Dr Susan Greaney

Do you have set working hours in your contract?

Realistically this means I get about a week at Christmas and a few weeks in the summer when I can actually try to do research.

I would probably watch a show that had that kind of realistic commentary

Just updating Friday's lecture on 'Archaeology and heritage: who benefits?' to include the current consultation on NPPF and last year's Trowel and Error PUNS report. Don't say we don't keep our students up-to-date!

Interesting. Mine is one of fascination, about how different cultures and societies view what forms respectful treatment of the dead.

In the seminar the students are asked to role play museum curators who have been asked by a particular community to rebury someone deceased who is currently on display (both are real examples). They get a set of information, ask questions, get more info based on those & then decide.

Whether or not to display human remains is an ethical dilemma that is entirely culturally specific. Sometimes it is an insult, sometimes the utmost respect. For me, for societies far removed from our own time/place, we cannot be sure of what display would have meant to them.

Great example to add to my ethics of the display of human remains seminar in a couple of weeks:

For some reason Bruges popped into my head before I realised where your photo was taken.

Piffle. You and your team discovered huge amounts about the date, sequence and construction of the hill. Plus it was an extraordinary engineering project, undertaken at considerable risk, to save an iconic monument.

Why a set of gold coins have divided British archaeologists In 2024 a detectorist found some gold coins in Suffolk. The discovery was declared legally treasure. If a museum wanted the coins, the finder would have been rewarded with a sum equivalent to their ma...

Here’s my take on that Suffolk coin hoard, thanks to all the commenters here on BlueSky!
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[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #106: Cockle, Dog In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

The Institute for Archaeology at the Humboldt University of Berlin is threatened with closure and with it a two-century long tradition of archaeological research that shaped the entire discipline. Please sign the petition to oppose this plan: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

#medievalsky

🤣🤣 Stonehenge Archer might be a better comparison - overstepped his privilege, shot in the back, dumped in a ditch...

If you didn't watch these three figure skating last night, I recommend seeking out their routines and seeing their support for each other afterwards - amazing!

Archaeology folks, I'm looking for a georeferenced plot (geophys or otherwise) of the pit alignment at Warren Field, Aberdeenshire and am drawing a blank. "A Tale of the Unknown Unknowns" (Murray et al 2009, ISBN 978-1-84217-347-3) has a layout plan, but no coordinates so I can't GIS it.

Anyone?

Section perfection 🤩

There's this intense drip zone near some of the canopy edges. Like some of kind of game if you don't carefully watch the spatter patterns!

Nooo!! Honestly, I think if everyone was told 20 yrs ago that climate change would just be increasingly wet winters rather than just a little bit warmer people might have taken more action.

No idea if it'll do any good but more voices can't hurt.

Sorry Tess 😔 If it makes you feel any better I've been writing emails (prompted by @mattpope.bsky.social) this week to the big heritage/archaeology organisations about getting a taskforce going to address the issues you've been raising.

Brb I'm just suing my (previous, non-university) employer for making me work at home and under intense pressure for two years... 😲

A train station, looking from the wet platform across the tracks to another platform where passengers in coats are sitting or standing waiting. The sky is powder blue and the lights are all on. If you look carefully you can see rain pouring in the track area.

You probably can't tell from this photo but it is torrential rain in Exeter AGAIN. This very wet winter can do one ☔

Looks like a really fat wobbly upland cursus!

Ruined castle with the words 'Work With Us' overlaid

WORK WITH US: ScARF Research Officers and ScARF Research Manager

We are looking to hire three new members of staff to help deliver the final two regional research frameworks as part of @scarf-scot.bsky.social. Find out more and apply by 11:59pm on 8 March 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/#appoin...

Can send you some Boyne Valley reading suggestions too if needed?

Can't go wrong with Jan Harding's 2013 Cult Religion and Pilgrimage for that site! Plus the 2024 HE geophiz report. Richard Bradley has just published on King Arthur's Round Table in the Antiqs Journal. There is an interim report on his recent excavations at Mayburgh too - I'll check if ok to share.

There are strong links archaeologically between Cumbrian, Yorkshire and Co. Meath henges 🎯

Fiddlehead

#photography #nature #fern #fiddlehead #nikon

Proposed Planning Policy Reforms: Implications for Archaeology and Heritage in the Draft NPPF An online talk with Neil Redfern and Catherine Bell

🚨❗What do the proposed reforms to planning policy (NPPF) mean for archaeology and heritage? Join this webinar on 26 Feb to find out and inform your response to the public consultation: www.archaeologyuk.org/get-involved...