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1/ Being an archaeologist is a wonderful thing, but we should all be paid to reflect the experience, responsibility and expertise we bring. That we are in this position more than 30 yrs after the requirement for archaeological work ahead of development was brought in is an outrage.
An amber necklace dating back to ca 400 AD, found in a grave of a Germanic woman in Schleitheim, Switzerland.
The woman, who died between the age of 25 to 29 years, was buried with various valuable possessions, including silver jewelry and glass beads, in addition to the...🧵 1/2
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Spotted this chonky piece of #Roman ceramic in the excellent Manchester Museum yesterday
Incised with part of the ROTAS OPERA TENET AREPO SATOR palindrome which may be an early Christian word square
Probably late 2nd c AD
Found in Manchester in 1978
The Missing Lynx is such a fabulous book, I really enjoyed reading it and I learned so much!
Just a dose of #Archaeology Zen. Sealed agricultural layers by the coast of Southwestern Norway. Black and brown layers are the old agricultural fields. The bottom one is both field and the initial forrest clearance in the Bronze Age. Fields were regularly covered by sand over time.
I’m so pleased that some places are still having loads, we normal do but not this year, we had so few butterflies too…
A bumble bee resting on a planning board which is being used to record archaeological deposits
This year I’ve hardly seen any bees in the North East, UK- is it the same elsewhere?
Here is one that visited our excavations last year
