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Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology. All views my own
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An essential new addition to the #StandingStoneSunday library here.

Just because you all need more archaeological sites and finds in your feed. Black and brown layers of agricultural activities interrupted by layers of sand near the southwestern coast of Norway. Oldest dating gave result to early Bronze Age in Norway.

A truly marvellous object: a 16th-century incense storage container in the shape of a #ship. Coins of the #Roman Emperor Nero, minted between 64 and 68 AD, have been attached as wheels. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

Clun Castle - The ruined medieval castle overlooks the small town of Clun in southwest #Shropshire. Established after the Norman conquest, the castle had been largely abandoned by the 16th century. Image taken with a vintage #helios-44 lens @ f2 for the Lost Content project... #history #heritage

Saturday’s Shropshire Swines The competition that nobody is talking about. Okay me owd butties, gud lord Saturday again, who is this Shropshire Swine? Has he bin knocked off his pedestal? Knitted by the truly sebunctious Rita Rich

Andor Characters and Their Counterparts in ‘Allo ‘Allo 1. Dedra Meero and Private Helga Geerhart.

#HeritageCrime News Research suggests economic collapse in the Palestinian territories of the occupied West Bank, following the war in Gaza, is driving the illegal exploitation of historic sites including through, so called, "subsistence digging".

Release the hostages held by the genocidal reigme destabilising the middle east through its lust for revenge. Israel is a rogue state led by a government that uses ethnic cleansing, population starvation and genocide as means of war.

Offa's Dyke Journal 6 #offasdykejournal howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/o... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7T...

Local authority run county record offices and local archives are absolutely the under appreciated repositories of British history.

As if you needed yet another reason to buy this @vchlondon.bsky.social volume.

This is Gwernyfed Walled Garden, in Three Cocks (just NE of Brecon)- sharing as I’ve only just found out about it, a beautiful walled garden with a café in the glasshouse, serving really truly delicious food with vegetables and fruits from the garden. My dream kind of café.

A key purpose of the 1824 Vagrancy Act was to punish magical practitioners; it originally criminalised 'every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose' 🔮

If you read one thing to make you think today... Derek Guy dismantles this gentleman's argument against migration with ease, Takes the pieces Puts the cogs and springs in place. Switzerland makes the world's finest #Watches because of immigration. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social

Somewhere in #herefordshire … #35mm #filmphotography

Medieval boss from Dore Abbey - the former Cistercian abbey at Abbey Dore in Herefordshire. The boss depicts the Virgin and Child with an abbot, possibly Richard Straddell or St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 📸 My own. #SundayStonework #Medieval #Dore #Herefordshire

#castle #goodrich #herefordshire #medieval #history #architecture #uk #landscape #travel #photography The majestic 12th century castle remains at Goodrich, Herefordshire...

Aston Eyre church was founded in 1132. It served as a chapel-of-ease to St Gregory's, Morville. One of the most wonderful things about the building is its late 12th century tympanum showing the entry into Jerusalem. #Shropshire #History #Medieval #Churches

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

I only really visit museums to check out the shop at the end and buy a few postcards. I'm not really there for the exhibits.

NEW BOOK! We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest book from our colleagues in Herefordshire - Cradley is a large parish beneath the Malvern hills, joining VCH Shorts on Eastnor, Colwall, and Bosbury. Buy direct from @uolpress.bsky.social, or (soon!) from bookshops in #Ledbury. 🗃️

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Imagine, just imagine, the response from the West if the Iranian government, in international waters, had rammed and then boarded a European ship, filled with European citizens, and taken them captive. But it's Israel, so it's all good. Our citizens don't matter.

Our two-week project to geophysically survey the entire Ness of Brodgar excavation site got under way today. #archaeology #NessOfBrodgar #Neolithic #geophysics #orkney

Monday:

“And make sure you put ‘a small quantity’ of humanitarian aid”

For those who can't wait for #HillfortWednesday here is #Shropshire in its summer glory photographed by one of our finest landscape artists @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social

Have you ever felt you are in the way? I got that distinct impression while up on Caer Caradoc a few days ago. These sheep kept shooting suspicious looks at me from the ramparts of the Iron Age hill fort as I was photographing the view looking towards the Lawley. #Shropshire 1/2

A lovely view from a lovely ground, Brampton Bryan cricket club in glorious North Herefordshire vs Acton Scott Cloud cover and rolling hills

Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Doagh Holestone' Ink on Bristol board, 2024 On display as part of my exhibition, 'Point Of No Return', opening TODAY at Bear Steps Gallery, #Shrewsbury Pop in, I'll be there all day #StandingStoneSunday #Illustration #Penandink #Neolithic

Bedd Arthur, looking across to Carn Menyn and Foel Drygarn. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Preseli #Pembrokeshire

Saturdays 89% lit moon with a lovely orange hue in darkening skies over Shropshire.

"I've resigned as Chairman of a massively racist party by mistake"