The Smell of Water

Happy John Aubrey Day – 400 years old today! The original stone botherer, who recognised the Avebury stones for the prehistoric marvel they are, and rightly commented that the site 'doth as much exceed Stonehenge as a cathedral doth a parish church'.

Lush prehistory In the name of relaxation, would you like a small cup-and-ring marked stone to be gently rubbed back and forth against your jowls like this gentleman? Image (c) Lush (source) Now you can thanks to …

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BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social says the Duchy of Lancaster is treating people in the north as “second-class citizens” after failing to support the clean-up of a huge illegal waste dump near Wigan

An investigation by Ch 4 News uncovered that the estate of King Charles is connected to the site

The Romanesque & Other Things – Selby Abbey Visit the post for more.

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I took a walk up to the ruined burial chamber at Sling this morning. On the way back I spotted this lovely little standing stone in a field. #StandingStoneSunday

Mythological

Travelling though North Yorkshire with Dr Hudson - A bishop and some beakheads

Yokenthwaite Yorkshire #StandingStoneSunday teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/t...

Coddu Vecchiu - One of the many wonderful Bronze Age tombs in Sardinia known as a Tomba di Giganti. This beaut is in Gallura. #StandingStoneSunday

Slate Visit the post for more.

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Moor views on past, present and future landscapes Clemency Cooper’s PhD research aims to understand how perceptions of the landscape have shaped the North York Moors, and how evidence of past change might influence decisions about its future characte...

I've been scaling my own wuthering heights since a momentous move to York last autumn to start a PhD investigating landscape change in the North York Moors #moorviews

Read more about the aims of my research in this blog post for @anthropocenebio.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Urban Megaliths - Stockton-on-Tees #StandingStoneSunday

Iron Hill. Cumbria #StandingStoneSunday

Stillingfleet #romanesque

Ludovic Mann - the original archaeological influencer. This is a blog post I wrote for EUP in 2021.
I’m currently writing a paper about the scrapbook featured here.
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South – Kings, Witches & the Rollright Stones Travelling south from the Midlands along the Fosse Way, we took a detour to have a wander around the lovely Rollright Stones. The Rollright Stones consist of three monuments, The Whispering Knights…

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The day before yesterday.
At the Whispering Knights. Oxfordshire. #StandingStoneSunday

Ballymeanoch Argyll #StandingStoneSunday

It’s ok if the fire just flashes over the moor. The problem is if the fire takes hold and gets into the peat, as this one did, the intense heat created can lead to damage/cracking/spalling etc. Something I saw first hand in 2003 when the nearby Stoup Brow moor sustained an deep intense wildfire.

Otters in Albert Park…incredible

Earlier this week I went for a wander onto John Cross Rigg on the North York Moors. The moor is in a pretty poor state after a devastating wildfire last autumn. Fortunately the lovely anthropomorphic standing stone known as The Old Wife’s Neck was left undamaged by the fire. #StandingStoneSunday

Lackenby

Pick thae stocks doon, and let t' arsends o' t' shaffs lig i' t' sun a bit. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect by Rev. J C Atkinson. Pub 1868.

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Special Report: Stripped Tees IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of...

Private Eye’s special report on how the mayor of Teesside has spent over half a billion pounds of public redevelopment money. www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

Winter Solstice 2026. Cloughton Moor. North Yorks. #StandStoneSunday

My first standing stone of 2026 The lovely Soar Stone on Anglesey. #StandingStoneSunday

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Iron Age Copper alloy war trumpet being excavated c Norfolk Museum Service

Iron Age shield bosses and wild boar standard

Iron Age Copper alloy boar standard being cleaned c Norfolk Museum service

More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses

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Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2

Wowzers 🤩

Cafe Royal Books – Teesside 1968 – 1999 At home I have a shelf that is slowly filling-up with the wonderful, affordable, documentary photography booklets published by Cafe Royal Books. This pair are the most recent additions. I’d highly …

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Futurism, Prehistory & Lemmy New Years Day 2026 Ynys Môn While visiting family in North Wales I managed to steal away to Anglesey for a few hours to visit a church that has been high on my list for quite a while. The Catholic …

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