Realities of archaeology #Fenland #WetlandArchaeology #FlagFenBasin

Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago. In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.

Remembering Walker Evans on his birthday 🎂 A self-portrait from c. 1934 "Stare. It is a way to educate your eye, & more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."

Caged....

Glasgow glasshouse - look up!

It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.

Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland

I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard Detail from Pie Rows, 1962

Ja, wirklich cool! Schon was älter, aber ich sehe mit meinen Kleinen auch immer wieder gerne das Steinzeithaus der Maus: www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-ma...

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟

Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland

Monday 'thumbnail' (& muddy palm) #FlagFenBasin #BuriedSoil #Fenland

Guten Morgen 🤗 #jglphoto

The Granite Kingdom at the edge of winter.

The Fenland of Cambridgeshire is my photographic “backyard” -a place of wide open landscape broken by drains, droves and lines. The rich black peat , slowly eroding contrasts against constantly changing light. Using pinhole and Holga cameras I try to capture the still beauty of the place.

Bronze Age and C20th granite construction: elegant hut circle revealed by low water level at Fernworthy Reservoir, Dartmoor last month #StandingStoneSunday

Coynant Maenhir #StandingStoneSunday

Linton Kwesi Johnson and Black British Struggle - the originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK. africasacountry.com/2017/05/lint...

First project output published! 🙌 Fully open access Read more about our project and initial results here! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

First talk at the 50 Years of Discovery conference in Norwich, and the Fens already get an honourable mention in Prof Carenza Lewis's top 20 sites in East Anglia! #flagfen #fenland

... and of course #mustfarm another illustration of the far-reaching impact of the archaeology of the #flagfenbasin

'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney', a new book by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards is out now. #BronzeAge #Prehistory https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/01/animating-dead/

Friday morning flint - fresh out of the buried soil #FlagFenBasin #Fenland

"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops." via Ian Almond

University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!

For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.

As I was saying...

Minchinhampton #StandingStoneSunday

Another deep slice of time #Holocene #Flandrian #Fenland #FlagFenBasin #SundayStratigraphy

archaeologyorkney.com/2025/10/20/u... I'll be at the British Academy on Monday, representing @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social alongside colleagues from universities from across the UK and speaking on the "What use is Archaeology anyway? Archaeology and global 21st century challenges" panel.

Marie Cuntoinette

Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕 Find out more⬇️ https://bit.ly/43ivms8.

Blade #BuriedSoil #FlagFenBasin #Fenland

Not-Rothko #Holocene #Fenland #FlagFenBasin

Borth Submarine Forest: A submerged forest, preserved in peat from the later Neolithic/ early Bronze Age, one of eight known submarine forests along the Welsh coast. Best visited after a storm, though in normal conditions some stumps are visible at or beyond the low tide line.

Iain Duncan Smith says when Maccabi played a game in Istanbul there was no trouble at all @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble

Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game" Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

Hideous.

Taphonomy! #BogOaks #Dendrochronology #Fenland #FlagFenBasin

#BogOak #Dendrochronology #Holocene #Fenland #FlagFenBasin

#BogOak #Dendrochronology #Holocene #Fenland #FlagFenBasin

Oxidised (left) and unoxidised 3.2 billion year old banded iron formation. These samples are from drill core and were only a couple of meters apart. #geology #paleontology

Marsh, mire, fen, wash, level, sump, carr This week's North Sea Nexus post explores the rich linguistic inheritance of words for the watery realm between land and sea

Heartwood #BogOak #Fenland #FlagFenBasin

@theguardian.com #hostages

Rusticated Beaker potsherd from the buried soil beneath the peat #Fenland #FlagFenBasin

Jonathan Jones is a prick www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...