Dan Herbert

Twice proved wholemeal dough with crisscross scoring on the top ready for baking

Phase 2

Moss on a gravestone

Random acts of senseless beauty #85

Happy Birthday, Jack. Hope it's a great day

Further bone data.
Conclusion: yup, bone.

For #StandingStoneSunday today - the tallest menhir from the alignements at St-Pierre-Quiberon (Morbihan) known as The Great Monk from its distinctive outline. Just over 20 menhirs remain from rows which originally stretched out into the Bay of Quiberon. Card by Henri Laurent in Port-Louis 1905.

A photo of bread dough about to go for 1st prove

Phase 1

Current Status: Bread making with Blyth Power

A photo of St David in stained glass

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i chi gyd

Happy Saint David’s Day to all who celebrate
‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd'

Monochrome photograph featuring two women climbing on a rock face with ropes both wearing long dresses and hats

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt
Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

Are there menhirs in Sweden? This standing stone lies next to the road from Torslunda to Eriksöre on Öland on the right side of the road. It seems to be isolated. #StandingStoneSunday

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

An immense, steel toe capped menhir presides over a row of gravestones. Its pitted surface looks like pumice, holes and crevices being picked out by the late winter sunlight. The sky is cloudless blue fading into a pale pinkish grey on the horizon

England’s tallest standing stone, the Rudston monolith, photographed 4 years ago at sunset. #StandingStoneSunday

A black and white photo inscribed stone in front of a church in Cenarth Wales. Further information from the Coflein website below: Maenclochog 1, a roman-letter inscribed stone, was first noted in 1743 when it lay on the roadside adjacent to Temple Druid (then Bwlch y Clawdd) (for findspot see NPRN 422407). The stone may have originated from St Teilo's Church Llandilo (NPRN 304457), some 400m to the south-east. Alternatively it may indicate the early medieval reuse of Temple Druid enclosure (NPRN 422403), which has been interpreted as a henge monument. It was later moved to Gellidywyll, Cenarth, where it stood on the lawn, and in 1893 was moved to St Llawddog's Church, Cenarth (NPRN 309895) where it stands in the churchyard to the south-west of the church. The stone is a smooth, rounded, rounded boulder of pyroxene-rich dolerite with visible pale green amphibole ? probably glacially transported from the Preselis or the Fishguard Volcanic Group. Measurements are given as 146cm height x 68.5cm > 23cm width x 46cm > 17.5cm diameter. The Latin inscription, which reads vertically downwards, is thought to date to the late 5th or first half of the 6th century. It has been translated as `of Curcagnus son of Andagellus?. The inscription is thought to have been partially recut. Sources include: Edwards, N. 2007, Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales N Vousden, 19 December 2017

The Gellidywyll Stone, St Llawddog’s Church, Cenarth Carmarthenshire, Wales

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#StandingStoneSunday #Stunday
#BlackandWhitePhotography
#ClassicMono #BlancoYNegro
#PhotographersofBlueSky

It’s been over a decade since we walked around Corndon Hill and Stapeley Hill so I revisited in the sunshine on a 12km circular. Fabulous prehistoric landscape here with stone circles, cairns, standing stones (largely fallen) and barrows #archaeology #prehistoric

A black - white cartoon explaining the different ways sites get buried

It's really fabulous to wake up to 9k followers 😮🥳. Diolch yn Fawr / thank you everyone 🙏

As a thank you - here is my 1994 Toby the Trowel explainer: 'How Sites Get Buried' 🤔

Surely the most common question ever asked of an archaeologist in a trench..🧐🏺

📷 My own, from younger days

Absolutely this

Good night to all. I'm joining in the dreams of waking giants.

Fantastic castle

Nice. Did you get to Berkhamstead?

You were just down the road then

Managed to find the unusual X-shaped medieval artificial rabbit warren (often called pillow mounds because of shape) on Middleton Hill near Corndon. Easily missed and best found with lidar.

Top floor.
Last 3 windows on the right were our flat
Lived there before moving to Clandon Park

The fine Stuart facade at Ham overlooks a carpet of crocuses.

Continued signs of Spring at Ham House

Have a soft spot for Ham House.
Was home for a short period in 2001-2002

A National Trust sign for Ham House Meadows

Current Status:

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Probably the most beautiful archaeological store you have ever seen. Rows of boxes on shelves receding into the distance with a tantalizing light at the end.

Check out our artefact archive!! 🤩

(serious face...)
Archives like ours are filling up fast. Soon there will be no space in Britain to store newly-excavated artefacts and this will be catastrophic for research in archaeology as well as innovation, society, growth and the renewal of nature 😢

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Goodnight, Hookland.
Rest easy