The fundraising page for the Leicestershire torc showing the £10,000 target has been reached!
Wooohooo!!!
260 of you, in fivers, tenners and more have raised £10,000!! Well done everyone! 👏
I'm sure there will be stretch funding, but this is brilliant news, it really is.
#Archaeology p🏺
So close!! Can we get it across the line and into the safety of Leicester Museums Service, where it can be researched, studied... and looked after in perpetuity!
#Archaeology 🏺
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
Editing is tough but the journal is finally out
Was it this?, seems to be highlighting actual research albeit with a click bait title
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
It’s interesting and incorporates all the research but kinda lacking in parts, her tone sometimes makes big conclusions without justifying them. Strange as others found it too heavy I found it too light-the horse the wheel and language is a better read imo
Lord of the rings
Currently reading Proto by Laura Spinney
Dr Sam Lucy is doing a public lecture on the recent publication of the cemetery site at the Bowl Hole Bamburgh do check out the details on our blog
bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/i...
@leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social tries to save to the locals the Leicestershire Bronze Age torc. The have started a crowdfunder with the target of £10,000. #Archaeology
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
An excellent map if I ever saw one
I'm a little late today but wanted to contribute to #FindsFriday all the same
This week we have the not-yet-famous Middleham Assemblage, which I'm hoping will one day see its time in the sun! This is, still, an informal(ish) moniker for BM-7C4457 (finds.org.uk/database/art...), + has not yet stuck!
Finally home after 20+ hours of travelling…
Call for Abstracts!
We invite submissions for its 6th Annual Free Public Virtual Conference, Opening the Ancient World 2026, that will take place on Sunday–Monday, July 19–20, 2026
Conference Theme: Fashion Forward: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Apparel
Abstract Deadline: March 31 2026
Weirdly, people in Beijing (where there’s actually foreigners) stare way more than in Urumqi
Something rubs me the wrong way about the photo? The way it’s framed? I’m not sure
Any idea why my Bluesky won’t allow me to not post this photo
A shame! I don’t have access anymore
Have you read it? Relevant to Elmets Roman links possibly
That book they recommend at the end looks like it’d be useful for us
ICE breaking xenia/hospitium
Better be some Elmet in there…
Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.
Discovered the most interesting coffee shop in Urumqi yesterday, like drinking coffee cocktails
Great suggestions, the wheel of time does these times really well too
‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’
There are 2 books which I would strongly suggest for people to read or re-read: The Hobbit. The Lord Of The Rings. This is from The Lord Of The Rings chapter is The Shadow of the Past.
'The editors of this volume have laid down a challenge, nothing less than the promotion of a new late antiquity: Eurasian Late Antiquity... the continental regions of Eurasia were subject... to forces bringing them together... a “hidden grid” of linkages connecting them.' Averil Cameron, p. 419
squirrel asleep in a little wooden house
Snowstorm #Goals from the @squirrel_boxes instagram 🥰😴 #sqrlpix
Panel 1. A graveyard: the gravedigger sits on a pile of earth. Hamlet stands before him, holding a skull. Hamlet: “Alas, poor yorick! I knew him, professor Horatio.” He tis looking at a lab-coated figure. Prof. Horatio: “Actually, my analysis suggests this skull belonged to a young woman from the late Neolithic era.” Panel 2. Leaving the graveyard Hamlet: “Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.” Prof. Horatio: “What’s that, my lord?” Hamlet (angrily): “Dost thou have to spoil everything.”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Or any British territory ‘King Charles says that…’ though considering the political troubles that’ve happened with Uyghurs here, it adds a whole new layer
