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Perhaps they have a better education system? Interestingly I did not see a single Scottish flag there in the published images.
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Really, England is an immigrant concept, a thin veneer of a language over a population which is genetically mostly what has been on the island since the Bronze Age. If they were true nationalists they would be all speaking Brythonic or Gaelic.
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The Union Jack is a combination of the crosses of St. George, a Palestinian; St. Andrew, who was an Apostle from Galilee; and St. Patrick, who was British, but is famous for work in Ireland where he was initially a hated immigrant. They would not approve.
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For all the people out there waving the Cross of St. George, you should know that St. George of Lydda was a Palestinian, and is widely revered in the Middle East by all faiths.
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Getting some very nice aubergines or eggplants this year! 🌱
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It is deeply disturbing to have *anyone* deriding the concept of empathy, but when these people call themselves Christians it's sickening.
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Well those Dark Age folks had to get their swords from somewhere...
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Reposted by: Robert Mason, Keith Lilley

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NEW Britain's economy did not collapse after the #Romans left

A new, unbroken timeline of British metal production from the 5th century AD to the present day questions the idea of a post-Roman 'Dark Age'.

Strap in for an industrious #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵

🏺 #Archaeology
Two archaeologists excavating in a trench.
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She came across as being a silly undergrad in the trailer. Not like this woman at all.
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Let's hear it for masons!
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Yes. I haven't seen "The Dig" I think partly because the trailer makes it look like a romance, and partly because it makes Stuart Pigott look so much older than his wife at the time. I looked it up, he was two years older, the actors have a 20-year difference.
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Another Brough, another number...

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So is this George V?
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Well, you have to Represent, eh?
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Archaeology Mag provide a nice update on the work at Guédelon Castle.

#MedievalSky #ExperimentalArchaeology #ArtchaeologyofStuff #Castles

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Features - How to Build a Medieval Castle - Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2025
Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?
archaeology.org
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Now *that* is a very nice helmet. I suspect the reenactors will be ordering Aegadian Montefortino helmets in large numbers. The peak goes to the back, though, if you didn't know.

#archaeology #RomanSky #Roman #MilitaryArchaeology

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
'Extraordinary' Roman helmet from war-ending battle found in the sea off Sicily
Archaeologists recovered the "Montefortino"-style helmet in an underwater excavation in the Aegadian Islands off the coast of Sicily.
www.livescience.com
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Of course, that is quite normal for mediaeval pottery.
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It sounds like the locals "discovered" the roof, tried to move it with heavy machinery, and then told the authorities. Nice bit of stonework, though.

#Archaeology

www.reuters.com/science/weal...
Wealthy ancient Roman's tomb discovered in Albania
Archaeologists in Albania have discovered a large Roman burial chamber dating from the third to fourth century AD, the first of its kind found in the Balkan country that was once part of the Roman Empire.
www.reuters.com
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Earliest evidence of indigo processing in Georgia, 34,000 years ago. Looks convincing!

#ArchaeologyofStuff #Archaeology

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Ancient blue: 34,000-year-old traces of indigo found in Georgian cave
Archaeologists uncover 34,000-year-old indigo dye traces in Georgia, revealing early plant use beyond food and tools.
archaeologymag.com
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Same article has this: "Painting of the 1937 Latch Farm excavations, on display at the Red House Museum – Peggy on right, sister Pamela Preston (middle) and Mary Eily de Putron (left) with John Brailsford and Peter Fitzgerald Moore (Photograph © Miles Russell)"
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Caption says "Peggy Piggott with E. Cecil Curwen in 1935, working on the Whitehawk Camp ceramics"
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Interesting paper on microplastics. It seems they are everywhere, including in our bodies, and we still do not know the harm that they may do.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?
Twenty years after the first publication that used the term microplastic, we review current understanding, refine definitions, and consider future prospects. Microplastics arise from multiple sources,...
www.science.org
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It is exhausting, and somewhat dizzying, isn't it? What really baffles me is that they miss what is actually eyebrow-raising about any of this.
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I love the old guy cheering them on, and the woman making sure they are getting it straight.
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Whoever let them build a golf course inside a monument should be deported to somewhere that has no culture.
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This is depressing. However I am on Medium too, so I have followed them.
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I think what astonishes me about the Chalcolithic site at Cortijo Lobato, Spain, is not the Roman guy they found buried in it (which made it newsworthy) but that they were building (seemingly) multivallate castles in Spain before 2450 B.C.E.

#Castles 🏺

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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I'm not sure it would convince the kind of student that would use AI in the first place.

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Anglo-Saxon urn, about 500-600 CE, in the collection @romtoronto.bsky.social A partial label identifies it is from Girton College, Cambridge, UK. This will be on ROM's eMuseum website tomorrow, just look up 920.96.1
🏺 #MuseumWork #archaelogy #AngloSaxon #ceramics
A handmade urn. Gritty dark grey clay with patchy brown-black surface, on a grey background. Flat base; rounded body encircled with 6 small raised rounded bosses w. each panel in between filled w. a line of 3 impressions of a round rosette-stamp w. appr. 13 divisions and below, 6 to 8 vertical slashes; above, around neck, 3 incised lines; bowl curves in at area of bosses but none of the neck survives. Close-up of a label stuck to the side of the urn. The word "Girton" in black ink can be read.
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