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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2021: a biscuit (cookie) retrospective. 🍪
Thys 🧵 beginneth wyth these illuminated manuscript morsels. All painted by hand and flavoured with orange, cardamom & vanilla. (1/?)
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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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
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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
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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
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Happy Easter everyone!!! 🐰🐥🥰🥰 I made a roasted #trilobite for lunch! #paleontology #fossil – at Aberdeen, Scotland
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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...
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A broken replica #Neolithic #GroovedWare replica = opportunity for experimental #archaeology. Answering question why were holes bored in ancient pots? Drilled with a flint burin, stitched with wet rawhide, which dried rock solid & pulled cracks together, then sealed with pitch.
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So, this is the head of my right femur. I had it sawed off on the 6th of March and replaced with a sleeker titanium, ceramic, and plastic model.
I’m healing well, thanks for asking.
It’s been a jar since then. Let’s make something more interesting....
ALT A canning jar holding the head of my femur
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It’s Sunday, let’s learn some fun stuff. Here are 10 things you should know about ravens:
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A mouse has been captured tidying up bits and bobs in a pensioner's shed.
Stephen McKears from Gloucestershire says he couldn't understand how small metal items were returning to their box every night.
So he set up a special night-time camera to find out 🐭 📹
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It's the 100th anniversary of the death of #SirHughMunro, the man who measured and compiled the list of Scottish Mountains over 3000ft in height. The best days and the best nights are spent on the #Munros #bivvy #Scotland
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The original meaning of 'deadline' was a line marked in the earth around a prison: if an inmate went beyond it, they were liable to be shot.
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No it's not smoke, this is a LIDAR (laser scanning) image showing 1500 years worth of river movement. Beautifully destroying that "It's always been like it" argument!
