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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 23h

THIS!!!
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UCL Archaeology South-East @archsoutheast.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Announcing three(!) new opportunities for aspiring archaeologists to join our Archaeological Fieldwork Technician apprenticeship program!

Apply now (closes Friday 24 October): www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000345576

Two archaeologists on an excavation. One squats to trowel the ground, another leans over to watch

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 11h

Wayland's Smithy, looking due West. I am looking forward to re-shooting this once the leaves have all gone.

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 16h

I wish it weren't true

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20h

Playing cricket at King George’s playing fields, West Bromwich, 1967

brownhillsbob.com/2013/10/09/e...

cricket match, with a man made pile of rocks and stuff in the background

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jevoncarey.bsky.social @jevoncarey.bsky.social · 19h

Church ironmongery, Wiggenhall St Germans.
#photography

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 20h

Are you a masochist
Do you under value your skills and own personal wealth
Do you dream of rubbish wages with little or no opportunity for meaningful career progression
Do you come from a privileged background.

If the answer is YES

Then the Heritage sector is for you

Welcome

Culture Jobs @culturejobs.bsky.social · 20h

New Year, New Job? Now’s the time to start looking.
Explore 100+ opportunities across museums, heritage and the arts at CultureJobs.org.

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 21h

Wait what ....

(Swoons)

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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 21h

Happy #butterbun day

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 21h

Music making at the heart of a community (within a World Heritage Site) in #Shropshire

Jackfield Brass Band celebrate 200th anniversary of their home in a chapel - BBC News share.google/ig2Ix6c9zuOc...

Jackfield Brass Band celebrate 200th anniversary of their home in a chapel - BBC News

Jackfield Brass Band bought a former chapel for £5 and restored 30 years ago.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4d

For #HillfortsWednesday, here's Segsbury Camp (also known as Letcombe Castle) #Oxfordshire

A gloriously tactile painting of the hillfort by the supremely talented @annadillon.bsky.social from 2010

annadillon.com/segsbury.html

For more of her amazing work see: annadillon.com 😊👍

A painting of the grass and tree covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with brooding clouds in the distance

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Cameron Yarde Jnr @cameronyardejnr.bsky.social · 3d

The BT Tower is 60 years old today. Famous for its revolving restaurant...and a giant kitten courtesy of The Goodies.

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Marc Petty @marcpetty.bsky.social · 3d

The churchyard, which occupies a rising promentary on Castle Hill, is equally characterful with many interesting monuments and stunning views of the Mere. If you've never been, a visit is highly recommended ✅

#Ellesmere #Shropshire 💒

The Mere from the churchyard in St Mary's Ellesmere, including in the foreground a listed sundial dated 1726.

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Marc Petty @marcpetty.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the monuments in the church date back to the 14th Century. The alabaster tomb of Margaret and Francis Kynaston (who died in 1591, and was Cupbearer to Elizabeth I) is slightly older. It was badly desecrated by the Puritans, who strike me as very unpleasant people!

#Ellesmere #Shropshire 💒

The 16th Century tomb of Francis and Margaret Kynaston in St Mary's Ellesmere. It was badly vandalised by the Puritans, and formerly featured statues of three of the Kynaston's daughters (on the left of the picture).

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 3d

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 3d

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 3d

Goodnight all.
Herne the Hunter by Eric Fraser, from the renowned Reader’s Digest book of Folklore, Myths & Legends of Britain.

A woodcut style illustration showing a horned man, carrying a bow, blowing a horn and riding a black stallion. Dogs, imps & an owl surround him. It is Herne, leading the Wild Hunt.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 4d

A clip of Longcroft for #HillfortsWednesday - a complex hillfort to the east of #Oxton in the #ScottishBorders. It had 3 periods of construction that have created four ramparts with intermediate ditches. The traces of several round houses can also be seen.

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 4d

The detectorists in England are also far more visible, in Scotland (& Ireland where it is illegal in most contexts) the hobby is far more private and under the radar.

Peebles, is an excellent example and there are brilliant English ones too with fantastic detectorists ... but ...

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 4d

Possibly one of my favourite books

History Today @historytoday.com · 4d

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history the domain of madmen and devils.

✍️ The first of a new series by Alexander Lee is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/port...

The Master and Mikhail Bulgakov

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History Today @historytoday.com · 4d

In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history the domain of madmen and devils.

✍️ The first of a new series by Alexander Lee is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/port...

The Master and Mikhail Bulgakov

www.historytoday.com

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 4d

What happens when archaeology meets rewilding? 🦴🌿
Our recent 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop @kneppwilding.bsky.social explored how nature recovery and archaeology can thrive together.

Read the story here 👉 www.oxfordarchaeology.com/news/archaeo...

@oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social @wildwednesdays

Archaeology in Wilding @ Knepp

www.oxfordarchaeology.com

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 4d

By privilege I mean: English man in his castle, the god given right, the I'm alright Jack side hustle, the finders keepers, the gollum it's my precious, the it's not fair, look at me I'm a heritage hero, I deserve this - all of it the praise / press / adulation, I want to be famous, you work for me

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 4d

The 'privilege' of the metal detecting community is something I've never understood and its to do with British culture (me me me / youre trying to take advantage), working alongside detectorists from Scandinavian countries you see a different attitude to finds & cultural / communal ownership.

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 4d

That would be amazing happy to pass on John's contact details, apparently their 2nd violin player has had a nasty accident and severed tendon in her thumb which has put her out of action. They are a fun group playing a nice repotoire

Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 4d

@viola-jane.bsky.social can you ask around your string players?

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