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Archaeologist, researcher, chocolate artefact maker, mum ~ Torcs & gold @

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Dr Tess Machling

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Well, here it is - a torc found in 1848 & which has rarely been seen off display. It was last written about in 1936 & until now, there were only a few images of it. I give you the Needwood Forest torc in all its glory. #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs

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The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 14 Needwood Forest up close

Firstly, I must offer my grateful thanks to Kathryn Jones (Senior Curator of Decorative Arts), Karen Lawson (Images and rights manager) and the team at the Royal Collection Trust who have so genero…

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Dr Tess Machling

2 months

As a member of the 'half the population', I get really annoyed when someone decides they can speak for me. I don't think that allowing trans people to be as they are has ever affected me, nor will it in future. Just leave them alone. #IDoNotStandWithJkRowling #NotInMyName

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My David Attenborough story, for his 98th birthday. A few years ago, I decided to write to David to let him know how much his work meant to me - he was one of my childhood heros, 'Life On Earth' was incredible to this 5 year old... So I wrote a letter... 🧵

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A week passed and the post arrived... and, oh my goodness, he'd done it again - a lovely, personal, handwritten note. My daughter was ecstatic! We couldn't believe his kindness. The man is truly a treasure. Happy birthday David Attenborough! ❤️

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Dr Tess Machling

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You come for trans women, you come for every woman who doesn't fit your ridiculous stereotype of what women should look like, should behave like etc. Feminism has fought long & hard for women to be whoever they are. That includes *all* women. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Cis woman harassed by transphobe for using the toilet. She handles it very well, but admits on a later video that she was very upset by it and was on the verge of tears, the ending is good though

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Dr Tess Machling

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Just voted & discovered that you can make an official complaint about requirement for photo ID at the vote - election officers will take down your complaint name & address & pass it to the elections teams... so please folks - have your say! #Vote #PhotoID #Elections2023

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A week later, almost by return of post, I received a handwritten reply, thanking me for my letter and saying how much he appreciated my taking the time to write. It was so lovely to receive.

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Dr Tess Machling

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Anglo-Saxon doesn't = white. Roman doesn't = white. Celts doesn't either. There is not one person who can trace a 'pure' genetic lineage, because genetic lineages aren't pure. You have millions of ancestors. Stop trying to shoehorn your racism into an imagined past.

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Anyway, my daughter, 8yrs old at the time and utterly obsessed with narwals and Birds of Paradise, decided she too wanted to write to her hero.... she even included her very own Parotia in a picture she'd drawn...

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Dr Tess Machling

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@pritipatel Utter hypocrisy from you. BTW they're still kneeling, still feeding kids, still wearing rainbows - and these wins will just be cementing their political power... Oops!!! 😂

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Dr Tess Machling

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Have to say well done to #MeghanMarkle , not only for winning against the Daily Mail (again)... but also for getting 'Daily Fail' into her press release about the case! 🤣

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We sent the letter & I was so anxious - to be lucky enough to receive 1 letter from DA was a miracle, but to receive 2?? His not responding, although totally understandable, however, would be like being rejected by Father Christmas for my little girl.

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Turns out there's these things called Sand Spheres for zen gardens, sensory kind of things. Anyone tried this with a Neolithic carved stone ball?? And yes, I'm serious. Alt-text: a series of textured balls which leave intricate patterns when rolled in sand. #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

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This is why we don't chuck stuff at Stonehenge - if @JustStop_Oil had done their flipping homework... What they've just done is ecological vandalism. So very stoopid from a supposed eco-org. (And yes, climate change is real & terrifying, but this isn't the way) #Archaeology

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Even what grows on Stonehenge is fascinating! Over 70 different species of lichen have been found on the stones, several of which are very rare. Strangely, some are usually only found on exposed coastlines.

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@oldenoughtosay 👇

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Feeling grotty and having insomnia on hyperdrive means I've got plenty of time to toddle around the internet observing the far-right grifters falling out. A 🧵 So far...

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Christmas a few years ago, I was going through a terrible time. Wasn't suicidal, but I was at rock bottom. I called Samaritans + spent 1/2 hour pouring my heart out. They listened + helped me assemble my thoughts. It got me through. If you need them, call. 📞116 123

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Dr Tess Machling

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As a 53 year old cis woman and an inclusive and intersectional feminist... ...and also because I think we should respect everyone's right to be truly who they are. #IStandAgainstJKRowling

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I thought it might be useful to look at Ch*ddar Man as it appears so often in archaeological groups and is like catnip for the far right and white supremacists. Long thread....

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Meanwhile, the Tories are throwing each other, and Fartage and Nasty-Lemon, under the bus in a desperate attempt to try and show it really wasn't them that started all this... Rats in a bag. Perfect. ❤️

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Dr Tess Machling

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'So let me get this straight - you drank warm lager with some people you barely speak to normally and sang 'We'll meet again' before doing a conga to Black Lace......'

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Dr Tess Machling

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Hands up if you're an archaeology graduate?🤚 Me? BA (Hons) UCL 1992, PhD Southampton 2004

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Results of our Experimentball (geddit?) Archaeology so far: - Rounder, deeper furrowed, ones work well in sand. - Less finely decorated nobbled ones work OK in sand too. - Finely decorated ones work OK in clay, but seem much better for making pigment prints. #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

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I would like to point out Sir David Attenborough is 95 years old. 95. And yet he offers the courtesy of being engaged and present... Johnson? Mask off, clearly bored or asleep. #COP26 #COP26Glasgow

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Dr Tess Machling

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@oldenoughtosay And of course... the Shall Never Be Bettered:

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I'm sorry... but this really is hilarious... WOKE SCONES!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Dr Tess Machling

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Just a quick reminder that the historian who thinks slavery wasn't so bad and the archaeologist who thinks a degree is dishonest DO NOT represent the rest of us who are - just for the record - utterly, totally and 100% incandescent with rage at their appalling statements.....

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Dr Tess Machling

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That's going to cost a bit... Good!!

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Lewis Warner

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NEW: Owners of the Crooked House pub have been ordered to rebuild it. @andy4wm said: “An enforcement notice has been issued against the owners for its unlawful demolition. “They have been ordered to rebuild the pub back to what it was before the fire.” @itvcentral

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Dr Tess Machling

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I won't tag her in it, but I am so immensely proud of my lovely friend for writing this - in @archaeologyuk British Archaeology magazine too. It's so very brave and it really REALLY needed saying... #Archaeology #Alcohol #Addiction

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Dr Tess Machling

3 years

Despite being millenia apart, there are some things which do not change....

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Roman stone-carved penis uncovered during Yorkshire archaeological dig. ⛏️ The *11inch* dong is complete with line of ejaculate 🍆💦 1st century CE.

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Dr Tess Machling

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It's slowly dawning on Nasty-Lemon's acolytes that he's buggered off on his luxury holibobs to Ayia Napa and left them to take the rap. Even his lawyer has dumped him. Oh, and Florence Fox has run away to Ireland, which hasn't impressed his 'stand and fight' army of doofers...

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Dr Tess Machling

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Ok following the 'events' of the last couple of days I thought it might be useful to provide a quick 'How to spot a nasty in an archaeological forum' guide, because they're not always obvious to those beyond the field of archaeology.... Thread.

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Dr Tess Machling

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Stupid, stupid, stupid. I am 100% behind the urgent need to limit climate change, my mum was a founding member of the Green Party and I've been living a green life for 40+ years... but this is just plain ridiculous and alienating. 😔

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Stonehenge damaged by protestors today 😭

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Dr Tess Machling

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Ok, folks, time for a timeline cleanse... Torcs, glorious torcs! If you want to know more, you can find out lots about them - all free and open access - at: #Archaeology #Gold

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@fgnunn Oh that's wonderful! ❤️

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

This is the Restore Trust... denegrating, snobbish, elitist. We cannot have our history, because that might disrupt theirs. Well tough. We stand against them. (BTW he blocked me... and I'm still no closer to finding out what RT will actually do with the #NationalTrust ! 🤣🤣)

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Dr Tess Machling

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Tate - a supposed Muslim - has got himself in the crap with his Muslim followers for backing Nasty-Lemon. Those who've backed Tate are also getting crap, because Tate backed Nasty-Lemon.

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Dr Tess Machling

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Oh and BTW this delightful man isn't just @RestoreTrustNT ... he's also a founder member of History Reclaimed, and a writer for The Spectator... This kind of misogynistic, abusive response is the level of debate you get from these folks...

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Nasty-Lemon has fallen out with Fartage because Fartage is desperately trying to back pedal from any association with Nasty-Lemon, Tice, his incitement and any suggestion that he's a total shite - and is now pointing the finger at Nasty-Lemon.

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Dr Tess Machling

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*This* is why we need historians and archaeologists... oh and good journalists, and to get rid of the Sun etc etc...... Oh. My. Goodness....😂 Tattoo artist 'finds Robin Hood's Silver Arrow' while magnet fishing in Sherwood Forest

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Tattoo artist 'finds Robin Hood's Silver Arrow' while fishing in Sherwood Forest

A TATTOO artist believes he has found Robin Hood’s fabled Silver Arrow while magnet fishing in Sherwood Forest. Kush Wray, 32, became a Merry Man after pulling the arrowhead from a stream near the …

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who got involved in Project Stone Balls: so many likes, questions, ideas & some superb experiments. ❤️ It isn't over yet - I'm going to carry on looking into this & test some of the ideas. I'll keep you posted! 😊 #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

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But the one thing we need to be very careful of is allowing archaeology to be co-opted by those with modern hate agendas. The past is always political, but that does not mean it can be used as a mechanism for hate.

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Dr Tess Machling

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I haven't made any new #chocolate artefacts for ages as they stopped making the moulding putty I used to use, and I haven't found a good replacement yet... But here's a 🧵 of some of the ones I have made over the years... #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

4 months

These are highly distinctive items. The torc had a huge diameter 126.5cm, much bigger than many. If you know anything, please come forward... and please, please share! #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #BronzeAge

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Sadly, in the early hours of Tuesday 7 May, Ely Museum was broken into. Thieves stole the East Cambridgeshire gold torc and a gold bracelet, both dating from the Bronze Age. The police are currently investigating the theft. We will be closed to the public on Wednesday 8 May.

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@pritipatel Yup, we're very proud of them because they are everything you and your govt aren't... .... they even feed disadvantaged kids!

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@JuliaHB1 @matthaig1 You might need to get your facts straight... It was a British response - a true British one. The kind of Britain I love - where a Polish chap, a Catalan chap + others from Britain + who knows where else take on a common foe. Except this isn't the kind of Britain you mean, is it?

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Dr Tess Machling

3 years

Archaeologist? Nope, sorry, you're no longer one of us...

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@jamiesont From 2022... and the builders hit back:

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FAO: @DailyMailUK This is what our construction workers at Hinkley Point think about your "woke" builders story 🙄

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@Rob_ThaBuilder @OogleyBoogly @OwenJHurcum Ok. Non-transgender archaeologist here, of 35 years' training, under-graduate, post-graduate, and working as a field archaeologist, researcher and finds specialist. Owen is absolutely correct.

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Dr Tess Machling

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Balls! Balls to the lot of you, I say! 🤣 For anyone just discovering wonder that is Neolithic Carved Stone Balls, this book is must read: BTW this is my favourite. The utterly stunning Towie ball, found in 1860: #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

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I am gobsmacked

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HELLO new followers, thank you for support: hugely appreciated. Me? I'm an archaeologist specialising in Iron age gold, love cats, hate hate-speech, make stuff in chocolate & REALLY can't stand gatekeeping! Oh, and I'm now going by Mad-Eye Tess (best pirate name EVER!!! 🤣)

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Romanists: We've got this weird type of artefact!! Prehistorians: Hold my pint... 🤣 #Archaeology #Prehistory #Romans #Dodecahedra #Mystery

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Dr Tess Machling

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I've had a crappy week so settled down to watch lunacy that is the new #Boudica film. It is gloriously, wonderfully, terrible. Upside - wonderful ancestral theme to artefact stories & *loads* of torcs (...even if one of them is Ipswich terminal pendant sold in BM shop!!!! 🤣🤣)

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Facebook reminded me of the time I made torc 'soap on a rope'. 🤣🤣🤣 #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

Oh my! Overnight, my followers tipped 7000! Hello lovely people! 😊 Apologies for not liking, thanking, everyone who stood up to the bullies - my mentions went off the scale!! 🤣 For all those asking - yes, I make archaeology things in chocolate, just for fun & the challenge:

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Dr Tess Machling

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👇 Open letter calling for the reframing of the #Stonehenge debate. Please read. If you're an #archaeologist please sign & share. Thank you 😊 (Pls check junk mail if verification email doesn't arrive within couple of mins!) #Archaeology #Prehistory

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Dr Tess Machling

3 years

'1945 - Boris Johnson' trending. Listen Mr Johnson - You are not Churchill. You will not *be* Churchill. Wars are really not a good thing. Diplomacy means not making stupid comparisons to WW2. Just please shut up.

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Dr Tess Machling

4 years

A few misconceptions - #StonehengeTunnel #Stonehenge #SaveStonehenge Thread 1) The tunnel is not going 'under' Stonehenge. It will actually be further away than the current road. The tunnel will be bored through bedrock for its length.

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Dr Tess Machling

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@dgurdasani1 @chrischirp Really interesting that the BBC coverage includes this... "people ending isolation on day seven are strongly advised to limit contact with vulnerable people, not visit crowded or poorly ventilated spaces, and work from home." So clearly, not safe.

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Dr Tess Machling

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@NicholasPegg It just gets better... Yes, that really is Gulliver's Travels and The Game of Lives!!!!

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Well *of course* I was going to..... Snorc!!!!! 😂 ❄️

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Awwww... not besties anymore...

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P. S. The past is *always* political

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

Ok ball-fanciers, latest bit of experiment from torc partner & replica maker Roll Williamson using spiral deco ball he made. Sand is gritty & wet. Again, patterns you get from design vary hugely! ❤️ Also, check out his website. Lovely stuff: #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

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Took my new phone to the BM the other day - works pretty well through glass!! ❤️ (And it's #AskAnArchaeologist day @AskAnArchDay so get those questions in!!) #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs

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I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all you lovely folks who have shown up to let this man know that he's rude & that the org he represents is unrecognised by good people P.S. if you're #NationalTrust member, please vote - FOR NT candidates & resolutions. This matters so much.

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Ok... this is all the fault of @richardhosgood 😂 I give you the Chorc!! Cheese strings and babybel terminals.....

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Whoever created this is an absolute genius! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

Locking down my account for the night so I'm not troubled by grumpy men with 3 followers and a flag... Sleep well all. And for new followers, here's some archaeological chocolate I made, just to say hello, and thank you. 😊

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... and please folks, if you do this, be kind to the election staff- they're doing a thankless task and are likely to get a lot of trouble today. If you have to wait when it's busy, wait kindly. The election folks are not those at fault here!!

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So. Much. Information. Lost. If you go out with a detector, you need to know what you should do in various scenarios. The archaeological story we can tell is the wonderful part, but finds without context/or with damaged context have very little story to tell. #Archaeology

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Essex FLO & Team

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Another day, another Bronze Age hoard ripped from its context by a member of the public. How can we stop this from happening? @findsorguk

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As an aside, Kemp writes in his book that the ‘Neolithic era also saw the introduction of iron-working, which replaced bronze as the metal of choice, bringing an end to the Bronze Age’ (Kemp 2018, 41) which, to be honest, tells you exactly how much Kemp knows about archaeology😳

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@jk_rowling @OwenJonesStan @Naeluckmate @MinnOrchia What an utterly vile thing to say. This is anti-trans abuse.

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Well, here it is. The Crazy Paper AKA - ‘All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order’: The riddle of the ‘ #Pulborough Area’ #torc from #Sussex . by Tess Machling, Roll Williamson & Giovanna Fregni. 1/6 #Archaeology #Gold

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‘All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order’: The riddle of the ‘Pulborough Area’...

by Tess Machling, Roll Williamson & Giovanna Fregni [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10511405 The ‘Pul…

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Dr Tess Machling

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So who *were* the Celts? And despite what many think, yes, they did really exist, just not quite in the traditional way the word has been used! Lovely primer here from Rachel @pre_historian #Archaeology #Celts #IronAge #Prehistory

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Who were the Celts?

Sometimes artefacts discovered in Scotland are identified as ‘Celtic’ and groups of people from Scotland’s past are referred to as ‘Celtic tribes’. Is this accurate? What does it mean? And who are...

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Morning! A favourite photo for Friday: how #torcs often arrive when you have them taken off display for research. I love this photo: there's real skill & craft in protecting artefacts! Thanks Jim 😊 P.s. you can see these on display @NtlMuseumsScot #Archaeology #Gold

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@ZareerMasani @aljhlester @nationaltrust @RestoreTrustNT We both have doctorates, yes? So which other qualifications would establish me as suitable? So far it would appear we're both similarly qualified.

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Wonderful image of female Bronze Age metalworker from the extremely talented Tom Bjorklund.... No reason why not. None at all.

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Why would you do this???

@HitsNENews

Hits Radio News | North East

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The iconic Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian's Wall Path in Northumberland has been felled overnight. We're waiting more information on this. Pics - Amanda Marks, Author, Facebook.

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Not just me - Dr Masani now being deeply offensive & misogynistic to other respected women scholars (I won't tag them, but it's there). @UniofOxford @RoyalHistSoc do your really want your alumni, fellows, behaving like this to women & others in education? #History #Archaeology

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@CeliaRichards0n I particularly love the fact their photo of a woke scone has a pot of clotted cream in it!! 🤣🤣

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2 years

I look at this and I can see the maker at work...I can hear the tap, tap, tap of hammer on punch - there's so much movement.

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Dr Tess Machling

4 years

@lewis_goodall No podium announcement, no sign of Williamson or Johnson... Just a piece on the news with the head of Ofqual. Do they not realise how important it was for them to take this seriously and apologise????

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Dr Tess Machling

8 months

Other.. ahem...'bits' look a bit lumpy too, @MatthewPope ... ...but he's certainly got a 3D nose!! 🤣 #Archaeology

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8 months

I was today-years-old when I first learned the Cerne Abbas giant had a 3D, sticky-outy nose.

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Dr Tess Machling

4 years

Well, here it is - 'Thoughts on the Grotesque torc'. Our paper about how the repairs to a single torc can tell a big story about a hoard, a site - + even the decline of goldsmithing in later Iron Age Britain. w/ @bodgit_bendit . Thread. Please share 😊

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Thoughts on the Grotesque torc and the Snettisham (Ken Hill) hoards in the light of new research by...

[An open access PDF of this paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4039630) can be downloaded HERE] Abstract This paper examines the Grotesque torc and its repairs in relation to the hoards from Ken Hill, Snett…

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Dr Tess Machling

10 months

My daughter took the best Bruce photo ever...❤️ #Cat #Bruce #CatWhoIsNotMyCat

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Dr Tess Machling

3 years

Seventy one years ago today, on 17th November 1950, young Tom Rout (aged 22) was ploughing the by now infamous Snettisham goldfield. He turned up one of the most iconic British archaeological finds - the Great torc. Thread.

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

Ok folks... my daughter is looking at unis for next year. Which ones are being totally vile to their staff - over the marking boycott, etc - so we can judge accordingly/ask some questions at open days etc? @UCEA1 - we're watching. #ucuRISING #MAB #SettleTheDispute

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Dr Tess Machling

3 years

A huge well done to @doctor_oxford and all the other women on the @BBCPanorama programme for speaking so eloquently and bravely regarding the abuse they've suffered online. It has to stop.

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Dr Tess Machling

3 years

This hedgepig on wheels might just be the best prehistoric find ever....❤

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3 years

Someone carved this 3500 years ago to give to a kid 🦔 Hedgehog on carriage from Susa, Iran c.1500-1200 BC

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Dr Tess Machling

4 years

This Friday there will be a decision made about whether the Stonehenge tunnel will built. Over the years I have seen many plans put forward for Stonehenge - from previous plans for tunnels to road widening and other associated works. Thread.

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Dr Tess Machling

4 years

The importance of this is that this is one of range of possibilities: that’s good archaeology. Nobody said he looked exactly like the bust, but he *could* have done. Whatever, even had he had green eyes and slightly paler skin, he would never have looked white. Not even slightly.

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Dr Tess Machling

4 years

Arch evidence should not be dictated to by far right: it should be free to make evolving, changing discoveries which will sometimes confirm what we have believed + will sometimes throw out previous knowledge + provide conclusions that may be confronting to who we *think* we are.

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Dr Tess Machling

1 month

@PaulSchleifer I reckon banged up together in a scuzzy cell would work...

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Dr Tess Machling

3 months

Ok, I'm actually crying now!! That's me told! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

@metpoliceuk This is, to put it finely, utter crap. The supposed lock-on kit clearly wasn't & it doesn't take 14 hours in cells to discover they had been liaising with you... This is abuse of power, and you've been caught out, so now you're trying to wriggle out of it. Utterly shameful.

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

It's got nothing to do with Croydon, knives, Sadiq Kahn. It's got to do with toxic masculinity, the acceptance of misogyny, men feeling they have a right to women, a right to *abuse* women. Silence the men encouraging these attitudes. #ToxicMasculinity #FuckThePatriarchy

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Dr Tess Machling

1 year

Cheddar Man is trending because GBeebies has discovered CBBC. It's obviously That Time of Year when I dig out my Cheddar Man thread so everyone can see how awful these nutcases are. Let's see how my block list is holding up, eh? Let's go: #Archaeology

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Dr Tess Machling

4 years

I thought it might be useful to look at Ch*ddar Man as it appears so often in archaeological groups and is like catnip for the far right and white supremacists. Long thread....

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Dr Tess Machling

8 months

Welllllllll, after all, the @nationaltrust did crash the economy, created a cost of living crisis, has more kids in poverty and malnourished than ever before, gave huge amounts of cash to their cronies... ... oh, sorry, my mistake THAT WAS YOUR TORY GOVT, REES MOGG!!

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