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Tonight! A Tale of Two Cities: Roman #Pompeii and #Herculaneum A #Lewes Archaeological Group lecture Speaker: Dr David Rudling FSA Start: 7:30pm in the Lecture Room, Lewes Town Hall BN7 2QS (entrance from Fisher St). Non-members: £4/£3 (concessions) Free entry for 25 years old or under.

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Mudlarkers! And those with an interest in #Mudlarking, head along to this in #Lewes

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Relieved to know that sometimes even Vikings could only find one sock 🧦 (But seriously, what a wonderful find!)

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Our next local history lecture is this Saturday! ‘What the 60's did for Brighton’ with Speaker David Fisher. Venue - United Reform Church, Hove (entrance in Blatchington Road). Talk starts at 2.30 See you there! (Photo: Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton & Hove)

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Join us for our next free evening lecture on Friday 7th March 2025 at the @geolsoc.bsky.social Janet Watson Lecture Theatre in London where @mattpope.bsky.social from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social will deliver the Stopes Medal Lecture: British Palaeolithic Archaeology in 2025: Making way in a headwind

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A full class for Archaeology Day School, where we had Simon Stevens from @archsoutheast.bsky.social giving us an Introduction to #Archaeology Techniques. Thanks Simon! For more archaeology day school dates, see our website: brightonarch.org.uk

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BHAS recommends: ’Underworld’, a great exhib for #Brighton history buffs, locals, & anyone curious about the secrets hidden beneath the city. It uncovers the hidden history of the underground spaces beneath the Railway Station. 🗓️ 13-23 February, 12-5pm, Wed-Sun 2025 @ Phoenix Gallery

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🚨 Research Fellow in #Archaeobotany Job Klaxon 🚨 All info here on the @ucl.ac.uk jobs page: 📲 bit.ly/ABOTRF25 📆 Deadline 25th February 2025 Applications are now being sought for a Research Fellow to support the ERC-awarded and UKRI-underwritten project DREAM #LocalAndGlobal

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If anyone thinks they have a Bowl more Super than ours, they are sadly deluded. 😎

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⛏️ Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society Day School returns! Sat 15 Feb 10am-4pm ARCHAEOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES Tutor: Simon Stevens @archsoutheast.bsky.social Venue: #Patcham Community Centre BHAS Members: £25; non-members: £30. To book contact john.funnell[at]brightonarch[.]org[.]uk

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Here’s a very satisfying find from our recent finds processing day! #FindsFriday Ancient pottery fans: Can you tell us more about this?

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Just joined the lovely folks at @timeteam.bsky.social to talk about aDNA and Iron Age society, and why this is such an exciting time for Iron Age studies. Podcast will be out a week on Tuesday 👍🏼

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Join us on Fri 14 Feb for the next BHAS Lecture: The Smallhythe Excavations with speaker @nathaliecohen.bsky.social from @nationaltrust.bsky.social 7.30pm at #Brighton Unitarian Church FREE for BHAS members, £5 non-members. All welcome! (More details in the pic)

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Why were wild boar so important in ancient Sussex? This tiny copper-alloy boar (50 BC–100 AD) is one of many found in Sussex - but was it a statue, a sacred object, or something more? Join Dr Reb Ellis-Haken tomorrow for our next Spring Talk! 📅 Tues 4 Feb, 7.30pm via Zoom

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Interested in archaeology? Yearly membership to Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society is just £20 a year (£10 for students!) Membership includes: -lectures -archaeology day-schools -walks -opportunities to join our annual excavation -newsletters & weekly e-news Sign up: brightonarch.org.uk

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Something I want to do more of in 2025 is guest on other history podcasts. I had a great time last year with @partialhistorians.bsky.social (a great podcast if you don't already listen). If you are a podcaster looking for someone to come on and talk ancient history then drop me a line.

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A lovely day (in the warm!) today processing Iron Age, Bronze Age & Roman pottery finds from our summer dig at Rocky Clump. What a lovely bunch of people to spend a Saturday with! So great to be able to see these finds up close and all cleaned up after the dig :)

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An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩 📷 Feb 2022 Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

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A great read!

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#FindsFriday These 3 fragments of a decorated Samian bowl were found this summer and fitted together after washing. Samian (or Terra Sigillata) was the most commonly used high quality pottery from Roman Britain. Can anyone tell us anything more about the decoration?

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#FlintFriday Flint is the name of the BHAS newsletter, regularly put together by our brilliant volunteers. Here’s some snippets from the last one, which also features a beautiful piece of cover art by volunteer Jessica Sheehan.

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Just announced: Long Man Lecture 2025 with renowned author and cultural historian and academic, Prof. Alexandra Harris. . Neighbours Through Time - Local Lives, Infinite Visions. Who has been here before us, looking up at the Sussex hills? What did they see? 8th April, ACCA Brighton

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Following on from an amazing series of #DiggingForBritain - great work @profaliceroberts.bsky.social & Team! Today we highlight Dr Murray Andrews who was in two episodes of #DFB this year! "Unearthing a Roman crime scene: Roman counterfeit coin moulds" Read More: bit.ly/4h653dz #LocalAndGlobal

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What secrets lie beneath Priory Park in #Chichester? Find out at our first Spring Talk tomorrow evening! Tuesday 21st January - book here: sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring...

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Tuning in to this tonight ✨

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Join me tomorrow as I welcome James Kenny to the @sussexpast.bsky.socisl online lecture series. James, will be giving a a lecture on his excavations at Priory Park, Chichester. We will be hearing about the monumental discoveries he has made in the City in recent years facebook.com/events/s/spr...

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Have your say!

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“Fascinating stuff! Brilliant to get up close to so much Roman and Medieval glass!” Thanks to Katy for these pics from ‘The Archaeology of Glass’ led by John Shepherd- the first of our 2025 BHAS Day School sessions, for those who want to learn more about particular areas of archaeology.

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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GLASS There’s a few places left for our BHAS Day School this Saturday, 10-4pm at Patcham Community Centre BHAS members: £25; non-members £30 To book, contact: john[.]funnell[at]brightonarch[.]org[.]uk

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Book tickets now for our Spring Talk series! Kicking us off is James Kenny on 21st January as he explores the latest findings from the Priory Park Archaeology Project, an eight-year collaboration uncovering significant Roman and medieval sites in Chichester.

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Spring Talks coming up with our friends at Sussex Archaeology! www.sussexpast.co.uk/whats-on

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Facts

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We’ll be watching! 🪨⛏️✨

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Unfortunately one of our site fences came down over the festive period, but luckily some of our brilliant volunteers were on hand to fix them! Crisis averted!

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This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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A great start to the New Year! A second Bronze Age arrow head from our digs at Rocky Clump, discarded during manufacture, like the other one. What other surprises in the finds? More to come!

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A shout out to our social media volunteer Luci, who stepped down earlier this month after a few years of hard work building our social media presence. THANK YOU LUCI! ✨ #volunteersareawesome #archaeology #brighton

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✨ Burning the Clocks: Brighton’s unique winter solstice celebration of community & light. Handmade lanterns parade through the city, culminating with a spectacular bonfire and fireworks display on the beach. Magical! Organised by SameSky.

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Our professional archaeology team @archsoutheast.bsky.social is 50 years old and we are celebrating in April! Do come and join us for a day sharing half a century of archaeological discovery and contribution to cultural, academic and scientific life in Britain and beyond. #AncientSky 🏺🧪

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Hello to our new followers! Looking for a last min Xmas gift for someone who loves #archaeology & local #Brighton history? Digs, walks & talks (and cake!) for £20 a year (£10 for students!) Get in touch to join us: www.brightonarch.org.uk/9.htm#member...

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