@lenmiddleton.bsky.social
Archaeologist. The Fens and its surrounds. Anything expressed not my employers views.
Gdansk Shipyard.
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Gdansk Shipyard.
Archaeologists on holiday...watching our Polish colleagues at work.
August 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Archaeologists on holiday...watching our Polish colleagues at work.
What's the 'best' thing you've ever found is always a tricky one but my thoughts always go back to the butchered whale bone (that's a bit of vertebrae I'm holding) from an early medieval pit at Sedgford. Also, the first feature I ever dug! @sedgefordarch.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What's the 'best' thing you've ever found is always a tricky one but my thoughts always go back to the butchered whale bone (that's a bit of vertebrae I'm holding) from an early medieval pit at Sedgford. Also, the first feature I ever dug! @sedgefordarch.bsky.social
Archaeological site hack #243 'The Permatrace Funnel'
May 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Archaeological site hack #243 'The Permatrace Funnel'
This is fun but almost always you WILL regret this the next day. I think if he were to choose he'll always go for strength over flavour. Anyway he knows I'm an archaeologist and out comes something he discovered from his various voyages. A coral encrusted bit of shipwreck .
April 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is fun but almost always you WILL regret this the next day. I think if he were to choose he'll always go for strength over flavour. Anyway he knows I'm an archaeologist and out comes something he discovered from his various voyages. A coral encrusted bit of shipwreck .
On holiday in Poland visiting my partners family I was invited over for coffee and cake to the 'pirate captain' granddad's house. Well, I'm instantly invited to the cellar to taste his home brew 'spirits'
April 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
On holiday in Poland visiting my partners family I was invited over for coffee and cake to the 'pirate captain' granddad's house. Well, I'm instantly invited to the cellar to taste his home brew 'spirits'
As usual, bit of a busman's holiday. Exhibition in Sopot looking at sites emerging from drained wetlands in Poland!
April 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
As usual, bit of a busman's holiday. Exhibition in Sopot looking at sites emerging from drained wetlands in Poland!
Mmmm.. the familiar site of a Middle Iron Age pit. Nice!
March 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Mmmm.. the familiar site of a Middle Iron Age pit. Nice!
Little one has been down with some mystery virus this week. Just found out she's caught archaeology. Terrible affliction.
March 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Little one has been down with some mystery virus this week. Just found out she's caught archaeology. Terrible affliction.
One of the reasons we drove to Poland for the summer holiday this year was so my partner could pick up these pre-war chairs she inherited. It's a long old drive to get a chair for a cat to sit in.
February 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
One of the reasons we drove to Poland for the summer holiday this year was so my partner could pick up these pre-war chairs she inherited. It's a long old drive to get a chair for a cat to sit in.
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay from the eastern edge of The Fens. A paler topsoil sits on a layer of peat, hinting at the past wetland environment. Below that a little slither of pre-wetland buried soil.
February 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay from the eastern edge of The Fens. A paler topsoil sits on a layer of peat, hinting at the past wetland environment. Below that a little slither of pre-wetland buried soil.
Fancy pants.
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Fancy pants.
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social #BenchMarkMonday image captured from a very blustery Whitby Pier this weekend.
January 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social #BenchMarkMonday image captured from a very blustery Whitby Pier this weekend.
Soundtrack to the present wrapping session. Ghost Stories for Christmas. #aidanmoffat #RMHubbert
December 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Soundtrack to the present wrapping session. Ghost Stories for Christmas. #aidanmoffat #RMHubbert
Some more prehistoric goodies from beneath The Fens. A pit full of burnt flint and stone.
December 5, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Some more prehistoric goodies from beneath The Fens. A pit full of burnt flint and stone.
That can't be comfortable.
December 1, 2024 at 4:59 PM
That can't be comfortable.
Can't help thinking these Neolithic pits full of debitage are more of a response to an incident not dissimilar stepping on your kids Lego in the dead of night rather than something grander. #archaeologicalouch
November 28, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Can't help thinking these Neolithic pits full of debitage are more of a response to an incident not dissimilar stepping on your kids Lego in the dead of night rather than something grander. #archaeologicalouch
A nice little assemblage emerging from a frosty pit today.
November 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
A nice little assemblage emerging from a frosty pit today.
I wonder if the boss will let us get one of these!
November 19, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I wonder if the boss will let us get one of these!
Today I got the Fenland Holy Trinity. Buried soil, flint, and pot!
November 14, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Today I got the Fenland Holy Trinity. Buried soil, flint, and pot!
A spot of more recent Fenland history.
November 12, 2024 at 12:49 PM
A spot of more recent Fenland history.
That's where I started too back in 2011 I think. My answer to the 'whats the best thing you've found' question is still the first feature I ever dug there. Some butchered whale bone in an early medieval pit!
November 8, 2024 at 4:44 PM
That's where I started too back in 2011 I think. My answer to the 'whats the best thing you've found' question is still the first feature I ever dug there. Some butchered whale bone in an early medieval pit!
New site. New platform. Back to peering below the peat!
November 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
New site. New platform. Back to peering below the peat!