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Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
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Honey lingers: the sweet taste of the Vikings? with Simon Trafford
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Honey lingers: the sweet taste of the Vikings? with Simon Trafford
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0uFN9Zsch8
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones
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The site has information boards identifying the monuments and providing a brief description. The monuments lie within the saddle or dip between Moel Llanfair and Moel Y Plas these summits are part of the Clwydian Range 📷 TAlanJones More:
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Llanarmon Yn Lal Burial Mounds
Round Barrow(s) in Denbighshire, Wales
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=54676
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones
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Llanarmon Yn Lal Burial Mounds: Prof. Howard Williams visits these Prehistoric Monuments on the Offa’s Dyke Path: Moel y Plâs and Bwlch y Parc, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl. Situated at the end of a narrow country lane that is popular with photographers and walkers, and easily reached by car.
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Damien Huffer
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Immediate Withdrawal Request – Vanuatu Ancestral Human Remains | RM*[restitution matters]
In an email, in the hands of RM*, to the Vendue Huis in The Hague, the Netherlands, the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (VKS) and the National Museum of Vanuatu, the national authorities responsible for the s...
https://restitutionmatters.org/news-item/immediate-withdrawal-request-vanuatu-ancestral-human-remains/
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Kenny Brophy
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Sharing a landmark TikTok moment for my Archaeodeath public education and engagement project. After 5-and-a-half years posting daily videos, I've just hit 150k followers!
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Brassey in Bronze: The Thomas Brassey Statue at Chester Railway Station: //howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/brassey-in-bronze-the-thomas-brassey-statue-at-chester-railway-station/
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Brassey in Bronze: The Thomas Brassey Statue at Chester Railway Station
For much of last year I entered Chester and departed from work each day from the University’s back entrance onto the Millennium Greenway. Therefore, I missed the installation of a new statue …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/brassey-in-bronze-the-thomas-brassey-statue-at-chester-railway-station/
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Aber Zombie Gravestones
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Aber Zombie Gravestones
The dislocation and careful reuse of historic gravestones renders then ‘undead’ – still discernible, still featured, still active in the funerary space, and thus far from ‘d…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/aber-zombie-gravestones/
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Swords in Rock at Hafrsfjord
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Swords in Rock at Hafrsfjord
Contemporary Vikingisms take many forms, including public monuments. Here, my interests in Viking archaeology, contemporary archaeology and public archaeology in Public Viking Research coincide per…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/swords-in-rock-at-hafrsfjord/
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Purging Memories: Cleaning up the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree
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Purging Memories: Cleaning up the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree
Let us return to the contemporary material cultures of memory in the landscape. Here, we reflect on the cumulative assemblages of memorial material culture on the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree, and i…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/purging-memories-cleaning-up-the-hope-mountain-hawthorn-tree/
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The Archaeology of Skeleton Crew part 1
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For context, check out my Archaeodeath blog-post:
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/h...
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The Fake History Hunter
16 days ago
Because social media threads can be messy, I'm turning more of them into online articles. You can now read my review of the 2024 tv show 'Time Bandits' here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/t...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/tv-review-...
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TV review: Time Bandits (2024)
A remake of Time Bandits? That film I loved so much when I was a kid? I probably shouldn’t watch this, being a grumpy old fake history hunter. But do I ever listen to myself, no, never. IR…
https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/tv-review-time-bandits-2024/
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Andy Brockman
16 days ago
The jackhammer approach to renovating historic buildings in Washington. The HE
#BuildingsAtRisk
Register 2025. How the Lost King defamation decision might not have been what some archaeologists wanted it to be, & a double dose of
#Stonehenge
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The White House, Stonehenge, Law, Protest and Change - What’s the Role of Archaeology?
YouTube video by The Watching Brief
https://youtu.be/SYT8_VEvgbo?si=tXEbh6I9qVmgV4uW
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Dr Aisling Tierney
16 days ago
For the history, heritage and archaeology enthusiasts, I have 25% off over fifty niche items in my Etsy right now! ✨
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#history
#heritage
#geology
#archaeology
#folklore
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Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli
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Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1KQyAok74
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The Guardian
27 days ago
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/01/lost-grave-daughter-black-abolitionist-olaudah-equiano-found-by-a-level-student?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Royal Archaeological Institute
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𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦 Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.
www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlm...
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Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s I Professor Richard Bradley
YouTube video by Royal Archaeological Institute
https://www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlmxj0k?si=RwR6FWNMDsSUF8VE
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Royal Archaeological Institute
about 2 months ago
𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries. Details at
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Dissertation prizes
The Institute awards a dissertation prize each year for either an undergraduate (the Tony Baggs Undergraduate Dissertation Prize) or Master's dissertation on an alternating basis. The prize goes to th...
https://www.royalarchinst.org/grants/dissertation
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The Royal Archaeological Institute serves the archaeological community by providing some really great small grants for research. Check them out!:
www.royalarchinst.org/grants
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Grants
Each year the Royal Archaeological Institute offers funds for research. Find out more about eligibility criteria and our different funding opportunities.
https://www.royalarchinst.org/grants
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Ruth Holliday
22 days ago
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities. It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
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Congratulations on all our graduating students today at the University of Chester. Sadly, I have teaching, tutorials and a wider workload that doesn't allow me to attend the ceremony in person, but I'm there in spirit!
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I don't do blog-posts to time with series releases, but if you are interested in The Witcher, check out my 4 blog-posts on the Netflix series 1-3 and the spin-off Blood Origin
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The Witcher – Archaeo𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥
Posts about The Witcher written by Prof. Howard M. R. Williams
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/category/archaeodeath-on-tv-film-and-video-games/the-witcher/
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Archaeologists: we should not be uncritically accepting the authority and courts of self-styled 'benign dictators'.
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Every week at 6pm Wednesday, I release a new Archaeodeath YouTube video. This week, the final review of Andor series 2
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For the linked blog-post:
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a...
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The Archaeology of Other Planets - Andor series 2
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ljOmZfj6to
22 days ago
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Welwyn Archaeological Society
24 days ago
I'll be at TAG this year for the first time in... umm... 30 years? I still have my "EuroTAG" teeshirt from Southampton and one from Lampeter. Neither are in a fit state to wear but I'm loath to bin them.
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The best conference session in the history of TAG will take place on Monday 15th December at the University of York called 'Time-Layered Narratives: Engaging Non-Specialists with Temporally Complex Sites'
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
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Programme - TAG 2025
https://tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
24 days ago
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My Archaeodeath review for October 2025 is now out on Patreon. You can follow me there for FREE for monthly updates!
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
26 days ago
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Iris van Rooij 💭
26 days ago
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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For long-format videos exploring the archaeology and heritage of death and memory, check out my Archaeodeath YouTube channel where there are new videos posted every week.
www.youtube.com/@archaeodeath
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Archaeodeath
The Archaeology and Heritage of Death and Memory - Past & Present Professor Howard Williams shares public lectures, interviews, chats and more!
https://www.youtube.com/@archaeodeath
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Archaeology and the Senses – Reconsidering Viking Age Mortuary Practice
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Archaeology and the Senses – Reconsidering Viking Age Mortuary Practice
How can we develop approaches to mortuary archaeology and the senses? Despite passing references to the vivid spectacles of past open-air early medieval funerals involving the inhumation or cremati…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/archaeology-and-the-senses-reconsidering-viking-age-mortuary-practice/
27 days ago
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide
28 days ago
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251027-isr...
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Israel allocates $12 million to expand control over West Bank archaeological sites
The Israeli government has approved more than $12 million in additional funding to expand its control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank, a move critics say is part of an ongoing e…
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251027-israel-allocates-12-million-to-expand-control-over-west-bank-archaeological-sites/
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Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli
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Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW0nfpwgjhs
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I was delighted to speak at the 8th National Monuments Service Annual Archaeology Conference at Trinity College Dublin on 18 October, presenting on 'Dykes as Deeds'. More on my Archaeodeath blog:
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w...
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Within/Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
Walls bring people together and render communities asunder. They create and recreate mobilities and identities. The role of partitions, and how they constitute and reproduce social and political id…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/within-without-the-archaeology-of-partitions/
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Ulla Rajala
about 1 month ago
Just a reposting of the most impactful Finnish archaeological article ever.
#TombTuesday
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland | European Journal of Archaeology | Cambridge Core
A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland - Volume 25 Issue 1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-archaeology/article/woman-with-a-sword-weapon-grave-at-suontaka-vesitorninmaki-finland/33A89DB1D7E4900F017833D87C997D3D
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Andy Brockman
about 1 month ago
As the
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works out what to do after the debacle over its policy towards Israel/Gaza at its annual meeting a further challenge as the Government of Israel is accused of trying to extend its control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank.
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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251027-israel-allocates-12-million-to-expand-control-over-west-bank-archaeological-sites/
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Andy Brockman
about 1 month ago
The University of Leicester with a series of statements after the announcement of an out of court settlement in the Lost King defamation case.
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Richard Taylor wins major settlement against Steve Coogan and Pathe Productions in landmark defamation case | News | University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/richard-taylor-settlement-steve-coogan-defamation-case?fbclid=IwdGRjcANsfC9jbGNrA2x7cmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEe2ql6zOdp-nsGiG3E26Z18DqTzWTFzOme3N9XEvQirFa86Fb5nix-3GnFEkY_aem_mEiIz459nT71mqRCCxMf7A
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Ulla Rajala
about 1 month ago
When an archaeologist is beyond puzzled. And takes his case to court.
#Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Steve Coogan to pay ‘substantial damages’ to academic defamed in Richard III film
Case had been due to go to trial after judge ruled 2022’s The Lost King, which Coogan co-wrote, portrayed claimant as ‘smug, unduly dismissive and patronising’
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/27/steve-coogan-to-pay-damages-to-defamed-academic
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Nice to see British archaeology still being directed behind the scenes by a weird informal fraternity of the unemployable and unelectable and this has moved seamlessly to BlueSky. Not for me folks! I'm here to share my perspectives and occasionally call out the BS. Don't get too comfy here.
about 1 month ago
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
about 1 month ago
Why is TikTok obsessed with the idea I want a weighted vest and also why am I living in a time when the government actively hates universities and so I have no financial or emotional stability even though on paper my research career looks great? Two equally mysterious mysteries.
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The Archaeology of Yavin 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJA...
See also my blog-post
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/a...
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The Archaeology of Yavin 4: Andor series 2
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJAUUfCegE
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Trevor Chapel and Offa's Dyke
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Trevor Chapel and Offa’s Dyke
On Saturday 20th September I presented a public talk called ‘Offa’s Dyke: Past & Present’ at the early 18th-century Trevor Chapel, next to Trevor Hall. It is listed as a Grade II …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/trevor-chapel-and-offas-dyke/
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Yale Classics Library
about 1 month ago
New volume of Offa’s Dyke Journal: A Journal for Linear Monuments, Frontiers & Borderlands Research Vol. 6. (2024)
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
@archaeopress.bsky.social
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Icelandic Mortuary Practices of the Viking Age
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDg4...
@shieldofskuld.bsky.social
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Icelandic Mortuary Practices of the Viking Age
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDg4tvjo84g
about 1 month ago
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Read the open-access 'Offa's Dyke Journal' or face the vengeful wrath of the LORD!!!!
revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/od...
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You know what's even worse than the Borderlands Line unreliable, often late, trains? Their completely inaccurate station departure boards. You know what's worse than both put together? The completely inacurate Transport for Wales 'live' app. Utterly dismal today
#transportforwales
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Steve Toase
about 2 months ago
Here's a great conversation between
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
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@trixranderson.bsky.social
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The Archaeology of Ghorman Pride - Andor Series 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZE...
See also my blog-post
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/a...
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The Archaeology of Ghorman Pride - Andor Series 2
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZEAh1rQOg
about 2 months ago
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It is with great sadness that I learn of the passing of Dr Andy Jones, long-term Principal Archaeologist with the Cornwall Archaeological Unit. In tribute, here's my Archaeodeath Interview with Andy from earlier this year. Rest in Prehistory, Andy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YK...
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Death in Peninsular Prehistory with Andy Jones
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YKFTg04cE&t=39s
about 2 months ago
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Harold’s Grave and the West Saxon Churchyard in King and Conqueror
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Harold’s Grave and the West Saxon Churchyard in King and Conqueror
Historical dramas struggle with representing Christian churchyards in the late Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-Scandinavian/Viking period (for England, mid-9th-mid-11th century) and partly this is justified. As …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/harolds-grave-and-the-west-saxon-churchyard-in-king-and-conqueror/
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Hidden Treasures: Skeleton Crew Archaeology
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Hidden Treasures: Skeleton Crew Archaeology
The past has power and allure, and hidden treasure which promises to unlock the secrets of an entire lost and hidden planet! Having previously explored the archaeology of The Mandalorian, The Book …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/hidden-treasures-skeleton-crew-archaeology/
about 2 months ago
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