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Timbers from 17th Century shipwreck appear on Dorset beach Experts believe timbers found at Studland Beach form a missing piece of the Swash Channel wreck from 1631.

And in other news, thanks to Storm Chandra, our colleagues from @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Maritime Archaeology have found a part of the Fame of Hoorn, an armed Dutch merchant ship that sank in 1631

#Archaeology

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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

*please share widely*

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

"I was going to clean house, but then I realized this book isn't going to read itself..."

So, so true. 📚✌️❤️💯 #BookSky #BlackBookSky #AuthorSky

History repeats.

A recycling bin, not long after colliding with a bus. It's still right side up!

Attenborough voice:

Here we are in Edinburgh to witness the big communal bins™️ head off on their adventures, aided by the autumnal winds. Will they topple and empty their contents across the land? Will they fly free, lids flapping into the wind? Or will they smash into a number 124 lothian bus?

Things that require a licence in the UK:

Mudlarking
Foraging mushrooms
Busking
Watching TV
Fishing

Things that do not require a licence in the UK:

Excavating an archaeological site
Metal detecting

🤔🤔

fwiw, just from a branding standpoint, i think "family friendly" is a lot smarter than "nonviolent", because a skeptical person will see "nonviolent" and wonder why you have to specify that, whereas no normal person raises an eyebrow at "family friendly"

Elon Musk’s tweet against the EU

The idiocy here is immense.

Musk is more of an anti-European than Putin.

No European governments should do business with any of his companies (looking at you Italy - and Starlink).

He’s just here to pull down everything decent and collaborative, so that he can control the pieces.

‘It is indeed easy to pull the sword from the scabbard, but not so easy to put it back when you want, since the outcome of war is uncertain.’

Alexei, Tsar of all Russia, 1652
(before invading Ukraine)

You never really forget your first style guide. No matter how many years pass, its rules on caps will always seem natural to you and any deviation from them a kind of biblical perversion.

A great slab built stone chamber, backed by rocks and a blue sky with clouds

Thank heavens it's #TombTuesday 🎉🍻

Here is the stunning Coetan Arthur chambered tomb on St David's Head coastal promontory fort, #Pembrokeshire

The tomb stands within a tumbled cairn amidst the dramatic rockscape

Managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social

📷 My own 2022

YouTube video by Bluey - Official Channel Archaeology 🦴 | BRAND NEW Bluey Bonus Bit 💙 | Bluey

Ahh I love this! Bluey is my son's favourite TV show 🤗

#Viking Parallels: Always struck by similarities between the Vale of York (c. AD 927-9) and Skye's Storr Rock (935-40) hoards, inc. dirhams, brooch terminal hacksilver, ingots, and arm rings. It shows the prevalence of the Viking bullion economy in northern Britain.

📷 @thehistoryguy.bsky.social

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

Hi! Are there any new Viking-ists for my #Viking list?

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When Trump says "We're going to become so rich you're not going to know where to spend all that money"

He's not talking to you.

He's talking to himself and his fellow billionaires -- to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.

THEY'RE going to get richer. With YOUR money.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or “foreign shame.” A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of “cringe quake” or “douchebag chills”

Please Karma, work faster.

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

A reminder for these times.

#Viking lead-inset weight, as reported to @findsorguk.bsky.social.

⚖️ 49.1g = c.2 øre/oz?

Possibly developed in Great Army camps, #Vikings used them to weigh hacksilver and other bullion currency to determine cash value.

RH @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social

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💍 Viking-Age or Late Norse gold finger-ring of four twisted rods connected by a lozenge plate.

It has an external diameter of 25-7mm, with a weight of 13.60g (c. ½ oz?).

Reportedly found on Skye.

Refs. Graham-Campbell PSAS 112 (1983); HC HER MHG55554; Glas. Mus. A.1979.19

My 📷 Kelvingrove Museum

COME AN ‘AVE A GO IF YOU THINK URE HARD ENOUGH

A #Pictish glass gaming piece of c. AD 700-900, probably for a 'tafl' board game, found in the hillfort at Dundurn. The only other example of this type from Britain was discovered at Lindisfarne.

My image, Perth Museum.

References: Mark Hall et al. in ScARF and DigVentures; HES Canmore.

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