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EmmaWP

@EmmaWP

Archaeologist, Marketing & Digital Manager, cheese enthusiast. Tweets mostly heritage, nature, science, and tech. Art on the side. Have a soft spot for pigeons.

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Joined June 2009
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2021: a biscuit (cookie) retrospective. 🍪 Thys 🧵 beginneth wyth these illuminated manuscript morsels. All painted by hand and flavoured with orange, cardamom & vanilla. (1/?)
9 square biscuits decorated with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, including Reynard the Fox, a dog, a knight fighting a snail, a peacock, a hedgehog, a bat, and a fish.

ALT 9 square biscuits decorated with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, including Reynard the Fox, a dog, a knight fighting a snail, a peacock, a hedgehog, a bat, and a fish.

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Not a collection of mudlarking finds from the foreshore of the Thames. Biscuits. 🍪
Image from Dr Ella Hawkins (@EllaMcHawk)
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Ever wondered if you could meet all your favourite wildlife biologists in a video game?
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Arachnophobes look away now! Assistant Environmental Officer Emma has found you this weirdy little specimen – a charred spider, recovered in 7 litres of #Roman charcoal. It's from a fire pit, so it looks like this poor little fella was accidentally cooked... 😬👍 #Archaeology
Image from Cotswold Archaeology (@CotswoldArch)
Image from Cotswold Archaeology (@CotswoldArch)
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A lot of #Roman tiles have footprints in them, from people or animals walking on the clay before it had been fired; this tile bears the footprint of a chicken, who walked across it over 1500 years ago. From Silchester (Britain), on display in the Reading Museum #RomanArchaeology
Image from Dr Jo Ball (@DrJEBall)
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Devastating news about the Scottish Crannog Centre, which was destroyed in a fire last night. Reconstructed on the banks of Loch Tay, it offered such a unique and captivating insight into Iron Age life. thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/loc…
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A couple of pictures from my visit to @ScottishCrannog back in 2015. Hopefully they can get the support they need to recover and rebuild, so that people can continue to experience Scotland’s prehistory in this this fascinating and engaging way.
A photograph of the reconstructed Iron Age house, on wooden stilts over the water of Loch Tay. The view shows the walkway, looking towards the thatched roundhouse at the end.

ALT A photograph of the reconstructed Iron Age house, on wooden stilts over the water of Loch Tay. The view shows the walkway, looking towards the thatched roundhouse at the end.

A man is kneeling down, demonstrating how to make fire with two sticks - one has a piece of string attached like a ‘bow’, the middle of which is wound round the other stick. Moving this ‘bow’ backwards and forwards turns the other stick and causes friction at the base, starting the fire.

ALT A man is kneeling down, demonstrating how to make fire with two sticks - one has a piece of string attached like a ‘bow’, the middle of which is wound round the other stick. Moving this ‘bow’ backwards and forwards turns the other stick and causes friction at the base, starting the fire.

Here are 66 hillforts from central Southern England, all at the same scale and sorted by area (area including ramparts and ditches!). Would make a good tea towel design. Data from @EnvAgencyGeomat . An early entry for #hillfortswednesday . #Archaeology
Image from Mike Gill (@M_J_Gill)
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Happy Easter everyone!!! 🐰🐥🥰🥰 I made a roasted #trilobite for lunch! #paleontology #fossil – at Aberdeen, Scotland
Image from Phoebe Sleath (@PhoebeSleath)
Image from Phoebe Sleath (@PhoebeSleath)
Image from Phoebe Sleath (@PhoebeSleath)
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#HillfortsWednesday I am always fascinated by how brutal WWI and its impact on #landscape. Here is prehistoric #hillfort Podgrac in W Slovenia, on one of the main front lines of Soška front.
Image from Jošt Hobič (@jost_hobic)
Image from Jošt Hobič (@jost_hobic)
Image from Jošt Hobič (@jost_hobic)
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The ghosts of hedgerows past
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Interesting piece about the history of the landslips at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 in #Scotland bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5…
The Rest and Be Thankful: An infamous road through 'a mountain in torment'

The Rest and Be Thankful: An infamous road through 'a mountain in torment'

The Rest and Be Thankful is carved into the side of a Scottish mountain with a history of landslips.

bbc.co.uk
Culloden was fought OTD in 1746. Some fantastic archaeology been done there over the years by people like @ProfTonyPollard @DrIainBanks @thecoastguy @GUARD_Archaeol @NTS_archaeology resulting in some great finds - particularly like the trigger guard hit by a musket ball.
Image from Sam Wilson (@ConflictArchaeo)
Image from Sam Wilson (@ConflictArchaeo)
Image from Sam Wilson (@ConflictArchaeo)
Image from Sam Wilson (@ConflictArchaeo)
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Loved visiting Orkney this summer. Spent a day on North Ronaldsay and saw these wonderful seaweed-eating sheep for myself bbc.com/news/stories-5085627…
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Although I still haven’t knitted anything with the wool I bought from the wool mill on the island. Definitely a to-do list project for 2020.
A hand holds a skein of light grey yarn, which is wrapped with a white label that reads “100% North Ronaldsay Wool. Produced and spun on the island of North Ronaldsay.”

ALT A hand holds a skein of light grey yarn, which is wrapped with a white label that reads “100% North Ronaldsay Wool. Produced and spun on the island of North Ronaldsay.”

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Spent the journey to work this morning listening to the ever brilliant @richardhosgood (who is also @CurrentArchaeo’s Archaeologist of the Year!) chatting on the @CareerRuins podcast. And in my favourite pub, too! Worth a listen
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I was quite taken by this beautiful little Stigmella tityrella mine in a beech leaf this weekend. The 'green island' is caused by the caterpillar delaying senescence by manipulating cytokinin levels, probably with the assistance of symbiotic bacteria!
Image from Liam Crowley (@Liam_M_Crowley)
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Time for the annual #TrafalgarDay thread. #OTD 1805, the British fleet, under Horatio Nelson’s command, met the combined French & Spanish fleets, under French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, for one of the most famous naval battles in history, off Cape Trafalgar...
Image from Kate 𓆉 (@kejamieson_)
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Won myself a free drink in the pub quiz quick-fire question last night knowing the difference between a spade and a shovel. Archaeology knowledge being put to good use 🤓🥃 #TransferableSkillz
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