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Halo Grottesco @halogrottesco.bsky.social · 7h

Had a little wander near Walton Works, a grade II listed former cotton wick mill built in the late 18th century. It was bought by Robinson and Sons Ltd in 1896. There have been ongoing plans for restoration and conversion of the site over the years but little has happened so far.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 16h

Nice walk at Dale Abbeyv Derbyshire yesterday. We actually went for a nearby cafe, but a lot to be interested in, especially the church with 17th century interiors and a surprising gallery. Lots of stories and a very friendly and knowledgeable church warden >

Photo of the Arch of the East Window at Dale Abbey. The only standing feature of the Abbey

Photo of The Hermitage at Dale Abbey. A rock cut chamber in the woods with a series of large openings. The limestone it's cut into is grey and green with moss. The forest floor is covered in fallen leaves

Photo of Dale Abbey Church, the only semi detached church in England. a small Norman Church, with a house at it's Western end. The church was originally a hermit's chapel, bright into an Abbey. The house was originally the infirmary of the Abbey, reworked many times after the dissolution, including once as a pub, the false timber framing is Victorian.

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 3d

#FindsFriday #Derbyshire #archaeology

A beautiful barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Early Bronze Age, produced on translucent, amber-coloured flint.

Found in Church Broughton, now in Derby Museum

A series of images of a Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, from all available angles, with a cm scale to left and bottom. The flint is translucent and amber in colour. Image credit Portable Antiquities Scheme

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · 4d

For #IronworkThursday here’s the iron sign from Bolsover Castle station. The station was demolished and the line closed years ago but this sign remains in the EH stores

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Darren Needham @dneedham68.bsky.social · 5d

Magpie mine, Sheldon, Peak District, Derbyshire.

Mining engineer John Taylor took over management in 1839, establishing a complex of new limestone buildings and innovative equipment. The 2 chimneys, agent's house and smithy were built in the 1840s and the Cornish engine house in 1869.

#Photography

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Kim McDonald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @unearthed-it.bsky.social · 5d

Just booked my ticket for Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026
Winding Wheel Theatre, Chesterfield
Sat 31 Jan 2026
@derbyshirearch.bsky.social
#derbyshirearchaeology

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 7d

Had the pleasure of seeing this incredible digital reconstruction of medieval Barrow-upon-Trent at a heritage event this weekend. It's kinda mesmerising. Love this level of detail. Grab a cuppa and give it a watch!

#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺

Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.

Medieval Barrow upon Trent c1300 CE

YouTube video by albino igil

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Martyn Stonehouse @martynaudio.bsky.social · 7d

are there any brick experts here on Bluesky... asking for a friend (not really!) Maybe you know someone @derbyshirearch.bsky.social ? Please repost!

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 7d

The wonderful John Tibbles used to be the go-to specialist, I don't know whether he is still active - he was based E Yorks I think. The British Brick Society has a website which might have useful contacts.

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 10d

On the road looking at interesting archaeology ...

Darley Abbey with York Archaeology to see remains of the 1793 Evans Paper Mill - mill leat, engine base and cellar her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...

Then Shardlow Quarry with MOLA for a probable medieval timber mill straddling a paleochannel

A massive sandstone base - probably for a steam engine, at Evans paper mill, Darley Abbey

A partially infilled brick-vaulted cellar, Evans paper mill, Darley Abbey

MOLA archaeologists excavate lines of timber revetments along a palaeo-channel, Shardlow Quarry

Waterlogged timber posts and structural beams thought to relate to a medieval timber mill straddling a palaeochannel, Shardlow Quarry

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 18d

A row of yellow flags marks a pit alignment at Boulton Moor Derby, being excavated by PCA.

Parcelling up the landscape around the Trent Valley, they mostly date from the Early Iron Age.

An example at Swarkestone Quarry has surviving posts made from squared off tree trunks Did they all have posts?

Yellow flags mark the individual pits of a pit alignment at Boulton Moor, Derby

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Dr Mike Nevell @archaeotea.bsky.social · 21d

Conservation work at three windmills completed

Conservation Work at Three Windmills Completed

Conservation and restoration work at three windmills has been finished ahead of the winter. Heage Windmill in Derbyshire, Meopham Windmill in Kent, and the White Mill, also in Kent, have been undergoing programnmes of conservation and restoration work for several years. Heage Windmill was restored in 2002, but the Grade II* listed building required further work due to weather-related erosion to the exterior stonework and increased damp inside the building. Following consultation with Historic England, the Heage Windmill Society secured £30,000 in funding from the Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA) and the Headley Trust for the works to go ahead.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 21d

✨Lunchtime read:
Wirksworth changed the way I see things and I'm thankful for that.

There, I discovered two artefacts and contrasted their histories. Two things that are perhaps, in my Wirksworth state of mind, just as beautiful as each other. www.digest.andymarshall.co/loci-cultiva...

Weathered Saxon carving at Wirksworth Parish Church showing biblical scenes in two registers, including crucifixion and angelic figures, with expressive, stylised figures deeply incised in stone.

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 24d

#FindsFriday A fabulous jet and bone necklace from the Bronze Age, found at Wind Low barrow in Derbyshire, England, from about 1500 BC

What kind of person would have worn this?

Now held in the Weston Park Museum in Sheffield

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #museums #photooftheday

A necklace resting on a museum stand made of alternating black beads and pieces of patterned bone

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 26d

Archaeology as cubism.

Rather than a Miro or a Braque, this is actually a drone shot of 1870s brick clamps in Mickleover, excavated by Wessex Archaeology in 2021. Short-lived structures churning out bricks for the Great Northern Railway as construction moved through.

#Derbyshire #archaeology

An aerial view of 8 rectangular 'brick clamps' - temporary structures used in brick production. They were active in the 1870s as the Great Northern Railway moved through - there was a tunnel, cuttings and the former Mickleover Station just to the north. Red brick, yellow sandstone, green field, brown earth, dappled woodland. Image credit Wessex Archaeology 2021

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 27d

Part of a cross shaft from St Alkmund's, Derby, now in Derby Museum. This zoomorphic style emerged in South Derbyshire in the late 9th or early 10th century, right on the faultline between Viking and Saxon influence, blending elements of both traditions into something distinct and new.

A 3D scan of the Anglo-Scandinavian cross shaft fragment from St Alkmund's, Derby, now in Derby Museum. 3D model by archaeo_stuff on sketchfab.com

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House of Commons Speaker @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk · 28d

Happy Derbyshire Day. The flag of Derbyshire is flying in New Palace Yard today to mark this historic county day.

Did you know that Derbyshire has featured in the official titles of more than 200 Commons debates?

The Derbyshire historic county flag with a green cross on a blue background and a gold tudor rose in the centre.

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · Sep 16

Quite excited to hear that tickets for Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026 are now available! My archaeology quest/dream/thingy began just after the event this year, so really looking forward to attending my first one next year!

#Derbyshire #archaeology

chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · Sep 15

In the Local Transport series of books, Terry Boden’s 1990 'Derbyshire Railways Today' covers the county's main and branch lines and also provides details on railways, quarrying, quarries and coal mining. Find a copy in our #LocalStudies library.

#history #trains #LocalHistory

A white book cover, with a blue coloured design of a diesel train which states in blue lettering 'Derbyshire Railways Today'. In black lettering states 'by Terry Boden, The Derbyshire Heritage Series'.

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · Sep 15

#MosaicMonday

Long Eaton Library, funded by the Carnegie Trust for Long Eaton Urban District Council in 1906, and Grade II Listed.

The mosaic over the entrance shows the light of learning.

her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...

Mosaic panel over the entrance of Long Eaton Libray, showing the figure of Learning holding a torch. Image credit 'The Wulfrun Way' on flickr

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · Sep 14

The ‘Wirksworth Stone’ - a sculptured stone-slab from St. Mary’s Church at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Comprising of biblical scenes and figures, the stone dates from the C7th to C9th and may have originally been used as a coffin lid. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework

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Darren Needham @dneedham68.bsky.social · Sep 12

Star trails at Nine Stones Close stone circle, Harthill Moor, Peak District, Derbyshire.

#Photography

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · Sep 12

#FindsFriday

This lovely piece of medieval floor tile was once part of the medieval priory church at Repton - now beneath the 19th century Pears Building in Repton School. It came to light yesterday as York Archaeology monitor remodelling work in the basement.

A piece of medieval floor tile being held by the attending archaeologist, image credit York Archaeology

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romanbritain.bsky.social @romanbritain.bsky.social · Sep 11

#RomanFortThursday

On the edge of an East Manchester modern housing estate, on a prominence overlooking the valley below, stands the well defined outline of a Flavian Roman fort.
It was on a road out of Mamucium #Roman fort, heading eastwards. (See.Alt)

#Archaeology #History

The Roman road out of the urbanised Manchester city centre is where the Roman route is less defined but sections are known, nearer to Melandra, from old maps and recently, LIDAR imagery.
Melandra is the modern name for the fort but, its Roman name was possibly Ardotalia.

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sidestepping into #HillfortsWednesday with a 'not a hillfort but it should've been'. Coppy Hill, near Ticknall in #Derbyshire. What were those silly Iron Age folks doing ignoring this hill, which is ripe for a spot of hillfortery! Quite tempted to start my own. #archaeology

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