Dr Tess Machling

Awww I haven't seen John for years! Have a good one. 🙂

Not at all... having tried to write up the pottery from a 50 year old site I feel your pain!! 🤣

Just a bit! 🤣

Oh I worked at Bignor a couple of times! Lovely place.

Yeah, I was a site illustrator- I loved it.

Oh my!

Yes! This was the student training dig a few years ago.

We've all been there! 😁

Nice!

Oh my... what a history!

Eeep. Yes thank goodness for safeguarding etc nowadays.

❤️

Ok, yes.. don't find that in Sussex!! 🤣🤣

Mine was Silchester Insula IX. I found a silver coin on my first day (only time ever!). But what was more profound for me & will never leave me is the thrill of that tangible connection to the past, being the next person in x-many years to touch an object, be that a brooch or a nail or a pot sherd.

Exactly this. 😊

Oh really? Yes it was. 😊

Oh that's great. And yes, a lot of folks started at CH.

Mmm back in the day. I think (hope?) things have changed a bit now.

Yeah, there's always something that catches us, isn't there? Mine was lunking great middle bronze age pots!

Sounds fun!

Yeah, I think i always knew it was what I wanted to do.

Aww that sounds lovely!

Hi folks. For ten years I've offered the results of all my research for free, open access. I'm an independent researcher and have no funding, so all museum trips, research visits, writing up, conferences etc etc are funded by my scraping together savings and lecture fees etc. Thanks to a few recent changes in circumstance, this is getting more and more difficult for me to fully support and, even though I'll still be doing everything open access and always will, if you do have a bit of spare cash (...and really only if!!) buying me the occasional 'coffee' to support my gold research would be really fabulous.

I've set up a ko-fi account to try and fund a little bit of my gold research.

If (... and i really do mean if!) you felt able to send me the occasional 'coffee' that would be hugely appreciated. 😊

ko-fi.com/tess317409

Yeah I don't miss that one bit! 🤣

Mmmm... the weather we can do nowt about!

Oh I love it when that happens...

Brilliant! 😊

Oh my... did it work out??

Have a chat with your local museum - many museums are keen to offer opportunities to volunteers, but they aren't always advertised.

Oh really glad you got that opportunity... but don't forget, there's also loads of ways to get involved with archaeology without digging... e.g volunteering with finds etc is a great way to learn the different types of artefacts etc.