Mel Roxby-Mackey

If you're in the Anglo-Welsh borderland and are looking for opportunities to get involved with local heritage The Judge's Lodging Trust in Presteigne are looking for new trustees. As a trustee of the Offa's Dyke Association I can attest to how rewarding these posts can be

The Next ‘Big Thing’? - Exploring Augmented Reality in the Museum - Museums + Heritage Sector survey explores augmented reality adoption as museums trial X-ray analysis and video overlay technology.Retry

In another useful share from @museumsandheritage.com if you're involved in a heritage organisation that's using, or is considering using, augmented reality here's an invitation to participate in a survey run by the people behind the new virtual exhibitions at the National Museums Liverpool

£6.4m historic waterway restoration to reinstate ‘missing mile’ of canal - Museums + Heritage

Thank you to @museumsandheritage.com for this post with good news for heritage and nature in Gloucestershire

✨ #RowvemberChester Day 6

37 Watergate Street. The OLDEST! Grade I with undercroft fabric from 1180-1280. The twist? Its undercroft extends under the Row walkway - showing this medieval building originally jutted into the street before continuous walkways existed!

Image: @Stuartrobphoto

Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register Shed where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England list

Updates on the sites added to and removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register with #Gloucestershire featuring on both

We really hope the ceasefire holds and a new future is possible. We give what we can to MSF to try to help as many people as possible.

And whilst we’re on the subject of stunning hillforts in our region - here is Old Oswestry in all its glory. We have some of the earliest, highest, most spectacular examples of these monuments in the Anglo-Welsh borderland.

Thank you @forestcollectiv.bsky.social for these amazing images of the absolutely stunning British Camp hillfort. Definitely one of my favourite sites in the Anglo-Welsh borderland

Image of a costumed Viking at JORVIK Viking Centre showing an object to children.

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‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’ He launched a thousand memes as the beleaguered Tory MP in The Thick of It, and starred in the original production of Les Misérables. Now the actor is making not-so-sweet music in the Alan Bennett-scr...

Wise words from the wonderful Roger Allam “Art and music, drama – these are the things we do best. And we don’t kill each other in our millions over it.”

Bill was the best.

Ah good, as long as you haven’t been put off 😂 It’s true you’ll never get rich in archaeology, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun - well, most of the time, anyway. Really hope it works out 👍

If you don’t mind me asking, are you talking about commercial, public sector or academic archaeologists? Quite different contexts. . .

Takes me back to my early days as a HND student and our Head of Department, Bill Putnam, telling us all that once you start with landscape archaeology you never stop wondering why our surroundings are the way they are. Good luck @chrisseddon.bsky.social

If you’ve an interest in the Anglo-Welsh borderland and haven’t yet discovered @sabrinariverfolk.bsky.social you’re missing a gem 👇

The languages used also provide clues about how the document was intended to be used. Latin is used to establish authority and ownership, but Old English is used in the description of the boundary itself implying its audience was those who would be interacting with it on the ground.

Here's a wonderful example from Staunton-on-Arrow dating from 958 that describes the route around the boundary incorporating the oak ridge, the brook, the dyke, the boundary thorn, Æthelwold's hedge and the swing gate. Just about the closest thing we can get to time travel ❤️

I had cause to do some digging around Herefordshire's early medieval charters this afternoon. I mostly deal with macro-scale landscapes of regional landscapes, but the details in these documents are wonderful insights into how these places looked and were understood by those who knew them intimately

Faceless figures and mysterious music: ghost stories from English Heritage sites Figure caught on camera at Chester Castle among accounts of eerie goings on at historic properties

“We have a ghost book so that when people say we’ve just had a strange experience, we record it and sometimes people put drawings in.” Bumps in the night at English Heritage sites featuring Chester Castle

How did I miss this from @archaeobruja.bsky.social? A piggy bank may need to be raided. . .

A timely reminder of the significance of this beautiful river and its valley and why we need to protect it for future generations

Barging up the Wye THIS TITLE IS NOT YET PUBLISHED AND WILL BE AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2025 – ANY ORDERS PLACED WILL BE CHARGED WHEN ORDERED & DISPATCHED WHEN IN STOCK A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of the o...

With the good news about the legal action going forward on the state of the rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk it seems like a good time to promote the upcoming 'Barging up the Wye' from the excellent @logastonpress.bsky.social that charts the history of this much loved river from Roman times

There you go, even more proof that degrees in archaeology can take you all kinds of places. The Computing Service at Cambridge used to be full of us

Absolutely this from @claireboardman.bsky.social As someone who came through an equally non-traditional route via the Manpower Services Commission and an HND in Practical Archaeology I can attest to their value. This route doesn’t exist any more, but others should

How the National Trust’s art collections can shape meadow restoration Treasures inside the National Trust’s cultural collections can also draw attention to what is going on outside these estates.

Thank you to @inkcapjournal.bsky.social for this link on the joint project between the @openuniversity.bsky.social and the @nationaltrust.org.uk on the restoration of the floodplains at Attingham, #Shropshire that demonstrates the best of what can be achieved by the arts and sciences together

The medieval folklore of Britain’s endangered wildlife ‘omens’ – from hedgehogs to nightjars Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.

“In the stories of these creatures, we glimpse both our fear of the wild past and our responsibility for the future.” Wise words indeed

I’m a big fan of @butserancientfarm.co.uk and it looks like @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social had a grand time. Experimental archaeology teaches you so much and is brilliant fun. As a former mum of a much-loved German Wirehaired Pointer I thoroughly approve of Pawfessor Kenta as judge too.

Blue plaque to be unveiled at home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Ceremony marks 80 years since release of the Rev W Awdry’s first book and coincides with railway bicentenary

Good news for #Gloucestershire heritage

Cavall the Spanish rescue Griffon says hi back

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

I really enjoyed reading “Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees” by @francescasimon.bsky.social I remember being told my archaeology degree would be useless, but I’ve been lucky enough to have had a career in technology and always worked. Humanities degrees give you all kinds of life skills