richard mortimer
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richard mortimer
@richardmortimer.bsky.social

Archaeologist, Mekon, Drinker
Sawston via Devon and Dartford

History 21%
Economics 16%
Pinned
The Daily Not-Rothko is the line in the fallen leaves made by the wind from passing cars

Cheers

The Open Door

Still Life with Tulips, Salt and Mini Cheddars

Still Life with Red Tulips

Still Life with Table Leg and Red and Yellow Cushions

Still Life with Table and Chairs

Useful! That kind clay takes a heck of a lot of drainage, and, crucially, you gotta have somewhere to drain to, and that don't include the neighbours' garden or the road out front...

The Daily Rothno is a wall and pavement in Newnham

The Houses of Newnham, Derby Street

The Joy of Street Furniture, Trumpington

A Field in England, Grantchester

#WindowsOnWednesday Grantchester

#WallsOnWednesday Trumpington as an alternative Daily Rothno

#WallsOnWednesday Trumpington

Yes, that would suit, 1000, or 900, something around there, heck of a lot of massive changes going on. We need to know more about linen though, and what that potential change in crop and field patterning would have meant, and entailed. So much to learn, so little time...

Yeah, cheers, I'll have a natter with Mark

But what would your best guess be?

Ha! I never thought it was straightforward, that's why I asked you!

Nasty, have spent a good amount of my life shifting vast quantities of wet clay with a mattock and shovel, it was never much fun, and I blame it for a good deal of my late-in-life brokenness

Ha! Bastard bloody autocorrect swine!

@ansoc-erc.bsky.social
Ahh, just the people I need to speak to!
Question for you folks - when do we think that we got sheep hairy enough in the British isles to make wooden cloth? Are we talking late BA? Early IA? What's the dating on our earliest wooden garments?

Lovely shovel! Ghastly soil!