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Andrew Mayfield
@andersarchaeology.bsky.social
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Community archaeologist for the Royal Parks and Kent County Council. Sometimes found in Greenwich Park & Shorne Woods. Member of SWAG. Enabled archaeology, LIDAR, volunteering and the archaeology of parks 🛞🔥🌳
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · Mar 25
This is an incredible assemblage of #ironage objects ❤️ www.independent.co.uk/news/science... I was lucky to play a small part in the excavation. Huge round of applause for Sophie at the British Museum and Tom and Emily at @arcdurham.bsky.social the #MelsonbyHoard is in the news 👍🏻👏🏻
Secrets of Britain’s ancient elites revealed by remarkable find in Yorkshire field
The remarkable find offers insights about the wealth and power dynamics of 1st century Britain
www.independent.co.uk
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d
If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
A picture of the full moon
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · 5d
#Melsonby back in the news thanks to @archaeologyuk.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · 12d
And now the #Melsonby assemblage comes to a German #archaeology publication 👏🏻👏🏻
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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · Apr 11
And so back to Greenwich by water, and there while something is dressing for our dinner, Sir William and I walked into the Park, where the King hath planted trees and made steps in the hill up to the Castle, which is very magnificent.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 24d
Whilst storms 🌪️ rage on the west coast, here's an incredible Samian vessel from Aquae Sulis - Roman Bath - to start the week.

It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮

An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum

📷 My own
A red pottery vessel depicting gladiators in combat, in a museum case
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · 23d
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · 26d
Wow!!
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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 27d
Today I learned something amazingly new to me.
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲

Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo
Presentation slide showing results of survey
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Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · Sep 7
Tonight is the 85th anniversary of so many WW1 records being destroyed. #otd #ww1 #geneaology

See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...
The 1940 fire at Arnside Street - The Long, Long Trail
It is widely known that the majority of British WW1 soldier’s army service records went up in smoke when the War Office […]
www.longlongtrail.co.uk
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Sep 5
If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)
YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm
www.youtube.com
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29
#melsonby #ironage assemblage comes to an #englishheritage podcast near you open.spotify.com/episode/0eXX...
The Melsonby Hoard: life in Iron Age Britain 
open.spotify.com
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · Aug 25
And just like that, Season 2 of #Bodiam100 is complete!

We’ve had an amazing 3 weeks on site with around 140 participants joining us
#OutInTheField.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers & to our property colleagues for making us so welcome at Bodiam. 🏺🧵

@nationaltrust.org.uk
A large group of people standing in front of a moated castle
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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 13
Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Aug 13
For the research article:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset
www.cambridge.org
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · Aug 9
#RomanSiteSaturday & you really can't go wrong with the spectacular Pharos of Dover

🏺AncientBluesky
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Aug 12
This week's #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekGforGlass so please enjoy the only known depiction of Roman glass blowing, on an oil lamp.

Three have been found: in Asseria, Ferrara and Spodnje Skofije.
A Roman oil lamp. The image on the lamp is rather naive, but clearly shows two people, one sat each side of a glass furnace. The character on the right is blowing into a tube with a glass vessle on the end.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Aug 8
The decorated backplate of a copper alloy Iron Age mirror

From a pit with mid-late 1st century AD Roman glassware

Possibly part of a very late Durotriges grave assemblage

Found at Chettle Park Dorset in 2003

Now in the BM (2009,8006.1)

© The Trustees of the British Museum

#FindsFriday
The circular backplate of a copper alloy mirror incised with swirling La Tene style (Celtic) decoration over 2 thousand years ago in the late Iron Age
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 4
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · Jul 31
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign - Museums Association
Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021
www.museumsassociation.org
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Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social · Jul 31
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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · Jul 31
The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future generations.

www.bajr.org/melsonby-hoa...
Melsonby Hoard acquired by the The Yorkshire Museum - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future ...
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Jul 31
News | Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign – Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021
Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign - Museums Association
Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021
www.museumsassociation.org
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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · Jul 30
🎉 Welcome to #FestivalOfArchaeology Youth Day! 🎉

Today is all about young voices, bold ideas, and the future of archaeology. Here’s what's coming:

🖼️ My Heritage Photography Exhibition!
🎓 Student & Early Careers Conference at 3 PM
🆕 Big News from the Youth Advisory Board
💬 And even more surprises 👀
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Jul 29
In Iron Age finds news:

The Yorkshire Museum has acquired the Melsonby *hoard* (more properly *assemblage*) a huge collection of material including chariot fittings, equestrian gear and weaponry, thanks to the National Lottery funding and fundraising 👇👇

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huzzah!
Iron Age Copper alloy equestrian equipment
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Jul 30
This was meant to go out at 10am today. Here's the big announcement!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
World War One pillboxes in Norfolk listed by Historic England
Pillboxes are
www.bbc.co.uk
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · Jul 29
Read more about the role of our archaeologists in this amazing discovery: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Melsonby Hoard - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
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