@christopher-hervez.bsky.social
"No stone unturned, no pound unearned". Archaeology, human behaviour, philosophy. The Morbihan and the Cotswolds. I'm so unphotogenic that I enhanced my photo with ChatGPT. It's one of the hallucinations that occur with increasing frequency...
The worst danger of AI isn't that it exploits creators, nor that it guzzles energy, wastes water and hands power to an undeserving elite, but that it severs our links to each other. It discourages conversation, spontaneity, empathy, critical thinking: everything that makes us better than machines.
This #findsfriday we have an oblong gold covered bone pendant possibly in the form of two horns, decorated with an engraved chequered pattern and possibly an earring.
Excavated by William Cunnington in the 19th Century it was found with a primary cremation in Bell Barrow Wilsford
One for your diaries - celebrating the tenth anniversary of @thames21.bsky.social London Rivers Week - 23rd to 31st May. A great range of activities across the week; exploring the rivers Beck, Ravensbourne & Wandle. Also photo walks, art exhibitions and much more www.thames21.org.uk/events/categ...
France returns sacred talking drum looted from Côte d’Ivoire over 100 years ago | Côte d’Ivoire | The Guardian share.google/36sYWVd12Co6...
Congratulations to the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings and Gloucestershire Archives both of whom have been shortlisted in this year's Museum and Heritage awards for Permanent Exhibition of the Year and Sustainable Project of the Year, respectively awards.museumsandheritage.com/2026-shortli...
🪨🏹Everyone knows the larger Bronze Age metal spearheads, here are two small arrowheads/projectile points. The smaller is 24mm, the larger 30mm in height. First metal arrowheads copies of their lithic counterparts, were they status objects too?
#FindsFriday #Archaeology #Wirral #Prehistory #BronzeAge
Announcing a BIG 2-day ONLINE magical history conference supporting @folklorelibrary.bsky.social
Dianne Purkiss, Mark Stoyle, Marion Gibson, Jeremy Harte and more...
Day tickets just £10, £15 for the whole event.
Ticket holders get recordings if they can't be there live
Book at bit.ly/flaevents
Sherd of plain white porcelain from the foreshore. On the back stamped with the initials GVIR (George VI) and the maker & date - GRINDLEY 1942. This was wartime utilitarian pottery, plain & unpatterned ‘cos colours/design cost money. During WW2 W.H. Grindley & Co Ltd were based in Stoke-on-Trent 1/
It seemed highly probable that with USA missiles based in the UK that in the event of a nuclear war our small group of islands would be erased from the globe.
In the latest episode of our 'Rebuilding the Bronze Age' mini-series with Operation Nightingale, we completed the roundhouse roof! 🌾🛖
The crowning glory was the thatch, with huge thanks to Lyle Morgans, Master Thatcher, who helped us start out on the right foot.
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I don't think I've seen the Simpsons episode where Lisa got access to a time machine ;)
Bronze statuette of a priest or offrant
Etruscan
3rd–2nd century BCE
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The county has long history of places that wander. Pubs. Churches. Even whole villages you cannot trust to stay still, to be where you remember when you attempt to revisit. We have centuries of reports that the White Tower is not always at the end of usual track. – George Kindred, 'Haunted Hookland'
Many a long year ago, I interviewed Dudley Sutton, who said his entire role as Tinker consisted of exclaiming “you were right Lovejoy!”
Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...
Sherd of blue on white C17th tin glaze charger or plate from the foreshore. Blowsy fern with partial flower, hand painted. Tin glaze was a type of earthenware pottery covered in lead glaze, creating a white, opaque look showcasing different types of decoration. Known as maiolica in Italy.
An undeniably dramatic recreation of the Iron Age port of Hengistbury Head #Dorset #BCP
A sloping gravel *hard* on which Mediterranean trading ships beached to unload their cargo
© Alan Sorrell for Barbara Green's 1952 book *Prehistoric Britain*
A hill-port for #HillfortsWednesday
Historian calls for AI content of Occupation to be labelled share.google/zs4dJatBNZJW...
Found on the Thames Foreshore yesterday, a small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague. The original hails from the C16th & is housed in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague. Dressed in blinging robes that change according to the liturgical season. Head broken, hand missing 1/
The swirling central panel of a #Roman geometric mosaic - almost hypnotic! #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky
This New Exhibition Reveals How Magic Ruled the Ancient World
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From The Last Stand photobook.
Bamburgh, Northumberland, England. 2013
A tidal surge in December 2013 at Bamburgh uncovered a pillbox in the sand dunes. It was constructed from hessian sandbags filled with concrete and was part of a long chain of coastal defensive sites including...
I haven't read it yet...
The concrete cicatrix of the war haunts the landscape. Even those elements which become children's dens serve as trauma mirror. Pillboxes as ghost gateways to battles never fought, an invasion of shadows from elsewhere. – #DAKilroy
Wow - nice to start the working week with the discovery of a previously unrecorded Roman marching camp in Ceredigion, only our 4th on Cardigan Bay 🤩
Potential campaign routes now start to fall into place..🤔
Spotted by a clever colleague in England who has eagle eyes👏
📷 (C) Angus McBride, Osprey
A reminder to smile at the start of another working week 🧐😉
The spectacular wooden statue of the Uig chess king, standing in dunes close to the findspot in the far west of the Isle of Lewis 🫅. And his back is even better! 😮
A real bucket-list moment to visit him by bike in June 2024 👌
📷 My own
Pollen analysis indicates 9,000-year-old Shaman had a floral burial share.google/IOppUhg7gHOw...
You've been up to the Rollrights again! I was there a couple of weeks ago - bucketing down with rain.
Copper alloy Roman zoomorphic brooch in the form of a seated greyhound.
1st/2nd century AD, found in Lincolnshire.
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A fabulous paper - fur, feathers and fibres from the Mesolithic. A reminder of why good sampling, excavation records and archives of more that just artefacts really matter.
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