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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 2h

#Fenland #FlagFenBasin
#Archaeology

Exposed peat, flat horizon and blue sky with small white fluffy clouds.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 1d

And save the environment that saves the snails!🐌🌳🌿

Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 1d

Save the snails!!! 🐌🐌🐌

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Sleaford Mods @sleafordmods.bsky.social · 1d

10 years since we turned up to Later… with Jools Holland with just a laptop and a mic. The silence in the room when we dropped the first fuck was deafening.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 2d

Tilled silt fen and wind turbine shadow #Fenland

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 2d

#Fenland

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#Fenland

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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John @maenhir.bsky.social · 3d

Mabesgate
#StandingStoneSunday

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 3d

Tube Portraits: Vienna

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Jul 20

Peaceful protesters yesterday, writing the words on their placards which will convert them from ordinary citizens to terrorists in the eyes of the government and the law. Words which put them in the same legal group as Osama bin Laden. The rank absurdity of Cooper’s decision captured in one photo.

Protesters writing on blank placards during a protest

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 3d

The desire of the British state to curtail and prevent protest on ongoing social injustice issues is not new but their desire to legalize their authoritarian turn is worrying and should be resisted. #FreePalestine

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 3d

Let's not diminish how nasty Margaret Thatcher was.....

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 3d

Am at the Portobello book festival today, talking - with others more eminent - about the great Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her epic series of galcier pictures.
1.30pm, library downstairs.
She's so inspiring
portobellobookfestival.com/2025/09/05/t...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 3d

The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 3d

The best of us

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 4d

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 4d

www.royaleijkelkamp.com/academy/know...

#FlagFenAugerSurvey

Auger core sample: white plastic gutter holding soil samples retrieved with a Dutch auger. Auger point 189: unoxidised silts below pale brown oxidised plougsoil and peat.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 5d

A very big thank you to Jill Cook, Neil Wilkin and Petra Jones. Archaeology, its knowledge and stories, it’s important!

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 5d

First week of term, first year of study, evening teaching, from Birkbeck to British Museum, from gallery to study room, from Neolithic Cumbria to Bronze Age Cambridgeshire through the connection of Langdale stone, from gold cup to gold-makers hoard.

Birkbeck students in gallery 51, hearing (and seeing in materials) stories of deposition and things with Neil Wilkin.

Birkbeck students around a table watching and listening to Petra Jones describe the objects (their connections and biographies) that she brings out of small plastic boxes onto the table.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 5d

202 auger points in 3 weeks. Deepest 3.90m; shallowest 0.30m. Couldn't have been done without the many fantastic volunteers. #FlagFenAugerSurvey
#Fenland

Button Badge: red letters FLAG FEN AUGER SURVEY 2025 & picture of an auger on a white background in a green circle

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 8d

#FlagFen #AugerSurvey #Fenland

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Carl Sayer @carlsayer.bsky.social · 9d

Sampling #ghostponds before & after ressurection today with @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social & the MSc Conservation & MSc Aquatic Conservation teams on our @uclgeography.bsky.social fieldcourse to N. Norfolk. Utter madness!

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John @maenhir.bsky.social · 10d

Staunton longstone
#StandingStoneSunday

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Martyn Barber @martynjb.bsky.social · 10d

For #StandingStoneSunday, I was going to post one of Clarissa Miles' photos from Stonehenge in 1901. She was the photographer during architect Detmar Blow's operation to straighten Stone 56, and William Gowland's excavations, but instead, here's a passing shepherd and his sheep on the (1/2)

A black and whte photograph showing a shepherd and his dog, in mid-1901, standing in the middle of a trackway that crosses the photo from centre left to bottom right. Scattered around on the grass either side of the track are numerous grazing sheep. THe landscape beyond is open pasture with a couple of plantations of trees on the slightly higher ground in the distance. Clarissa Miles' photos of Detmar Blow and WIlliam Gowland's work at Stonehenge in 1901 were included in both of their reports. Those photos have been republished many times since, often without crediting the photographer. Sets of her photos exist in various archives, including WIltshire Museum, Devizes, and the National Record Office at Kew. In the latter, each print is attached to a copyright declaration form submitted in Clarissa Miles' name.

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 10d

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