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Dr! Adelle Bricking 🍄

1 year

Lot of talk about how often men think about the Roman Empire, but no one ever asks how often women think of Boudicca’s righteous fury and the sacking of Colchester

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3 years

What if I don’t want to ‘publish or perish’, what if I just want to vibe

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Now that it’s been declared treasure, I’m excited to finally share this incredible hoard that I was so lucky to help excavate. The c.1st century AD Llantrisant Fawr vessel hoard found near Usk, Monmouthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We named the ox, Bovril 🥰 #FindsFriday

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Digital reconstruction of a terrace house in Ephesus, Turkey 😍 #RomanSiteSaturday

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Going through old stuff at my parents’ house is like personal archaeology - I’ve just reach a layer securely dated by phone typology. A truly transformational time

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I want a job where I just go to really cool archaeological sites, maybe do some digging and find some cool stuff, take some nice pics, then tweet about it to the masses and that’s it lol

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I am so excited to announce that I have been offered the position Curator of Collections and Access for Archaeology at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales 🏛😭

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3 years

If you know, you know. #RomanFortThursday

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1 year

Yesterday, I graduated for the last time. 🥲

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2 years

Yesterday whilst looking through our pottery stores, Clara found this Roman jar with graffiti on the bottom that reads ‘Gaius the Fish-Eater’ with a drawing of an animal, possibly an otter 🦦 Did this hold pet food? SO CUTE Found during dredging in the Irish Sea #FindsFriday

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Sometimes I get really obsessed with trying to uncover some hidden intent or purpose behind an archaeological deposit. But then I think of my dad and his friends, all their totally bizarre rituals and the strange deposits that will be left behind at our farm. For example…

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#HillfortsWednesday I know many of us who frequent the hashtag will be familiar with the Atlas of Hillforts, but for those who aren’t, it’s an interactive map of every known hillfort in Britain & Ireland! Here’s the link, welcome to your new obsession

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Inside Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic burial chamber 🖤 the chaos of the outside world seems to dissipate when you step inside. Makes a good storm shelter, anyway! The name means ‘the mound in the dark grove’ #TombTuesday

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Check out this incredibly complete Bronze Age dirk that is still so very stabby after some 3000 years 🙀🗡 Found in Brecon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and responsibly reported to PAS for recording ~ #FindsFriday

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Last week I showed you an Iron Age tankard. Now get ready for: an Iron Age strainer!! *crowd goes wild* Notice the triskele design at the bottom - it gives it a sort of magical quality 😍 Deposited in a bog in Langstone, Monmouthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FindsFriday

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Ridiculously excited about some preserved medieval textile on this strap end fragment!! Look at the gorgeous pattern! 😍

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Appeal to anyone and everyone: what the heck is this little figurine? Made of lead, solid cast, flat on one side, crudely incised face and hair in a bun. Diagonal base does not seem broken. Looks like an owl person. Baffled again! 😩 #FindsFriday #AskAnArchaeologist

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3 years

*whispers* Avebury is 1000x more fun

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The world-famous Neolithic monument of Stonehenge is on everyone’s bucket-list, or seems to be – going by the droves who visit it every year – but many miss out on its sister UNESCO World Heritage Site at Avebury, only 17 miles away.

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West Kennet longbarrow dates to the early Neolithic (c.3650 BC). It was used as a burial chamber for a short time with around ~50 people buried here before it was sealed. It’s set in the magical landscape of Avebury with views of the Silbury Hill and the stone henge. #TombTuesday

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Wait. You mean to tell me that, not only was King Arthur *real*, but his burial location has been known all this time, and he’s also somehow Neolithic? What in tarnation 😂 #TombTuesday

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Last night I very carefully picked up a hedgehog who was stuck on a road because the curb was too high for hims to climb and I touched hims tiny little feet and I’ll be riding this high all the way to the afterlife, friends

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7 months

Hot take: I want to see more dioramas and miniatures in museum exhibits. What a lost art 😭

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Roman toilet at Caerleon (c. AD 75) located in the military barracks complex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Artist’s impression by yours truly #RomanFortThursday

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You deserve someone who looks at you the way I look at weird bugs living under this rock

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It’s 100BC. You’ve just shut the gate to your enclosed farmstead. All your favorite dogs are safe inside, stretching their legs to greet you. The sun is setting behind your newly thatched roof. Your husband is inside cooking stew as your kids practice their weaving. Life is good

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2 years

LOOK AT THIS STONKING BRONZE AGE PALSTAVE 🤩 c.1250-1050 BC

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I was looking through the small finds from excavations of Dinorben hillfort in Denbighshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 the other day and met this little cutie ox head escutcheon (1st-2nd century AD?)! The way I squealed when I noticed the little nostrils 🥹 #FindsFriday

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3 months

LOOK WHAT I AM RECORDING TODAY

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#FindsFriday featuring the Roos Carr figurines These creepos are among my favourite artefacts. They were carved out of yew and their cold, dead, almost certainly cursed quartzite eyes dare you to make a joke about their detachable ding dongs.

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JUST HAD THE MOST EXCITING RADIOCARBON RESULTS COME THROUGH I AM SO EXCITED I AM SHEDDING TEARS I CANNOT SHARE YET BUT HOPEFULLY A JUICY PAPER OUT EARLY 2022 I NEEDED THIS GOOD NEWS!!!

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West Kennet longarrow with Silbury Hill lurking in the background. What a totally captivating archaeological landscape. ✨ #TombTuesday

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I had the best day you guys

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Found a lone potato placed on the barracks at Caerleon today. What is this? Is this a Fae trick? I didn’t touch the potato. Should I have touched the potato? I have many questions #RomanSiteSaturday

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Omg @TheBrochProject done it again 😭😂

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I passed my viva 🥲🎉

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Interesting Iron Age Burial of the Day: A female aged >60 years, very tightly flexed, oriented west with the head turned backwards to face west. A single animal rib was placed over the skull parallel with the body. Grave entirely backfilled with *tightly packed flint nodules*

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Work in an old listed building they said, it’ll be fun they said. Look, your office has a huge single glazed window, isn’t that nice, they said! 🥲

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This week we had this gorgeous prehistoric flint knife in for recording and it totally stole the show. The craftsperson intentionally made it to include a lovely crystal fossil (it would make a cute and handy necklace!) Please forgive me for I have not a scale #FindsFriday

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I was really excited to wear my new sweater to work 🥲 behold

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…3 times with the rod and say, “can you hear me, Alfonz?” There’s no reason behind this. Alfonz wasn’t even dead. Folks in the future will be like wtf when they find Alfonz the bowling ball with a wire mustache buried next to a barn, but it was just rural old men being silly 🥲

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Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic chambered tomb, Anglesey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 As the sun rises on the summer solstice, shafts of light shine directly down the tomb’s passageway to illuminate the burial chamber within. #TombTuesday

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In case anyone else needed reminding: archaeology is not just fieldwork 🥲

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@kofflestop All of these are archaeology

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Are you really going to scroll by without saying howdy? 🥺

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Another Interesting* Iron Age Burial of the Day: Skeleton of a juvenile ~10 y.o., laid on left side with head to south-east. Neolithic flint axe (!!!), part of a chalk loomweight, and three (3) sheep/goat vertebrae directly associated along with an ARTICULATED HUMAN RIGHT FOOT.

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A look at the gargantuan ditches surrounding #MaidenCastle #hillfort with me at the bottom for scale! #HillfortsWednesday

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It’s a good Monday when something as special as this Iron Age gold stater (c.40 BC-AD 45) lands on my desk (and it’s from Wales!!!)! I am in love with these wacky little things 😍 Working for @findsorguk Cymru certainly has its perks ✨ #MondayMotivation

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Recently experienced childlike joy and wonder recording this lovely artefact - who wants to take a stab at guessing what it is? 😉 #FindsFriday

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We out here 💪 #SaveSheffieldArchaeology

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Look at this totally adorable Roman figurine that was brought in for recording this week! His winged helmet suggests he’s probably Mercury. Stay tuned for the full record and better pics! #FindsFriday

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I recently learned about these lovely little Roman bronze dogs found in Llys Awel, north Wales. They’re both licking, which means they may be associated with a healing shrine. People may have left them as gifts, hoping for a miracle 🥺 #FindsFriday

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Let it be known: today, on the second Thor’s Day in the month of Julius Caesar, anno domini 2022, I submitted my PhD thesis.

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An adorable mosaic of a pet dog sat next to a knocked-over vessel 🥹 the artist/craftsperson captured the guilty expression so perfectly! #MosaicMonday Date: 2nd century BC Place: Alexandria, El Shatby, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Site More info 👇

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It started when the finder, Jon, contacted PAS Cymru about some very important artefacts he found detecting. He had noticed there was still stuff in the ground, so he stopped digging and waited to show us the finds - including an enameled bucket mount and decorated saucepan.

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Going to visit my family in Kentucky for three weeks (leaving tomorrow) & I hope to visit some of my favourite sites, including the incredible Great Serpent Mound thought to be built by people of the Fort Ancient Culture in c. AD 1000. Does it count for #HillfortsWednesday ? 😜

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Y’all are so interesting wow I love Twitter sometimes 😭 I’ve learned so much about biology, geology, astrophysics, archaeology, history, art etc etc just from folks sharing their knowledge *for free* on this app. Thanks for being awesome 🤩

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Going through old photos from my visit to NHM Vienna and found this amazing little axe depicting a human riding either the worst rendering of a horse, or a quadrupedal velociraptor 😝 ‘Ceremonial axe’ from a Hallstatt cemetery c.600 BC (I love the shadows!!) #FindsFriday

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A careful finder recently brought in this amazing Medieval buckle to be recorded with us at PAS Cymru - with some freakin textile preserved!!! Look at the lovely delicate weave of the textile 😭 it’s so precious 😭 #FindsFriday

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If you’ve ever wondered what a tankard looked like in the Iron Age, behold: the Langstone Tankard! The wood is beautifully preserved. You can imagine a group of folks sat around a fire, quaffing grog out of this beast, telling tall tales 🍻 #FindsFriday

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My favourite standing stone at Avebury stone circle. I’m always drawn to it like a magnet. It’s absolutely massive and such an interesting shape. What, or who, did it represent? #StandingStoneSunday

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The hardest part about writing this thesis might be resisting the temptation to make d*ck jokes about Llanmelin WOOD hillfort when it’s just out here casually looking like this

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Paid a visit to Tŷ Mawr Iron Age settlement on Holyhead Mountain, Anglesey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and just…wow. It was a spiritual experience for an Iron Age fangirl like me 😍 So many beautifully preserved roundhouse foundations, it was like stepping back in time. @miguelzitof #HillfortsWednesday

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It’s #RomanSiteSaturday and to celebrate 10k followers (!!!) I will share this, my pièce de résistance, once again. My best shitpost, if you will. 🤓 📍barracks at Caerleon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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We were quite emotional after our little dig was over - see Jon was moved to the point of tears (almost lol). We placed a little bouquet of wildflowers where the hoard used to be. It was a wonderful experience with great company, beautiful scenery and fantastic archaeology. 💕

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Some impressive ditches and banks at the famous Cadbury Castle hillfort in Yeovil, Somerset! #HillfortsWednesday

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I said I’d do better at sharing what I’m doing as an archaeologist Here it is, my friends: most of my days are spent staring through a microscope in the dark 🥲

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Went to a ball in a castle last night and friends, it was as magical as it sounds ✨ My head hurts something fierce and I haven’t left my bed yet today, but it was worth it!

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When I tell y’all my soul left my body when this email hit my inbox 🥲 I AM SO EXCITED

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I taught the Missoo to show me her toofers as a trick and it makes me ridiculously happy, look at that smileeeeee 😂

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So proud to see some showstoppers from Wales at the fancy new Stonehenge exhibit at the BM! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 the Mold Cape is always the most beautiful artefact in the room like it really isn’t even fair to the other artefacts no I’m not biased why would you even say that But seriously 😍

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Worm’s Head promontory fort, Gower Peninsula - I think I’ve said this before, but I’m sure it’s the most beautiful place on earth. A #HillfortsWednesday thread:

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Had a lurvely day larking the mud and attending a lecture about mud (archaeology of the Severn estuary!!) whilst dreaming about digging that mud with @archaeo_anna 🛖👣

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My husband says it might be a bad idea to adopt a puppy when I’m trying to finish my PhD, but for the love of god, look at her 😭

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One day, my dad’s friend John attached a bowling ball with a wire fu manchu to a rebar post and strung a small length of steel rod to the post with some cable. It was meant to represent their friend, Alfonz. Every time they’d pass the effigy and have to tap the bowling ball…

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With Jon’s help, we excavated what turned out to be a rather confusing vessel hoard. When the tips of these horns started to emerge, we thought…penannular brooch? Maybe? Imagine our surprise when we flicked off the mud and exposed Bovril’s adorable little face!!! 😍

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#RomanFortThursday here’s my attempt at demonstrating the use of this structure within the barrack complex at Caerleon 😂

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I get to dig in a cave tomorrow. My first cave excavation! I GET TO DIG!!! With my HANDS!! It’s been so long I might cry 😍

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Always thinking about the Roman epitaph plaque written from the perspective of a little white dog named Pearl, who slept on a mattress and was beloved by her family 🥺 #NationalPetDay British Museum accession no. 1756,0101.1126 ⌛️1st-2nd century AD

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Stormy skies over Bryn Celli Ddu ⛈ makes a nice cozy shelter actually, and I think it looks plum inviting. ☺️ well worth a visit if you find yourself near Anglesey! #TombTuesday

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Thesis corrections accepted woohooooooo! 🎊🎉 it’s finally, totally done!!

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My family visa application has been APPROVED!! That means more archaeology of Britain shitposting for at least another 2.5 years!!! 🎉🎊

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Because the vessels were so delicate and, miraculously, so much wood preserved from the coopered vessels, most of the hoard had to be very, very carefully block lifted and painstakingly excavated in the lab by Louise, the archaeological conservator.

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St Lythan’s Neolithic (c.4000 BC) chambered tomb had an unusually tall ceiling for the time! For reference, I’m 5’6”/168cm. This would have been covered by a large earthen mound with burials placed inside. #TombTuesday

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Strange Iron Age Burial of the Day: A human female skull, a goat skull and the lower jaw of a pike fish deposited together within the fill of a ditch located near a roundhouse in Salmonsbury hillfort, Gloucestershire

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A towering Menhir (3.35m tall) excavated near the town of Neuenburg, Switzerland, now housed at the Laténium Museum on the shores of lake Neuchâtel. It looks like the face is looking down at you - very evocative 😧 #StandingStoneSunday

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I love my trowel holster and I don’t care who knows it 🥲

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We’re canceling eachother over Archaeology takes tonight what’s your worst Archaeology take and why is it that trowel holsters are cool, actually

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However you may feel about the Romans, you have to admire the cojones it took to build Isca Augusta smack dab in the middle of several prominent (and scrappy) Iron Age settlements 😬 Here is a view of Twmbarlwm hillfort from the amphitheatre! Quite a statement #RomanFortThursday

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Sometimes archaeology is staring at several data sheets made by different people, all describing the same burials but each one uses a different numbering system, and each one includes different characteristics and results from various analyses 🥲 including a 120year old book 🥲

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#TombTuesday at Tinkinswood! This massive Neolithic chambered tomb is steeped in legend - it’s said that anyone who spent the night here on the evenings before May Day, St John’s Day (23 June) or Midwinter Day would die, go mad or become a poet.

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The barracks at Caerleon. All these structures with right angles and straight lines must have been hideous to the Iron Age inhabitants of the area! #RomanFortThursday

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I very badly want to finish this thesis but I very badly don’t want to write it

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I love this mosaic of a scene from the Nile River housed at @AmgueddfaCymru . The hippo looks like he was just woken from a nap, the croc looks totally incensed, the donkey is asleep, everyone looks uncomfortable, yet it’s so beautiful! #MosaicMonday

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Look at this teeny tiny scapula (shoulder blade) recovered during archaeological excavations of Long Hole Cave, Gower 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The context is thought to be Pleistocene, so it’s possibly over ten thousand years old. It’s amazing how such a tiny thing can survive for so long🥹

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Had an amazing time presenting some of my research at #AABA2024 yesterday! My head is spinning from everything I learned, from parasite patterns in lemur populations to the impact of bipedalism on the microstructure of femoral necks. Can’t wait to see what today has in store 🤩

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#AdoorableThursday featuring St Edward’s Church, also known as the Tolkien Door or the Doors of Durin! I stumbled upon this national treasure by accident the other day and had to stop and marvel for a while. It’s just so pretty 🥹 📍Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

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#MaidenCastle is a sea of green waves. I could sit and stare at these contours all day 😍 #HillfortsWednesday

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2 years

Got to hang out with these baddies for a bit today 😍 I think I like this curatorial stuff 🌝

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Good morning, family. Today I am thinking about House Urns of Late Bronze Age of Northern Europe. This cute little ‘house urn’ was used for a cremation in 7th century BC from Königsaue, in Saxony-Anhalt 😍 #FindsFriday

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I saw this photo in a Facebook group and I’m now compelled to share it with as many humans as possible because it is so dang cute. ‘PILLAR PEETS

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As a grad student, I solved an ancient puzzle unleashing unspeakable evils into the world. To save humanity, I sold my soul to the Horned One. I will spend eternity adrift between the realms of the living and the dead. If you’re not prepared to do this and more…

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As a grad student, I read each assigned reading twice before each class discussion. This often meant reading a 300 page book twice, within a week. If you’re not prepared to do this and more, I wouldn’t pursue grad school, let alone academia.

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A corvid flying over Stonehenge on a cold winter morning. #StandingStoneSunday

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