Vauvert Moths

Chaotic good, tending to lawful evil if I don't have something to hand for chaotic good...

Can't let #FindsFriday go past without another fine Iron Age coin. This is a base silver stater attributed (probably wrongly) to the Veneti, in southern Brittany. Diameter 22mm. Note the recumbent figure below the horse - what is he holding? #archaeology #numismatics 🏺

There's at least one published example I can think of where an IA coin seems to have inspired an Anglo-Saxon sceatta, see www.britnumsoc.org/images/PDFs/...

St Peter Port #Guernsey skyline just now #photography

For #StandingStoneSunday, a marvellous photo of Callanish, complete with (Victorian?) policeman... #archaeology #Scotland 🏺

Late in the day but struggling to upload images - for #FindsFriday & #FlintFriday, a beautiful flint axe from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, acquired by Frederick Lukis from Mr Talbot, c.1850. Watercolour of other side probably by his daughter Mary-Ann Lukis. #archaeology 🏺

Five go mad on Vazon beach, or, our French/British team sampling peat deposits #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

I don't think you should, I've only known about them for a year since our French visitors first managed to sneak them in

The rasette, the blade on a stick on the left of the photo. It's just wrong! 😄

We are digging with French colleagues here and the entente cordiale is being strained by their use of the rasette – personally I would confiscate them at the border and replace them with a WHS trowel, but what do you think? #archaeology #Guernsey 🏺

Can't beat an evening swim then chips on the beach at Cobo #Guernsey

A while since I posted a nice Iron Age #coin, so for #FindsFriday here's a silver quarter stater loosely attributed to the Baiocasses in Normandy. From the Le Câtillon hoard, #Jersey. Fine example of the human-headed horse on the reverse which dominates the coinage of this region. #numismatics 🏺

Think it's only fair to say that a) this was the only typo I spotted, and more importantly b) it's another great instalment in the #SloughHouse story...

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

For #TombTuesday, here's the Sandy Hook #Guernsey cist-in-circles, at the time of its first excavation in 1912. Postcard by Thomas Bramley, renowned local photographer #archaeology 🏺

A Viking B Iron Age. It would be easier if it were coins 😉

Some exciting Neolithic settlement evidence coming up on Herm in the Channel Islands, but the picture doesn't quite convey the difficulty of standing up on site in the gale blowing this morning... #Guernsey #archaeology

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Not off to a great start, says the proofreader in me - paletts?

This arrived today so basically everything else is on hold for the next day or two... #slowhorses @baskervillejmp.bsky.social

A few photos from tonight's spectacular #RedArrows display, #Guernsey #RAF

Scoring highly in the 'there are worse places to be working' category... unfortunately on my way back #Herm #Guernsey #photography

A dismal catch in the moth-trap - just 13 #moths on a clear and windy night - but some recompense in the form of a Sexton or Burying Beetle, the first time we have seen one of these #entomology #Guernsey #teammoth

Looks very like the Hanois down here, is it?

That face looks familiar 😉

He should get a moth trap 😉 perhaps he has? #teammoth

It would be nice to think that some of our deputies in #Guernsey could take note of this, and start taxing all these ridiculous vehicles on our narrow roads...

Beautiful afternoon exploring the low tide in St Peter Port harbour #Guernsey

Sorry for being a pedant but it's a silver unit, not a stater. Looks like EISV for the inscription.

An unexpected visitor in last night's moth-trap - a very beautiful Painted Lady #butterfly #teammoth #Guernsey. And some fine #moths too, including a couple of Striped Hawk-moths and an Orange Swift