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🗑️ 'Rigorous literacy and numeracy proficiency tests that students can take when they are ready could be introduced readily'
We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.
Bluesky: help a museum out
🤝 A 16-school trust is set to merge with a group of specialist academies, as it bids to support children with 'a broader range of needs'
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A view into the tomb, showing various pottery vessels
A view into the tomb, in the background archaeologists at work
New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
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We are up and running! Come see us at @romanpalace.bsky.social I'm off to sneak into a hypocaust!
My photo collage shows four Minoan artefacts on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top left: a rhyton (ritual vessel for pouring liquid offerings) carved from black steatite in the shape of a bull's head. Museum info: ‘only the left side of the head is original. The horns, which were not found, would have been made of gilded wood. The head and neck are rendered very naturalistically, while details such as the hair are shown in relief or rendered with incisions. The eyes are inlaid with rock crystal and jasper, while the muzzle is highlighted with inlaid white shell. The crystal preserved in the right eye has a concave back which magnifies the pupil, giving the animal a lively expressiveness’. From the Little Palace at Knossos. Neopalatial period, 1600-1500 BC. Top R: a rhyton carved from off-white limestone in the shape of a lioness’s head. It originally had coloured inlays to emphasise the eyes and muzzle, which are now lost. From Knossos Palace, 1650-1500 BC. Bottom L: Wine jar (pithamphoreas) with many handles, decorated in the marine style with octopuses, tritons, rocks and coral. From Knossos Palace, late Neopalatial period. Bottom R: Famous Minoan gold bee pendant which consists of two bees facing each other in the process of depositing a drop of honey in their honeycomb. They hold a round, granulated honeycomb between their legs and a round gold ‘drop’ of honey in their mouths. On their heads is a spherical filigree cage enclosing a solid gold sphere. Three cut-out circular gold discs decorated with filigree and granulation hang from their wings and sting. Excavated from the Chrysolakkos necropolis, Malia, Crete, dated 1800 BC.
Great news! UNESCO adds Minoan Palace sites in Crete, Greece, to World Heritage list!
Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos and Kydonia, are six archaeological sites dating 1900 to 1100 BC, representing the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture 🏺
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#Archaeology
Reducing emissions and seeing more from your trip. Would you consider switching flights for train travel? ✈️🚄
Check out Find Your Climate Action for tips on:
💰 How to book the best deals
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🚞 Scenic train routes
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A blue train running along curved tracks with buildings of Stockholm in the background.
Train travel has its own benefits, like seeing more of the countries you travel through. 🛤️
Plus, going straight to city centres and avoiding the travel and waiting at airports can result in a similar travel time to quick flights - but with a very different environmental impact!
A train on top of a high bridge travelling through the Swiss countryside with chalets, trees and mountains in the background.
Did you know that on average, a train journey produces up to 96.5% fewer CO2 emissions than a comparable flight?
In fact, a return flight from Manchester to Rome produces more CO2 emissions than a person living in Nepal generates in a year! 😱
A green park edged with trees with a row of houses and cars behind them. Above the trees is a blue sky crisscrossed with about 20 white airplane contrails, some new and clear and others fading into the sky.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed about how to help the environment? 🌍
We all want to fix our planet - but it’s a big job, and hard to know how. Luckily, we’ve got a great new tool called Find Your Climate Action, and we’re exploring one action today - switching short haul flights for train travel ✈️⬇️
A few people have liked this so I thought I’d better credit the maker. Penny Simpson is on Instagram and she has an online shop www.pennysimpsonceramics.co.uk
Her studio is well worth a visit in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
The Hon Hoard (or Hoen hoard, in Norwegian: Hoenskatten), was found at the Hon (Hoen) farm in Øvre Eiker, Norway in 1834. The Hoen Hoard is the largest Viking-period gold hoard known from Norway. It includes 207 pieces, of which 54 are gold or silver-gilt objects, twenty coins (looped for wear on a necklace), also of gold, a necklace with 132 colourful beads of glass or semi-precious stone, two neck-rings, three arm rings, one finger-ring and a triangular shaped trefoil brooch formed of a Carolingian strap mount. The large Frankish brooch, originally adorned a warrior’s sword belt, or bandolier, in the Carolingian Empire about 800, was later made into and reused as a brooch in Norway. The deposited gold treasure is dated to ca. 850–875. The hoard can be seen in the Museum of Cultural History (Kulturhistorisk museum) in Oslo, Norway.
The #hoard from Hoen farm is one of the largest #Viking #gold #treasure ever found.
One summer morning in 1834 a poor farm worker was digging a ditch to drain a bog on the farm of a wealthy landower. Suddenly his spade struck a giant gold ring!
#History #FindsFriday 👀👑
Above: the head of a wooden shovel, annotated c. 1266-1108 BC. Below: a pick made from an antler, annotated c. 1620-1463 BC.
Check out this beautiful wooden shovel and antler pick from Bronze Age Britain #FindsFriday 🏺
Currently in the Cornwall Museum, they are some of the oldest of their kind in Europe and would have been used to mine tin traded as far as the Levant!
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WE WON!
The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.
But we're just getting started.
It was never just about Dartmoor.
We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
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Chichester Peregrine Update!
Breakfast.
chichesterperegrinesblog.co.uk
"Improve & connect existing temperate rainforest"
Exciting to see the new 'Dartmoor Landscape Vision' published by the Duchy of Cornwall & the tenant farmer-led Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery project
Glad to have inputted to the consultation process
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A plexiglass museum stand holding a small golden bronze boar sculpture with its head turning towards the camera
For #FindsFriday here's a fabulous bronze boar from the Lexden Tumulus burial near Colchester, Essex
Dated to the late Iron Age ~10BC, it may have belonged to King Addedomarus of the Trinovantes tribe!
📍In the Colchester Castle #Museum
📸 Mine #archaeology #museums #ancientbluesky #blueskymuseums🏺
Tracking down the Cassiterides - the ancient Tin Islands: A British-led group of archaeologists have analysed the composition of bronze artefacts from across Europe, tracing the tin in these objects dating to more than 3000 years ago to Cornwall and Devon...
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Today’s best blooms. The wisteria is full of bees, a constant hum. Laburnum is just coming out and roses getting going.
Today’s flower highlights . So good this year with plenty of sun, some gentle rain and less wind to blow it away.
*Part 3 of Time Team's Sutton Hoo series premieres on YouTube at 7pm (BST)*. The heat is on in this installment! As the summer heatwave peaks, the dig enters its final week bringing discoveries and determination.
If you need to catch up you'll find previous episodes here:
The Melsonby hoard cabinet.
Decorative Iron Age metalwork.
Decorative Iron Age metalwork.
The Melsonby hoard, or about 1-2% of it, is currently on display at the entrance of the Yorkshire Museum for fundraising to purchase the find. Stunning late Iron Age metalwork deposit, dominated by horse & vehicle fittings. Visited on Tuesday, & blown away by it!
#FindsFriday
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Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
Here's a playlist of the NME's top singles of 1984. Something for everybody among these 50 selections
1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣4️⃣▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/5LM...
Summer is icumen in!
May Day morning greetings from above the Cerne Giant, Dorset, with the famous Dorset Ooser and the Wessex Morris Men
Wow, that is lovely
Love these. Here’s one I bought from a local potter in Devon.
As the Woodland Trust's Dave Rickwood says, Buckland Wood is the "final piece of rainforest jigsaw" in the Dart Valley
It's a Plantation on Ancient Woodland Site (PAWS) - sandwiched between two existing WT sites they're already restoring (Ausewell & Grey Park woods)
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