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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to CBA for two nominations for Teffont Archaeology! Delighted to see our efforts to engage people from all backgrounds and demographics in archaeology, and our training and skills work, for everyone from carers, to volunteers, to positive action placements and students, recognised like this.

Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 5d

We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2025. 🎉

Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future.

Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 18h

If it keeps them off the streets...! 😆

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 20h

It does also fund all of BBC Sounds and BBC radio, which are then available for free to everyone. We're also helping to fund free licenses for the over-75s, and, frankly, catch Netflix doing that.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 20h

Having read the blurb, the killing stone in question appears to be a Neolithic carved stone pinched from a heritage centre and, for avoidance of doubt, DO NOT commit murder with Neolithic artefacts, this is HERITAGE CRIME.

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Happy publication day to regular Orkney Library visitor
@anncleeves.bsky.social. The Killing Stones has just been published and features D.I. Jimmy Perez but now he has moved from Shetland to #Orkney!

It's less sassermaet and more fatty cuttie. #IYKYK

Available now from your local library.

The cover of The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 11d

This is a brilliant collection, full of gems, including the work about Orkney and Shetland. Lots to chew on.
#zooarchaeology #envhist 🏺
It can be read for free here: www.sidestone.com/books/farmer...

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 23d

Ooh, it's always a good day when a new East Anglian cemetery report drops!

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23d

The published report on the Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery excavated at Lackford in 2015-16 is now available from East Anglian Archaeology: eaareports.org.uk/publication/...

The Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk

Sue Anderson, Faye Minter , Jude Plouviez, 2025. 'The Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk', East Anglian Archaeology 183

eaareports.org.uk

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 24d

Anyone fancying a last-minute post-ex week, this'll be fun. Cracking location, small-group teaching, excellent people.

Bamburgh Research Project @brparchaeology.bsky.social · 24d

🚨Due to a last minute cancellation we have space left for our post-ex week (starts Monday)🚨

We focus on:
👉artefact ID & illustration
👉Zooarchaeology
👉Medieval textiles and ceramics
👉Osteoarchaeology
👉Field trip to Lindisfarne

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Green poster with picture of individuals undertaking various post-ex activities and woman stood smiling next to stone wall

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 25d

Lazy Sunday morning vibes.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 26d

Oh that's genius!

Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 26d

I have been forgetting to buy a ball of string for several years now.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 26d

So your life might be strange, but is it "stringing a rabbit backbone onto leftover knitting wool" strange?

A ball of blue wool trails off into a curvy animal backbone; the end of the wool is tied around the sacrum. It sits on a grubby red rug.

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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 27d

🚨𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀!🚨

Looking to start a career in archaeology—or thinking about making a career change into this exciting field? Oxford Archaeology is offering two paid apprenticeships on the A66 project in Cumbria.

Applications close on Sunday 📅

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Apprentice Fieldwork Archaeologist – Find an apprenticeship – GOV.UK

We’ve introduced a new way to find and apply for an apprenticeship in England.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 29d

Earlier today, I left the house for my usual neighbourhood stroll, only to find that the neighbourhood was no longer my neighbourhood. A dozen St George's flags and Union flags, cable-tied to lampposts on Middlewood Road, had appeared overnight. No-one asked for them. No-one wanted them. Yet here they are. There are no hotels in Hillsborough for idle, drunken thugs to shout at, or roundabouts to vandalise, so we get this instead, in the dead of night. And this craven UK government seems perfectly happy to allow this campaign of national(ist) intimidation to continue. And it is intimidation; it's intended as a provocation. It's poison (ask anyone who grew up in Northern Ireland in the 80s and 90s). It's disingenuous to suggest otherwise. The people actually fighting for their communities are the people clearing the streets of litter, maintaining the community gardens, supporting local businesses, and looking out for each other. I've written to my local councillor to ask for the flags to be taken down. (Some English - and Scottish - councils have been reluctant to do so in the face of threats and intimidation, which tells you everything you need to know about the motives and character of the people who are putting the flags up.)

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 8

Moonrise over Cardiff Bay

A distant yellow moon throws a beam of light across a darkening sea. In the foreground, a rocky shore.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lemon polenta cake. That's the usual "all the light has not yet gone out of the world" suggestion.

Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

I cannot scone. The time of the scones is over, at least until I can find some sad gluten-free ones.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

From the Ouse to the Severn. Hallo Wales, it's been a while.

An uninspiring muddy estuary under a grey sky, with hills visible in the very far distance. It's still weirdly beautiful. There ought to be some wading birds out there, but it's hard to see them from the train.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

We could offer you a relocation package to Yorkshire?

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

Once again, the north-east is far too far from the south-west and we need to abolish the Midlands.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's a beautiful day and I've got my first 250 miles to go. On CrossCountry trains. Pray for me.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

So I'm off on a jaunt! In fact, over the next three weeks, I'm off on multiple jaunts because almost all my workshop / guest speaker commitments have fallen in the same month. I'll be covering over 1000 miles and will thus officially be a Proclaimer, although I'm not walking it, that would be mad.

Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

Good morning, York station, how are you?

A view from Platform 3 at York railway station, with the tracks and the ornate Victorian brickwork and pillars curving to the left and vanishing. Sunlight is filtering in through the metal roof girders.

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 7

Good morning, York station, how are you?

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Sep 4

Betwixt being forever baffled and stunned

It's exhausting being an archaeologist

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · Sep 4

Talking about ancient technology, I've just resurrected my very first CD / radio / tape player for the refurbished workroom. It must be getting on for 25 years old and it still bleeding works.

A Sony silver and black boombox-style player sits on top of a set of Kallax shelving. On the shelf below is a faded collection of CDs propped up against a blue mug with the words "Vela Luka" on it.

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · Aug 31

When you've still got an hour on the clock as the fountain statue, but you're regretting your cavalier decision not to have a safety wee before you started 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Andromeda", by John Bell at Osborne House, 1851

Thanks @ladybirduk.bsky.social for sharing 😁

A bronze statue of Andromeda with her hands chained behind her back, she's stood on a plinth in the middle of a pond with many tinkling fountains playing

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