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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · Nov 18

My old tweets are porting over (sorry for the flood) but here’s a thread for a lockdown conference that I keep thinking about…

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · Oct 9

1/20 Hi! I’m Katy, a p/t PhD student with @SWWDTP @UniRdg_Arch. I’m taking this opportunity to reflect on my extended experience and the amazing people I’ve been working with, who have introduced me to different ways of thinking and doing archaeology. #HiddenLandscapes

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Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (SPMA) @postmedarch.bsky.social · 3h

A quick look at the latest issue of our journal, Post-Medieval Archaeology, published under @tandfresearch.bsky.social. To publish your research with us, please check our website for more info and contact [email protected]

#archaeology #postmedievalarchaeology #newresearch

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 12h

Guilty pleasure.

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 12h

Best. Website. Ever. www.tracingthepast.org.uk/2021/04/07/d...

Plans – Tracing the Past: Medieval Vaults

www.tracingthepast.org.uk

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 12h

Am in my PJs in hotel bed with hotel tv on after team meeting day 1 and I’d forgotten how awfully good/goodly awful this experience is.

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Royal Archaeological Institute @royalarchinst.bsky.social · 13h

𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries.

Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...

Dissertation prizes

The Institute awards a dissertation prize each year for either an undergraduate (the Tony Baggs Undergraduate Dissertation Prize) or Master's dissertation on an alternating basis. The prize goes to th...

www.royalarchinst.org

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 17h

Wow!

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 23h

Join Prof. Abubakar Sani Sule this Thursday to hear about under-researched collections from northern Nigeria, which are of global significance in terms of medieval trade & polities, & also serve as powerful materials for public engagement. It's free!

www.sal.org.uk/event/west-a...

West African Communities Past & Present seen through Nigerian & British Museum Collections - Society of Antiquaries of London

African archaeological collections have been the focus of much attention, linking to questions around the public value of museums and the power of artefacts to present plural narratives. Professor Sul...

www.sal.org.uk

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 1d

Ta!

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 2d

What even is going on in, for example, ‘Q’?

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 2d

Also, I need more celeriac steak and chocolate mousse in my life…

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 2d

I can imagine, the parking and steps a bit overwhelmed with those numbers coming through I expect.

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Thats a lot!

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 2d

Cheers! Holiday beer and snacks on the go, pie in the oven. Day of cleaning and Archaeology Club admin. More tomorrow before half a week in one of our other offices for an all-team meeting and field trip. #ConfinedCocktails

Colour photo of a bottle of Adams Lighthouse beer, light brown beer in a glass and a small green ceramic bowl of crisps and green olives.

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 2d

#ArchInk 4: bronze; 5: flint; 9: ivory
#archaeology #illustration 🏺🏛️🗃️
Combining three prompts to look at early-19th century views of early Bronze Age artefacts.

Ink and graphite sketch of a dagger and arrowhead. Text reads: #ArchInk
The early Bronze Age was a time of remarkable transformation in material and social lives. People and materials came together in new ways.
I’m interested in how early observers interpreted these changes. The early-19th century excavators of these artefacts, Colt Hoare and Cunnington, were not afraid to draw parallels with continental Europe.
“Some may think it derogates from the dignity of our country to allow a Gaulish (i.e. foreign) original; but, be the consequences what they will, whenever we are in search of truth, although we discover her in ruins and rubbish, we must acknowledge and revere her.” Richard Colt Hoare, 1812
*Colt Hoare and Cunnington were, by the standards of the day, pretty good at recording. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussion of barrows in the severely area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits that he’s not sure which of the barrows this dagger came from!
#5 flint One of four arrowheads within a burial in a bowl barrow: Which Show affinity with those from Armorica, NW France.
FLINT ARROWHEAD, WIMBORNE ST GILES.
4: Bronze BRONZE DAGGER, SILK HILL MILSTON*
9: ivory The pommel is ivory from a marine mannal, possibly a walrus. It is very worn, suggesting it might have adorned other artefacts before this dagger
The wooden handle was re-constructed based onCunnington's dig notes.
* Or is it ? Colt Hoare and Cunnington - and their illustrator /surveyor Philip Crocker- were pretty good at recording their f, by the standards of the day. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussions of barrow-digging in the Everley area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits the dagger was "in one of these, but I cannot specify which!'

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, wow!

Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 3d

Still making, still learning, still experimenting, still chasing.
www.darrellwakelam.com
#edusky #sculpture #artwork #recycle

A model of a T-Rex made entirely from recycled toilet roll tubes. Pictures show a simple head, made from one tube, and a complete 3D sculpture, something a little more complex, and made from many tubes.

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

😂

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

😂 there are two on the laptop screen but v small and pretty out of focus in the snap shot!

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

First time round I read that as Shrine.

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

Ok!

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

The interlace is actually really simple, making it so so clever!

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

Free software that came on the phone?! Mine doesn’t seem to have that and I am paying a subscription for an app that will process my lidar captures. What are you using?

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

Spot the square barrows!

Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 3d

I will pay attention over the weekend! Currently dealing with this:

Colour photo of part of a laptop screen and part of a computer monitor. A skewed black and white air photo is on the laptop screen, a bit of the same photo is on the monitor. This is part of the process to map archaeological features from a rectified and georeferenced oblique air photo.

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · 4d

Ok hold that thought. I’ve been forwarded an email from @girlinthe.bsky.social