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submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

An extract from WH Hudson's 'A Shepherd's Life' (1910) for #WiltshireDay, with artwork by Bernard Gotch: The downs' "emptiness and desolation, which frightens the stranger from them, only serves to make them more fascinating to those who are intimate with and have learned to love them…"

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

The Kinematograph's review of the (now lost) film of HG Wells' 'The First Men in the Moon' #OTD in 1919 praised plot and acting: "though the theory has to be digested before the plot becomes assimilable, the danger of making the film too 'high-brow' for an average audience has been avoided"…

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Tomb of William and Elizabeth Powlett (d. 1746 & 1753) in the austere neo-Classical style of John Michael Rysbrack, with a 'You're in our thoughts' card (West Grinstead church) #TombTuesday

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The current nomination period for the National Blue Plaque scheme ends on 10 July. It would be great to see some trowelblazers (or even male archaeologists!) acknowledged and celebrated locally - they just need to have been dead for 20 years and have a link with an extant building

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A long chronology for the British Late Middle Palaeolithic: MIS 5–MIS 3 occupation at Great Pan Farm (Isle of Wight, England) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Not much to see, but listen to this bust up between the local magpies and a gang of jackdaws

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This got me thinking that maybe the reason the right hates the idea of looking after climate and environment so much is simply because these things don’t stop at their precious national borders

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For #FindsFriday here's Newark Priory in Surrey and some tiles excavated there in 1928-9 by Captain C.H.M. Pearce, including depictions of Mercury and a deer running through foliage. They're also an excuse for a 🧵 on an earlier, less formal excavation reported in the Surrey Gazette #OTD in 1840

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

25 years ago today, a collapse was discovered in the summit of Silbury Hill. The backfill within a top to bottom vertical shaft excavated in 1776 had collapsed into a horizontal tunnel excavated in 1849 that was reopened by the BBC 1968-70. More on this later.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Of course "un Britannique ne se déplaçant jamais sans son thé" - Inrap excavation of a British Expeditionary Force camp in the Pays de Loire, later a German PoW camp

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The curse of Toumaï: “because we know so extraordinarily little of our deepest past, we can only guess at the meaning of the measurements we already have, however precise they may be”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Early climate science (tho a bit garbled) in the press #OTD in 1922: from observation of "movements in the animal worid", especially birds, German scientist "Professor Wilhelm Schusted von Forstner… predicts that the climate & conditions of life of the Tertiary Period will return to Northern Europe"

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

#MusicalAnswer “Sunday afternoon we go up to John's with a lot of beer in time to watch The Simpsons…”

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Radiocarbon dating of Maiden Castle burials indicates deaths occurred over several decades, challenging the narrative of a single Roman-led massacre at the Iron Age hillfort in Dorset. doi.org/g9k5s6

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Some potentially tall #FlintFriday tales being told to the Daily News in May 1925: "The discovery of an English village where two and two do not make four but twenty…". This is Brandon, of course, because apparently "when counting his arrow heads on his fingers neolithic man made a mess of it..." 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is a treat www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

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#MusicalAnswer Libraries gave us power…

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This report printed #OTD 100 years ago raises quite a few questions, but primarily 'why...?' 🦣

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment