Lawrence Shaw

CAA UK 2025 Annual Conference Join us at CAA UK 2025, featuring research & workshops in the application of quantitative methods and computing to archaeology and heritage.

Registration is open for #CAAUK2025!

Join us in Cambridge, 9–10 Dec, for talks, posters & workshops on digital & quantitative archaeology.

👉 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...

🎙️ New Career in Ruins episode! Derek & Lawrence chat with artist-archaeologist Dr. Rose Ferraby about art, storytelling, and community in archaeology. Don’t miss this creative, inspiring conversation! 🎧
👉 youtu.be/jw1od0b4vL8?... #Archaeology #Podcast

Downland: art and the archaeological imagination in Wiltshire - Wiltshire Museum Opening in October 2025, this exhibition will feature the landscape and archaeology of Wiltshire, and includes new works by Rose Ferraby. There has long been a hunger to discover the secrets of the Wi...

Just back from Devizes and the opening of Rose Ferraby’s new exhibition Dowland at the Wiltshire Museum last night. Still buzzing - it’s such a fantastic show. Thanks to @lesleymcf.bsky.social for being such a great travelling companion

www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk?exhibition=d...

We’re thrilled (and a little bit stunned!) to share that Career in Ruins has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Archaeology Achievements Awards 2025. We’re also proud just to be alongside such inspiring projects.

#Archaeology #ArchaeologyAwards #CareerInRuins #PublicArchaeology

🎓 LAST CHANCE – Masters Award!

Present your Masters thesis/dissertation at #CAAUK2025 for a chance to win our £100 prize 🏆

Deadline: Monday 29 Sept

Submit title + 300-word abstract to caauk25@mcdonald.cam.ac.uk (flag you’d like to be considered)

#CAAUK #DigitalArchaeology #Archaeology

🚨 Deadline Extension! 🚨

The call for papers & posters for the #CAAUK2025 is now open until 29th Sep 2025!

📅 9th-10th Dec 2025
📍 Cambridge

This is a great chance for postgraduate students and early career scholars to present their research.

📧 Submit abstracts to: caauk25@mcdonald.cam.ac.uk

Railway cuts in 1960s were a Rail enthusiasts say sweeping station closures 60 years ago have left villages less well connected.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... a fantastic heritage project in my local village. 🚂

YouTube video by Career in Ruins COMING SOON! Career in Ruins are back in the field

@lawrence-shaw.bsky.social and I have been working on a little project….. youtu.be/CgE5rCsPG6Y?...

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🏆 £100 Masters Award - #CAAUK2025

Calling all recent Masters grads — showcase your dissertation research in digital & quantitative #archaeology!

📍 Cambridge | 9–10 Dec 2025
📝 Abstracts (≤300 words) by 15 Sept, 12pm to caauk25@mcdonald.cam.ac.uk

Linktr.ee/caa_uk

#DigitalArchaeology #ECR

⏳ 2 weeks left to submit for #CAAUK2025!

📝 Abstracts ≤300 words in digital & quantitative archaeology welcome.

£100 Masters Award 🏆 for outstanding dissertations!

🗓️ 9–10 Dec | 📍 @Cambridge_Uni
Due 15 Sept, 12pm |📧 caauk25@mcdonald.cam.ac.uk

#DigitalArchaeology #ECR

The organisers of CAA-UK 2025 would like to invite papers and posters for the 2025 meeting, to be held at the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, on the 9th and 10th of December 2025.

uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025/

Great to visit the Cern Abbey excavations today. And an absolute treat to have a mediaeval knife made for me out of recycled mediaeval metal from the spoil heap. Congratulations on another successful season @hugh-willmott.bsky.social

A distraction from more interesting things 👀😏

Does anyone know of any figures or reports associated with the increase in known archaeological sites since the establishment of Lidar analysis to map and record features within woodlands?

Everyone Has to Start Somewhere: Democratisation of Digital Documentation and Visualisation in 3D Digital technologies have become a core component of archaeological and cultural heritage research and “born digital” data sets are now commonplace within the discipline. Yet, despite significant effo...

Our latest paper is now available, open source!

Everyone Has to Start Somewhere: Democratisation of Digital Documentation and Visualisation in 3D
Rich Potter , Derek Pitman , Lawrence Shaw and Christian Horn

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Can’t wait to join them again this year

YouTube video by Career in Ruins Coming soon! A day in ruins

This was an awful lot of fun. Catch up on a video this weekend which covers our adventures at the Scottish Crannog Centre with the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social at the launch of last year’s festival of archaeology

youtu.be/lnkFZSr7y2I?...

A mass of archaeologists stand in front of an Iron Age ditch waving enthusiastically at the camera

The #Durotriges25 team at the end of the last day's briefing

Thanks to them and everyone else who participated in the Great Durotrigian Dig

We love you guys! 👋

Good photo that 👀😏

Miles making hand gestures in a high viz

Great to drop into the @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day today. Isla’s first dig, and what a high bar it has set. Lots of lovely friendly familiar faces to go along with a fascinating site 👍🙌🏼

Great to present at the World Archaeological Congress this morning (Theme 10 / Session 4: Digital Applications in Storytelling for Cultural Heritage) with our paper: Rooted in History. Proud to share how digital storytelling supports Forestry England’s Historic Environment Strategy. #WAC #Heritage

Just over a week left to get your application in for this great job.

Now that would be good wouldn’t it!

Just had a fantastic few days excavating with Time Team at Sutton Hoo! 🏺 Thrilled to uncover new finds, learn from experts, and connect with history beneath Suffolk soil. Grateful, inspired and already counting the days until the next dig! #TimeTeam #SuttonHoo #DigLife

Sutton Hoo Live Q&A with the Team! | Time Team | 12th June 2025 YouTube video by Time Team Official

We are live from Sutton Hoo NOW! youtube.com/live/y47OMWN...

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Sutton Hoo Byzantine bucket believed to be cremation vessel Archaeologists find human and animal remains in the base of the bucket, confirming their beliefs.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The beautiful Isla join our world last Thursday. Only took a week to get some cultural heritage into her new little life. First up, the local Steam Fair. 🚂

It was a pleasure to attend the World Heritage UK 10th anniversary celebration in Westminster yesterday evening. These places matter, not just for their beauty and history, but for the stories they tell about who we are, where we’ve come from, and what we value for future generations.