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Archaeologist & writer. Senior lecturer at Uni of York. Books: The Story of Silbury Hill; The Remembered Land; Footmarks, a journey into our restless past. Agent: JP Marshall.
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A few tens of millions of years ago this nugget of Baltic amber bobbed across the sea to arrive on British shores. Over a thousand years ago someone picked it up and began to turn it into a bead for a necklace, before losing it on our site at Skipsea. #FindsFriday #Skipsea2025 🏺

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A few tens of millions of years ago this nugget of Baltic amber bobbed across the sea to arrive on British shores. Over a thousand years ago someone picked it up and began to turn it into a bead for a necklace, before losing it on our site at Skipsea. #FindsFriday #Skipsea2025 🏺

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Of the wonders we’re excavating at Skipsea, East Yorkshire, my favourite is this rare medieval floor, 6th-9th century. How many leather-bound feet, over a thousand years ago, padded in and out of it? How many people stood in the doorway, having passing conversations? 🏺 #Skipsea2025

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Of the wonders we’re excavating at Skipsea, East Yorkshire, my favourite is this rare medieval floor, 6th-9th century. How many leather-bound feet, over a thousand years ago, padded in and out of it? How many people stood in the doorway, having passing conversations? 🏺 #Skipsea2025

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

And we’re off! Excavating Skipsea Castle, a prehistoric and early medieval landscape. By the end of May, 114 students will have had their first taste of archaeology in the trenches we open this week. 🏺 #Archaeology #Yorkshire #Skipsea #Skipsea2025

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

And we’re off! Excavating Skipsea Castle, a prehistoric and early medieval landscape. By the end of May, 114 students will have had their first taste of archaeology in the trenches we open this week. 🏺 #Archaeology #Yorkshire #Skipsea #Skipsea2025

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Well, this is exciting news! 🏺 thebookseller.com/rights/elliott…

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

The Quakers Trod between Guisborough and Castleton on the North York Moors. A shingle straight flagged path across a flail flat moorland desert. Older than the Quaker name suggests, this was a medieval road, and runs parallel to a prehistoric route.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Elliott & Thompson has acquired The Seekers: Unearthing the Lost Neolithic People of Britain and Ireland by archaeologist, lecturer and author Jim Leary. 👇 #BookSky

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We're so happy to be welcoming @jimleary.bsky.social‬ to the E&T list with #TheSeekers! 🎉

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Well, this is exciting news! 🏺 thebookseller.com/rights/elliott…

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

The Quakers Trod between Guisborough and Castleton on the North York Moors. A shingle straight flagged path across a flail flat moorland desert. Older than the Quaker name suggests, this was a medieval road, and runs parallel to a prehistoric route.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

The enchanting green aura of this steep-sided sunken path, with its shaggy moss-clad sides like deep-pile carpets. #HollowayWednesday

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