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Andy Whiting

@awdorset.bsky.social

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Former Archaeologist, now a Naval Project Manager, based in Poole, Dorset. Loves crumbling buildings, broken ceramics and hidden earthworks. Particularly interested in medieval buildings, towns & ports. Sometimes posting about ships & aviation.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 22h

A nice positive story from a few years back, revisited!

Bethan’s Rock: Beloved exhibit returns to revamped Poole Museum

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Bethan's Rock: Beloved exhibit returns to revamped Poole Museum

The museum said Bethan's

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 3d

A lovely Sunday evening walk to finish off a week of annual leave #Dorset

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 7d

Sherborne Abbey swims in blue

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 8d

A quite perfect morning for a walk at Hengistbury Head - lovely views of the Isle of Wight & the Needles, as well as west toward Bournemouth, Poole & Purbeck, the Iron Age defensive earthworks “the Double Dykes” and the reconstructed roundhouse #Dorset

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 9d

Good Morning from the Old Gunpowder House, east of Poole Quay, at Baiter #Dorset

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 10d

A beautiful afternoon over at Studland #Dorset

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 15d

Good morning from a chilly but sunny Poole Quay

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 15d

Rare 2,000-year-old brooch unearthed by detectorist in Puddletown, Dorset
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Rare 2,000-year-old brooch unearthed by detectorist in Puddletown

Martin Turner made the discovery when searching the fields near his home in Puddletown.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 17d

A pleasant evening walk around Poole Quay & old town to finish off the weekend.
📷 Custom House [1813] (with the Town Cellars and Poole Museum in the background)
📷 Old Lifeboat Station [1882]
📷 St James Church [1819]
📷 The Almshouses [C16th] & the view up Market St towards the Guildhall [1761]

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 19d

This evening felt like the last throes of Summer in Poole #Dorset

Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 21d

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Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 21d

DNA reveals surprise African ancestry of 6th century Worth Matravers man

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DNA reveals surprise African ancestry of 6th century Worth Matravers man

Advances in DNA technology have found that a man buried 1,500 years ago in Worth Matravers in Dorset was of West African descent, challenging assumptions that communities in Britain after the fall of ...

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 22d

'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered on Scottish isle www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered at Finlaggan on Islay

Archaeologists say the fortress was owned by ancestors of Scotland's medieval Lord of the Isles.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 25d

The country seems angry and full of hatred, the sky is dark and full of rain, so I think I’ll pop on some jazz, have an ale and read about the fascinating archaeology of Cranborne Chase this evening.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 25d

The view of the wonderful Priory from Christchurch Castle’s keep (built c.1300)

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 25d

London's 700-year-old tower on stilts - “In the heart of the City of London, the medieval Tower of All Hallows Staining is now propped up on stilts as work continues beneath it on the 36-storey Fifty Fenchurch development”

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London medieval tower preserved during 36-storey skyscraper build

A medieval tower is suspended on stilts as work continues around it to build a new skyscraper.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 25d

St Mary’s church at Almer - a typical unassuming parish church sat peacefully just off the A31 but worth a visit. The church has a C13th Purbeck font and some nice Norman features including the south doorway and the three rounded mid-C12th arches of the north arcade #Dorset

Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · Sep 7

The grey bleakness of British motorway service stations is somehow admirable

Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · Sep 5

Friday lunchtime walk at Corfe Castle

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sherborne Abbey, nave vault

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James Coverley @jamescoverley.com · Aug 31

#archaeology #history #ancientbluesky #France

If anyone has lost a cathedral in France, they found it!

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Ancient cathedral unearthed beneath French market after 1,500 years

The discovery has been described by experts as of 'exceptional' importance for understanding the spread of Catholicism in France

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · Aug 31

Enjoying the nice view over Poole Park and the harbour from Sea View viewpoint #Poole #Dorset

Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · Aug 24

Good morning from a warm, sunny, and extremely quiet Poole Harbour shoreline #Dorset

Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · Aug 12

Dig at Buckler’s Hard in the New Forest reveals slipway where Nelson's ships were made

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Lord Nelson: Slipway where HMS Agamemnon built revealed

Archaeologists from the University of Southampton uncover a slipway from the 18th Century.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · Aug 10

Steamship Shieldhall departing Poole this morning - always nice to see historic ships in the harbour. Shieldhall was built in the 1950s in the style of a 1920s steamer.

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