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Lesley McFadyen
@lesleymcf.bsky.social
archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer
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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...
‘Atween the shaw-field and the field
o new-sown winter wheat
a snell edge tae the wind
nae cranreuch
jist the hindmaist leaves, clingin
tae the hospice o the rodden tree
black-poxt, birlin on a twig
longin tae be lowsed
longin tae be lat gane
intae the least o daiths,
waitin, and tholin some mair’
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Beech masts, late autumn in a north Dorset woodland.
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social first year students channelling their Keiller energy and love of the Neolithic today at Avebury! Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk!!
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Photo 5: Lucia Speariett, Petra Jones and Iona Robinson-Zeki at breaktime in a reconstructed Iron Age Roundhouse, Flag Fen 2021 (Credit: David Matzliach/CAU)
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Must Farm log boats on display at Flag Fen, and Iona Robinson Zeki in the Guardian ⭐️
Rare bronze and iron age log boats reveal details of Cambridgeshire prehistory
Well-preserved oak and maple boats used for transport and fishing to be displayed in Peterborough
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...
People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Glasgow glasshouse - look up!
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Speaking about my/Adnan Almohamad’s work in Greenwich tomorrow evening if you’d like to come along
📢 Event coming up at the PEF!

"Oral Histories at the Archaeological Site of Dura Europos, Syria," with Jen Baird

🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | 🕕 6pm
📍 Greenwich SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]

#Archaeology #Syria #Palestine #PEF
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Cracking poster by Ana Vale and Lidia Baptista on studies of care and kinship #NSGKinship. I miss the attentive archaeologies of these amazing Portuguese colleagues, and here they are in London!
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It was a real joy to write this paper with @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social - in many ways an overdue love letter to my colleagues in the trenches over the years.

Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻‍♀️
So happy to see this article out!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3...

In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Friday morning flint - fresh out of the buried soil #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕

Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for - our panel sessions for University Archaeology Day #UAD25! Our expert panels will be answering questions from YOU in the audience @britishacademy.bsky.social or at home - come along to ask everything you've ever wanted to ask about archaeology!
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Counterpoint, from W.H. Auden (1940)

The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.

But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.

#everynightapoem #fragment
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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One week to go!! Still a few in-person spaces available at University Archaeology Day #UAD25, or sign up for the online livestream of the panel sessions: linktr.ee/University_A...
Looking forward to welcoming you, and all these departments, to @britishacademy.bsky.social on Monday 27th October 11am!
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Also represented at University Archaeology Day #UAD25 @britishacademy.bsky.social on 27th October will be Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Check out our Linktree linktr.ee/University_A... for links to book tickets for in-person and online attendance to chat to them and many others!
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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bow to our varmint queen
Katharine Hepburn, photographed by American fashion photographer George Platt Lynes (1946)
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM