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Lesley McFadyen

@lesleymcf.bsky.social

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archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · Oct 23

Out today, and open access, 'The melody that's sweetly played in tune', my photo essay with @alexanderboyd.bsky.social in @landscaperesearch.bsky.social journal! Ardeer, and an archaeology of photography, they're important!! doi.org/10.1080/0142...

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 2d

Rearrange the figures!

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 7d

youtu.be/WnNCPIyALos?...

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Jody Joy @jodypjoy.bsky.social · 5d

Just back from Devizes and the opening of Rose Ferraby’s new exhibition Dowland at the Wiltshire Museum last night. Still buzzing - it’s such a fantastic show. Thanks to @lesleymcf.bsky.social for being such a great travelling companion

www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk?exhibition=d...

Downland: art and the archaeological imagination in Wiltshire - Wiltshire Museum

Opening in October 2025, this exhibition will feature the landscape and archaeology of Wiltshire, and includes new works by Rose Ferraby. There has long been a hunger to discover the secrets of the Wi...

www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 8d

The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

-John Berger,
"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”
(October 2004)
I
The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

(Chinese proverb)

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 7d

202 auger points in 3 weeks. Deepest 3.90m; shallowest 0.30m. Couldn't have been done without the many fantastic volunteers. #FlagFenAugerSurvey
#Fenland

Button Badge: red letters FLAG FEN AUGER SURVEY 2025 & picture of an auger on a white background in a green circle

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 7d

A very big thank you to Jill Cook, Neil Wilkin and Petra Jones. Archaeology, its knowledge and stories, it’s important!

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 7d

First week of term, first year of study, evening teaching, from Birkbeck to British Museum, from gallery to study room, from Neolithic Cumbria to Bronze Age Cambridgeshire through the connection of Langdale stone, from gold cup to gold-makers hoard.

Birkbeck students in gallery 51, hearing (and seeing in materials) stories of deposition and things with Neil Wilkin.

Birkbeck students around a table watching and listening to Petra Jones describe the objects (their connections and biographies) that she brings out of small plastic boxes onto the table.

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ʙᴜᴅɪ ɴ. ᴅ. ᴅʜᴀʀᴍᴀᴡᴀɴ @budinddharmawan.bsky.social · 14d

Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960)

Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.

More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...

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Dr Emily Gal @egalarch.bsky.social · 14d

#Archaeology job alert!🏺

Excited to share this vacancy for a Project Assistant to support delivery of our new digital heritage interpretation project - Barra and Harris Unearthed.

www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Based at Cnoc Soilleir, South Uist

Please share!

Staff - Vacancies - Project Assistant

www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk

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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now.
#BronzeAge #Prehistory

October release for institute director’s book on Bronze Age burial practice

'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county.

archaeologyorkney.com

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 15d

Eastern edge of the Flag Fen Basin as expressed in four 50m apart auger cores
#Fenland

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 17d

All set for another year! We teach archaeology modules 6-9pm in the evening in central London, and teach daytime intensive modules, and look at that skyline!! Archaeology, it’s important @bbkhistorical.bsky.social!!!

Screen showing archaeology of the Thames for our BA archaeology programmes at Birkbeck. It’s a clear evening outside the window with a great view of the London skyline.

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 20d

To celebrate #HeritageOpenDays and Archaeology Scotland's #ScottishArchaeologyMonth, we’ve made two of our This is Archaeology lectures open access for one week only!

Uist Unearthed:
👉 youtu.be/DYuHN3wUsSc

Dead Isle:
👉 youtu.be/dVbnxMaUNWU

This is Archaeology: Uist Unearthed

YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology

youtu.be

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 22d

Depth & time #Fenland #FlagFen

Small badge: green circumference, red text, white background & image of a Dutch auger

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 24d

Depth & time - cockleshell layer from c. 3.20m below sea level #Fenland #Geoarchaeology

Two preserved cockleshells in a muddy palm

Band of preserved cockleshells in mud horizon

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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 27d

Term is coming up, time to decorate those office doors

Dan Stewart @drdanstewart1.bsky.social · Feb 26

Apropos of nothing, here's some posters I made for outside my office in case anyone wants them. Text on one edited from @blacktrowel.bsky.social, the other from an Eco article (both cited of course). If you'd like the PDF files, just email me. #antifascist #AncientBluesky 🏺

A poster titled "Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as a student of the past". 14 points are listed: 1. Document. 2. Work Together. 3. Leverage your skills. 4. De-escalate. 5. Beware entryism. 6. Know the tools of fascism. 7. Solidarity over charity. 8. Thank local, plan big. 9. Money works. 10. Get trained. 11. Grow your roots. 12. Push through discomfort. 13. Stay safe. 14. Remember, tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

A poster entitled "How to Spot a Fascist". Taken from an Umberto Eco 1995 Article in the New York Review of Books. 14 signs are listed: 1. The cult of tradition. 2. The rejection of modernism. 3. The cult of action for action's sake. 4. Disagreement is treason. 5. Fear of difference. 6. Appeal to social frustration. 7. The obsession with a plot. 8. The enemy is both weak and strong. 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. 10. Contempt for the weak. 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. 12. Machismo and weaponry. 13. Selective populism. 14. Un-fascism through Newspeak.

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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · Sep 9

What are the relationships between local communities and major heritage sites in Syria, and why do they matter? Adnan Almohamad and I attempt to begin to answer -- out now, open access.

www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

The Ruins that Remain. Remembering Dura-Europos in Salhiyeh | Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future

The legacy of Dura-Europos is well known through hundreds of scholarly publications and continuing work in the archives of the excavations held by Yale University Art Gallery. The absences in the trad...

www.brepolsonline.net

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · Sep 6

Are they both working in archaeology?! ⭐️

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Scottish Historical Review @scottishhistreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

"The concept of wildness in Scotland is both politically and culturally contentious with a long history for the term ‘wild’ being..." WANT TO KNOW THE NEXT PART? I know you do. Guess you'll have to read Edward Stewart's article here for FREE: www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Wicked Wild Wastes? Challenging Wildness through Repopulating Approaches to Archaeological Narratives in Scottish Highland Landscapes | The Scottish Historical Review

This article will explore a repopulating approach as a means of producing archaeological and historical narratives of upland land use in the Scottish Highlands which go beyond tired notions of margina...

www.euppublishing.com

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · Sep 2

These lectures will be brilliant!

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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · Sep 2

And the following book in two volumes:

"Must Farm Pile - dwelling Settlement Volume 1. (2024) Edited by Mark Knight, Rachael Ballantyne, Matthew Brudenell, Answen Cooper, David Gibson and Iona Robinson Zeki

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · Sep 1

I have written about the Faustian pact archaeology is in re: funding so it’s a thorny thicket but the brazenness of this feels like another level.

Plug and acknowledgment of thorny thicket (can send pdf): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anti-Social Behaviours: The Struggle to Create Social Value Through Development-Led Archaeology

The development-led, or preventive, system of archaeology is the structural enabler of archaeological work across Europe and beyond. This can mean that economic value is a primary focus for decisio...

www.tandfonline.com

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?!

Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience.

Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

Colour photograph showing a person with their back to stading on moorland scrub looking out across a valley towards green pasture fields. The sky is bright blue and the far fields show remnants of prehistoric field banks within the modern plots. The person is wearing a pink coat, black trousers and a knited hat. They are holding a 1m red-and-white pole.

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · Aug 19

I’ve set up a blog for the Practises Make Places project.
This will form part of my creative practice and will be regularly updated from October 🙂
www.practisesmakeplaces.wordpress.com

Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments

Official Project Blog

www.practisesmakeplaces.wordpress.com

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · Aug 25

You can follow our excavations at the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow all week by following #KelvinWheelies! Thanks in advance to our funders @socantscot.bsky.social
& partners @archscot.bsky.social
+ Archaeology at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

$Filled in slalom run at the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow$ $Concrete remains of the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow$

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