Chris Butcher

Summer the oak with a name plaque in front

This is Summer🙂👋🌳

Summer is an absolutely massive oak & lives in our woodland right next to the 1,400 year old ditch that marks the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent & the South Saxons

It is still the border today & we act as a kind of Border Force for squirrels

I'm a big fan of these brown signs in France - not just historic places but also local produce, customs & intangible heritage. I'd love to see them in the UK - I reckon @vchlondon.bsky.social, with our networks of local knowledge across England, could do a great job! #history #heritage #local #place

Neatly dated early hominin presence on Wallacea: securely excavated stone tools from site of Colio, on Sulawesi -between 1.04 Ma and 1.48 Ma.

Massive oak tree trunk with a house behind

Oak with no name, or a name only known to other oaks - Stapel, Germany

Photo: Rainer Lippert

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave Seven ochre artifacts from Blombos Cave show evidence of lithic retouching and pressure flaking, revealing specialized MSA tools.

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE Tony Benn's incredible speech against the war in Iraq

I've never been a Labour supporter but this was a great man. Food for thought for all who think about war as it were a "computer game" www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ci...

2016: Prime Minister David Cameron, "There are times when it is right to ask the people.. The British people have voted to leave the European Union"

2025: The Sunday Times, "Only 29% would back Brexit now"

When are we going to respect the will of the British people and rejoin the European Union?

Half of Brits want another EU referendum in five years as Brexit support slumps A new poll of more than 2,000 people found 29% of Brits would vote to leave the EU if the Brexit vote was repeated, compared to 52% in the referendum in June 2016

How much longer can our government pretend they can make Brexit work? They can't. It's impossible.

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The Return of the Bert, Lord of the Wings 🥲

He sat in his tree for a few minutes & flew down only when I went in the garden

Noticeably still missing his tail feathers, so still in the moulting stage, a quick worm hunt & gone

I like to think he was just saying hello

Owls are so adorable… 🥰
Thank you for saving this little one’s life… ❤️

Doggerland The Impact of Climate Change (image credits: wikimedia)

The Lost Land of Doggerland 🏺🧪
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Doggerland was once a sprawling landscape, stretching across what is now the North Sea, linking Britain to Europe.

My thoughts exactly.

Yes, it was a wonderful exhibition!

The remarkable ‘Lion Man’ from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, carved in mammoth ivory, with an estimated age of about 40,000 years. It is over 30 cm tall…

Just rediscovered - a bit of ancient history from 1989…

Two leaning oak trees

Leaning Welsh Oaks, Bethesda 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The Sessile oak (Quercus petraea), is the National Tree of Wales

The sessile oak is normally found on higher ground, so plenty to be seen here

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How about volunteering for @nationaltrust.org.uk? 😍

You could join our Heritage and Archaeology Ranger Teams
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/volunteer

Dogs cant do mri’s but cat scan.

He couldn’t decide if he should accept the job in mattress sales, so he decided to sleep on it.

I have an incredible talent of predicting what’s inside a wrapped present. It’s a gift.

A photographer, lying in the grass. A fox cub is standing on his back, looking off in the same direction as the camera's pointing at. The photographer is looking at us, with an expression his face that's every shade of "resigned"

"I think there's one over there, mate. Stick around, I'm sure you'll get a good shot eventually"

Such an old photo... 😂

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

A collection of Cornish sunsets that I captured, to ease the end of your day. Rest well, my friends. 😊

#Cornwall #sunset #nature #calm #peace #life #sky #ocean #sea #summer #photography

Facebook marketplace advert for a full human size owl costume. A snip at fifty quid.

Not entirely sure I can live without this

I trained as an archaeologist, so for the UK #FestivalOfArchaeology I will be around here on Bluesky on #AskAnArchaeologist day, this Friday 25th July to try to answer questions. Just include that tag in your question, or reply here and I'll do my best to answer. Look forward to hearing from you 🏺

Color photo, somewhat discolored with age, of a long-haired tabby kitten standing in the middle of a wooden chess board and it seems to have knocked over most of the white pieces. It looks up brightly at the camera as if caught in the act.

She beat Garry Kasparov four times but he paid the mainstream media to cover it up. Photo from my collection, no date. ♟️

YouTube video by TED How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED

How to Spot Fake AI Photos.
Digital forensics expert Hany Farid explains how he helps journalists, courts and governments find structural errors in AI-generated images.
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Ötzi the Iceman and his neighbors had totally different ancestries, ancient DNA study finds A study of prehistoric skeletons from the Italian Alps shows that society may have been organized around fathers and that Ötzi the Iceman had a unique family lineage.

New genomic analysis of people who lived in the Italian Alps during the Copper Age suggests groups may have been patrilineal — but also that Ötzi was surprisingly dissimilar to these neighbors. 🧪🏺

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette share.google/kGT4qU2zsuTQ...