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Chris Kolonko-Weet
@ckolonko.bsky.social
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Archaeologist specialising in UK's F/SWW Home Front & Invasion Defences. Often mistaken for a palaeontologist, architect, & 'pillbox hunter'. I don't know anything about the Atlantic Wall. chriskolonko.wordpress.com youtube.com/@remembertheregs
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Nov 8
Oh yeah, there's also my website. Plenty of stuff on there about archaeology and pillboxes.

chriskolonko.wordpress.com
Chris Kolonko-Weet
Archaeologist and Second World War Defence Specialist
chriskolonko.wordpress.com
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
And one more. I'll have a look for other stuff but I think I've bombarded your account enough for now 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRn...
80 years on - New perspectives on Second World War anti-invasion defences
YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
www.citizan.org.uk/blog/2021/Ma...
CITiZAN - Blogs - Understanding and interpreting Coastal Crust defences with CITiZAN
CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, brings together communities to monitor at-risk sites on the coast of England.
www.citizan.org.uk
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
www.citizan.org.uk/blog/2022/Se...
CITiZAN - Blogs - Reading coastal erosion through coastal wartime concrete
CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, brings together communities to monitor at-risk sites on the coast of England.
www.citizan.org.uk
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
www.citizan.org.uk/blog/2020/Ma...
CITiZAN - Blogs - What can we learn from pillboxes?
CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, brings together communities to monitor at-risk sites on the coast of England.
www.citizan.org.uk
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
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Medium Machine Gun Defences of North Yorkshire
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
Website- chriskolonko.wordpress.com
Chris Kolonko-Weet
Archaeologist and Second World War Defence Specialist
chriskolonko.wordpress.com
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
No books, yet, but plenty of published work in journals etc. Will find some links. Field records and some articles can be found on my Researchgate- www.researchgate.net/profile/Chri...
Chris KOLONKO | Reports and Publications Supervisor | Bachelor of Science | Museum of London Archaeology, London | Research and Engagement | Research profile
I am a qualified and practising archaeologist with a specialisation in Second World War defensive landscapes in the UK, community archaeology and all aspects of field excavation and recording. I am fa...
www.researchgate.net
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
Thanks :D
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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 25d
Brilliant talk 🗣 by @ckolonko.bsky.social at March #Museum last night on pillboxes 🪖
Putting pillboxes into their proper context in the landscape and as part of Regional Defence Plan 🗺
As of 2002 6000 #WW2 #pillboxes remained but only 100 are 'listed' 🤔
A familiar but misunderstood part of #Heritage
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 25d
If you're out in Dereham today, be sure to pop in. We're out with Allied Star Reenactment Group and the Royal British Legion for the town's heritage open day.
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · 27d
On Saturday the 13th I'll be at the Dereham memorial garden pillbox, near the station, for the town's Heritage Open Day from 10am to 4pm. I'll be joined by reenactors from the Allied Star Reenactment Group and we'll be doing guided tours of the pillbox.
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Sep 6
Yeah, I don't like jam either.
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 21
Here's 16 minutes of me talking about books and websites-

youtu.be/aLhsbyo7cEs
Remember The Regulars Random Ramblings 7
YouTube video by Remember the Regulars
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 21
Think I've found an easter egg in HE's chronology guidance...
heritage-standards.org.uk/chronology/
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 20
This is what happened to my Great-Grandad. Would very much like to see this exhibition.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Our boys were forced into the enemy army to save loved ones’: the second world war exhibition dividing Poland
The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the country needs to reckon with its painful past
www.theguardian.com
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 20
I remember seeing these in ASDA as a kid. I thought it would be fibreglass and got a surprise when I hit it with my hand!
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 17
Yep, I know that footage well.
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 16
New Remember The Regulars YouTube video.

Lets take a look at the molotoff cocktail and how modern mythology hampers our understanding of who used it and how it was used.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLD...

#History #SecondWorldWar #WW2 Not the #homeguard.
Molotoff Cocktail Madness
YouTube video by Remember the Regulars
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War Forts @historic-concrete.bsky.social · Aug 15
Given today is VJ Day, my offering for #histbookchat is this Army Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation. It came with a letter announcing VJ Day by the Captain of the Empress of Australia, a troop transport ship actually on the way to Okinawa with airfield construction companies when Japan surrendered.
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 15
True :)
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 15
Only funny bits would have been covering the soldiers on leave going into the local towns and inadvertently getting caught blabbing about the sensitive stuff they were up to. The War Diary of one of the units deployed to Thetford records the many instances of how soldiers were caught out in the pubs
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 15
And that's without the RAF defence teams, the Royal Navy's shore defence units, and the other arms of Home Defence, such as Coastal Command, the Royal Navy and RAF.
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 15
But compare that to the sheer size of the Home Forces. 1.8 million soldiers in September 1940 (not including the 1.6m of the Home Guard) comprising the Regs, TA, Commonwealth and Free Forces, yet they have fallen into obscurity.
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Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social · Aug 15
Yep! Definitely! I'm not sure how much they would have been able to get out of the Regs/TA though. Only so many times you can show stand-to every morning and evening, and scenes of the soldier's digging trenches, doing recces, sticking up barbed wire etc etc.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · Aug 15
The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.
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