Olaf Bayer
@olafbayer.bsky.social
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Landscape archaeology, prehistory, earthwork survey
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Olaf Bayer
COPS campaign
3 days ago
This daming clip from 2011 hasn't been online for years. Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer lying on Newsnight about the fact that the Corwn Prosecution Service colluded with police to secure dozens of wrongful convictions of activists targeted by
#spycops
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGq...
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DPP Keir Starmer says 'no systemic problem' with spycops deceiving courts - Newsnight 6 Dec 2011
YouTube video by Cops Campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGq6ZHB3Aw
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A mixture of fascination and anger this week watching police spy Jim Boyling being cross examined by the Undercover Policing Enquiry
m.youtube.com/@undercoverp...
add a skeleton here at some point
6 days ago
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Surveying
#BronzeAge
barrows near
#Hartland
#Devon
6 days ago
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Olaf Bayer
Police Spies Out Of Lives
7 days ago
"He said about half of the SDS undercover officers while he was in the unit had sexual relationships with activists without disclosing their true identities."
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#spycops
#InstitutionalSexism
#Misogyny
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Met had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, says spycop who tricked women into sexual relationships
Jim Boyling tells public inquiry senior managers turned blind eye to long-term relationships with three women
https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/11/spycop-scandal-public-inquiry-jim-boyling-sexual-relationships
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Over 700 people on our open day at Castilly Henge
#Cornwall
with
@cornwallarch.bsky.social
and Cornwall Heritage Trust. Starting the long journey home, tired but very pleased
4 months ago
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End of week 3 at Castilly henge excavation
#cornwall
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/community/ca...
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Castilly Henge Excavation Blog | Cornwall Heritage Trust
"What was once a rarely trodden landscape, the field in which Castilly Henge lies, was now busy with volunteers and archaeologists digging, sieving, and
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/community/castilly-henge/excavation-blog-home/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANM_BlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiL0GUQtxD2cWHvgnhyASiqMycsHJfX5Vfwom57XvP76qxjKF2eqIq2a-7qI_aem_LEUXTsVBb9z7XAz3_xesGw
5 months ago
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BBC Cornwall article and radio interview about our excavation at Castilly Henge
#Cornwall
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Work begins on hidden Neolithic stone circle dig near Bodmin
More than £40,000 of National Lottery funding was awarded to excavate the site earlier this year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyljn21y14o
5 months ago
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The open day at the Castilly Henge excavation is on Saturday 11th October
#Neolithic
#Cornwall
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castil...
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Castilly Henge Excavation Open Day | Cornwall Heritage Trust
For the first time, visitors are invited to explore the archaeological excavation at Castilly Henge – a major project targeting important questions about the character, date and potential later reuse ...
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castilly-henge-excavation-open-day/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANEbrFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlPOJnhM0borEyazTlwyeYQlU-5t3K7OSIwTaXd6Fj0F14sTt1GU4MFEXh8h_aem_sp70-LCWaoj7rT72yKkzRw
5 months ago
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Reposted from @HE_Archaeology Excavation trenches are open, volunteers have arrived, soil is being sieved, and school visits have begun at Castilly Henge
#Cornwall
. We are excited to be collaborating with @Heritage_Trust &
@cornwallarch.bsky.social
at this fascinating site.
bit.ly/CastillyProject
5 months ago
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More on
#Castilly
#Neolithic
henge excavation
#Cornwall
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/community/ca...
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Castilly Henge Excavation Blog | Cornwall Heritage Trust
"What was once a rarely trodden landscape, the field in which Castilly Henge lies, was now busy with volunteers and archaeologists digging, sieving, and
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/community/castilly-henge/excavation-blog-home/
5 months ago
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On Monday after 10 years away I return to excavating
#archaeology
. Here’s a picture of a younger, hairier me digging in
#Exeter
in winter 1997/8
5 months ago
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Free lecture on recent research at Castilly Henge
#Cornwall
#Neolithic
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castil...
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Castilly Henge Excavation Online Community Talk - EXTRA PLACES UNEXPECTEDLY AVAILABLE | Cornwall Heritage Trust
EXTRA PLACES UNEXPECTEDLY AVAILABLE Join Dr Olaf Bayer, Senior Archaeological Investigator at Historic England, to learn more about this upcoming archaeological excavation – a project which aims to re...
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castilly-henge-excavation-online-community-talk/
6 months ago
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Olaf Bayer
EarthworkBec
6 months ago
Deadline extended until 1st Sep!
#LandscapeArchaeology
job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Learning to use a stereoscope
#landscapearchaeology
#aerialphotography
6 months ago
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Olaf Bayer
EarthworkBec
6 months ago
🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?! Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with
#LandscapeArchaeology
experience. Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉
app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...
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Sally Taylor (my first DPhil candidate co-supervised from beginning to end) graduated yesterday. Here is a link to Sally’s research on
#Neolithic
Group VI Cumbrian axes
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
Congratulations Dr Taylor!
@oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
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Stories written in stone: Langdale axes in early Neolithic Cumbria and beyond - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
The study explores the characteristics of Group VI Langdale axes and the Cumbrian landscapes where they were found. A range of research approaches has been used, including direct examination, digital ...
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:307867a8-d7d8-4279-8dce-b3efd7806100
6 months ago
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I’m doing at talk in
#Roche
#Cornwall
about our forthcoming excavation at
#Castilly
#Neolithic
#henge
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castil...
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Castilly Henge Excavation Community Talk | Cornwall Heritage Trust
Join Dr Olaf Bayer, Senior Archaeological Investigator at Historic England, to learn more about this upcoming archaeological excavation – a project which aims to reveal the secrets of a unique […]
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castilly-henge-excavation-community-talk/
7 months ago
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Parch marks of past parks
8 months ago
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I’ve just got my copy of the excellent new Silchester Environs Project monograph. Here are the 3 sites we surveyed as part of the project.
doi.org/10.5284/1049...
doi.org/10.5284/1052...
doi.org/10.5284/1054...
#earthwork
#survey
#landscapearchaeology
#IronAge
#Archaeology
8 months ago
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Olaf Bayer
CNT Archéo
8 months ago
Hier nous étions 1 500 archéologues à manifester dans les rues de Paris. Aujourd'hui, l'article 15bis C de la loi de simplification est supprimé. Demain on continue pour les postes, contre la précarité, pour les moyens nécessaires aux diagnostics, pour les prescriptions.
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This is the project that I’ve been developing over the last year
#Cornwall
#Archaeology
#Neolithic
www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/project-to-u...
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Project to uncover possible hidden stone circle in Cornwall awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant | Cornwall Heritage Trust
Located just off the A30 near Bodmin, Castilly Henge is believed to have been built during the late Neolithic period (about 3000 to 2500 BCE). It is a
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/project-to-uncover-possible-hidden-stone-circle-in-cornwall-awarded-national-lottery-heritage-fund-grant/
8 months ago
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Spies, lies and betrayal: my ruinous relationship with an undercover cop
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Spies, lies and betrayal: my ruinous relationship with an undercover cop
He was the first partner Kate Wilson ever moved in with; they were together for 16 months, and friends for years afterwards. Then she found out he had been spying on her all along
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/22/spies-lies-and-betrayal-my-ruinous-relationship-with-an-undercover-cop
9 months ago
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May at
#Castilly
#Henge
.
#Neolithic
#Cornwall
9 months ago
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ArcGIS Pro you are clearly the future but why are you so ******* counter intuitive
#GIS
9 months ago
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Back in February
@richardosgood.bsky.social
and I were interviewed about
#Browndown
#FirstWorldwar
trenches.
www.itv.com/watch/news/e...
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https://www.itv.com/watch/news/explore-the-hidden-network-of-trenches-used-to-train-troops/qs772gq
10 months ago
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Olaf Bayer
Lawrence Shaw
11 months ago
A great day out and around Bodmin yesterday with the
@landscapesurvey.bsky.social
group. An extremely dynamic landscape with historic china clay extraction still drastically modifying the landscape today.
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The Longstone. A Neolithic or Bronze Age standing stone, formerly of Longstone Downs, now of Harmony Close, Roche
11 months ago
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@timhannigan.bsky.social
just led a group of landscape archaeologists from the car park to Hensbarrow Beacon. Asked them to work out where natural topography ends and spoil heap begins.
11 months ago
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@timhannigan.bsky.social
Just starting Granite Kingdom. Loving it. Grew up in NW Devon with family in N Cornwall. I’m an archaeologist currently working on Hensbarrow Beacon & on barrows near Hartland. Really liked your writing on Clay Country & on the ambiguity of Cornwall/Devon north of Lanson
11 months ago
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A long but rewarding day looking at
#prehistory
in
#claycountry
with
@landscapesurvey.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Olaf Bayer
Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her)
11 months ago
Today has been mostly… With
@landscapesurvey.bsky.social
and thanks to
@olafbayer.bsky.social
for organisation and guide.
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Looking north-east across the interior of
#Castilly
henge towards Roughtor and Brown Willy. Taken in 1970 before the A30 and A391 cuttings.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
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Castilly Henge Monument, Lanivet on JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29922887
11 months ago
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Charles Woolf’s colour slides of
#Cornwall
between the 1950s and 1980s are a fantastic resource. Here is
#Hensbarrow
Beacon in 1963 looking as gnarled and battered as it does today but without the backdrop of massive china clay tips
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
#LandscapeArchaeology
#BronzeAge
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29929952?searchText=Hensbarrow+Beacon
11 months ago
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2 of the Early
#BronzeAge
barrows on top of Brea Hill overlooking the mouth of the Camel Estuary
#Cornwall
12 months ago
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A project that I’ve been collaborating on in
#Torridge
north-west Devon looking at two groups of Early
#BronzeAge
barrows
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...
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Volunteers Help Care for Local Archaeology in Torridge, North Devon | Historic England
Several new projects are underway as part of a scheme to protect and celebrate the remarkable archaeology of the Torridge district in north Devon.
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/south-west/torridge-monuments-management-scheme/
12 months ago
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Average sunset,
#HartlandQuay
,
#Devon
about 1 year ago
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Chips in the sun before a long drive home
#Hartland
#Devon
about 1 year ago
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Wind, rain, fallen branches, broken windscreen
about 1 year ago
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Wind, rain and sleeping by the
#Atlantic
at
#HartlandQuay
#Devon
about 1 year ago
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End of a long week of wind, rain mud and
#BronzeAge
barrows in north-west
#Devon
.
#LandscapeArchaeology
#Prehistory
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Olaf Bayer
Police Spies Out Of Lives
about 1 year ago
Next week at
#spycops
inquiry, evidence from HN1 (aka 'Matt Rayner') will be remote & audio-only. Is this because he is still in the Met police? Or in another public-facing role? And if so, this is exactly WHY we should know his real name. Who is HN1?
#GiveUsTheNames
#PaidToLie
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This is what my winters look like. My field season starts as soon as vegetation starts to die back. Surveying a
#BronzeAge
burial mound amidst the China clay quarries and spoil heaps of mid
#Cornwall
#Archaeology
#LandscapeArchaeology
@HE_Archaeology
about 1 year ago
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Doing the final check of a report before layout. Listening to MS Word trying to pronounce Cornish place names keeps making me laugh
about 1 year ago
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The trouble with
#landscape
#archaeology
is that you keep finding interesting things next to the thing you’re meant to be focusing on. A
#ChinaClay
mining palimpsest on the Hensbarrow uplands in mid
#Cornwall
. An earlier conical sky tip next to the massive Blackpool pit
about 1 year ago
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This week in between the wind and rain, technology failures and too much driving my job looked like this. Surveying a huge
#BronzeAge
barrow amongst the china clay pits in
#Cornwall
#Archaeology
#Landscape
about 1 year ago
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historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/re...
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Browndown: Training for Trench Warfare in the First World War | Historic England
Recent survey has supported protection at one of the best preserved First World War training grounds.
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/research/browndown-training-for-trench-warfare-in-the-first-world-war/
about 1 year ago
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The new Historic England Research magazine has an article on the work that Fiona Small and I did on Browndown First World War practice trenches near
#Gosport
#Hampshire
historicengland.org.uk/images-books...
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https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/historic-england-research-27/he-research-27/
about 1 year ago
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120 people turned out on a cold Wednesday evening to hear @davegrifx and I talk about the
#Archaeology
of East
#Oxford
Project. Sold out @FloparkCC Project book is a free download at
doi.org/10.5284/1081257
@ContEdResearch
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The Archaeology of East Oxford
Open access monograph. Summative output from Oxford University / Community Archaeology research project based on eastern district of City of Oxford (UK).
https://doi.org/10.5284/1081257
about 1 year ago
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Mostly flint, mostly flakes, mostly Neolithic and later. Scatter N12
#UglowCollection
@RAMMuseum
#Prehistory
#Devon
#Archaeology
clok.uclan.ac.uk/3149/
over 1 year ago
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Mostly
#chert
, mostly blades, mostly
#Mesolithic
. Scatter N12.
#UglowCollection
@RAMMuseum
#Prehistory
#Devon
clok.uclan.ac.uk/3149/
over 1 year ago
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