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Chocolates as a work of art from Ben Le Prevost in #Guernsey, taste very good too 😁 #photography

It's certainly a lot more noticeable than the earlier family tomb, in the Brothers' Cemetery just down the road, which has just this faint inscription at the base of one side... they were moving up in the world in death as in life!

For #TombTuesday here's a mid-nineteenth century vault in Candie Cemetery, #Guernsey, with a very strong archaeological connection: it's the resting place of Frederick Corbin Lukis (1788-1871), pioneer of #archaeology in the Channel Islands 🏺

We get these in #Guernsey too (though sadly not very often)

A beautiful day to be working on Lihou Island, #Guernsey #photography

I was trying to give it the benefit of the doubt until I got to 'desedimented ontological framings', whatever they are

Every now and then I get an email which reminds me why I'm glad not to be a proper academic any more 😉

A few more #Sark pics from the last few days, we've had a great time #photography

Made some new friends on #Sark

The sun came out, for a few minutes... Dixcart Bay #Sark looking beautiful today

Rush hour on #Sark just finished

It's holiday time. On the freight boat to #Sark 😁

For @nicholasroyle.bsky.social a fine inclusion. Let's hope he/she wasn't in a confusional state when they made this journey #books

For #StandingStoneSunday, a picture of Callanish back in the summer (sic) of 2024 #archaeology

Not quite the highest point (that's at the airport), but it is at a very prominent location, with a view of almost 180 degrees over the north of the island - including the various megalithic tombs on L'Ancresse. Is it EBA, or earlier? I think Serge Cassen et al would have it as early Neo...

The recent storms have exposed a big area of the Vazon #Guernsey peat beds, formed about 5000 years ago. Didn't spot any Neolithic stone axes (or anything else) on a quick visit yesterday, but worth another look before the sand comes in again #archaeology 🏺

I'm always pleased to add to my collection of archaeological distribution maps that miss off the Channel Islands...😉 this is quite common in French publications. We're not French, and not quite English, so we don't exist? #archaeology

I've missed #TombTuesday again, but as this morning I'm looking into representations of the Table des Marchands, Locmariaquer, on behalf of a French colleague, here's a charming ink on tracing paper sketch by one of the Lukis family, mid 19th century #Brittany #archaeology 🏺

The Elling Woman Need I introduce the Tollund Man To the Elling Woman? Didnt she cook Flaxseed and barley porridge for him? Didnt she braid her tresses and tie them On top of her mysterious skull? And Werent they happy to be hanged together And laid in their preservative pools Among bog cotton and asphodel? They both seem to be sleeping soundly

A previously unpublished poem by Michael Longley.
Maybe it's Irishness, and bogs, and that innate understanding for the darkness most of us have, but so many poets have written of bog bodies.

Just watched the Islander come into #Guernsey, that must have been a hell of a night... #sea #shipping

Fantastic sea around Castle Cornet #Guernsey this morning #photography

Looks familiar

I'm writing up an excavation report on a site previously dug in 1968. Here's an excerpt from the original pot report, published in 1983, but which reads more like 1953... let's just say it hasn't aged well #archaeology 🏺

Unusual start to our #archaeology watching brief this morning... #Guernsey

I remember trips to London to use the orange internet cafe on Tottenham Court Rd to book trains to Italy. Also asking for a return to Bologna from Oxford when they started offering international tickets. I did get it, but I don't think the guy on the desk was very happy after the first hour or so 🤭

Alessandra Olanow. How We Disappear. #AlessandraOlanow #poem #poetry

For #TombTuesday here's a rather earlier photograph of the Crucuno dolmen in Erdeven, from almost exactly the same perspective - from the Lukis Archive at #Guernsey Museum #archaeology 🏺

A cracking start to the year from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing is a great novel from Alice Evelyn Yang #books

Storm #Goretti has taken down the last of the big eucalyptus trees in the Brothers' Cemetery, #Guernsey - remarkably without any serious damage to the vaults beneath it!

For today’s #FindsFriday, the Norfolk Carnyx!

An Iron Age war horn built to be seen and heard and to unsettle. Polybius wrote that its sound in battle seemed to 'emanate from the entire countryside'. More to come, including on #DiggingforBritain next week.

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