Christopher Hervez

Yes, victims deserve advocacy. People should also be entitled to fair investigations. At the moment he isn't facing any trial.

Friday 27 March, gather in our Saxon hall for storytelling & puppetry! Ancient Nordic tales brought to you by skalds Ulf & Odd, in a comedic romp through the life & times of the Viking gods.

BOOK HERE: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...

My cultural awakening: a 60s folk band helped me find my place as a person of colour in Britain Dragged along by my dad to see Pentangle, I heard something ancient that kickstarted my obsession with this country’s folklore – an enchanted, subversive and strange version of a Britain where I could...

"enchanted, subversive and strange"

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Inside The Secret Market for Ancient Bible Manuscripts YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology

(675) Inside The Secret Market for Ancient Bible Manuscripts - YouTube
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A Wiccan pentagram hangs from a tree at the Rollright Stones.

Snowdrops in the undergrowth at the Rollright Stones.

When I was there a couple of weeks ago the rain was torrential. I'm never discouraged by the weather as one always discovers something magical.

Pottery sherds with logos of long lost businesses, found on the Thames Foreshore. Old coffee houses, tea shops, hotels, and businesses, long gone but opening a door into social history & the lives of ordinary people.

Because I have a million things to do today you find me sorting through & re-arranging my ‘logos’ drawer. Thames found sherds of long lost businesses; coffee houses, hotels, tea rooms, railway companies. Now gone but opening a door into social history & the lives and experiences of ordinary people.

Recognising the impact of female archaeologists As I am writing this it is International Women’s Day, and how appropriate to look back on the many contributions that women have made to...

Recognising the impact of female archaeologists

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#women #archaeology #history

The worst danger of AI isn't that it exploits creators, nor that it guzzles energy, wastes water and hands power to an undeserving elite, but that it severs our links to each other. It discourages conversation, spontaneity, empathy, critical thinking: everything that makes us better than machines.

4 observations of a gold checkered plate. Possibly an earring with red sticker on the reverse

This #findsfriday we have an oblong gold covered bone pendant possibly in the form of two horns, decorated with an engraved chequered pattern and possibly an earring.

Excavated by William Cunnington in the 19th Century it was found with a primary cremation in Bell Barrow Wilsford

Flyer advertising Thames 21’s London Rivers Week 2926, from 23rd to 31st May. Many wonderful river-based activities across that week.

One for your diaries - celebrating the tenth anniversary of @thames21.bsky.social London Rivers Week - 23rd to 31st May. A great range of activities across the week; exploring the rivers Beck, Ravensbourne & Wandle. Also photo walks, art exhibitions and much more www.thames21.org.uk/events/categ...

France returns sacred talking drum looted from Côte d’Ivoire over 100 years ago Djidji Ayôkwé was handed to Ivorian officials in Paris earlier this month

France returns sacred talking drum looted from Côte d’Ivoire over 100 years ago | Côte d’Ivoire | The Guardian share.google/36sYWVd12Co6...

Congratulations to the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings and Gloucestershire Archives both of whom have been shortlisted in this year's Museum and Heritage awards for Permanent Exhibition of the Year and Sustainable Project of the Year, respectively awards.museumsandheritage.com/2026-shortli...

🪨🏹Everyone knows the larger Bronze Age metal spearheads, here are two small arrowheads/projectile points. The smaller is 24mm, the larger 30mm in height. First metal arrowheads copies of their lithic counterparts, were they status objects too?
#FindsFriday #Archaeology #Wirral #Prehistory #BronzeAge

A poster advertising the details of the event listed in the post

Announcing a BIG 2-day ONLINE magical history conference supporting @folklorelibrary.bsky.social

Dianne Purkiss, Mark Stoyle, Marion Gibson, Jeremy Harte and more...

Day tickets just £10, £15 for the whole event.

Ticket holders get recordings if they can't be there live

Book at bit.ly/flaevents

Sherd of white porcelain from a plate stamped with the initials G VI R (for George VI) and the name GRINDLEY with the date 1942. This was specially made utilitarian pottery for the war effort.

Sherd of plain white porcelain from the foreshore. On the back stamped with the initials GVIR (George VI) and the maker & date - GRINDLEY 1942. This was wartime utilitarian pottery, plain & unpatterned ‘cos colours/design cost money. During WW2 W.H. Grindley & Co Ltd were based in Stoke-on-Trent 1/

It seemed highly probable that with USA missiles based in the UK that in the event of a nuclear war our small group of islands would be erased from the globe.

How to Thatch a Roundhouse | Rebuilding the Bronze Age - Part 8 YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm

In the latest episode of our 'Rebuilding the Bronze Age' mini-series with Operation Nightingale, we completed the roundhouse roof! 🌾🛖

The crowning glory was the thatch, with huge thanks to Lyle Morgans, Master Thatcher, who helped us start out on the right foot.

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I don't think I've seen the Simpsons episode where Lisa got access to a time machine ;)

Bronze statuette of a priest or offrant
Etruscan
3rd–2nd century BCE

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The county has long history of places that wander. Pubs. Churches. Even whole villages you cannot trust to stay still, to be where you remember when you attempt to revisit. We have centuries of reports that the White Tower is not always at the end of usual track. – George Kindred, 'Haunted Hookland'

Many a long year ago, I interviewed Dudley Sutton, who said his entire role as Tinker consisted of exclaiming “you were right Lovejoy!”

Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...

17ty century tin glaze pottery sherd from a charger or plate. Blue on white, the glaze is cracked, showing a fern and partial flower painted in a free-style design.

Sherd of blue on white C17th tin glaze charger or plate from the foreshore. Blowsy fern with partial flower, hand painted. Tin glaze was a type of earthenware pottery covered in lead glaze, creating a white, opaque look showcasing different types of decoration. Known as maiolica in Italy.

Black and white drawing of a ancient ship with crew beached on the shore to unload cargo with people waiting on the shore

An undeniably dramatic recreation of the Iron Age port of Hengistbury Head #Dorset #BCP

A sloping gravel *hard* on which Mediterranean trading ships beached to unload their cargo

© Alan Sorrell for Barbara Green's 1952 book *Prehistoric Britain*

A hill-port for #HillfortsWednesday

Historian calls for AI content of Occupation to be labelled Dr Gilly Carr says it must be clear so people know what is fake and what is historical evidence.

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Small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague, set on a red base, posed on Thames Foreshore river steps. The statuette is white with gold accessories, the crowned head is broken and a hand is missing, though the other hand holds a globe with a cross.

The broken head of a small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague held in my hand on the Thames Foreshore. The head is crowned, the face is well defined with red lips.

Found on the Thames Foreshore yesterday, a small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague. The original hails from the C16th & is housed in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague. Dressed in blinging robes that change according to the liturgical season. Head broken, hand missing 1/

The swirling central panel of a #Roman geometric mosaic - almost hypnotic! #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

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This "Cursed!" Exhibition Reveals How Magic Ruled the Ancient World [Interview] "I hope visitors will recognize that magic in the ancient world was not an illusion or sleight of hand but a serious, deeply held belief system that helped people navigate uncertainty and suffering."

This New Exhibition Reveals How Magic Ruled the Ancient World
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From The Last Stand photobook.
Bamburgh, Northumberland, England. 2013
A tidal surge in December 2013 at Bamburgh uncovered a pillbox in the sand dunes. It was constructed from hessian sandbags filled with concrete and was part of a long chain of coastal defensive sites including...

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