Jim Leary

That’s rather fine! Mine is undoubtedly a David Inshaw.

Yep, nope, nope.

😝 There’s some truth in that!

Thanks Sue. Absolutely true!

Thanks Mike. Yes, that’s true.

Academia! 🙄

Thanks Dan.

Glorious is the word!

Absolutely - a wonder monument that forces everyone to utter a ‘wow’.

You must! There’s nothing like it anywhere else.

I still remember Vicki Cummings review of the monograph in Antiquity stating that the work was ‘small-scale’ and ‘we’ve learnt nothing new’! A multi-million pound project in which we spent a year inside the mound fundamentally revising the phasing! Or MPP saying the we ‘failed to find a reason’ 😜

I found it a huge privilege and am immensely proud of what we did. Because it wasn’t a university project it never received the recognition it deserved from Neolithic specialists - especially those involved in Avebury and Stonehenge - and that’s to their shame. It was an iconic excavation.

A photo of Silbury Hill taken from the lay-by, showing the green grass-covered mound surrounded by a water-filled ditch.

The heart-quickening sight of an old friend. #SilburyHill - the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. A Neolithic monument I once spent a year inside. It is a mass of ancient matter, and quicksilver - substantial, heavy, brilliant, yet can’t be pinned down. #Neolithic

Thank you! These are very useful.

Sorry I missed this. Ditto reply to quote.

Thank you.

Thank you, that’s interesting! I guess repeated low heat would also eventually change the colour of the stones and heat damage them.

A photo of York students excavating a Saxon building with Skipsea castle in the background.

A photo of York students excavating an early medieval timber hall with Skipsea castle in the background.

A photo of York students excavating a Saxon building with Skipsea castle in the background.

A photo of a Saxon building.

Get your popcorn 🍿 ready for tonight - 8pm BBC2, our excavations at #Skipsea in Holderness will be on #DiggingforBritain.
@uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

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A photo of York students excavating a Saxon building with Skipsea castle in the background.

A photo of York students excavating an early medieval timber hall with Skipsea castle in the background.

A photo of York students excavating a Saxon building with Skipsea castle in the background.

A photo of a Saxon building.

Get your popcorn 🍿 ready for tonight - 8pm BBC2, our excavations at #Skipsea in Holderness will be on #DiggingforBritain.
@uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

Ha! I think I must’ve done the same.

Photo of wooden club-like handle with a greenstone axe inserted into a socket within it.

The Ehenside Tarn axe, found in Cumbria in 1869, now in the British Museum. An early Neolithic stone axe from Langdale, with its original wooden handle still attached. The haft always reminds me of Captain Caveman’s club!
#FindsFriday

Huge fan of Hong Kong Phooey!

Yes, I think far too precious for that.

😂 But the Flintstones would definitely have had a stone club, not a wooden one. So there is a difference.

Excellent!

Of the things that influenced my career - Asterix, Chelmsford 123, etc - I reckon Captain Caveman was one of the biggest.

I know, right!

😂 Loved Captain Caveman!