EarthworkBec

💚 There are far fewer of us than there used to be, and of course we have Welsh & Scottish counterparts.

Mark Bowden wrote a short history of the English archaeological field investigators for LSG website ➡️ landscapesurvey.org/wp-content/u... |

@landscaperesearch.bsky.social

One year I will be brave and make time to take part myself, but not this year.
Still, I really love following the #ArchInk posts, so thank you for running it again! ✏️💖

#ArchInk2025 #Inktober
#Inktober2025

Thank you - I may well do a little sleuthing! The one you have shared looks lovely

Oh, how interesting! Thanks for replying.
Were over 40 adapted in 2001 for landscape art then? I really must look this up and head out for a stomp!

Well that settles tonight’s bedtime re-read 😢
#JaneGoodall

Oh how glorious!
I am intrigued to know whether there is any on-site info so that those passing know it is a combo of historic structure + lovely ‘new’ art?

NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social!

Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR).

View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5

Contents page info on the attached images, and in their alt-text.

NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social!

Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR).

View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5

Thank you! Hmmm, the issue of keeping them clean hadn’t occurred to me - that is useful!

Where this is, please?
I love this type of subtle but effective on-site interpretation.
I have seen it used well several times for recreating landscapes or buildings, but never on water. Great example!

Hmm, I doubt ‘with healthy respect and a robust risk assessment’ would quite wow your crowd…
In my work, the truth is probably ‘with my trouser hems tucked into my socks’ (ticks 🚫)!

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Hecking well done, both of you, such important work 💪 Bx

Bishop Auckland, County Durham: Historic Area Assessment | Historic England Research Report for Bishop Auckland, County Durham: Historic Area Assessment

What a great project!
If/when the Bishop Auckland entries get input, there is quite a bit of relevant detail on past & present sports sites within our (HE’s) detailed Historic Area Assessment report:
historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

Bliss 💚

“Drat,” said Toad.

Fantastic!
👀 Seen this ⬆️ @palaeolou.bsky.social ?

Perfect, love these! 👌

I used to love borrowing the badge-machine from Brownies as a child, very satisfying! No idea where all my ‘makes’ ended up…

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

Here's a great thread where @amandatuke.bsky.social tells us about her #PlantBased journey & how she got a #FISC level 5!
Find out more about Field Identification Skills Certificates (FISCs) here: bsbi.org/field-skills
Dates for FISCs in 2026 will go live in March.

Presentation slide showing results of survey

Today I learned something amazingly new to me.
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲

Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo

I love how much the hand-drawn header has such strong illustrations-from-Arthur-Ransome-novels vibes.
I’m v here for that! 🩵🪶🏴‍☠️⛵️

Scott Polar Research Institute » The Polar Museum

This is awesome! It would be nice & logical if the National Archives hosted the digital transcription for free study in their online collection? Or maybe speak to the Polar Research Institute / Museum in Cambridge?
www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/

Did you make it to site? Glorious now, typically! I hope the tour went well

Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust An opportunity for an academic position as a Contributing Editors is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

New #Skystorians job alert!

The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills.

Details in the link below. 1/2

Oh darn, I could have booked into this if I’d done my homework - currently local for my annual 15yr fieldwork pilgrimage to N.Pemb’ and rained/off from excavation today.
Hope it goes marvellously, weather behaving for time being…

I am really enjoying this series - I love the way you memory-make!
(oh, and thank you for the Cookers’ several of us took a couple each today, yum 🍏)

Back at my printing night class (in-depth etching this time) and I will repeat my advice to academics: get a hobby. Preferably get a hobby that you can fail at and it doesn't matter. In facts it only makes it better.