Pete Herring
@peteherring.bsky.social
Cornish and European landscape archaeologist and historian
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A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Buried in a pit under the Great Pyramid of Giza about 4,500 years ago, this is the Khufu Ship. When first uncovered, in 1954, you could still smell the scent of the cedar wood. Now housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum
January 27, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Buried in a pit under the Great Pyramid of Giza about 4,500 years ago, this is the Khufu Ship. When first uncovered, in 1954, you could still smell the scent of the cedar wood. Now housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum
Deer last June on the old road beside the Piddletrenthide parish boundary.
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Deer last June on the old road beside the Piddletrenthide parish boundary.
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Castle De Haar, outside of Utrecht, Holland - 2023 #Photography #PalacesAndGardens #ThroughTheFrame #Holland📷
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Castle De Haar, outside of Utrecht, Holland - 2023 #Photography #PalacesAndGardens #ThroughTheFrame #Holland📷
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Brilliant news!😊
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apple.news/AMt_g7dMuTde...
Ulster Folk Museum to receive £50 million investment to improve facilities and enhance access — UTV
The Ulster Folk Museum is to receive a £50 million investment to improve facilities and enhance access to collections.
apple.news
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Brilliant news!😊
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apple.news/AMt_g7dMuTde...
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
January 14, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Sky, sea, land in December 2025.
#Cornwall
View east from Curwenna's cliffs.
Over West and East Portholland and on to the might Dodman.
The sea made milky by days of churning weather.
#Cornwall
View east from Curwenna's cliffs.
Over West and East Portholland and on to the might Dodman.
The sea made milky by days of churning weather.
December 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sky, sea, land in December 2025.
#Cornwall
View east from Curwenna's cliffs.
Over West and East Portholland and on to the might Dodman.
The sea made milky by days of churning weather.
#Cornwall
View east from Curwenna's cliffs.
Over West and East Portholland and on to the might Dodman.
The sea made milky by days of churning weather.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thanks again, Rachel.
I've found a copy and see that Edith stayed at Dousland for a longer spell in 1905!
Looking forward to accompanying her down the lanes of your world.
I've found a copy and see that Edith stayed at Dousland for a longer spell in 1905!
Looking forward to accompanying her down the lanes of your world.
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Thanks again, Rachel.
I've found a copy and see that Edith stayed at Dousland for a longer spell in 1905!
Looking forward to accompanying her down the lanes of your world.
I've found a copy and see that Edith stayed at Dousland for a longer spell in 1905!
Looking forward to accompanying her down the lanes of your world.
Langstone circle with misty Mis Tor.
By FJ Widgery, after the circle's restoration in 1893.
#Dartmoor
(Held by Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter)
By FJ Widgery, after the circle's restoration in 1893.
#Dartmoor
(Held by Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter)
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Langstone circle with misty Mis Tor.
By FJ Widgery, after the circle's restoration in 1893.
#Dartmoor
(Held by Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter)
By FJ Widgery, after the circle's restoration in 1893.
#Dartmoor
(Held by Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter)
Many thanks Rachel.
I think it was this that I found online when hunting for pics yesterday, the Scottish Blackfaces and the text I found are not in the Diary!
We are lucky that she chose to stay at Dousland 120 years ago and that she described and painted what she saw so beautifully.
I think it was this that I found online when hunting for pics yesterday, the Scottish Blackfaces and the text I found are not in the Diary!
We are lucky that she chose to stay at Dousland 120 years ago and that she described and painted what she saw so beautifully.
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Many thanks Rachel.
I think it was this that I found online when hunting for pics yesterday, the Scottish Blackfaces and the text I found are not in the Diary!
We are lucky that she chose to stay at Dousland 120 years ago and that she described and painted what she saw so beautifully.
I think it was this that I found online when hunting for pics yesterday, the Scottish Blackfaces and the text I found are not in the Diary!
We are lucky that she chose to stay at Dousland 120 years ago and that she described and painted what she saw so beautifully.
Thanks! I wasn't aware of a sequel so will hunt for that.
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Thanks! I wasn't aware of a sequel so will hunt for that.
I've recently learnt that Edith Holden (Country Diary...) spent a Spring holiday in your part of the world, at Dousland in Walkhampton. Some nice descriptions and fine watercolours of a warmer and more fecund time of year.
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I've recently learnt that Edith Holden (Country Diary...) spent a Spring holiday in your part of the world, at Dousland in Walkhampton. Some nice descriptions and fine watercolours of a warmer and more fecund time of year.
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It’s at about this point in December when looking out at yet another dark biblical deluge that I start to get fed up with a British winter. I think I’ll post a floral illustration a day for January from my book collection .
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It’s at about this point in December when looking out at yet another dark biblical deluge that I start to get fed up with a British winter. I think I’ll post a floral illustration a day for January from my book collection .
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
Already perched on the crest of a hill, the unusually tall crocketed pinnacles hoist this church higher.
St Mary's, Walkhampton.
Back at the beginning of summer, in May.
#Dartmoor
St Mary's, Walkhampton.
Back at the beginning of summer, in May.
#Dartmoor
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Already perched on the crest of a hill, the unusually tall crocketed pinnacles hoist this church higher.
St Mary's, Walkhampton.
Back at the beginning of summer, in May.
#Dartmoor
St Mary's, Walkhampton.
Back at the beginning of summer, in May.
#Dartmoor
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Lane from Peter Tavy to Tavy. Cleave this week, I love these vignettes of the moor you see in #Devon lanes. Western #Dartmoor. #photography
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Lane from Peter Tavy to Tavy. Cleave this week, I love these vignettes of the moor you see in #Devon lanes. Western #Dartmoor. #photography