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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 16h

Given I have been teaching students about Lipo's walking moai for nearly 10 years, I do wonder how this is 'news'

But I'm delighted to see it getting more airtime. It's a brilliant piece of work

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 21h

Easter Island's statues actually 'walked,' and physics backs it up.
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Easter Island's statues actually 'walked,' and physics backs it up

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and on-the-gro...

phys.org

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 1d

Believe it or not, that image was the influence for a tattoo 23yo me got on my kneecap!

A tattoo of a horned man with stem expression, green tinted features, and a gold torc of his neck

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 1d

Ink-read-ible

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 1d

You have a brilliant museum there.. very much enjoyed my first visit last week.

Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 1d

Strong Sir Terry Pratchett energy here.
Anoia: Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 1d

How awful. There’s been a break in at the St Fagans Museum of History in west Cardiff. Artefacts have been taken including Bronze Age jewellery. I hope they are caught quickly. #heritagecrime

South Wales Police statement on the burglary at St Fagans Museum of History early on Monday 6th October.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 1d

#MosaicMonday

Spotted last week in my travels into the southwest. Originally covering a 2 chambered room in a 4thC building, this hunting dog fragment now lives in the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes.

📸Mine 26/09/25

More details after description in Alt text

Fragment of mosaic with geometric border and animal central subject, hanging on a wall near a label

Museum label reads
CHERHILL ROMAN MOSAIC
the panel shows a hunting dog bounding past a leafy tree, evidently in pursuit of a stag or hind. The subject matter and style of the mosaic are so similar to the Christian mosaics from Hinton tSt.Maryand Frampton in Dorset,that they may all have been the work of the same mosaic craftsmen, perhaps based in or near Dorchester around the 4th Century AD.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 2d

Last minute #StainedGlassSunday

St Albans Cathedral - what a stunner

📸 Mine 27/03/25

Stained glass window - circular made of a cluster of smaller circular panels

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 2d

I learnt something new!
And I thought I knew what Turlough was...

Frightened man with red hair holding a glowing crystal
From Dr Who

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing...

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 2d

A mast year to be sure. Oak legacy near Crickhowell, Wales

Welsh hills in background with a roadside plethora of oak acorns stretching out ahead

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 3d

A mast year to be sure. Oak legacy near Crickhowell, Wales

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 3d

I used to use this in my lectures but had to stop as the Youths didn't laugh.

A flame haired puppet in a lab coat.
Known to the Muppets as Beaker

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 3d

Ah!

Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 3d

The Gates of Realisation

Abergavenny

A pair of metal gates one with a large capital A one with an H

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 4d

Blustery winds and leaden skies make a formidable setting for an impromptu adventure in Bannau Brycheiniog

Landscape view.ofna Welsh hilltop and ploughed undulating field below.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 4d

Waking to a windy Welsh sunrise

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 4d

Exciting addition to the @notbourneyesterday.bsky.social development team!

Not Bourne Yesterday @notbourneyesterday.bsky.social · 4d

People and place are at the heart of the NBY story - we are delighted to have commissioned @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social to help us develop and co-create aspects of our programme. Watch this space!

Chalk stream river flows over gravel base, under blue skies, with vegetation either side.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 5d

Heads up for the Chilterns area. Storm Amy has ruffled the feathers of the @chilternstreams.bsky.social bird walk.

Watch out for a rescheduled event

Chilterns Chalk Streams Project @chilternstreams.bsky.social · 5d

‼️Chalk stream bird walk- River Misbourne- CANCELLED ‼️

We are very sorry, but we have to cancel this event due to yellow warning for high winds

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We are hoping to run this event in the future.

If you have any questions contact us: [email protected]

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Chilterns Chalk Streams Project @chilternstreams.bsky.social · 5d

‼️Chalk stream bird walk- River Misbourne- CANCELLED ‼️

We are very sorry, but we have to cancel this event due to yellow warning for high winds

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We are hoping to run this event in the future.

If you have any questions contact us: [email protected]

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 5d

I have a feeling there might be mudlarking in the next Rivers of London book 🤣

Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 5d

Any archeologists available to help with an archeology joke?

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 5d

I never met Jinty, only heard about her scholarship third hand. But this obituary makes me feel like we had met. Perhaps the best obituary I have ever read.

Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to Janet Nelson a grand total of twice and it couldn’t have amounted to more than ten minutes in total, but I was struck by the attention she paid to the most junior people in the room, something this excellent obituary to a great scholar captures.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 5d

This is under Treasure Act so I do not think they can be legally 'gazumped'

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, my point all along was that it's about similar worldviews shaping expression, not a continuation of visual vernacular

Despite my passion for the conception of conference, I was too busy to put my thoughts in writing for the volume, which Toby did all the work for and kindly stuck my name on.

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