I do love a nice bit of worked flint; you read it, work out how it was made, what it was used for. It's not my field - I'm more BA to early Med - but I do like it. As the article states, sometimes you can still cut yourself on them www.bbc.com/news/article...

You know your regime is great when you have to physically stop and threaten with death - your people from leaving. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

So here we are, its nearly Halloween. As a kid growing up in Wales, I'd always carve a swede up to make a lantern. Here in Germany its quite hard to find them; they are classed as a animal feed. You see them very occasionally. Here is one I carved a while back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jtk...

Great news for the region AND experimental archaeology www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/scotlan... #Broch #Caithness #Archaeology #Picts #Scotland #NC500

The scumbags who broke in the St Fagans Museum in Cardiff have been arrested and charged. I hope the priceless artefacts are recovered ASAP: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... #Wales #Archaeology #BronzeAge #StFagans #HeritageCrime

The local - yet national - museum close to where I grew up has been broken into, the thieves stealing priceless Bronze Age jewelry (priceless... meaning not base monetary value) www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... #NMW #BronzeAge #Wales #bastards

On my recent trip up North, I visited Cologne. Lots of history - both Roman and more recent. I was keen to visit the memorial to the Edelweiss Pirates; murdered by the Nazis for not conforming:

Oktoberfest 2025 draws to a close. I missed the first week; I was giving a tour in Northern Germany, taking in not just WW2 sites but also so locations with a more esoteric connection the period - including Externstein and the Hermann Denkmal. I had 2 cameras; a 4k and an SLR with an IR filter

Up in Berchtesgaden, I also had time to sample the "Jubiliaums Bier", which is the next one up from the standard Helles:

I gave two tours at the Eagles Nest this week - then tried the beer from the Berchtegaden Hofbräu brewery; these were hot days. The Helles lager is a great thirst quencher. Grain up front, slightly bready, not too hoppy with a slight citrus/cut grass note.

I've just given a Medieval tour in Munich. One of the subjects we cover is the Black Death (The "Pestilence" as it was known back then). Then this pops up in my feed: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Major rail disruptions between Munich and Berlin for the next few days: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g... #DeutscheBahn #GermanRail #Munich #Berlin

Mortimer-Wheelers interpretation of the "Battle Cemetery" at Maiden Castle has been proven to be incorrect after a re-analysis of the skeletal material: www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2518005... #MaidenCastle #MortimerWheeler #Archaeology

I spent last week involved with the commemorations for the liberation of Dachau. The gent in the picture is Dr Richard Baum who was a GI there in 45 The other peeps are tour guides. My one pal is a bit sensitive about personal info so I've hidden his and his sons' faces. #Dachau #Holocaust #VEDAY

Clear skies sir: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #BattleOfBritain #TheFew #PaddyHemingway #WW2 #Spitfire #Hurricane

A fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry has been found in the archive of the SS archaeologist tasked with studying it: www.facebook.com/Darkhistoryt... #SS #WW2 #Ahnenerbe #BayeuxTapestry

Munich, Valentines Day, 2025: #terrorism #FarhadNoori #Verdi