Natasha Harlow

Read more about the #Roman dodecahedron currently on display at the University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology 🏺

“Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it”

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.

British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.

Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.

It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

Shameless plug: come and hear me talk about ancient surgical procedures, magical and ritual behaviours and the importance of avoiding the Evil Eye!
www.shropshiremuseums.org.uk/event/ancien...

50 Years of Discovery conference - Norfolk County Council Join us for a landmark celebration of the people, places, and discoveries that have shaped our understanding of archaeology and heritage in the East of England

Join us for 50 years of the NHER. I'm giving a paper on "Did the Iceni 'Do Different'?" looking at Iron Age and Roman small finds from the East of England.
www.norfolk.gov.uk/article/7070...

An old fashioned sailing ship moored by Tate Liverpool with an orange inflatable lifeboat attached

Pirates on the Mersey!
I think they were making a film. Loving the lifeboat 😅
Yarghhhhh health and safety

Roll up, roll up, for a whistle stop tour through the Iron Age at Shrewsbury Museum on Thursday - all welcome!
www.shropshiremuseums.org.uk/event/the-ir...

'Eye-catching' Iron Age gilded brooch found near Attleborough The gold and silver brooch was designed to show its wearer's importance, says an expert.

A gorgeous recent find from Norfolk. I spoke to Katy Prickett about it for BBC Online.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A hand holding a small clay head depicting a bearded male face with archaeologists standing in the background.

Bearded ceramic face applique from a jug or vase. Perhaps one of the Roman gods of the four winds.
2025 excavations by the Caistor Roman Project, Norfolk.

Is there anyone left on BSky who isn't just moaning that their country has turned into a totalitarian fuckcrumble?
#resist
#getonthestreets

Did you know? Supermassive black holes give out no light yet are the brightest objects in the universe. I’m giving away 5 signed copies of my paperback A CRACK IN EVERYTHING to a UK person chosen at random from those re-posting this blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... @headofzeus.bsky.social

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs is the law Opinion: Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain

I would just like to say #fuckthisshit

www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/o...

Mothra? Mothmen? Mothwyr?

Reconnecting Roman Britain conference, Nottingham, November 7 & 8.
Call for contributions and Booking form (free to register) available here:
www.romansociety.org/Events/Event...

🚨 BREAKING - 55 Arrests confirmed in London for holding signs to oppose genocide and the ban on Palestine Action

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The UK Government is complicit in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. They are attempting to silence those who expose this complicity.

Annual climate stocktake shows weather records and extremes now the norm in UK Climate Record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

So, WeTransfer noticed that people noticed and have changed their Terms again. Now they don't mention machine learning, but they don't exclude it either. I'll still be using alternatives www.bbc.com/news/article...

By their new Terms Of Service:
"WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for."

Switch to Triodos or Cooperative for more ethical banking. Move your money and make a statement!

A bowl of cherries

Cherries!

I think they're chanting something like Truck Fump but I can't be sure...

Call for contributions for this year's Reconnecting Roman Britain event in Nottingham in November.
#romanarchaeology
#romanbritain

I'm going to be speaking about women archaeologists at Caistor St Edmund at the Roman Society colloquium on Saturday "Voices waiting to be heard? Notable women of Romano-British archaeology" details here:
www.romansociety.org/Events

Bronze Age spearhead

Bronze Age spearhead

Bronze Age artefacts

Bronze Age rapier

Today's workshop at the University of Nottingham was on Bronze Age metalwork from watery environments and the implications for curatorial practice. Got to hang out with all these lovely things and also look at a replica Iron Age chariot :)

Assistant Professor in Archaeological Science (Materials) at University of Nottingham Discover Assistant Professor in Archaeological Science (Materials) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Assistant Professor in Archaeological Science (Materials)- University of Nottingham - Classics & Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ031/a...

These are from the Altes Museum

*Neues* Museum, sorry - why can't I edit a post on Bluesky?

Sculpture of a dog scratching her ear

Sculpture of a bearded satyr wearing a woolly jumper!

Sculpture of a young girl playing knucklebones

Delicately carved Classical sculptures in Berlin's Neue Museum 💚

Conical gold hat with astronomical symbols

Prehistoric wind instruments

Axe shaped metal ingots

Iconic objects at Berlin's archaeology museums.

Drumming yesterday at the Brandenberg Gate in support of imprisoned climate activists and against repressive laws for protests in Germany and the UK