Andy Earnshaw
@ajdearnshaw.bsky.social
Earnest musings and wry historical takes
Week 2 of Important Sites to Me:
Binchester Roman Fort
This is where I learnt to excavate and survey archaeological sites.
Binchester is a cavalry fort in County Durham, a couple of days ride from Hadrians Wall. It monitored the local population and supported the main fort. 🧵
Binchester Roman Fort
This is where I learnt to excavate and survey archaeological sites.
Binchester is a cavalry fort in County Durham, a couple of days ride from Hadrians Wall. It monitored the local population and supported the main fort. 🧵
January 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Week 2 of Important Sites to Me:
Binchester Roman Fort
This is where I learnt to excavate and survey archaeological sites.
Binchester is a cavalry fort in County Durham, a couple of days ride from Hadrians Wall. It monitored the local population and supported the main fort. 🧵
Binchester Roman Fort
This is where I learnt to excavate and survey archaeological sites.
Binchester is a cavalry fort in County Durham, a couple of days ride from Hadrians Wall. It monitored the local population and supported the main fort. 🧵
Uffington Castle, an Iron Age Hillfort in the appropriately named Vale of the White Horse on the strange place where Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire meet.
It’s a fine example of an Iron Age hillfort but is notable for sitting just above the Uffington Horse.
#hillfortwednesday 🏺
It’s a fine example of an Iron Age hillfort but is notable for sitting just above the Uffington Horse.
#hillfortwednesday 🏺
January 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Uffington Castle, an Iron Age Hillfort in the appropriately named Vale of the White Horse on the strange place where Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire meet.
It’s a fine example of an Iron Age hillfort but is notable for sitting just above the Uffington Horse.
#hillfortwednesday 🏺
It’s a fine example of an Iron Age hillfort but is notable for sitting just above the Uffington Horse.
#hillfortwednesday 🏺
First book to be finished in 2025 and it is a 5/5. This is how to write non-fiction. Unafraid of detail, but with easy to understand language and short punchy chapters.
Amazing story, that gives you a lot of information without ever leaving you feeling bogged down.
Amazing story, that gives you a lot of information without ever leaving you feeling bogged down.
January 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
First book to be finished in 2025 and it is a 5/5. This is how to write non-fiction. Unafraid of detail, but with easy to understand language and short punchy chapters.
Amazing story, that gives you a lot of information without ever leaving you feeling bogged down.
Amazing story, that gives you a lot of information without ever leaving you feeling bogged down.
The Hoar Stone from Enstone is my entry for #standingstonesunday 🏺
This is all that remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb in this village on the edge of the Cotswolds. These minor sites remind us how much of a cultural phenomenon megalithism was.
Image from megalithic.co.uk
This is all that remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb in this village on the edge of the Cotswolds. These minor sites remind us how much of a cultural phenomenon megalithism was.
Image from megalithic.co.uk
January 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The Hoar Stone from Enstone is my entry for #standingstonesunday 🏺
This is all that remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb in this village on the edge of the Cotswolds. These minor sites remind us how much of a cultural phenomenon megalithism was.
Image from megalithic.co.uk
This is all that remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb in this village on the edge of the Cotswolds. These minor sites remind us how much of a cultural phenomenon megalithism was.
Image from megalithic.co.uk
January 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
2025 Resolution: Post one of my favourite archaeological sites once a week.
To kick us off, Pontefract Castle. One of the cradles of my historical fascination. It still dominates the town in which I grew up, though it was much ruined by the locals fed up of being fought over.
To kick us off, Pontefract Castle. One of the cradles of my historical fascination. It still dominates the town in which I grew up, though it was much ruined by the locals fed up of being fought over.
January 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
2025 Resolution: Post one of my favourite archaeological sites once a week.
To kick us off, Pontefract Castle. One of the cradles of my historical fascination. It still dominates the town in which I grew up, though it was much ruined by the locals fed up of being fought over.
To kick us off, Pontefract Castle. One of the cradles of my historical fascination. It still dominates the town in which I grew up, though it was much ruined by the locals fed up of being fought over.
The Whispering Knights, part of the Rollright Stones in West Oxfordshire. They are a collapsed dolmen, a tomb.
This Neolithic tomb looks out over a valley and marked this landscape as sacred and important. 5-6000 years later, it remains so.
#standingstonesunday
This Neolithic tomb looks out over a valley and marked this landscape as sacred and important. 5-6000 years later, it remains so.
#standingstonesunday
December 8, 2024 at 9:08 AM
The Whispering Knights, part of the Rollright Stones in West Oxfordshire. They are a collapsed dolmen, a tomb.
This Neolithic tomb looks out over a valley and marked this landscape as sacred and important. 5-6000 years later, it remains so.
#standingstonesunday
This Neolithic tomb looks out over a valley and marked this landscape as sacred and important. 5-6000 years later, it remains so.
#standingstonesunday
An odd one for #standingstonesunday
No stones in the image but this gorgeous tree is growing from the banks around the stone circles of Avebury, bedecked with prayer flags.
We feel a deep cultural draw to these ancient megalithic sites but engage with them in modern ways.
#culturalmemory
No stones in the image but this gorgeous tree is growing from the banks around the stone circles of Avebury, bedecked with prayer flags.
We feel a deep cultural draw to these ancient megalithic sites but engage with them in modern ways.
#culturalmemory
December 1, 2024 at 9:36 AM
An odd one for #standingstonesunday
No stones in the image but this gorgeous tree is growing from the banks around the stone circles of Avebury, bedecked with prayer flags.
We feel a deep cultural draw to these ancient megalithic sites but engage with them in modern ways.
#culturalmemory
No stones in the image but this gorgeous tree is growing from the banks around the stone circles of Avebury, bedecked with prayer flags.
We feel a deep cultural draw to these ancient megalithic sites but engage with them in modern ways.
#culturalmemory
#findsfriday
A rare figurative representation of a human from the Early Anglo Saxon period. (C.500 AD).
This sat on top of a funerary urn and was buried at Spong Hill in East Anglia.
A rare figurative representation of a human from the Early Anglo Saxon period. (C.500 AD).
This sat on top of a funerary urn and was buried at Spong Hill in East Anglia.
November 29, 2024 at 7:50 AM
#findsfriday
A rare figurative representation of a human from the Early Anglo Saxon period. (C.500 AD).
This sat on top of a funerary urn and was buried at Spong Hill in East Anglia.
A rare figurative representation of a human from the Early Anglo Saxon period. (C.500 AD).
This sat on top of a funerary urn and was buried at Spong Hill in East Anglia.
#standingstonesunday
My local megalithic monument: Wayland’s Smithy. Also, the topic of the last podcast episode… if you’re interested.
#oldbonespodcast
My local megalithic monument: Wayland’s Smithy. Also, the topic of the last podcast episode… if you’re interested.
#oldbonespodcast
November 24, 2024 at 4:32 PM
#standingstonesunday
My local megalithic monument: Wayland’s Smithy. Also, the topic of the last podcast episode… if you’re interested.
#oldbonespodcast
My local megalithic monument: Wayland’s Smithy. Also, the topic of the last podcast episode… if you’re interested.
#oldbonespodcast
November 20, 2024 at 8:26 PM