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Interests: archaeology of ale, beer and brewing, history & prehistory of malt and malting technologies. I like campervans, spinning, walking, gardening, swimming in the sea. Academic stuff is here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merryn-Dineley
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I'm working on an up to date article on the archaeobotanical evidence for malted grain. This was written 10 years ago. What's new? I'm aware of Heiss's work (2020), also Cordes et al (2021) and, of course, Professor Li Liu's discoveries (2018). Any more? 🏺 #malt merryn.dineley.com/2014/08/what...

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Bryn Cader Faner is part a burial cairn, part a stone circle near Talsarnau in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies in remote moorland. It has a round cairn 8.5 metres in diameter in the middle and 15 stone slabs in the outer ring. #StandingStoneSunday

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A quick look inside our early medieval house reconstruction at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) at University College Dublin, afterwards destroyed by fire in 2019. youtube.com/shorts/2FyJz...

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I'll be reading this later today when I've done my chores. 😉 It's about limestone bowls, white ware, containers and wear patterns at the dawn of pottery production. I touched on a discussion of White Ware in my Thesis. Here is some new research on it. All good fun! 🏺 www.academia.edu/127159213/Li...

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Over on Twitter, where I no longer exist even in ghostly form, I’d occasionally post a little hype thread about all the fun stuff we’ve packed into a new issue. Kinda did that here—just made it into a proper post on our own website, of all places: beerandbrewing.com/issue-previe...

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Wonderful thread on Library Card Catalogues and the Dewey system. Exactly this. I found my way round the John Ryland's University Library, Manchester, just like this. 25 years ago. The books on the shelf near to the one you are looking. Constant distraction and learning. ;-D

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Oh look! SHARP are doing a malting and brewing, Anglo Saxon style, course this summer. Nice. Details of all courses below: www.sharp.org.uk/courses?fbcl...

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Ahead a post from Jan (probably Thurs/Fri) on her new Ness ceramics discovery, here's some of this week's updated/rewritten/expanded archive posts. #archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic #NessOfBrodgar

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ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW @EmpirePodUK SERIES: IRELAND & EMPIRE Episode One- COLONISING IRELAND: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I & The Tudor Conquest of Ireland

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Beach Finds #Broadstairs

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Hello @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social ! Thanks for the follow.

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My grown up kids made me some felted animals. Look at their little faces! Great expressions! Made and received with love.

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Tater beer, anyone? Got to try this last year at GABF, where it won bronze in the Collab category. Lovely easy-drinker with a fun name, made with potato starch flour—and lots of wonky mash steps. beerandbrewing.com/recipe-holdo...

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Tomorrow I'll be in front of people giving a presentation. Am a bit (very) nervous. Must be ten years since I did this sort of thing. Then it was on Viking Brew Houses for the Orkney Science Festival. Tomorrow it'll be what our u3a Botany group did last year: loads of wild flowers and a few trees.

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"There's an old saying in diplomatic circles: 'If you are not at the table, you are on the table.' Hard to believe it's 2025, and two superpowers are meeting to split up a sovereign nation—like colonialism never went out of style. #Ukraine

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Who all are in those sex tapes!?!?

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The malt just arrived from #TheMaltMiller! This is 25 kilos of floor malted barley (Maris Otter) from #WarminsterMaltings with 600g of hops. The brewer (husband) will make around 30 gallons of #beer, but not all at once! The brew kit makes around 10 gallons at a time, so this will last for ages. 🍺 👍

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We're going to be on TV over the next few weeks on a programme called Saol na Feirme, looking at the lives of farmers across the country. It's in Irish, with English subtitles, and it'll be on RTÉ 1 at 8:30pm on Monday nights for the next six weeks. #Ballykilcavan #Laois #SaolNaFeirme

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Bronze-age farm discovered in the Netherlands. Post holes were dug so deep they contain remains of wood: archeologie.nl/bronstijd-bo...

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I was a bit taken aback to read CAMRA's assessment of my latest What's Brewing column, but obviously delighted. I hope you read it & it makes you feel uncomfortable. Please consider why it makes you feel uneasy while drinking the @ladiesofdarkness.bsky.social beers. wb.camra.org.uk/2025/02/03/t...

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