Pleased (amazed, delighted, astonished) to announce that last week I passed my PhD viva (thesis defence) with no corrections! I’m grateful to Professor Joanna Brück, University College Dublin, and Professor Mark Pearce, University of Nottingham, for an enjoyable discussion of my thesis.

I miss the (deep staining) red soils of Devon..

One of the few benefits of not being in the field #Archaeology

Shelter, Fire, Poverty - from one side of the river to another. Thames through Time - is material and archival practice, Birkbeck:MOLA field school. With Dr Helen Chittock and @drclaireharris.bsky.social

First day on the Birkbeck/MOLA field school Thames through Time. The strandline on the sands and gravels with brick, tile, animal bone, tobacco pipe, nuts and bolts. And fragments of built up surfaces caught behind wooden revetments (made from old ship parts). @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Time and memory, image and sound - the archaeology of Thames through Time with @drclaireharris.bsky.social and @laraband.bsky.social!

We often push back against car drive-thrus in cities, but I had never considered the idea of a bike-thru until now. It’s a brilliant way to help small businesses populate dense urban areas while completely removing the heavy burden of car parking minimums.

Avebury Outer circle SW 4 #StandingStoneSunday

One for @pottedhistory.bsky.social www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/s34-ceramics...

Flag-shaggers of the world unite!

Prehistoric Danish people continued to eat fish and hunt even after the rise of agriculture, study indicates. #Archaeology phys.org/news/2026-05...

As it’s formally announced, I can now share with you that I‘ve been promoted to Professor.

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Loss of editors of this quality underlines the problems at the top of the EAA. It’s clear that nothing will change until the Board is dissolved. A European organisation acting in the interests of genocide and against democratic practice is beyond unconscionable. I certainly won’t see you in Athens.

Brings back memories of the Irish leading the way in boycotting goods from apartheid South Africa! Time to follow suit. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This week’s offering for #StandingStoneSunday is from Farley Moor during trial trenching last year. #Derbyshire

A Rothno for @richardmortimer.bsky.social ( incorporating the Realities of Archaeology along with a homage to a much missed archaeologist - here's to you Adrian)

Argh we started off today with about four-fifths of the exterior of the house NOT daubed (grrr edit function when)

Here's hoping there's some push back against the frog-mouthed wanker and Starmer's Reform-lite gets a kicking too

There may be other things happening today*, but the Flag Fen gang will be attempting to finish daubing the new Iron Age house this morning, so that it will be all ready for decorating in a few weeks, so stay tuned for a load of old filth. *exercise your democratic right, folks

Looking forward to speaking about Alfred Nobel’s explosives factory, munitionettes and song birds! Thank you for the invitation to the Buxton Festival, Fringe @enricharch.bsky.social!! Come along if you can. And save Ardeer!!!

Awful news. As part of the coalition urging NatureScot to recognise the importance of the Garnock Estuary and designate it as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, we share the anger felt by Buglife and the Ardeer Action Group that precious and irreplaceable sand dune continues to be destroyed.

You can read more at www.buglife.org.uk/news/anger-a...

'Your society's broken. So who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, let's blame the people with no power and no money and immigrants who don't even have a vote yet. Yeah, it must be their fucking fault.' - Iain Banks

Natasha Devon is Spot on

That's a lot of city centre real estate being turned into concentration camps. I wonder if Reform have costed this deranged fascism up.

The issue here is not George's compassion nor Kielty's clearly truthful statement (this man knows more about terrorism and forgiveness than most), it is that governments and the media are trying to make the very mention of Gaza, Palestine or Palestinians an anti-Semitic hate crime. It is nonsense.

Boswens #StandingStoneSunday

Albarello - medicine jar c. 1500-1550 Inscription reads “TOUT YRA BIEN”, meaning “all will be well”. Made in Beauvais, France. But incurving shape is based on an Islamic vessel. Discovered Fore Street, Exeter, Devon Now @rammuseum.bsky.social , Exeter #archaeology

Part of the Stalldon stone row #Dartmoor A good spot to look down on Darwell’s* private estate &!sneer #StandingStoneSunday *the millionaire who tried to stop wild camping & lost bigly

🔥⚒️ COME ON YOU IRONS⚒️🔥

Lovely quote from the great Mark E Smith on the Mumfords: "We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said ‘shut them cunts up’ and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them."

Perfect weather in the mountains of Eryri/Snowdonia today for drone photogrammetry of buildings below Prince of Wales slate quarry along the Afon Dwyfor. Some incredible structural remains 😮 Great to work with National Park colleague John & #RC survey buddy Lou 👌 Part of @llechicymru.bsky.social

50 layers, 50 objects, critical perspectives that shake fixed narratives about humanity. Abril, sempre!

Our fourth CISA seminar at Birkbeck and the brilliance of Cristina Gameiro and the 50Layers project, Portuguese archaeology after the carnation revolution. This project teaches us what prehistory has done and can do in the world.

#TreesOnTuesday Cambridge

And it was the first class of our Birkbeck/MOLA field school Thames through Time!!! Archaeology, it's important!!!!

Busy start to summer term @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Birkbeck MA graduate Ed Dickinson, Associate Director of Archaeology and Heritage at Jacob Solutions Inc, gave an inspiring talk to final year BA Archaeology/Ancient History and Archaeology students and new MA Archaeology and Heritage students!!

‘The surviving population of Gaza has been reduced to a condition of bare existence, subject to unrelenting hunger and thirst under the ever present hum of killer drones and bomber jets.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Heroes walk among us! 'I dumped them all in the bin. They can sack me' Well done that Postie! And if they do sack you, I'll be in the queue to donate to the Go Fund Me page.

"We tolerate disruption from all sorts of other causes without worrying about it as much as we do from protest." @rcquaker.bsky.social gave evidence at the Joint Committee on Human Rights' inquiry on the expansion of police powers and the impact on the right to protest.

Extension: Fieldwork Graduate Trainee Programme (6 months) - Cambridge - Oxford Oxford Archaeology Closing Date: June 7th 2026 £26,450 rising to £27,101 after 12 weeks www.bajr.org/job-ad/field...

How far up Netanyahu's arse can this government get? Still arresting pensioners for holding bits of cardboard but cutting the funding to the unit documenting the rape, torture and murder of an entire fucking people. Fuck'em. I can't vote for these people. @labouruk.bsky.social

Really exciting visualisation by my @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social colleague Guy Schofield, working in partnership with Chris Wakefield at CAU and students from the local community college.

More must-see www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New light and a 'bottom-up' perspective on Flag Fen and the Flag Fen Basin this Friday flagfen.org.uk/events/frida...

Fen to Fire brings to life the Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement, showing activity from construction to destruction. Each run-through is different with varied activities, events, weather and camera angles while the seasons change over time. The cause of the site’s fiery demise can also vary.

A must-see at March Library #MustFarm #BronzeAge #Fenland

Fen to Fire is part of @incollusion.bsky.social SHAPE Hub programme with thanks to funding from @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.