaming dish of Dubai Hot Honey Collagen

Today I start my research trip sailing down the River Seine from Paris to Honfleur (via a few stops) in a reconstruction of the Klåstad cargo ship built in 998. It’s the penultimate stage in the ship’s journey from Rome to London throughout the summer. I’ll post updates as we go #Saga25 #MedievalSky

Anyway - having just come back from several days exploring the churches of the Welsh border, I can say that we need to have a long hard chat about public perceptions of the 'Celtic church'...

Its #askanarchaeologist day! So I'm happy to (try) and answer any questions about archaeology and/or archaeologists :-)

Deep in Housman country- looking across Corvedale towards Wenlock Edge

York no longer has a Labour MP. Given her only sin was to stand up for the rights of disabled people, which ultimately the party partly accepted in their revised bill, I'd say if there isnt space in Labour for her, there might not be for me. @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.

I'm going to write a pulp novel about a salad chef who solves crimes as a hobby- I'm going to call it Coles Law.

I'm going to write a pulp novel about a salad chef who solves crimes as a hobby- I'm going to call it Coles Law.

Academics with their own websites [as opposed to just a university page]. What are the advantages? Pros / Cons?

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

Meh! Everyone is going to France except me... Don't think I'm getting any foreign travel (work or leisure) this year. I def need an overseas project when I finish with Holy Island.

So to be clear it's legal in Britain to travel to Israel, volunteer in the IDF, commit war crimes and kill babies, and then return home? But it's illegal to wear a t-shirt?

The British dream

Scissor Sisters infinitely more entertaining than Neil Young - they actually look like they are enjoying themselves whereas NY looks like he's passing a tricky stool

So far best acts at Glasto have been Dismal Panda, Sex Spatula and Bristol Stool Chart

Can't wait for all the hot takes on Glastonbury from 50 year old centrist dads

As an antidote to the frankly sizist 'slenderman' I'm proposing a new zeigeisty Fortean character - 'fatbloke' [coming to your peripheral vision in public parks soon]

BORDER PATROL: “Are you an 🇺🇸 citizen?” 🔥 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN: “FIRST ONES. We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us… what are you? You’re not first born. You’re not from this f*ckin’ land. Punk-as* b*tches.”

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Really looking forward to this !

Burrup Peninsula: Australia’s environment minister has ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list, claiming a report on the Murujuga petroglyphs has been ‘clearly influenced’ by environment campaigners.