Dr Dot Boughton

In Ulverston, if your down that way 😀

Have been dabbling in making glass mosaics. First attempt was my tortoiseshell, Furnace. Thanks for suggesting this crafty activity @lucyh24.bsky.social !

At Greenlane Archaeology Ltd we also have a bookshop- mainly archaeology and history but also lots of local volumes, nature, gardens etc. Have a look at the catalogue on the website: www.greenlanearchaeology.co.uk/bookshop/
Get in touch if you find anything of interest!

No, no idea but it might be in the BM?

Should spend more time on here. Work is just keeping me mega busy! Don't know what's going on but definitely not complaining! Got lots of new books in and sample processing to do!

Hello Bluesky!

Thanks, Tom! I'm super self conscious and didn't watch it myself 😔 but I hope it all came across well! It was lovely meeting @profaliceroberts.bsky.social - she was ever so lovely and her team is ace!

A colleague did it and I thought it was a great idea...

Ha! No, I can't remember either! I migrated all my tweets to Bluesky but this could have been on any given day😄
Thanks for replying though!

Magdeburg market attack: At least one dead and dozens injured after car driven into crowd at German Christmas market, reports say Reports suggest the driver has been arrested and 60 to 80 people have been injured, according to German public broadcaster MDR.

Memories of #Breitscheidplatz still raw, and here we are again 😔

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Magdeburg market attack: At least one dead and dozens injured after car driven into crowd at German Christmas market, reports say - BBC News

A broad-band silver armring with stamped decoration from the Galloway Hoard, deposited c. AD 900.

Likely beaten out of silver ingots, they were produced, seemingly, in Hiberno-Scandinavian / Great Army contexts c. 870x930, following a 'prototype' form developed in Danish southern Scandinavia.

A small silver coin with the head of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus facing right, He wears a laurel wreath and has very curly hair and beard. Letters around the edge read Severus Pius Aug

I have always loved some of the portraiture on Roman coinage - here's a favourite from the Brislington Coin Hoard: a denarius of Septimius Severus with wonderful curly hair and beard detail. I also love the way the wavy edge shows how the silver has been squashed as it was struck. #FindsFriday

James Hepworth (@brokenceramics.bsky.social) Pottery, Silver, Antiques and Archaeology

Nice to see you today brokenceramics.bsky.social !!!!

I love that!! That would be a very cool Easter egg!

Close-up of a bronze object in a museum display. The piece is circular and forms a ring that has a series of ribbed, wavy sections reminiscent of a crown. There is a hinge in the center of the structure.

For #FindsFriday a neck ring found in a Jutish bog. The tradition of offering neck rings was common practice in the Bronze Age period in Jutland, Denmark, and still thrives in the first century of the Iron Age. Solid crown neck rings are of foreign design,with inspiration...1/2

📷me

🏺 #archaeology

#Adventkalender Door 6: this is another find from our Millom Community Dig in the summer: a cap(?) badge with a boar's head left above a banner with the motto VIX EA NOSTRA VOCO (lat. "I scarcely call these things our own"). If anyone can shed any light on this, or give us a date we'd appreciate it!

I captured the light shift over a day at Wells Cathedral and put it on my wall - a full day of light jam packed into my room. My image of Wells Cathedral in a day is now available as a digital print. 📍More info here🔗: andymarshallphotos.co.uk/products/wel...

Happy St Nikolaus Day!

I'm glad you're ok and yes, a run through for the inevitable. We saw lots of tsunami warning and advice signs when we visited last year; and tsunami safe areas on higher ground.

Are you guys ok? Visited Oregon, Washington State abba California last year and am thinking of you x

West coast Oregon to 10 miles NW of Santa Cruz tsunami warning after 7.3 mag earthquake near Eureka. Northern California coastal folks review your tsunami plans!!!

Also, my boss gets kudos today for his very awesome Adventkalender!

#Adventkalender Door 5: Greenlane Archaeology supported Millom & District History Society last summer, excavating summer trenches near Millom Castle and Holy Trinity Church. We found some medieval 12h-14thC objects like this stirrup shaped strap fitting which came out in almost mint condition!!

Ancient Roman flue tile, a roughly rectangular, box-like ceramic construction, with diamond patterned, roller stamped relief decoration, on a table padded with white ethafoam. Background of other tile fragments, yellow lab cabinets.

All ready to host visiting @molarchaeology.bsky.social researcher examining these Roman ceramic flue tiles @romtoronto.bsky.social today! Ancient #ceramic building materials still looking great.

#TileTuesday 🏺 #archaeology

Maybe for volume two of The Past in the Past.... Or, in this case, The Future in the Past.

You beat me to it Angie!

Image shows a fragment of fired clay used in a roman kiln. The fragment has small round dimple impressions on one surface.

Ok #roman #pottery people, any ideas pls as to whats caused the dimple impressions on these clay plates from a kiln site? They sort of look like hobnail impressions? On more than one plate so not accidental? If not accidental then why? Any ideas @sherdnerd.bsky.social @pottedhistory.bsky.social ?

Der Stuhl aus einem frühmittelalterlichen Grab in Trossingen ist eines der über 1.600 Objekte in unserer Großen Landesausstellung "THE hidden LÄND".

Bis 26. Januar im Kunstgebäude in #Stuttgart.

www.thehiddenlaend.de

Classifications for book reviewers:

192 pages or less: slim
256: brisk
320: detailed
384: richly detailed
448: ambitious
512: imposing
576: sprawling
640: magisterial
704+: heard it was good

That is a very cool post doc!