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Prehistoric Wirral
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Independent archaeology research project unearthing and preserving the Prehistory of Wirral. Est'd 2018. https://www.prehistoricwirral.com
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Prehistoric Wirral @prehistoricwirral.bsky.social · Apr 13
Some of the oldest art ever made and part of a collection of the only prehistoric art found on #Wirral. Introducing the #Neolithic Mother Goddess and the Grey Wolf... 🧑‍🍼🐺🪨 www.prehistoricwirral.com/prehistoric-...
#Art #Sculpture #Prehistoric
Prehistoric Art
Creativity and expression have been fundamental to humans since Prehistory. The earliest art known is from the Palaeolithic. Art has continued to be produced and developed ever since. Some of the...
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Step outside this #NationalTreeWeek! 🌳

Can you tell your oaks from your ashes on your next forest stroll?

Illustration by Harriet Gardiner.
An illustrated infographic titled ‘Tree Species in the UK’, showing drawings of leaves from various UK tree species arranged around the title. Each leaf is labelled with its species name, including Rowan, Silver Birch, Goat Willow, Guelder Rose, Sycamore, London Plane, Hazel, Wild Cherry, Alder, Ash, Dogwood, Beech, Blackthorn, Aspen, Elder, Horse Chestnut, Hawthorn, Field Maple, Common Lime, and English Oak. The background is light green.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🌲🪨 Pine trees were one of the first to colonise Wirral after the last Ice Age. A useful hardwood, utilised by hunter gathers for spears, arrow shafts; nuts harvested for food and pine resin for glue 🏹🌰💚
#NationalTreeWeek #Archaeology #Prehistory #Britishtrees #nature #Wirral
Scots Pine trees. Ancient pine cone. Ancient pine nut shell.
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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On this day in 1859 English naturalist Charles #Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species," radically changing the view of #evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology. #otd
In the summer of 1837, Charles Darwin (picture 1)opened a page of his brown leather-bound notebook with the sentence: I think. The page (picture 2) was in the first of four notebooks he had created in London on the question of species change. However, he did not explain what he was thinking in words, but in a fist-sized diagram: a line shoots out from an origin marked with the number ‘1’ and then forks several times. Some branches end in nothingness, while others fan out further and further. In the summer of 1837, Charles Darwin opened a page of his brown leather-bound notebook with the sentence: I think. The page was in the first of four notebooks he had created in London on the question of species change. However, he did not explain what he was thinking in words, but in a fist-sized diagram: a line shoots out from an origin marked with the number ‘1’ and then forks several times. Some branches end in nothingness, while others fan out further and further.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🌳🌳🌳Majestic silhouettes in Birkenhead Park
#NationalTreeWeek #lovetrees #outdoors #beauty #Britishtrees #Wirral
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Shell Guide, 1955:
“Between the mild days, November frosts strip the coloured leaves of the shrubs and climbers of the hedgerow so that all the fruits of early winter show more vigourously against a paler sky”
Artists: Edith & Rowland Hilder
Writer: Geoffrey Grigson
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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🏺Another 7th anniversary #FindsFriday from November 2018. Three pieces of Bronze Age Very Coarse Pottery, used in the production, trade and storage of salt.
#Archaeology #BronzeAge #Pottery #Prehistory #Wirral
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Tonight on Hidden Wonders we visit the wonderful @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and their excavation at Magna Fort! Big thanks to their brilliant team for their expertise and patience!

Watch tonight 9pm More 4 or stream @channel4tv.bsky.social on 4OD
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🪨🦭The foundation stone of this project-The Seal's Head Ritual Stone. November is the 7th anniversary of it's discovery. A community of seal hunters marked their place in the landscape a permanent place of devotion👀📖👉🏻 prehistoricwirral.com/the-seals-he...
#Archaeology #Wirral #Mesolithic #Prehistory
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🎉7 year anniversary #FindsFriday #FlintFriday! A notched flint scraper. Ubiquitous in the Stone Age and varied in size according to purpose. This one is thought to be Neolithic and forms part of the assemblage that began this project.
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Wirral #Lithics
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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#FindsFriday
A Votive Assemblage from Wirral, a few of the pieces found at the same spot, dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. Evidence of some of the earliest beliefs www.prehistoricwirral.com/prehistoric-...
#Archaeology #Treasure #Votive #Religion #Prehistory #Wirral #Roman
Prehistoric Treasure
Votive Assemblage: Bronze Age to Romano-British c.2,000BC - 410AD
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November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Tonight on #Hiddenwonders we visit the @uniofreading.bsky.social excavation at the site of Cookham Abbey.

More stories of powerful women, early Christianity and a place of healing for the sick. Oh and a lot of bone combs 🪮 9pm tonight More4 #Archaeology 🏺#newshow #cookham
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Hilbre Isles in the Autumn mist, Wales behind
#TidesOutTuesday #Wirral #Wales #HilbreIsland #AutumnVibes #coast #outdoors
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25

If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand

www.channel4.com

The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm

Enjoy 😊
Archaeologists Ruby, Sandi and Meg, all smiling in the sun Archaeologists Raksha and Lewis at work Archaeologists Sandi and Bron happy by the site hut Archaeologists Kel and Sandi examine some finds laid out on a table in the sun
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.
Prehistoric Planet Smilodon populator. Prehistoric Planet Gigantopithecus. Prehistoric Planet Megaloceros as seen from a cave interior. Prehistoric Planet giant adjutant stork.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Morning.
🖼️ Wren, W Swaysland
Wren on leafy, ivy leafed branch, illustration.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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We are open every Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00 to 16:00, why not come and visit us?

#museum #visit #Liverpool
Cases in a museum gallery.
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
“Among the fallen beech leaves”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
A red squirrel is pictured burying a nut at the foot of a beech tree while nearby we see a hen blackbird - and a jay flying overhead
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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rakshadigs.bsky.social
* Warning may contain images of human remains

Here are some behind the scenes shots of @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social dig! Big thanks to everyone for being so patient and accommodating!
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!

Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!

Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me

#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
My photo shows detail from a Roman fresco (wall painting) in a corridor at Villa A, the luxurious so-called ‘Villa Poppaea’ at ancient Oplontis (modern day Torre Annunziata) in the Bay of Naples, Italy. The fresco depicts a small light brown bird standing on a small pinky-brown wooden shelf, against a vibrant red background panel. The bird is shown in profile, facing left, with plummage painted in various shades of light brown and grey to beautifully depict detail of its feathers. The bird is lowering its head with beak open, about to peck into a fig on the shelf in front. There are two further figs painted behind the bird which have already been pecked into. The figs are painted light brown. The figs which have already been pecked into have cream flesh and red seeds.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#FindsFriday
A green speckled Mesolithic/Neolithic denticulate/serrated knife.
#Mesolithic #Neolithic #lithics #Wirral
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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#FindsFriday #FlintFriday
A Lower Palaeolithic Clactonian c.400,000 BC flint scraper. It has been partially burnt, most probably as a ritual.
#Palaeolithic #Flint #Wirral
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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📑📖Word of the Week: 'Chenoterie' French meaning 'oak clearing'. The original place name for Noctorum, Wirral. First recorded in the Domesday Book and used ever since 🌳🌳🌳https://prehistoricwirral.com/noctorum.html #Wirral #History #Heritage #placenames #Noctorum #Chenoterie #Domesday
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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📚A lot of information has been posted about local history of Wirral. This Project is historically and factually accurate. And it can confirm that no legal action has or is being taken against it for anything at all. prehistoricwirral.com/statement-of...
#Wirral #History #Heritage
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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#OreCup is launching with two famous & beloved ore minerals, #Galena vs #Copper!

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

You have 24 hours to campaign. Go!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Galena was a mineral in use for it's properties since the Stone Age. Learn more about the mineral and vote in the mineral #OreCup #Galena #MineralMonday
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November 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM