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@ntiquarian

Commercial archaeologist in Cornwall, UK

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Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off…

The next episode of #DiggingForBritain is tonight and features Antiquity authors Benjamin W. Roberts & R. Alan Williams on their excavations of the Bronze Age tin trade at St. Michael's Mount!

Can't wait? They wrote on their findings in an #AntiquityBlog 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

05.02.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Spending it on providing the US with 100% renewable energy would guarantee him being remembered as a good guy, which it’s fair to say isn’t on the cards atm. And if there’s any loose change Β£50k would almost pay off my mortgage.

05.02.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

30.01.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 15572 πŸ” 3027 πŸ’¬ 257 πŸ“Œ 141
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Art by Lar DeSouza…

28.01.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 22463 πŸ” 4529 πŸ’¬ 403 πŸ“Œ 246
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Jonesy cartoon in Private Eye No. 1667

25.01.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 13641 πŸ” 3983 πŸ’¬ 339 πŸ“Œ 179
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I have a very bad feeling about this...

27.10.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 54388 πŸ” 10205 πŸ’¬ 1854 πŸ“Œ 643
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Have the BBC sent the lawyers round @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social ?

27.10.2025 04:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Goldcliff on the Severn estuary with Martin Bell. Dodging ww2 munitions and tides that wiped out your work every 6 hours. Loved it!

02.08.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

09.04.2025 06:33 πŸ‘ 91053 πŸ” 28395 πŸ’¬ 885 πŸ“Œ 1329
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Three major supermarkets hit back at farm tax Tesco, Aldi and Lidl call for rethink of inheritance levy announced in Budget

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.01.2025 07:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So farmers are now supported by Clarkson, the type of tax avoider most responsible for the reintroduction of inheritance tax, and now the supermarkets who have been ripping them off for years. What a strange Orwellian century this is turning out to be.

25.01.2025 07:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Little vole on the woodland floor

Little vole on the woodland floor

An adorable little Vole on the woodland floor. 😍
Taken this weekend at Swell Wood in Somerset. πŸ˜€

20.01.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 6879 πŸ” 367 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 21
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Helpful!

21.01.2025 04:30 πŸ‘ 65951 πŸ” 14948 πŸ’¬ 770 πŸ“Œ 691

β€œInitial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, leading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” SpaceX said in a statement on its website.

Would that be an explosion then Elon? #bondvillain #spacex

18.01.2025 06:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The early antiquaries describe Lanyon Quoit: Archaeologia Cambrensis 1857, Llewellynn Jewitt 1870, William Borlase 1871, with some fine drawings.
allabouthistory.co.uk/ywD92eYp

14.01.2025 09:04 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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One of my favourite trees didn’t survive the Christmas gales. What surprised me was the main reason it snapped rather than uprooted was the hollowness of its trunk. None of this was visible on the outside of a healthy tree. Disease? Woodpeckers?

11.01.2025 11:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2010

11.01.2025 09:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You might want to change β€˜Britain’ to β€˜England’. We’ve known for quite a while here in Cornwall that we were plugged into the Byzantine Empire 😊

08.01.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Storytime.

In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.

08.12.2024 01:45 πŸ‘ 4580 πŸ” 1620 πŸ’¬ 99 πŸ“Œ 367

I got liberal airhead, I’ll take that!

25.12.2024 04:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be nice if someone could come up with some sort of Bayesian analysis for post holes and pits. You feed in the site plan and out pops the phased structures.

23.12.2024 20:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Since the right are much more pragmatic than the left I’d anticipate a Tory/reform coalition following an electoral pact. And then the left can spend another few decades wringing its hands in opposition while the country goes even further down the toilet.

23.12.2024 10:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#memes #politicalmemes

23.12.2024 09:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Yes Alan will have mentioned the eba sites probably. But the neo sites are very new.

22.12.2024 20:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve been getting some β€˜structures’ in Cornwall recently, middle neo through to EBA. If you have a public email I’ll send you some plans, if you’re interested, when I get back to work.

22.12.2024 15:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No they won’t

13.12.2024 20:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very pleased it's #HillfortsWednesday πŸŽ‰

After recent training in using Reality Capture software I was able to pop up a point cloud of Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, from my 2024 RC Survey with the Phantom RTK drone

Look at those gridded flight lines 🀩

πŸ“· Royal Commission # drone data #uav

11.12.2024 07:29 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0


Here we go, the only civilised β€˜nation’ in the entire region get fucked again. The very most we can hope for from our lot is some hand wringing, more likely will be complete silence. And if the Kurds crumble under Turkish terrorism who’s going to deal with the loony jihadis?

10.12.2024 18:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0