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Heretic historian (Exeter); maverick industrial archaeologist (Birmingham); archaeological landscape investigator; active researcher in UK Roman western frontier landscapes; dog dad - English Springer Spaniel; countryman born & bred.
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Republikans have never been anything but flag-wavers, fair-weather friends, and sycophants to evil.

'Railway 200': Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1825-2025. Cut sections of original cast and wrought iron Stockton & Darlington rails, 1825.

You decide not to entertain the neighbours by chasing the binmen up the street. Then you consider how you will confess your sins to your partner - who is bound to ask: "Did you put the bins out? (2 of 2)

'Bin Day' is when they wake you at 07:00 with crashes, thumps, sliding glass bottles - and cackling laughter. Its cold, its raining. You are tucked up in bed in your 'jamas, aware that you forgot to put the bin and the recycling out the night before. (1 of 2)

Blast furnace slag in the Afon Tawe, near Tareni, Cwm Tawe.

2 of 2: Good advice for questing historians and archaeologists with ambitions to advance knowledge. Simply agreeing with one's academic and commercial peers for an easy life, appears a futile waste of a degree/higher degree. 'Leave a trail' of thinking that others might explore.

1 of 2: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWX...

thetolkienist.com/2013/03/02/7...

Roman road cutting, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK.

www.1902encyclopedia.com/R/RIC/richar... The 'De Situ Britannia':

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Heritage crime!

One of Legio II Augusta's 70s AD/CE open contour leat aqueducts - one may paddle in this one! Yes indeed, experience Flavian Rome between your toes here in the UK!

Building bones, Hay-on-Wye, UK.

Hello Bluesky!