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Amanda Chadburn 🏺

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PhD FSA FSAScot Loves old stuff especially *Archaeology *Heritage Mgment *Landscape *Prehistory *World Heritage *Archaeoastronomy *IA Coins *Respons.Detecting *Heritage Crime

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · Mar 3

For those of you on Saturday who kindly asked about where to buy our book, here is the link and the 30% discount code: 27HERESEARCH
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Enjoy! 🏺

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4d

Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍

These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895

© Trustees of the British Museum

#Roman #Archaeology

Two copper alloy brooches with double-headed, long-eared, hare-like ends, inlaid with red and blue enamel decoration, both stained green after centuries in the soil

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 5d

8. Chronicle of Georgia, Tbilisi (1987)

Zurab Tsereteli’s brutalist Stonehenge: massive basalt pillars engraved with saints & Soviet heroes.

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 5d

Not so: “In June 2024, a UK judge ruled that the portrayal of academic Richard Taylor in the film The Lost King, co-written and produced by Steve Coogan, was defamatory”

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 5d

very good! Had to learn that one at school.

Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 5d

Yes but see also: “In June 2024, a UK judge ruled that the portrayal of academic Richard Taylor in the film The Lost King, co-written and produced by Steve Coogan, was defamatory”

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 5d

Awful sentiments by SC and under the circumstance very unwise I would say!

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed. And yet SC is weirdly doubling down www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I won’t apologise for The Lost King – Leicester University’s treatment of Philippa Langley is a profound injustice | Steve Coogan

I was sued over my film that gave a voice to the committed ‘amateur’ whose pivotal role in the search for the remains of Richard III was drowned out by louder voices in academia

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure but I took the photo yesterday. I think it’s on tour……

Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 5d

Dear oh dear.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 6d

Behold... the 2025 face pumpkin! Inspired by many things, but first and foremost I went back to my jack o' lantern roots with an archaeology reference. The Undine / Vodena Vila sculpture from Lepensk Vir, from 6300 - 5900 BCE.

A carved pumpkin on a wooden countertop with grey tiles behind it. It's a tall oval orange pumpkin with a simple but expressive face; large circular eyes, with semi-circular shapes that curl underneath the eyes towards the nose. The nose is a rectangle that reaches up to join into the forehead and shape above the eyes. It has a wide downturned mouth. It almost looks upset. Below the face is a repeating pattern of vertical diamonds and triangles, almost like fish scales.

A tall oval orange pumpkin in the dark, lit from within. It has a simple but expressive face; large circular eyes, with semi-circular shapes that curl underneath the eyes towards the nose. The nose is a rectangle that reaches up to join into the forehead and shape above the eyes. It has a wide downturned mouth. It almost looks upset. Below the face is a repeating pattern of vertical diamonds and triangles, almost like fish scales.

A small stone sculpture on an acrylic plinth. It has been carved with small chips to create a simple but expressive face; large circular eyes, with semi-circular shapes that curl underneath the eyes towards the nose. The nose is a rectangle that reaches up to join into the forehead and shape above the eyes. It has a wide downturned mouth. It almost looks upset. Below the face is a repeating pattern of vertical diamonds and triangles, almost like fish scales. The bottom of this rounded stone has been broken off and it is flat on the plinth with a vertex of two faces visible on the front.

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 6d

Sighting the sun in Bristol Cathedral. #helios #heritage

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 7d

Another essential reference is the files. For example the paper to the Ancient Monuments Board recommending closure. See also Silbury.

Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve never heard of “no ropes days” before - interesting. That would be a bit counter to the reason it was closed in the first place. I’d love to know more! Obviously it was closed for years before EH existed.

Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 7d

Glad my understanding of 1978 being the key date was right. Thanks.

Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 7d

Good news - hope it makes people think twice about making inaccurate films - particularly depictions of people - which purport to be based on facts. Still feel angry about the portrait of Peggy Piggott in The Dig!

Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 7d

“we have established in court that The Lost King is a misleading, defamatory, untrue portrayal of what happened in Leicester back in 2012." 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man wins 'substantial damages' over portrayal in Steve Coogan Richard III film

Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 8d

I was always getting this when I worked there. “We could walk inside the stones until only a few years ago……“. I think it was ‘78 when the ropes were introduced! They were certainly there on my undergrad field visit in 1980.

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 8d

Hope everyone helped! You’ll be able to reconstruct that road trip now :-) - seems you did a lot of travelling.

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 8d

This is wonderful Pete - many thanks for sharing! 🏺

Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social · 8d

48 seconds in
youtu.be/EWy_2UMrWw0

Shell. John Betjeman at Avebury

YouTube video by Pete Glastonbury

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 8d

I immediately thought of Chysauster - from reading the replies it seems you DID get there!! :-) Prehistoric but not Neolithic.

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 8d

Well done!

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 9d

Did you go to Cornwall?

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 9d

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

Two arrested over theft of jewels at Louvre, French media report

www.bbc.co.uk

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · Sep 29

Remembering the English Heritage Stonehenge Dahlia Shows 2023-2024,which revisited the Great Stonehenge Dahlia Exhibitions 1842-1845.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 16d

Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.

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