Spencer Carter

111 were fab. I did a Long Covid vertigo back fall 2 wks ago. Scary shite. So just pain killers and taking down despotic regimes in mi'disturbed sleep. Where shall we go next? x
PS I seem to have turned a bit greenish hue too.

Every time I pop a pain killer for my fractured pelvis, yet another despot falls. This could be endless?

Big warm hug, thank you x

Hey, y'all! Like me, Spencer is an archaeologist who got sick in the first wave and developed long COVID. The US is abysmal for support, but the UK has its problems as well. We need to keep Spencer housed. So many of you watched me as I tried to get back into housing. Let's make this easier for him!

Aww, bless you. Every penny still helps. 7th anniversary of hell this April, housebound since 2020 and fractured my pelvis (vertigo) the other week.
www.gofundme.com/f/long-covid...

Spence in heather, out to pasture.

Pension letter today, short because there aren't many numbers and they are small. I retired on 9-Feb-2026 age 59 (due to disability, the #LongCovid life-upside-down mess). Very strange feeling. Cash runs out in 7 years, state pension age in 2033, but hey ho for now. Housebound & fractured pelvis.

Archaeologists seek better pay after many ‘bled out of the profession’ due to low wages Average salary of those working in sector stands at €35,000 with Unite union pushing for Labour Court order

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Plus greater than 220 thousand *avoidable* Covid-19 deaths (UK) and millions more disabled by the consequences. "Wash your hands" and "Herd immunity". Governmental Criminal Negligence And Incompetency #LongCovid

Follow the whiff of money? Summuts gannen on.

or simply no individual wants to take responsibility for the hire.

My last two professional roles, hi-tech business ops global corps, albeit pre-2012, FIVE interviews each & every interviewer bored themselves sh*tless. Got both the jobs, 1 decider each, burnt to cinder by the end. Inhuman. So I moved to heritage & archaeology self-employed. ££££££ to £ but alive.

A tongue-in-cheek picture to advertise our next meeting! An AI creation that's not bad, but let's play spot the errors... Anyway, don't miss our next (absolutely real) meeting on Monday 2nd March which is our Member's Evening, a chance to enjoy a series of short talks given by SAHS members on topics or subjects they have an interest in. Our speakers this year are: - Katherine Welch - "Lost Pubs in Filey" - Fred Normandale - "Fred's Fishy Tales" - Andy Volans - "The History of Medicine in Scarborough" The meeting is at the Salvation Army Hall, Alma Parade, Scarborough. Doors open & refreshments from 7pm, doors close 7.25pm. Entrance is free to members with a £3 charge for visitors. If you would like to join the Society you can find out more and join on the evening or go to: https://www.sahs.org.uk/membership We look forward to seeing you there!

What a wonderful poster! Well done. Even the pointing on the R. Love it. @durotrigesdig.bsky.social - Yorkshire pointing :-)

And a bit of #Hypocaustgate for @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour

*out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed

Aye, one wing left unvovered (the main house). No pilae but had nice flue vents up the walls, Y shaped stone hypocaust. Cycled there in the 70s, 50mile round trip, sore arse for days. Helmsley is also lovely to stay (The Feathers is fab). My home turf. Meso ont't mi'moors. Lion Inn Blakey also fab.

Mosaic fragment with white, grey and red-ceramic tesserae.

1969 excavations of the villa, originally 3 wings. The mosaic is bottom wing on the L side on top of a hypocaust, partly collapsed into it. Courtesy English Heritage.

#MosaicMonday #Archaeology pop yer big coat on for a trip to Beadlam Roman Villa nr Helmsley North Yorkshire. Most of the mosaic is now in the English Heritage store in Helmsley (you can visit). One wing of the 3rd-4th cent villa is still viewable in accessible pasture, orginally 3 w/ a bathhouse.

At least in prehistory we merely had to contend with burnt mounds, sauna barrows, occasional steam scalds (possible chaffing), hop brewing and saline reduction. Then a dip in a Holocene lake. Get a grip, pull a pint.

#HypocaustGate

Brava bravo. Al punto.
PS Mandy next? "But I'm gay and got sacked again"?
And
Blair "call me Jesus"?
Faragerine "they won't let me into Chagos, I'm from Clacton, sea?".

2/2 there are very questionable judgements (by the finder) at play, which encroach on moral & ethical considerations, "professional". Nor is there sufficient coordination in our heritage/arch sectors to address the flaws (incl MD licensing). Also, in this case, a PR disaster, hypocrisy in action.

I posted on BAJR today, garnered lots of responce, from shrugging > accusations of bullying, much betwixt, recognising the entire system (and law) here is flawed. The law hasn't been broken. However, if finds like this (UEA & the prof) are placed in public domain, constructive criticism is legit >>

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...

Mike Pitts on the latest failure of the metal detecting regime in England and Wales.

It would be a irony richly deserved if the closest England's metal detectorists got to licensing were to be the name of the latest of their number to cash in their casino chips, at Noonans, one coin at a time.

You've got replies switched off here?
Suspect you have to find a specialist contractor. Some might do it for free for some good PR.

Images of pain after Long Covid fall last week.

Vertigo caused by Long Covid makes you fall over a gret deal. The "pelvic thrust" allegory is from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, "Time Warp" dance.

SIX DAYS LATER. After the big backwards vertigo fall last weekend, a few things I can do without screaming too much. Bed - gas - toilet - sneezing - coughing. Stairs are mountains, still daren't shower. Tiny progress. Pelvic fracture probable (NHS 111 doctor). #LongCovid

Book cover (Archaeopress), Roman 'bustum' burial in a jar. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Rubbish-Disposal-Norton-Yorkshire/dp/1789698383

Very fine flint oblique arrowhead, Late Neolithic c 3000 BCE.

Very fine Early Bronze Age flint thumbnail scraper knapped around all edges c 2500 BCE.

Post-Medieval gunflint manuctured in Norfolk, c 1800 ACE.

#FlintFriday #FindsFriday #Archaeology You may have Romans everywhere (dead) especially during the Roman period (sic) but flints still pop up:
- Late Neolithic oblique arrowhead 3000 BCE
- Early Bronze Age thumbnail scraper 2500 BCE
- Post-Medieval gunflint 1800 ACE
Norton, North Yorkshire, England

My GP Practice, London, was "sold off" and since then fell apart. The NHS problem w/Long Covid, similarly ME-CFS, is they're not structured for complexity & multi-causal/physiological illness, not holistic. LongCovid has >6 different systemic but connected dysfunctions. Hence no treatments/training.

Aye. I remember when we met at Low Hauxley. Still Long Covid housebound, 7yrs in April. Bad fall on Saturday, poss fractured pelvis (NHS 111 are fab). These are yours too. Met Lynda when I popped into Rothbury.

Sounds like a possible patchwork going on. Pretty much everything I've seen in the NE of England has had fieldwalking at the very least, for years. Won't name the orgs, but I'd certainly suggest N Yorks is well served by the commercials.

Breath-taking. I've laid in the grass of Hod Hill a few times, amongst cow pats. Plus the detail inside the Roman fortlet top L. Outstanding. Was Vespasian here?

Not sure about your second point here... everything I've encountered, commercial, recently has involved systematic fieldwalking where that's practicable (as an observer). No?

Ooo, got one of those from your fair hands. Used to be two but one broke. Use them and Neo pots for teaching (or did before covid).