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Amy Baker

@antoninewallblues.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, PhD student Newcastle/HES: Understanding craft and social practice on the Antonine Wall. Roman Scotland & northern frontiers, social theories of technology, antiquarians. Views own. Books, beer, bikes, barrows, Burnley, bad weather.

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 1d

Do you work with Roman finds? Got a Cool Thing you want to share with the world? Found something in the ground or in the stores that puzzles you? Looking for parallels? Want to shout about your event, museum or book? Lucerna, the newsletter of the Roman Finds Group, needs you! #roman #archaeology🏺

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 23h

Here's an older picture of the east gate looking north which I think fits Alan's photo, and the modern wall is there, now removed.

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 23h

I think so yes!

Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's the east gate but they've removed the wall behind it now?

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 1d

We'd love to hear about your finds and share them with our active community of specialists and enthusiasts! #romanarchaeology #findsfriday #archaeology #roman #romanfinds

Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 1d

Lucerna is published twice a year and contains a mix of research articles, news bulletins, book reviews, artefact spotlights & requests for help from academia, museums, commercial, volunteers and anyone else with an interest in Roman finds. Get in touch at: a (dot) baker8 (at) ncl (dot) ac (dot) uk

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 7d

📣 If you're into crafts and communities of practice in the Roman world, consider submitting to our TRAC session Crafting Connections: Communities, Identities, and Practices in the Roman World (TRAC1) for RAC/TRAC Aarhus 2026. CFP ends Friday. Link: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

Call for Papers « Roman Archaeology Conference

Roman Archaeology Conference

www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 10d

When people I don't like ask me about the process of game design, I send them this diagram from Richard Duke's 1974 book Gaming: the Future’s Language

An enormously complicated diagram, the child of several pie-charts that have undergone a process of nuclear fission, largely illegible. A caption at the bottom reads 'Figure 19. The Game Design Process'

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...

Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)

YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm

www.youtube.com

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · Sep 4

Chris has made more Space Dwarfs for your asteroid strongholds! And his new logo is rad. Sign up to be alerted when it lifts off later this year! 🚀⚒️🔥

Chris, Ontos Games @ontosgames.co.uk · Sep 4

I designed this logo! The project deserved an epically solid slab of angles and colour so you can understand how excited I am about the new Space Dwarf miniatures.

(Click the "notify me on launch" button pls pls.)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cur...

Coming soon: Exö-Squad Röknaut Space Dwarfs 28mm Sci-Fi Wargame RPG Minis

Finely detailed resin cast miniatures for collectors, painters, wargamers and roleplayers

www.kickstarter.com

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yes we have found a hologram of Denis Law in Trench 6. Total archaeology!! #KelvinWheelies

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · Aug 26

I've been looking at Roman tile kilns, and I'm sort of impressed by the one that's just a rough outline that say TILE KILN across it, like some sort of David Shrigley cartoon.

A series of archeological plan drawings of Roman tile kilns, one of which is considerably less detailed than the others.

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · Aug 23

Sure. I just wouldn't expect anything from HR, especially for staff being shown the door. The things it seemingly advocates and which you point out aren't happening never will in the current system so the article seems a bit disingenuous.

Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · Aug 23

Feels like this is a HR person writing to distract from the fact that HR exists to service management & a company/institution's 'strategic goals', not enhance the experience/material conditions of employees unless it directly benefits that company/institution financially in some way.

Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · Aug 20

A bit of love for Nottingham Castle. In all the years I lived there, I only visited for the beer festival and to see a series of Leonardo da Vinci sketches (which is in itself pretty amazing). The town is weirdly dismissive of the whole place. Must visit the revamp next time I'm down!

James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've worked at Nottingham Castle many times. It gets a lot of criticism from tourists & locals for not being a "proper castle". In Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog #7 I looked at why that belief is untrue and offered a defence of the castle:

triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2021/01/15/n...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Aug 15

"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...