Pikagi
Jim Leary Profile Banner
Jim Leary Profile
Jim Leary

@Jim_Leary

6,618
Followers
1,837
Following
1,736
Media
8,848
Statuses

Archaeologist & writer. Senior Lecturer @UniOfYork . Prehistory. Books: The Story of Silbury Hill. The Remembered Land. New book #Footmarks . Agent: J.P. Marshall

North Yorkshire
Joined April 2010
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Announcement 📣: This is very exciting! #Footmarks will be out this June! It is a book about tracks and trackways, holloways and roads. A book about feet and shoes, wheels and boats. A book about putting one foot in front of the other, about crossing seas, pilgrims and migrants.
@iconbooks
Icon Books
@iconbooks
2 years
** NEW ON NETGALLEY ** #Footmarks @Jim_Leary : Coming 1 June 2023:
Tweet media one
3
15
58
61
109
668
Last Seen Profiles
eco 👻

@eCoLoGy1990

Brittany Castle

@britcastle

Salmãozin 🔥

@reizinho_xxx

ժενгﻨო ®

@darkdevrim

Scott Simons

@ultradj

Illuminati Collective

@secretsociety

BABYMETAL FAN PAGE🇵🇭

@ArturoBABYMETAL

—OMS ♡

@ohmyshin_

Dayne (The Alchemist)

@Eraschampion

Winnie Hodsdon

@WHodsdo

Mr.E

@MrE20617337

Illuminary Labs

@illuminarylabs

小落子

@shwnq276922

pclle2 - COMMS OPEN -

@pclle2

Bright ᥫᩣ 🤍 German & Austria FC 🐺

@BrightgermanFc

أبو ماريا

@abum4ria

Rho da

@Rhoda54078822

RentARent

@RentARented

Werbs Werbling

@RealWerbs

메리코 MERICO 💍💘

@IL_Merico

pecinta IBU2, STW, BINOR & JANDA

@stw_pdg

KaijuKingz

@KaijuKingz

Keanwaran unlimited

@muhammad_2708

s†αsh

@Stashr69

Tyrone1🇮🇱🇮🇳🏳️‍🌈

@steinburgowitz

𝖄𝖚𝖗𝖎

@Subxnco

DR/VRS 🏁

@drivrsnft

kibby😵‍💫

@KibbyKlo

TacoSauce

@TacoSauce_Tv

Teruko Labs

@TERUKO_LABS

Milo_died

@dragneelyuki1

pewdipie

@Minmin72625347

AQUÍ HAY DRAGONES

@aquihaydragones

Szymon Przedpełski

@SkiSzymon

shun !! | semi ia

@kyuniivz

Isaiah Hagen

@HagenZay

@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
I love how the buttercups have perfectly picked out the medieval ridge and furrow in this field.
Tweet media one
36
272
3K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
I want to tell you a story about last night and kindness, so settle in or move on depending on your inclination. A little while ago I wrote a book called #Footmarks and was invited last night to the @Hatchards ‘Authors of the Year’ reception. Invited - I assume - by mistake.
Tweet media one
110
295
3K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
6 years
Completely obsessed with these ‘trods’ of the North York Moors. Paved routeways made of flagstones - some medieval. There’s a network of them across the moors. Spent weeks searching out as many as I can.
Tweet media one
69
396
2K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
I pass this house on my walk almost every day, and each time my heart skips - Nutholme Cottage, home if William Scoresby - 18th c Arctic explorer, navigator, whaler and inventor of the crows’ nest. Love it.
Tweet media one
34
123
2K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
Waiting until the cows come home. Twitter’s a miserable little place right now and I seem to have lost my community, so here’s a pleasing image from yesterday’s foot travels.
Tweet media one
106
137
2K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
On a little trip to the southwest and had to see this - the interior of the huge 14th c tithe barn at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Open up the photo to fully revel in the cruck forest.
Tweet media one
53
202
2K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
Thank you for stopping to talk to me @Tracy_Chevalier Thank you for your kindness. And thank you for stopping me from walking away. I had a fabulous evening after all!
18
20
2K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Beneath the tree, a stone portal to the underworld.
Tweet media one
26
111
1K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
8 months
I’ve been trying to find an image to give a sense of the landscape around 5000BCE for a lecture. Couldn’t find anything suitable so created my own using AI. Put in all the details from my lecture notes, and this is the image. I think we can all agree - it’s a thing of beauty!
Tweet media one
74
116
1K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
This tiny but heart-stoppingly gorgeous Saxon stone church in Bradford-on-Avon. I particularly love the arcading on the walls of the chancel, and the simple cave-like interior.
Tweet media one
24
106
1K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
@Tracy_Chevalier Thank you @Hatchards for the invite. And for the gift bag (with what I can only assume is a personalised book!).
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
28
18
1K
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
The glorious medieval wall paintings of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Pickering. Dating to around 1470, they give an idea of how church interiors would’ve looked. Here we can see the beheading of St. John the Baptist on the left and the Martyrdom of St. Edmond on the right.
Tweet media one
19
172
986
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
The extraordinary beauty of this Late Neolithic long-tailed, ripple-flaked oblique arrowhead from Marden henge, Wiltshire! On display in the @WiltshireMuseum
Tweet media one
34
142
969
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
@Tracy_Chevalier And had I not stayed, I wouldn’t have met other lovely people like the sartorially excellent Duncan Mackay, or Sarah Tarlow, or Chris Hadley. Authors of enviable ability. I chatted with Mary Beard and Mark Ellison who wore the most magnificent jacket. It was a wonderful evening!
@theDuncanMackay
Duncan Mackay
@theDuncanMackay
4 months
Amazing night at Hatchards Authors of the Year last night. Fantastic to finally meet ⁦ @sarah_tarlow ⁩, ⁦ @Jim_Leary ⁩ & ⁦ @hadleywrites ⁩! Who knew there’d be such an amazing archaeological presence?! And got to meet ⁦ @wmarybeard ⁩! And there were party bags.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
9
12
194
14
23
945
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
23 days
Yesterday, I took a ferry to the island of Westray, and then chugged in a little ferry to the tiny northern island of Papa Westray to see the Knap of Howar - two shockingly well-preserved early examples of inter connecting Orcadian stone houses, dating from between 3600-3100 BCE.
Tweet media one
16
100
956
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Medieval Bob the Builder said "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle."
Tweet media one
14
113
885
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
Skipsea Withow Mere on the Holderness coast looking very fine. The accumulated sediments of an 10,000 year old lake. Here it contains the remains of a beaver dam - with preserved beaver hair!
Tweet media one
21
204
875
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
As thin as a slice of light. This Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead was made between 6000 and 5000 years ago. The flint so delicately pressure-flaked that it is translucent. #FindsFriday
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
11
124
769
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
The Norman crypt underneath the church of St Mary, Lastingham, on the edge of the North York Moors, is an exceptional space. Supposedly the oldest Norman crypt in the world and the only one with a nave, aisles and an apsidal chancel.
Tweet media one
11
118
717
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
Footpaths to the past: ‘We must keep our ancient tracks alive by walking them’ My article in ⁦⁦ @guardian ⁩ today. An extract from #Footmarks which is out today.
Tweet card media
Footpaths to the past: ‘We must keep our ancient tracks alive by walking them’

The UK’s paths and holloways should be protected for their environmental appeal and historic worth – but they also need to be maintained by using them

www.theguardian.com
23
234
726
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
‘Fascinating’ she said. ‘Stay for a while. You might enjoy it’. She left to talk to others. ‘And you’ I said before she left. ‘Are you an author?’ ‘Yes’ she replied. ‘What is the name of your book? Maybe I’ve heard of it’ ‘I’ve written a few, but Girl with Pearl Earring is one’.
6
14
737
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
Happy New Year everyone. Follow the path. Walk the line.
Tweet media one
16
39
668
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
5 months
Today is St George’s Day, the patron saint of England, so here is a magnificent wall painting of George fighting the dragon. From Pickering Church depicting, North Yorkshire, dating to around 1470. I shall nod to the bluebells today.
Tweet media one
10
117
659
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has been on my mind recently. Here it is back in January 2013 emerging from a watery world.
Tweet media one
13
59
650
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
I had this wonderfully close encounter with a golden hare on the moors.
13
46
630
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
For #FindsFriday I present this most precious of finds - a fragile willow leaf retrieved from an auger through peat at Skipsea by @MesoPlants . It last saw the light of day some 10,000 summers ago. #Archaeology #peat #Skipsea2023 @UoYArchaeology
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
17
104
636
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Angry walked today. Furious with things going on around me. And then I came across this beauty of a holloway and it had a transformative effect on my mood. I re-emerged changed.
Tweet media one
18
24
625
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Increasingly Twitter feels like speaking to an empty room. Has everyone gone? In case there’s still someone out there (and still interested!) here’s a photo from a #walk that I’m calling: ‘Woodlines’.
Tweet media one
62
26
579
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Ancient stonework reused in church fabric. Shame about the much more recent pointing.
Tweet media one
13
38
572
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Sinking into a sunken way.
Tweet media one
14
59
573
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
The 8m high Rudston Monolith in the East Riding of Yorkshire for #StandingStoneSunday Investigations suggest there is as much below ground as above.
Tweet media one
13
70
557
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
5 years
The glorious medieval wall paintings of Pickering church. Covered over during the Protestant Reformation, rediscovered in 1852 and promptly whitewashed again. Now dazzlingly restored.
Tweet media one
11
110
520
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
This is my new garden office and it’s the best thing ever created by human hands! It was started 3 months ago and today it is finally finished!
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
39
33
519
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
‘You have every right to be here’ she told me and asked me kind questions about my book. ‘It’s about our restless past’ I told her. ‘The way people moved. Footprints, paths, pilgrimages, journeys, migrations’.
4
14
490
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
What better way to start #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday than with this exquisitely tiny leaf-shaped arrowhead. Made from a rich honey coloured flint and found within peat at #Skipsea2023
Tweet media one
11
65
486
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
I actually managed to get out and see some archaeology today! Here are the Devil’s Arrows in North Yorkshire. The second tallest prehistoric monoliths in the British Isles after Rudston.
Tweet media one
12
47
450
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
And then, at the bottom of our peat, at the end of our excavation, the glint of a 10,000 year old gem. The bright blue green wing of a … damselfly? A beautiful demoiselle perhaps? We’ll find out in the fullness of time. It shines again for 1 more day. #FindsFriday #Skipsea2023
Tweet media one
18
72
448
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
I’m a dirt archaeologist by trade and this really isn’t my usual circle. But I was told by both my agent and my wife that I absolutely must give it a go. Through huge imposter syndrome - I did!
5
14
423
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
@Tracy_Chevalier @Hatchards Thank you everyone for lovely comments! I should say what a wonderful book @iconbooks have produced! Thank you!
Tweet media one
12
9
421
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
The damp breath of prehistory. A carpet of tree-dropped leaves that, one autumn 10,000 years ago, danced and drifted then sunk to the depths of a Mesolithic lake. A throwback to digging at Skipsea last month for #FindsFriday
Tweet media one
9
68
411
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
A flint for #FlintFriday and #FindsFriday Early Mesolithic(?). Found by my father 50 years ago in Ashdown Forest, in mud pushed up by a horses hoof. It sat on a shelf throughout my childhood gently beckoning me to a life of archaeology.
Tweet media one
15
37
413
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 months
My favourite tree, in my favourite field, on my favourite walk doing its gentle thing and making me happy. I hope this brings a little light into your timeline.
Tweet media one
15
28
415
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
Almost immediately I realised that this wasn’t the sort of thing people like me should be at. Over there was Howard Jacobson, Simon Schama, and Mary Beard. And then in walked Ian Hislop! In between were huddles of authors and celebs I recognised but couldn’t tell you their names.
Tweet media one
1
10
399
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 months
Some very disappointing news this week, we have heard that @UoYArchaeology is being unceremoniously booted out of #KingsManor . How many of us have called this place home? How many students have learnt about the past while immersed in it? Stupid, crass and financially driven.
Tweet media one
45
64
399
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
Strangled by embarrassment, I hid in an empty side room and pretended to look at books, plotting my escape. Turning to leave I was stopped by a friendly woman. I apologised and told her this isn’t my sort of thing. Her name was Tracy.
1
8
396
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 months
I was introduced to the extraordinary Kingsteignton Figure last night. Carved from oak, he dates to between 426 and 352BCE. Found in 1867 in waterlogged ground near a river to the south of Exeter. #FindsFriday
Tweet media one
11
65
400
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
A whole stack of good luck.
Tweet media one
9
38
388
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
“With this diamond I cut this glass, with this face I kissed a lass.” A wonderful piece of graffiti carved into window glass at King’s Manor, York. I’m told it *might* be by Anne Lister who was a schoolgirl here.
Tweet media one
9
57
373
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Who remembers this game? Basically Wordle with colours.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
38
17
364
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Yeah the prehistoric gold is ok, but the best part of the World of Stonehenge exhibition is easily these flint arrowheads. Especially the top one we excavated in Marden henge, Wiltshire. #FlintFriday #FindsFriday
Tweet media one
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
The extraordinary beauty of this Late Neolithic long-tailed, ripple-flaked oblique arrowhead from Marden henge, Wiltshire! On display in the @WiltshireMuseum
Tweet media one
34
142
969
17
53
362
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Cruising down the middle of a Roman road today. In the distance the winding still-used road slithering up towards the sky.
Tweet media one
9
23
361
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
I’ll carry on posting on this site while there’s still interest. When that stops, I’ll stop. And I’ll continue to keep it positive. So here’s a path from yesterday’s travels. Spot the hound in the fernery. #HollowayWednesday #Holloways #Paths
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
11
27
364
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Some paths are just more pathier than others. And some paths manage to wrap themselves around you so completely that they exist for real in your dreams. #HollowayWednesday
Tweet media one
8
29
357
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
How pathetically senseless. What would drive a young lad to do this? Hopelessness? A desire to be famous/infamous? A lack of pride and respect in the world around them.
Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall

Police in north of England say teenager arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage

www.theguardian.com
54
46
349
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
Heavenly displays over North Yorkshire tonight! Breathtakingly magical. #aurora #yorkshire
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
5
48
346
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
Struggling a bit this morning and had to get out. This view of a holloway lifted me a little - maybe it will help someone else.
Tweet media one
13
21
335
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
14 days
For all you hunters of the Neolithic and lovers of the megalithic - the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney! One of the very finest Neolithic stone circles, and one of the earliest. #StandingStoneSunday
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
11
58
324
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
The Rudston monolith, a prehistoric menhir, standing alongside the much later All Saints church. Undated but most likely Neolithic, and almost 8m high.
Tweet media one
10
38
307
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
A holloway so thick with atmosphere that I had to slice my way through.
Tweet media one
9
22
311
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
8 months
I love so much about this - the elephant-sized bear, but especially the two-legged fox, looking like a drollery straight from Hieronymus Bosch’s mind.
Tweet media one
3
4
306
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
A walk, an old droveway, and a reclaiming of headspace.
Tweet media one
8
18
293
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Lovely to spend the morning walking around Rievaulx Abbey and catching up with the archaeological legends that are Martin Bell and Jennifer Foster.
Tweet media one
7
14
285
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
I’ve just discovered this cracking little holloway in my village. If you want me I’ll be mostly walking up and down it today.
Tweet media one
9
13
287
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
This magnificent profile belongs to a huge late 16th century cruck-framed manor house originally in Harome. Later moved and rebuilt in Hutton Le Hole.
Tweet media one
7
22
275
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
I think I stepped into the Mesolithic today.
Tweet media one
8
10
271
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
8 months
I especially like the people riding on the back of this cow. It also has a sail so I guess they sailed it across the English Channel.
Tweet media one
11
13
278
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
27 days
Of all the wonders of Orkney (and there are many) the one that surprises me the most, digging deep to my bones, is the Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm. Built from two end-to-end Nissen huts by Italian POWs captured in North Africa and led by the talented artist Domenico Chiocchetti.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
12
52
278
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Glimpsing Whitby Abbey.
Tweet media one
6
36
259
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
24 days
It was a huge privilege to visit the excavation of a series of Neolithic buildings, dating to between 3300 and 3000 BCE, on the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney. I’ve waited many years to see this site in person and I wasn’t going to miss its last week.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
8
18
257
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
7 years
Today was a good day digging our Early Neolithic long barrow at Cat's Brain. @UoR_FieldSchool #CatsBrain #Archaeology #sexyflintfinds
Tweet media one
13
35
239
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
5 years
My favourite letter of the year! An old key for me to study. Also, do I have ‘a hat like Indiana Jones’.
Tweet media one
10
27
242
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
11 months
I might be alone on this, but I love a good archaeological store! This is EH’s northern store. No Ark of the Covenant, but here are some treasures I spotted, or was lucky enough to be shown.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
18
24
234
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 month
Let the sounds of this river cleanse your timeline. Amid the anger and fury, let’s not forget the beauty and wonder in the world.
13
47
240
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
25 days
Let me introduce you to Midhowe stalled tomb in Rousay. Built in the Early Neolithic around 5,400 BCE, it is the largest tomb in Orkney. The monument is divided up into 12 compartments using stone slabs to form ‘stalls’, some with stone benches.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
10
35
236
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
26 days
Few monuments are as easily recognisable, as immediately iconic, and as elegantly impossible as the Stones of Stenness in Orkney. Thin, dark, jagged slashes of stone slicing the sky wide open.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
6
23
235
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
6 years
#SilburyHill today, surrounded by dandelions.
Tweet media one
7
52
226
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
The wonderful Kirby Bank Trod on the North York Moors. A ‘trod’ is a paved routeway made of flagstones. This one is medieval and used to transport fish and salt linking Rievaulx Abbey to the River Tees. It is one of the very few paths designated as a Scheduled Monument.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
6
46
224
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
Oh go on then - I’ll just see what’s through this gate, around that corner.
Tweet media one
8
14
226
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
A difficult mental health day for me today, and so - since it’s Wednesday - I’m out walking some of my favourite holloways. #HollowayWednesday
Tweet media one
23
7
221
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
7 years
Calling non-fiction books ‘non-fiction’ always strikes me as negative. Who’s up for a campaign to re-name them ‘factual’ and fiction books ‘non factual’? Anyone?
35
48
218
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
The hauntingly beautiful Saxon stone church in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.
Tweet media one
5
23
215
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
11 months
Agreed!
Tweet media one
4
23
205
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Happy New Year everyone! May all your paths ahead be as luminous as this holloway.
Tweet media one
4
13
204
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
5 years
Hello buddy. This peacock #butterfly just dropped in and I’m loving the smiley alien faces on its wings.
Tweet media one
5
13
200
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
10 months
Yesterday’s path was gamboge - full of the vivid yellows of autumn, even on a grey and misty day.
Tweet media one
9
15
197
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
Welcome to the dark side of the year! I will be enjoying #Samhain with the Rudston monolith. At nearly 8m tall it’s the largest standing stone in the UK. A magnus lapis. A menhir and one Obelix’s finest. The greatest of all prehistoric monuments.
Tweet media one
4
32
196
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
Who’s up for #hollowaywednesday ? Because, why not.
Tweet media one
8
13
194
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
8 months
A deeply-incised, lichen-sided, fern-fringed, leafy-bottomed sunken way for today’s #HollowayWednesday
Tweet media one
4
25
194
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
A short but perfectly formed holloway. Just right for stepping out into 2022.
Tweet media one
6
8
194
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
3 years
A familiar sight emerging from the fog.
Tweet media one
9
6
193
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
8 months
Ok, I tried the Early Neolithic arriving in boats image again, and this is what it gave me. I think the men have been breading with the sheep during the journey.
Tweet media one
4
5
191
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
1 year
Here’s Bryn Celli Ddu - The Mound in the Dark Grove - a Neolithic passage tomb for #TombTuesday . An iconic monument on Anglesey with a solstitial alignment.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
4
23
190
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
8 months
I asked it for an image of the first Neolithic pioneer farmers arriving in Britain with their domesticated animals, and this is what it gave me. 😂
Tweet media one
14
9
190
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
11 months
Autumn begins to creep up the paths. #HollowayWednesday
Tweet media one
7
16
188
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
10 months
I’m absolutely delighted to find that #Footmarks is one of @Waterstones History books of the year! In celebration, here’s my current, colourful autumnal walk.
Tweet media one
18
25
185
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
2 years
A happy #Imbolc holloway for today’s #HollowayWednesday
Tweet media one
1
14
184
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
6 years
They were used to move commodities across the moors, from markets and the big producers, such as monasteries, or by panniermen to carry fish inland. Some, like this one, are followed by later roads.
Tweet media one
6
18
175
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 years
Already highlighted by many archaeologists so this is for my non-archaeologist friends. Professional Archaeology / Development-led Archaeology (whatever you want to call it) is NOT the poorer cousin of academic archaeology, but a vastly superior one.
9
19
177
@Jim_Leary
Jim Leary
@Jim_Leary
4 months
Digging daub. Remarkably we’ve found a collapsed 5th/6th century wattle and daub wall at Skipsea. The grooves along it are wattle impressions. An early medieval crafting workshop perhaps. The later Skipsea castle visible in the background. Behold the joy of digging! #Skipsea2024
Tweet media one
7
21
180