Bayeux tickets ✅️ 😊

This is a superb thread 👇 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Some days I really enjoy my job - today is one of them. A really wonderful selection of folks being honoured by the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social this year! Well done to all! ❤️

These vessels are the focus of my PhD @archanchistleic.bsky.social for more info about them look here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Also huge thanks to @colmuseums.bsky.social for all their support with my studies-we are soon to submit those ORA studies for publication- watch this space ☺️

Been going through my mum's things. She was very active in environmental #Green issues and this is something she wrote in 1977, nearly 50 years ago!!! We can't say we weren't warned by folks like her - and so many others - who were dismissed as cranks at the time... #JoinTheGreenParty

Awww two lovely fellas! 😊

This is amazing. Really makes you think about the lives, sights, sounds etc that become 'things in the ground'... #Archaeology 🏺

Michael Lloyd's - one of the Torc Collective - superb work on the telly box today (the mace, at the opening of the Scottish parliament). #Archaeology 🏺

Growing up in Brighton, this was a regular friend from Hove & Brighton museums... ... to see it again, at the World Of Stonehenge exhibition at the BM in 2022, was lovely. It is a truly beautiful object. #Archaeology 🏺

Yooohoooo! Richarrrrd! @richardosgood.bsky.social Charrrrrriotttttttts!!

This is grim! There won't be anything left of the humanities at this rate. Please sign and share. #Archaeology #University #Exeter 🏺

What looks to be a victim of trafficking and abuse and this poor woman is facing death by firing squad... Do Not Go To These Places. BBC News - TikTok influencer charged with Dubai murder www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Right call. Again... ❤️ #Archaeology

Thanks to the Festival of #Archaeology, I get to write about... ...water voles!!!! 😀 🤣

Nothing to see here... Move along now...

Urrghhh... multiple reports of sick staff and sites not being stood down in the Red Zone in the UK today... WTF is wrong with a lot of #archaeology managers? Seriously, how much work do you think people are going to actually be able to manage in this weather???

How is it 6.45am and it's already too hot?? 🥵😭

Good to see sensible #archaeology decisions being made during the hot weather we're experiencing in the UK right now. 👇

Fabulous photo!! ⚡️ #Thunderstorm

Well, at least I don't have to water the plants, and who needs sleep anyway, eh? 🤣 ⚡️☔️🌪⛈️🌧 #Thunderstorm

Wes Streeting does the right thing for once... But this clearly means he's got a big job in the Burnham cabinet. Blurgh...

Stockton Waterfront Urban park looks amazing. I really hope it works because, if it does, it could just be the way forward for dying town centres. (It was such a brave move in knocking down a shopping centre and car park!!!) www.stockton.gov.uk/article/8728...

Folks now flogging bits of Trump's 'flag blue' Reflecting pool liner after it started peeling off... ...because they poured vast quantities of bleach into the pool ...to stop all the algae that has covered the pool *in the week* since Trump's 'Pool Guys' finished the $16 Million makeover. Oops!!!

@tessmachling.bsky.social ... there's a feline coup happening right under our noses!

So... is this where Farage resigns, having lost 4 by-elections on the trot??

Looks like an awful lot of folks lent their vote. Burnham needs to do something really different, or we as a country are finished.

Oh thank f*ck for that!

Recently, I feel more and more that the burden of evidential proof in #archaeology depends more on who you are, than the results you're presenting... 😔

I swear the Stonehenge Silly Season gets earlier and earlier each year! 🤔 #Archaeology 🏺

Brilliant! 👇

Found this photo again - I look at it & can see the maker at work...I can hear tap, tap, tap of hammer on punch, way the piece was moved as they decorated it, the overlap of punch marks - there's so much movement. ❤️ I wonder who they were... if only I had a time machine, eh? #Archaeology #Torcs 🏺

"It is hoped the object will be acquired and displayed at Beaney House of Art & Knowledge in Canterbury." *hoped* Urgggh. #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last night I went to Goldsmiths Hall to see Michael Lloyd talk about his work. Lovely thoughts from Michael about pattern, talking to metals, nature, craft etc etc all in the most magnificent setting, where my ancestors once trod. Magical evening! ❤️

Next time you're in #London, and you're walking across the Millennium Bridge, look down... ... there's teeny tiny, chewing gum, pavement art to be seen! ❤️

Urrrghh this government. Palestine Action remains proscribed. 😔

When the title of your next paper is, 'I at once coveted, not the car, but the engine’, you know you're back in Harry Price Land... The delicious Pulborough torc saga continues... ❤️ #Archaeology ⚱️

Waxy Lemon has been detained at Heathrow on counter-terrorism charges. Perfect! ❤️

'Spud' Taylor is my dad's folk singing buddy from the Brighton old days. They, and a couple of others, were the heart of Brighton's folks scene in the 60s. They've stayed in touch through the years. Funny to see this! 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When the "citizen journalist" far right videographers are actually responsible for putting away many far right nasties - caught and convicted thanks to their 'on the spot' video coverage - you gotta laugh... loudly... 🤣🤣🤣

The planned closure of the Archaeology institute at Humboldt-Universität Berlin is still on the table. So if you haven't signed the petition yet, please do (and share). Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität's academic tradition for almost 200 years weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

🎉 I SAW A WATERVOLE.🎉 I haven't stopped grinning since. This place is a voley des-res, the reedy Montecarlo of vole real estate. Happy vole Valley. Vole nirvana... Little reddish fella just plopped off the bank in front of me and swam away. 😍 *beaming* 😍

Torc alert!!! ...and a very unusual set too! #Archaeology 🏺

My mum was cremated this morning and we marked the moment with bubbles. Mum would've approved, especially to see daft cat running around popping them. ❤️

'I'm going emergency water vole surveying!!' Why 'emergency' I hear you ask? 🤣 Well, part of river path has collapsed & we need to carry out a new survey, compare it to last one... and then advise so they can rebuild path with minimal disruption to little furry critters. Exciting, eh? ❤️

Shared for #TorcTuesday

Mum's not having a funeral, or a service, or indeed anything at all. In her words, "I'm going to be burnt & then the crem can do with me as they wish". Ever ecological, economical - & genuinely radical - to the last. ❤️

As part of Festival of #Archaeology, on 25th July at Potteries Museum in Stoke, I'm going to be talking about The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey & some of wonderful Iron Age gold that has been found in the county. Talk is free to attend, just turn up on the day. www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/whats-o...

My mum died yesterday. Scholarship girl, med-lab scientist, journalist, activist, environmentalist & so much more. My daughter's granny. My mum. Mum had ovarian cancer. Had assisted dying been available to her, she would have taken it as her illness was cruel. Thankfully her death was kind.

Life is throwing a huge amount at me at the mo, so apologies for the radio silence. In the meantime, if you're missing your torc fix, don't forget to delve into the Big Book of Torcs: www.bigbookoftorcs.com #Archaeology #Torcs #Life 🏺